Phoenix and the Birds of Prey
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey

Author: Mark Moyar

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2022-01-18

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 1496203895

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This study explodes prevailing myths about the Phoenix Program, the CIA's top-secret effort to destroy the Viet Cong by neutralizing its "civilian" leaders. Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with American, South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, Mark Moyar examines the attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure and analyzes their effectiveness. He addresses misconceptions about these efforts and provides an accurate, complete picture of the allies' decapitation of the Viet Cong shadow government. Combining social and political history with a study of military operations, Moyar offers a fresh interpretation of the crucial role the shadow government played in the Viet Cong's ascent. Detailed accounts of intelligence operations provide an insider's view of their development and reveal what really happened in the safe havens of the Viet Cong. Filled with new information, Moyar's study sets the record straight about one of the last secrets of the Vietnam War and offers poignant lessons for dealing with future Third World insurgencies. This Bison Books edition includes a new preface and chapter by the author.

Rising Phoenix and Storming Heaven
Rising Phoenix and Storming Heaven

Author: Kyle Mills

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Published: 2006-03-28

Total Pages: 1008

ISBN-13: 9780060894696

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Here, in one volume, are the two extraordinary novels that first introduced maverick FBI Special Agent Mark Beamon to readers coast-to-coast, and rocketed Kyle Mills into the upper echelon of thriller writers. Ingenious page-turning tales of conspiracy and terror, they remain as spellbinding, blood-chilling, timely, and relentlessly exciting as when they first appeared in print -- fulfilling Frederick Forsyth's prophecy that "Kyle Mills will soon be a very big player." Rising Phoenix: A shadowy right-wing organization is flooding America's emergency rooms with the dead and dying, and FBI Agent Mark Beamon must stop the slaughter and its mastermind . . . who may be a former law enforcement colleague. Storming Heaven: The brutal murder of a local millionaire and his wife sends agent Mark Beamon into the dark world of a powerful cult . . . and into the heart of a terrifying conspiracy that could bring America to her knees.

On Mark Twain
On Mark Twain

Author: Louis J. Budd

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780822307594

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This volume in The Best from American Literature series presents articles and profiles the evolution of literary opinion and the shifts of critical emphasis. Beginning with an analysis of science in the thought of Mark Twain, the volume examines his indebtedness to literary comedians, such as George Horatio Derby, better known as John Phoenix; his contributions to the traditions of Southwestern humor; and how he employed images of endangered families. Other topics include: Twain as translator from the German; the composition and structure of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; the style of Huckleberry Finn; his first and only novel about a young girl, Joan of Arc; the four roles into which he cast Satan; the probable meaning of A Connecticut Yankee; and a thematic analysis of Pudd'nhead Wilson. ISBN 0-8223-0759-6: $33.50.

Phoenix and the Birds of Prey
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey

Author: Mark Moyar

Publisher: US Naval Institute Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with more than 100 U.S., South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, historian Mark Moyar dissects attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure. Filled with new revelations and corrections of existing accounts, Moyar's long overdue history sets the record straight about one of the last remaining secrets of the Vietnam War--and offers poignant lessons for dealing with future Third World insurgencies. 40 photos.

The Phoenix Wars
The Phoenix Wars

Author: Daniel A. McClean

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2017-05-31

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1524694169

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New heroes arise to battle the ever changing landscape. Lady Carmen Armenta and Lord Andres Jaimes with her brothers Jerry and Isreal unwillingly embark on an adventure to save time itself. As the first round of the tournament comes to an end, time begins to correct itself with the revelation of the Final One Hundredgood versus evil! Shawneita realizes that she has an important task to save whats left of her family. What will happen when time and existence collide?

Jab
Jab

Author: Mark Halliday

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-04-15

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 0226313905

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Human, hunger, happiness, hope, heart, and Halliday all start with h, as does ham. Accident? Maybe! But seldom have the flour of the humanistic and the egg yolk of honesty mixed more swellingly with the yeast of desire and the salt of self-doubt—not to mention the olive paste of ambition. Halliday has whacked Death and Mutabilitie before, but this time . . . this time he whacks them again. After this Jab, the world will never be the same. Or at least, a few hundred conversations, here and there, will be somewhat affected. Roll over Death, and tell Mutabilitie the news.

The Mark of the Beast
The Mark of the Beast

Author: Debra Hassig

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 113566045X

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The medieval bestiary was a contribution to didactic religious literature, addressing concerns central to all walks of Christian and secular life. These essays analyze the bestiary from both literary and art historical perspectives, exploring issues including kinship, romance, sex, death, and the afterlife.

Thresherphobe
Thresherphobe

Author: Mark Halliday

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 022603884X

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In his sixth collection, Mark Halliday continues to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life’s emotional mysteries—both dire and hilarious—from the perpetual dissolving of our past to the perpetual frustration of our cravings for ego-triumph, for sublime connection with an erotically idealized Other, and for peace of spirit. Animated by belief in the possible truths to be reached in interpersonal speech, Halliday’s voice-driven poetry wants to find insight—or at least a stay against confusion—through personality without being trapped in personality. History will leave much of what we are on the threshing floor, Halliday notes, but in the meantime we do what we can; let posterity (if any!) say we rambled truly. Forward Prizes for Poetry: Highly Commended for 'Classic Blunder' and 'Lois in the Sunny Tree'

Noble Phoenix
Noble Phoenix

Author: Mark A. Pryor

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-07-29

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781548434922

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The grand master of a secret organization deploys assassins and terrorism across Europe, threatening to ignite World War III. Viktor Prazsky, who has a secret weapon of his own, risks everything to stop him. The relentless action and frightening technologies leap from today's and tomorrow's headlines. Can Viktor save the world from Armageddon?

Ashes to Ashes
Ashes to Ashes

Author: Dale Andradé

Publisher: Free Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Draws on interviews with former operatives and on government documents to present a highly positive account of the controversial rural pacification program from its inception in 1967 to the departure of its American advisors and collapse of the program in 1973. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR