Author: James Brady
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date: 2007-04-01
Book Size: 30.34 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The Marines Of Autumn

by James Brady, The Marines Of Autumn Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Marines Of Autumn book, War has been the inspiration of such great novels as The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms, and daring feats of courage and tragic mistakes have been the foundation for such classic works. Now, for the first time ever, the Korean War has a novel that captures that courage and sacrifice. When Captain Thomas Verity, USMC, is called back to action, he must leave his Georgetown home, career, and young daughter and rush to Korea to monitor Chinese radio transmissions. At first acting in an advisory role, he is abruptly thrust into MacArthur's last daring and disastrous foray-the Chosin Reservoir campaign-and then its desperate retreat. Time magazine at the time recounted the retreat this way: "The running fight of the Marines...was a battle unparalleled in U.S. military history. It had some aspects of Bataan, some of Anzio, some of Dunkirk, some of Valley Forge, and some of 'the retreat of the 10,000' as described in Xenophon's Anabasis." The Marines of Autumn is a stunning, shattering novel of war illuminated only by courage, determination, and Marine Corps discipline. And by love: of soldier for soldier, of men and their women, and of a small girl in Georgetown, whose father promised she would dance with him on the bridges of Paris. A child Captain Tom Verity fears he may never see again. In The Marines of Autumn, James Brady captures our imagination and shocks us into a new understanding of war.

Author: James Brady
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date: 2007-04-01
Book Size: 43.96 MB
Book Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Marine

by James Brady, The Marine Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Marine book, A rousing new Marine Corps adventure from the author of the New York Times bestselling Warning of War and The Marines of Autumn The Marine is Colonel James ("Oliver") Cromwell, a warrior forged at Notre Dame and the Berlin of Hitler's Olympics, and honed by combat at Guadalcanal as one of Carlson's Marine Raiders. With the world at peace, the thirty-five-year old Cromwell is restlessly, if pleasantly, beached on garrison duty in California, aware of how much he misses the war, when he is ordered to fresh duty beyond the seas, as military attaché to the American ambassador in a dull Asian backwater half a world away. There, at dawn on a June Sunday, Ollie gets his wish for action. Korea violently erupts and Colonel Cromwell is caught up in the early, panicked, rout. While South Koreans cut and run, the first GIs hurried into battle are brushed aside by advancing Red tanks and tough peasant infantry. The Marine chronicles the war-hardened Cromwell's experience of the dramatic First Hundred Days of a brutal three-year Korean War, the chaos and cowardice of retreat, the last-ditch gallantry of the Pusan Perimeter, MacArthur's brilliant left hook sending Marines against the deadly seawall at Inchon, and the bloody assault to liberate Seoul and promote MacArthur's 1952 presidential ambitions. Ollie Cromwell's is the story of a "forgotten war" that never truly ended, but for a bitter truce along what a recent U.S. president called "the most dangerous border in the world." In The Marine, James Brady crafts a powerful novel of one man's service to his country and Corps.

Author: James Brady
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date: 2007-04-01
Book Size: 32.27 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Warning Of War

by James Brady, Warning Of War Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Warning Of War book, The New York Times Bestselling Author of The Marines of Autumn Late November of 1941. Half the world is at war and with the other half about to join in, a thousand U.S. Marines stand sentinel over the last days of an uneasy truce between ourselves and the Imperial Japanese Army in chaotic North China. By November 27, FDR is convinced Japan is about to launch a military action. Washington doesn't know where, isn't sure precisely when. But the Cabinet is sufficiently alarmed that War Secretary Henry Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox are authorized to send an immediate and coded "warning of war" to American bases and units in harm's way. In Shanghai two cruise ships are chartered and 800 armed American Marines are marched through the great port city with enormous pomp and circumstance and embarked for Manila. Another 200 Marines, unable to reach Shanghai, and serving in small garrisons and posts from Peking to Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, are caught short by this "warning of war." This is their story. Of how a detachment of American Marines marooned in North China as war erupts, set out on an epic march through hostile territory in an attempt to fight their way out of China and, somehow, rejoin their Corps for the war against Japan. James Brady dazzles us once again with a stunning and unflinching look at America at war. Warning of War is a moving tribute to sheer courage, determination, and Marine Corps discipline, and is a wonderful celebration of America in one of its darkest but finest hours.

Author: James Brady
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: 2007-04-01
Book Size: 80.99 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Coldest War

by James Brady, The Coldest War Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Coldest War book, America's "forgotten war" lasted just thirty-seven months, yet 54,246 Americans died in that time -- nearly as many as died in ten years in Vietnam. On the fiftieth anniversary of this devastating conflict, James Brady tells the story of his life as a young marine lieutenant in Korea. In 1947, seeking to avoid the draft, nineteen-year-old Jim Brady volunteered for a Marine Corps program that made him a lieutenant in the reserves on the day he graduated college. He didn't plan to find himself in command of a rifle platoon three years later facing a real enemy, but that is exactly what happened after the Chinese turned a so-called police action into a war. The Coldest War vividly describes Brady's rapid education in the realities of war and the pressures of command. Opportunities for bold offensives sink in the miasma of trench warfare; death comes in fits and starts as too-accurate artillery on both sides seeks out men in their bunkers; constant alertness is crucial for survival, while brutal cold and a seductive silence conspire to lull soldiers into an often fatal stupor. The Korean War affected the lives of all Americans, yet is little known beyond the antics of "M*A*S*H." Here is the inside story that deserves to be told, and James Brady is a powerful witness to a vital chapter of our history.

Author: James Brady
Publisher:
Release Date: 1977-01-01
Book Size: 73.88 MB
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Paris One

by James Brady, Paris One Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Paris One book,

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Release Date: 1916
Book Size: 33.39 MB
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The Marines Magazine

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Author: Jack Shulimson
Publisher:
Release Date: 1978
Book Size: 71.90 MB
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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U S Marines In Vietnam

by Jack Shulimson, U S Marines In Vietnam Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download U S Marines In Vietnam book,

Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
Release Date: 1882
Book Size: 32.68 MB
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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The Parliamentary Debates

by Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Debates Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Parliamentary Debates book,

Author: Great Britain. Parliament
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Release Date: 1882
Book Size: 73.35 MB
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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Hansard S Parliamentary Debates

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament
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Release Date: 1882
Book Size: 40.65 MB
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Category : Great Britain
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The Parliamentary Debates Authorized Edition

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Author: United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
Publisher:
Release Date: 1977
Book Size: 48.69 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages :
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U S Marines In Vietnam The Landing And The Buildup 1965 By J Shulimson C M Johnson

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Author: United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
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Release Date: 1977
Book Size: 54.37 MB
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Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
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U S Marines In Vietnam Shulimson J An Expanding War 1966

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