Author: Martain A. Farley
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: war, memoirs, soldier, rages, battle
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2010-03-22
List price: $12.87
ISBN-10: 1426928610
ISBN-13: 9781426928611

Just out of school, Martain and his brother Mike head to an Army post in Columbia, South Carolina. They are resolved to serve their country and help defeat the enemy in Vietnam. On a plane to training camp, the young Martain is served a cocktail by a flight attendant. In camp, he’s stripped down and examined during a physical. And in Vietnam, he hears people speaking in short energetic bursts in a language he’s never heard. His life has completely changed, and now he has to deal

Author: Kirk C. Jenkins
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: kentucky, infantry, fifteenth, union, rages, higher, battle
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2003-10-24
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0813122813
ISBN-13: 9780813122816

The Battle Rages Higher tells, for the first time, the story of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, a hard-fighting Union regiment raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave state where Lincoln received only 0.9 percent of the 1860 presidential vote, the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky fought and died for the Union for over three years, participating in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, as well as the battles of Perryville, Stones River and Chickamauga. Using primary research, including soldiers’ letters

Author: Mel Odom
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: battle, rages, military, days, last, unleashed, earth, apocalypse
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1414316364
ISBN-13: 9781414316369

In this a much anticipated conclusion to the Apocalypse series, First Sergeant “Goose” Gander of the United States Army Rangers is in over his head, and he knows it. Trapped by the Rapture in the carnage of Middle Eastern shooting war, far from his wife and kid back home, he’s living every day on the edge, afraid each moment might be his last, terrified that he’ll never see the people he loves again. The war on the Syrian/Turkish border is heating up, and the opposition armies and the local warlords are skirmishing for power in a no-man’s land filled with innocent victims

Authors:Charles Officer, Jake Page,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: warming, future, earth, global, disasters, rages, natural, planet
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-08-28
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 019537701X
ISBN-13: 9780195377019

In New England, 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer. Crops failed throughout America and, in Western Europe, it was even worse, with food riots and armed groups raiding bakeries and grain markets. All this turmoil followed a catastrophic volcanic eruption--a year earlier on the other side of the world--the eruption of Tambora, a blast heard almost a thousand miles away. In When the Planet Rages, Charles Officer and Jake Page describe some of the great events of environmental history, from calamities such as the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 (the greatest in recorded history) and the ice

Authors:Michael P. Nelson, J. Baird Callicott,
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: wilderness, debate, new, rages, continuing
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0820331716
ISBN-13: 9780820331713

Ten years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surrounded them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate.Like its predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices. The Wilderness Debate Rages On includes the best work done on the concept of wilderness over the past decade, underappreciated essays from the early twentieth century that off