Известные люди

Book DescriptionIn Borrowed Time decorated Vietnam veteran Charles Kinney picks up where We Were Soldiers leaves off. He tells the compelling story of his year as a combat medic with the renowned 7th Cavalry of the US Army, focusing on C Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 7th. After the Ia Drang campaign of We Were Soldiers fame, which took place in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in 1965, came the Bong Son I and II campaigns in the coastal plains of South Vietnam in 1966. Kinney gives riveting firsthand accounts of the devastating battle at Landing Zone 4 (rated by the US Army as the 2nd bloodiest battle of the war from 1965- 1972), the triumphant wipeout of an entire North Vietnamese Army battalion at Than Son II, and the tragic ambush of C Company at Tuy Hoa. In 1970, Kinney volunteered for another tour of duty in Vietnam, returning to work for a year as a senior clinical technician at the 3rd Surgical Hospital at Binh Tuy south of Saigon. There he became the assistant...

Book DescriptionSpanish Edition. This book reveals the shadowy world of the Taliban: The psychological games, the exhausting interviews and other deprivations of captivity. It also demonstrates the human spirit’s amazing capacity to overcome.

Book DescriptionThe story has its origins in the sixties, when Mehta by chance finds his father weeping uncontrollably on his mother's shoulder during a New York dinner party. As a result, the son begins to unravel a family mystery that takes him on a painful and revealing voyage into his father's British past in Simla, the magical hill station. Step-by-step, he is forced to confront his father's passionate clandestine affair with Rasil, an exquisite beauty who in her teens was abducted from her poor family and raped. She was subsequently rescued by a Hindu philanthropist, only to end up trapped in an abusive marriage to a rich businessman. Mehta's exploration of his father's love affair proves painful, as the son realizes that the entanglement, a passing episode in sixty-one years of a loving marriage, had shattering psychological side effects on his mother-a close friend of Rasil's-and also on his own life. The Red Letters is Mehta's masterpiece, a work of extraordinary intensity...

Book DescriptionAt 15, Jasmina Dervisevic had typical teenage problems. How could she talk to the boy she liked without making a fool of herself? Would she find the right shoes to wear to the high-school party? She had heard the old stories about World War II, when neighbor turned against neighbor, but she seldom gave them a second thought. That had all happened ages ago, and she was living in a modern Yugoslavian city where Serbs and Muslims were close friends. Then Yugoslavia began to break apart. The national army turned its guns against its own people, and Jasmina had to grow up fast.

Book Description The Great Depression of the 1930s was a challenging time for most families- especially those in the "Dust Bowl" states such as Oklahoma. This is a true story of a young boy born just three months before the "Crash of 1929", told with reflections on his growing up in Ada, Oklahoma, during the 1930s and 1940s as his and other neighborhood families struggled for survival and then recovered as the nation began to experience teh "Happy Days are Here Again!" promised by a new president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The book covers the childhood and youth years- ending with high school graduation when writer recognizes that he has "miles to go before I sleep". Young Oliver "hawked" newspapers in Ada's downtown business area as a seven-year old, moved on to paper routes and other jobs and learned important life skills through family, church, work, Scouting, neighborhood activities, and especially, as he became "the eyes" for a loving, blind grandfather who, despite that...

Book DescriptionSpanish Places, written in the 1960s and revised for publication in 2003, is a personal memoir of a special kind. The author, a budding unpublished poet, travels to Spain in 1954 to write a long poem entitled Birth Of A Poet. This he completes in Cordoba, an ancient city in Andalusia which was once the capital of Moorish Spain. After refueling his coffers as a magazine editor and news correspondent, he returns to Spain six years later to continue his romance with the old world and with writing poetry. There he meets a girl, Elena, who captures his heart and with whom, after much travail and strenuous negotiations with her family, he eventually marries a year later. SPANISH PLACES describes three visits to Spain in a seven year period. Theauthor also describes the changes that take place in daily life under Franco's reign, gives historical perspective and commentary on famous Spaniards such as writer-philosopher Ortega y Gasset, the painter Goya, and the bullfighter...

Book DescriptionAfter the author retired, he and his wife spent two years with the U.S. Peace Corps in the "Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho." While there, he discovered things about himself, America, the Third World, and foreign aid that made him rethink previous beliefs. 24 New Moons recounts the experience. It's not a tale of swash-buckling adventure because day-to-day living doesn't soar to that level, but it is a story of discovery and insight.