American Marines

Much of the history written about the Vietnam War overlooks the US Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons. These CAPs lived in the Vietnamese villages, with the difficult and dangerous mission of defending the villages from both the National Liberation Front guerrillas and the soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army. The CAPs also worked to improve living conditions by helping the people with projects, such as building schools, bridges, and irrigation systems for their fields.

Although we rely on physicians, calling on them at birth and death and every medical event in between, rarely do we consider the personal challenges faced by doctors-to-be. In 2005 author Jacqueline Marino and photojournalist Tim Harrison had the unprecedented opportunity to chronicle the experience of three students as they learned to become doctors at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

We were a task force of 60 soldiers who were sent to an area of the Mekong Delta of Vietnam to build schools in poor rural villages. Their schools had been destroyed in WWII and these poor farmers were desperate to educate their children. There was great appreciation for our work. However, as you can imagine, the Viet Cong were determined to stop us. The Viet Cong launched attacks to stop us. It became clear that we were going to die. It was Vietnam 1968. My soldiers and I fought back. We improvised. We adjusted. We quickly learned what we needed to learn. We survived. The Viet Cong’s ...

Olivia Kirkland had a body made for sin and Ivan had known that she was going to be trouble ever since she'd started to bloom before his very eyes years before. But Olivia was practically his family, and he could never think of anything more happening between them. Olivia had other ideas... She'd been in love with Ivan ever since she knew what the word meant. And even if it meant seducing him, she was going to find a way to make her every desire come to life in his arms.

Un viajante, vendedor de lencería, espera ansioso al volante la reaparición del hijo huido y recibe la milagrosa ayuda de un héroe del rock. El misterio de la luz de un cuadro, La lechera de Vermeer, devuelve a un escritor al regazo de la madre. Un joven cuenta su historia de amor después de fallecer en un atraco frustrado. Un músico de saxo encuentra el don de la música en la mirada de una muchacha. Una amistad fraternal entre un escolar y un maestro anarquista, que nace de la mutua curiosidad por la vida de los animales, es destrozada por la brutalidad de 1936.

He’s in love with his best friend, and he can’t stand seeing her with anyone else... Jake has loved his best friend, Lily, for as long as he can remember. But his fear of rejection keeps him silent. He needs her in his life—even if it’s only as just a friend. All throughout high school, he watched from the sidelines as she dated other guys. He was the shoulder she cried on when they broke her heart—while she broke his. Desperate to escape the pain of wanting her but never having her, Jake joins the Marines, hoping distance will help him forget. But no amount of time or training ...

General Gustave Perna U. S. Army, Retired, Operation Warp Speed Lt. Col. John McBrearty, a natural leader, combat Veteran, and family man, shares his unique perspective on history. In Volume II, Lt. Colonel John J. McBrearty chronicles his unit's triumphs and failures in the combat zone of Iraq through a selection of essays and letters written home. With his insight, candor, and love for history, Colonel Mack provides the reader with a rare inside view of this microcosm of American military history. I want to shed light on military operations in Iraq that are far less known to the general ...

Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than one hundred Black voices.

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickoff is one commercial away. Then something happens, and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.

This audiobook is built around Fred Edward's journals, sent home during his first tour in Vietnam in 1966-67. His own meticulous research fits his individual experiences into a larger context, through Postscripts, extensive notes, and a thorough historical chronology

Una guía fascinante de los conflictos que ocurrieron en América del Norte y su impacto en las tribus nativas americanas.

A wickedly sexy sci-fi romance continues with a new couple and new species, and a new set of problems! She's a former concubine with desires that she wasn't raised to cope with. Asazi concubine Taya grew up in an asexual society. She's escaped from being in Saraz's harem, but doesn't know what to think about sex or men. The icing on the cake? She finds herself attracted to a Kormic warrior--one of the Asazi blood-sworn enemy. Worse, she's in the Farlands, surrounded by Kormic, staying in their midst, and shocked by their cultural--especially sexual--differences. She is not certain she can ...

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickoff is one commercial away. Then something happens, and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.

Mauro Esparza es un escritor del montón pero, con su última novela ha conseguido un éxito de ventas suficiente para ser tenido en cuenta. Aprovechando su momento de gloria es invitado a una conferencia arqueológica sobre los indios tayrona. Allí conoce a la doctora Alicia Samsonite y es nombrado al azar miembro de una expedición que ha de dirigirse a Colombia, a Ciudad Perdida, en busca de una leyenda con siglos de historia. Una vez allí tendrá que enfrentarse a múltiples amenazas, aventuras y traiciones.

I have a stable job as a personal trainer. My side hustle involves taking people out on hikes and pushing them to their limits. I love my friends and family equally. Every now and again, I need the itch between my shoulder blades branded with scratch marks. I’m haunted by that phantom ache when Nina Williams walks into my life to hire me for a hiking contest. Killer, dimpled smile, potty mouth, sharp mind and a confidence that makes me want to beg. She doesn’t want to want me. Yet, with a past as complicated and dark as mine, we’re destined to cross every line she puts in place.