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A Dangerous Country

An American Elegy

2024

EN

Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July and one of the country's most powerful and passionate antiwar voices, completes his Vietnam Trilogy with this poignant, inspiring, and deeply personal elegy to America.WHEN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD RON KOVIC enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1964, he couldn't foresee that he would return from Vietnam paralyzed and in a wheelchair for life. His best-selling 1976 memoir Born o...

Price12,29 €or Free with Kobo Plus

2016

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The author of Born on the Fourth of July delivers "a harrowing, poignant telling of the American Veteran's Movement and its members' struggles" (Manhattan Book Review).In the spring of 1974, as the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement. In a phenomenal feat of political organizing, Kovic corralled his fellow AVM...

Price12,29 €or Free with Kobo Plus

2016

EN

"Hurricane Street...[is] another raw expose on the cost of war. The book, which he calls a prequel, drills deep into the 17-day drama of a 1974 sit-in and hunger strike staged by Kovic and a band of fellow wounded veterans who took the federal building on Wilshire Boulevard by storm...The book is an unflinching anti-war declaration, written in blood and the sweat of too many haunted nights by a Vietnam Marine Corps sergeant who later opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Price11,33 €
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Canons

2019

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Born on the Fourth of July details the author’s life story - from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the America's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.

Price8,68 €

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The Other Side

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2013

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An original ebook short story from New York Times bestselling author Chevy Stevens. If you've read Never Knowing, you'll want to read THE OTHER SIDE. Includes exclusive chapters from Chevy's brand-new novel, Always Watching.Staff Sargent Sandy McBride is working the biggest case of her life: the Campsite Killer, a murderer who has been hunting women for almost forty years, leaving a bloody trail of fear and paranoia. Finally, Sandy feels ...

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Catch-22 with radiation.Area 51 meets Dr. Strangelove.Except it really happened.THE ATOMIC TIMES is the absolutely insane, incredibly f*cked-up, but true, eyewitness story of what happened in 1956 on a tiny island in the South Pacific when over 1600 young soldiers (including me) were turned into atomic guinea pigs by the US Army.We...

Price5,99 €

2011

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Be sure to see Kill the Irishman—the major motion picture based on Rick Porrello’s true-crime masterpiece!A modern warrior known as GreeneWas very quick and smart, and mean.He scrambled hard and fought like hell,And led a charmed existence.They shot him down and blew him upWith most regular persistence.—From The Ballad of Danny Greene Clevelan d, the 1970s:A fearle...

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Closure

A Vigilante Justice FBI Thriller (Jack Randall Book 1)


2013

EN

Special Agent Jack Randall of the FBI finds himself appointed to track down and stop a vigilante shooter. Not by his superiors but by the killer himself.When a prominent lawyer is shot while waiting at a suburban stop sign it sets off a nation-wide manhunt for an elusive killer.As more bodies fall the shooter takes his message to the press, earning the support of the public with his choice of targets and confounding the FBI at every turn. From the desert of...

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Flying Drunk: The True Story of a Northwest Airlines Flight Three Drunk Pilots and One Man's Fight for Redemption

The True Story of a Northwest Airlines Flight, Three Drunk Pilots, and One Man's Fight for Redemption


2009

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March 8 1990: An intoxicated three-man crew including Flight Engineer Joseph Balzer fly a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 with 91 passengers aboard from Fargo North Dakota to Minneapolis Minnesota. July 25 1990: All three pilots stand trial for flying a commercial airliner while under the influence of alcohol; all three are convicted and sent to federal prison. July 26 1990 present: Joe Balzer fights for redemption and to regain all that he has lost. Flying Drunk is his story. Since he was a...


2002

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About 3,000 people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. Thousands more narrowly escaped, their survival a result of eerily prescient spur-of-the-moment decisions, acts of superhuman courage, the unfailing kindness of strangers, and, in some cases, fortuitous strokes of luck. September 11: An Oral History unites the voices of that day. It is at once a dramatic reminder of one of the most devastating events in histor...

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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat

2004

EN

For eighteen years, Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Buchanan had one of the most exciting, frightening, and heartbreaking jobs a newspaperwoman could have -- working the police beat for the Miami Herald. Having covered more crimes than most cops, Buchanan garnered a reputation as a savvy, gritty writer with a unique point of view and inimitable style. Now, back in print after many years, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face is her classic collection of true stories, as witnessed and reported...

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