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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Nothing in Common but Life 5 Short Stories【電子書籍】[ Richard Haddock ]

＜p＞Nathan - leaves a job he loves to nurse his wife through her final stage of cancer. Lured back to work several years later, he becomes an unwitting participant in a major procurement scam. Meanwhile he encounters the woman he had an affair with years ago who has haunted his dreams. Will he renew their relationship and revive the passion of his youth, or will he go to jail? Annie - devastated by her divorce, she retreats into a shell of embarrassment, anger and guilt. Grudgingly stepping back into the real world, she meets a suave, debonair man who sweeps her off her feet. When her exs affair ends he appeals to Annie for forgiveness. Annies sympathy for him creates a dilemma between old feelings and her new lover. Which man will she choose? Cody - hopes for college end when he is forced to run the family farm after his parents untimely deaths. He falls in love, but is rejected. Humiliated, he joins the Army and serves two combat tours in Afghanistan. He returns home to Texas, starts college, and meets a rich coed. They fall in love and she gets pregnant. What happens next reinforces Codys view of life as bitterly unfair. Carol - the African American Lt. Colonel prosecutes sexual harassment cases in the Air Force. Working a case against a popular officer, she uncovers his seamy underside and his political connections in Washington. She is drugged by associates of the accused and posed for lewd pictures. The accused expects the case to be dropped and that Carol submit to his sexual demands using the pictures as blackmail. Carol agonizes over giving in to the man and saving her career or defying him and ruining her life. Bernie - the night watchman finds three million dollars in cash in a duffel bag. He learns from a police friend that a local gang has had their drug money stolen. Bernie cautiously begins to spend the money and the cop, suspicious, threatens to expose Bernie unless he gets a share of the cash. How can Bernie keep his discovery a secret and use the money to give his family a better life? And what should he do about the cop who can ruin it all?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Secret of Cape Lisburne An Arctic Adventure【電子書籍】[ Ron Monette ]

＜p＞The Antonov 225, the largest plane in the world in 1988 is heading to Cape Lisburne, Alaska with scientists and cargo to find out why something like the red tide is happening at and around the Cape which is a U.S. Long Range Radar Station. The 2 pilots and 2 crew are ex F-14 combat aces from that flew off a carrier during Desert Storm. The plane is sabotaged to do a controlled crash short of Cape Lisburne. Everybody survives with some injuries. A medical officer, Kelly is on board and she assists. There are a couple of confrontations with a surprise person on board who eventually dies. The whole group are rescued by the Cape Station by moving inland off the ice pack. The scientists eventually find what is causing the red tide effect with the help of a special coast guard sonar ship. Iron sulphate has been dumped in the coastal waters causing Domoic Acid poisoning. The base pilots and personnel get sick from eating the shell fish and fish and can't fly. The 4 F-14 (old dogs) has to fly and put on a real show. Kelly and Jim, a second seat radar man on the F-14s fall in love. Kelly lost pilot years earlier and hasnt let herself get close to anyone since. The culprit of the iron dumping is a communist country. When it is found out they are taken to a world court. They deny and blame others. There is no antidote to the poison so it has to work its way out of the sick and the water. At the end the four old dogs have a confrontation with a N. Korean ship that has entered restricted waters and what they do is surprising. It prevents a possible war. The last chapter is, "Is it the end or is it the Beginning as everybody is summed up.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Long Healing Come Slowly A Novel About Ptsd (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and Its Effects on Suffering Individuals and Their Families【電子書籍】[ Jim Carmichael ]

＜p＞Michael Lloyds life came to a screeching halt when his best friend, Cpl. Damien Wilson, was killed in Vietnam. Little did Michael know the black whirlpool of emotion Damiens death would set into motion. Michaels father, Stephen, President of Lloyd Hotels International, had been a B-24 pilot during the second World War. Stephen had put his combat experiences behind him- he thought. By 1968, Vietnam monopolized nightly newscasts viewed by millions of Americans at their dinner tables. Stephen attempted to dissuade his son from making any rash decisions about avenging Damiens death, but he overlooked the possibility of that death raking up terrifying memories of deadly flak, German ME-109s, and his riddled bomber lumbering to its German targets. Stephen began spiraling out of control, taking his family with him. This story is historical fiction based on true events. It discusses what was once termed Battle Fatigue or Shell Shock, but known today as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). You will follow the Lloyds as they suffer the repercussions of PTSD, and the severe mental trauma that ambushes, as it victimizes the whole family. This account is about infinitely more than human reactions to shock and grief. It is about the King of redemption, the Lord Jesus Christ, as He preserves and governs His creatures with wisdom and power. This novel details the lives of one family, who are all woefully ignorant of the effects of war. It also describes the assuring hope of heaven in the midst of tragedy.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Jem and the War【電子書籍】[ Gordon Thynne ]

＜p＞The story is set in and around the fictional village of Althwaite in the West Riding of Yorkshire before and during the early part of the Second World War. It follows the adventures of Jem and his pal, Harold. They befriend the local tramp, tackle mysteries and spy on the rival Home Guard platoon. As the war impacts on the village, Jem is drawn into the lives of others: Benjy, the tramp, who tries to become a useful citizen; the squire who comes out of his shell to combat the threat of Hitler; evacuees from Hull; a female artist who is rescued from the clutches of suspicious local women; the veteran who lost a leg in the Boer War; and the wise woman who mourns the son she lost to adoption years ago.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then there is Alice, two years older than Jem, whom he admires: will the rift between them be healed. And will his Dad return safe and sound from the campaign in North Africa?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Growing up Through the Eyes as a Marine in Wwii【電子書籍】[ John Teuchert ]

＜p＞Growing Up Through the Eyes as a Marine in Wwii entails the story of John Teuchert who enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of twenty in 1942 and fought in the Second World War. He was among the troops in the operation in Mariana Islands, where he saw his fellow marines fall and die around him as they clash against the Japanese. Teuchert escaped death in Iwo Jima after a shell landed nearby, hitting him and his fellow marines, but he was seriously wounded, which marked the end of his combat. He retired as a security officer at Naval Surface Weapons Laboratory in Fort Lauderdale. He married Nora Carney in 1945, and they had five children. She died in 2000, and he married Mary Jo Lieb. Teuchert now has eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Three Years Aboard a Navy Destroyer【電子書籍】[ Otis Ted Holly ]

＜p＞This book is a sea story about a U.S. Navy destroyer and her crew. The author served on this ship, the USS Brush (DD745), for 3 years and 2 months in the early 1950s. Life on the Brush involved a lot of sea duty. She spent most of this time at sea either conducting training exercises off the coast of California or steaming around somewhere in the Far east. The Brush made 3 seven month cruises to the Orient while the author was aboard her. The main objective of this book, and the reason for writing it, was to tell about what the crew of the Brush experienced on these 3 cruises.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The first cruise was made in early 1953. The Brush was sent to the Korean War theatre and spent several months there doing what destroyers do during war time. The men experienced things off North Korea that they will never forget. In addition to the Korean Patrol, the Brush participated in the Formosa Patrol for a month or so and went to the island city of Hong Kong while she was down that way.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The second cruise was made in May, 1954. On this cruise, the brush spent most of her time in the South China Sea, Formosa Strait, and in the Sea of Japan.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Brush commenced the third cruise in June, 1955. This was more of a peace time cruise and we never had to go into harms way. Although, the author had a number of interesting personal experiences which he wrote about.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Comments by people who have read the book, ＜em＞Three Years Aboard A Navy Destroyer＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the son of one of the USS Brushs skippers identified in Ted Hollys book, I was particularly fascinated to read of his and his shipmates many and varied experiences during their three Far East cruises. His folksy stories of a young mans explorations of the vastness of the oceans, the wonders of the orient, and the uncertainties of combat are told in a detailed and entertaining style offering multiple layers of insight to life aboard a tin can in the 1950s. In addition to his prose, Mr. Holly has included many photographs and maps which enhance and elucidate the storytelling. It is a terrific read for anyone interested in the naval service in general and the unforgotten Korean War in particular.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Dennis Quigley＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Captain, USMC (Retired)＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Arizona＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞the straightforward and unglossed memories of a young sailor, out of high school and soon into a U.S. destroyer, greyhound of the seas. Ted Holly was everybodys favorite sailor, squared away with a great attitude in a key job around the nerve center of a 2200 tonner loaded for whatever kind of scrap. This book is an honest snapshot of the times, the people, and the ships that sailed to the Korean Conflict.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Ted Brown＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞LT., USNR (Retired)＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞New Hampshire＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book, Three Years Aboard A Navy Destroyer, vividly recounts typical destroyer, i.e. USS BRUSH DD745, operations during the final days of the Korea War and the transition into post war routine operations. It accurately reports destroyer actions against North Korean trains, sinking of floating mines with rifle fire, the Wonsan Harbor actions and support of Korean Forces engaged in clandestine operations.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It also provides a typical sailors view and experiences of the liberty ports in Japan and the exotic Hong Kong as a British Colony. And the author returns to Japan 29 years later and gives an interesting comparison of his experiences and the differences that he observed between his first trip and the 1982 trip.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The BRUSH was my first duty station after being commissioned in June 1951 until my transfer in November 1953. So I shared with the author the destroyer actions described. I was amazed that he was able to capture these events in so much detail and I enjoyed remembering the details of these events.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Herbert O. Burton＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Captain, USN (Retired)＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞North Carolina＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Three Years Aboard A Navy Destroyer is a marvelous account of the experience of the author as a young sailor during a period that few, since the days of World War II, have had the opportunity to share. While certainly many have sailed the seas, and some have encountered hostile action, this account fills the gap for those who have not had such an experience. Ted Holly communicates in the language of the sailor his experience that draws the reader into such that it is as if he (or she) is there. He captures the attention of the reader and presents an engaging account of the experiences of life aboard a 2200 ton vessel, which is missing all of the comforts of the cruise ship, from the periods of relative boredom to the periods of action with live ammunition.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Rev. Ralph H. Spiller, Jr., PhD, LMHC＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞CWO3, USN (Retired)＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Florida/Maine＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ted Hollys book is remarkable at several levels. First, he treats a subject from his own experience that is not often considered life on an American destroyer during the Korean War. Further, he lends authenticity to his narrative through the painstaking process of obtaining and relying on the actual ships logs, day by day throughout his entire tenure aboard the USS Brush. Added to that, he, as a quartermaster, was well-placed to hear and see much of what was happening aboard the ship.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ted includes exhaustive details on some of the high points of the ships experience, the shell hit in Wonsan Harbor and the attack on the submarine as examples.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Even for we who were aboard during much of the time covered in the book, some of the events were revelations. We either remembered them differently or not at all, or in less detail, but must defer to Teds account because of his reliance on the logs. Therefore, for any member of the crew during that period, Teds book is an enjoyable and enlightening read.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Don Gordon＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞RD 3/C, USN (Retired)＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞North Carolina＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Great book! As a Destroyer Sailor aboard the USS DeHaven during the Korean War, I can testify Ted has written a fine book about his navy years aboard the USS Brush. If you are a navy destroyer sailor reading this book, then get ready to relive an exciting experience. I can recommend Teds book to anyone interested in ships, shipboard life, and even to one who has never been to sea. An outstanding experience.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Bill Williams＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞YN 2/C, USN (Retired)＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Florida＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Chemotroph【電子書籍】[ Ian McKinley ]

＜p＞Combat Engineer Dr. Bruce Roberts aims to collect extremophiles, microbes adapted to extreme radiation, which are the key to an elixir of youth. His team targets a radwaste repository in Europe but, from their arrival in Switzerland, a series of accidents dog them. Although seemingly unrelated to their work, Bruce worries that foes who previously tried to steal this secret are again on their tracks. After successful sampling in France, his forebodings are confirmed when a savage attack leaves him battered, and a trail of bodies highlights the complete ruthlessness of their opponents. In an attempt to lose the profilers who have managed to predict their moves with uncanny accuracy, the team flees to Singapore ? inadvertently entering the den of an aged mastermind who would stop at nothing to gain effective immortality. The skirmishes of the chase lead eventually to a pitched battle in the shell of the Dallas Fort Worth airport, which the team must not only survive but do so in a way that finally defeats their relentless trackers.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Appleseed Book 3: The Scales of Prometheus【電子書籍】[ Shirow Masamune ]

＜p＞Life seems ideal within the utopian confines of Olympus, a shining beacon in a post-World War III wasteland, but perfection is always an illusion. Stalking the ruins of New York City is Artemis, a renegade, flesh-eating bioroid (enhanced artificial human) carrying data critical to the future of Olympus. The elite ESWAT is sent in to tranq her and bring her in, but when Artemis recovers during transit the powerful combat bioroid brings down the transport ship and escapes into Olympus! ESWAT agents Deunan and Briareos are dispatched to bring in the feral Artemis, but will they emerge as heroes . . . or lunch?＜/p＞ ＜p＞* Shirow is well-known and critically acclaimed internationally, and is responsible for numerous classic anime/manga titles, such as ＜em＞Appleseed, Dominion, Ghost in the Shell＜/em＞, ＜em＞Orion＜/em＞, and ＜em＞Black Magic＜/em＞.＜br /＞ * Produced in the authentic right-to-left reading format, as originally published in Japan.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The 9th Engineer Battalion, First Marine Division, in Vietnam 35 Personal Accounts【電子書籍】[ Jean Shellenbarger ]

＜p＞The combat engineers of the First Marine Division, 9th Engineer Battalion, risked their lives daily in Vietnam as they cleared the roads of mines, repaired and paved the famous "Highway 1," disarmed booby traps, built bridges and culverts, and destroyed enemy bunkers and tunnels. Despite their sacrifices and pain, the combat engineers in Vietnam have heretofore largely been ignored.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is the first oral (or other) history of the 9th Engineers, the only Marine battalion formed specifically to go to Vietnam. More than 35 men of the 9th talk about why they joined the Marines and their experiences in basic training. They speak candidly and compellingly about their five years (1966 to 1970) in country. The soldiers also discuss what it was like to come home and get on with their lives.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Advances in Marine and Brackishwater Aquaculture【電子書籍】

＜p＞This book compiles the latest findings in the field of marine and brackishwater aquaculture. It covers significant topics such as techniques of culture of live feeds (microalgae, rotifer, ＜em＞Artemia＜/em＞, marine copepod & polychaetes), while also highlighting vital themes like the culture and applications of free and marine sponge associated microbial probiotics, controlled breeding, seed production and culture of commercially important fin and shell fishes. Moreover, the book focuses on the breeding and culture of marine ornamental fishes, sea cucumber and sea urchin and discusses seaweeds culture, aqua feed formulation and nutrition, water quality management in hatchery and grow-out culture systems, fish disease diagnosis and health management and cryopreservation of fish gametes for sustainable aquaculture practices, all from a multidimensional perspective.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The global fish production was 154 million tonnes in 2011 which more or less consisted of capture and culture fisheries (FAO, 2012). Roughly 80% of this is from inland-freshwater aquaculture and the remainder from capture fisheries in the marine and brackishwater sector. However, marine and brackishwater catches have recently begun to diminish due to overexploitation, climate change and pollution. The UNEP report affirmed that if the world remains on its current course of overfishing, by 2050, the ocean fish stock could become extinct or no longer commercially viable to exploit. In these circumstances, aquaculture is considered to be a promising sector to fulfill our future protein requirement. However, brackishwater and marine fish production now face serious challenges due to e.g. lack of quality fish seeds, feeds, poor water quality management and diseases.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fisheries and aquaculture sectors play a vital role as potential sources of nutritional security and food safety around the globe. Fish food is rich in protein, vitamins, phosphorous, calcium, zinc, selenium etc. In addition, fish contains omega-3 fatty acids, which help to prevent cardiovascular diseases. Fish food can also provide several health benefits to consumers. The omega 3 fatty acids found in fish can reduce the levels of LDL cholesterol (the “bad” cholesterol) and increase the HDL levels (the “good” cholesterol). Research conducted in Australia has proved that fish consumption can be used to cure hypertension and obesity. It is also reported that people who ate more fish were less prone to asthma and were able to breathe more easily. Omega 3 fish oil or fish consumption can help to prevent three of the most common forms of cancer: breast cancer, colon and prostate cancer. The omega 3 fatty acids present in fish or fish oil induce faster hair growth and prevent hair loss. Since most varieties of fish are rich in protein, eating fish helps to keep hair healthy. Furthermore, fish or fish oil helps in improving the condition of dry skin, giving it a healthy glow. It is useful in treating various skin problems such as eczema, psoriasis, itching, redness of skin, skin lesions and rashes. It is well known that eating fish improves vision and prevents Alzheimer’s and type-2 diabetes, and can combat arthritis. Further, fish oil or fish is good for pregnant women, as the DHA present in it helps in the development of the baby’s eyes and brain. It helps to avoid premature births, low birth weights and miscarriages. In addition, it is widely known that fish can be a good substitute for pulses in cereal-based diets for the poor. The global fish production was roughly 154 million tonnes in 2011 (FAO, 2012). It is estimated that by 2020 global fish requirements will be over 200 million tonnes; as such, innovative technological improvements are called for in order to improve the production and productivity in fisheries. In this context, this book provides valuable information for academics, scientists, researchers, government officials and farmers on innovative technological advancesfor sustainable fish production using aquaculture methods.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The book identifies the main issues and trends in marine and brackishwater aquaculture from a global perspective in general and in the Indian context in particular. It includes 23 chapters written by prominent researchers from various institutes and universities across India, who address the latest aquaculture technologies with distinctive approaches to support academics, researchers and graduates in the fields of Fisheries, Aquaculture, Marine Science, Marine Biology, Marine Biotechnology, Zoology and Agricultural Sciences. Our thanks go to our contributors; we are confident that all readers will immensely benefit from their valued expertise in the field of marine and brackishwater aquaculture.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Yesterday There Was Glory With the 4th Division, A.E.F., in World War I【電子書籍】[ Gerald Andrew Howell ]

In 1946, World War I veteran and self-described “buck private in the rear rank” Gerald Andrew Howell finished a memoir of the experiences of his squad from the 39th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, and their “moments of horror, tragedy, humor, amour, [and] promiscuity” in Europe. This was “the old Army as it used to be,” Howell explainsーthe saga of the “down-trodden doughboy.” A few months later Howell was dead, his manuscript unpublished. Jeffrey Patrick discovered the memoir and the author’s correspondence with publishers and took on the task of bringing it to publication at last. Yesterday There Was Glory is an unpretentious account of men at war, from training camp to the occupation of Germany. It includes graphic descriptions of the battlefield, of shell fire, gas attacks, and lice. “Between the attacks the men would lay in their wet holes and pray for relief. But no relief came,” Howell remembers. He recalls much more than the horrors of combat, however, chronicling the diverse collection of heroes, professional warriors, shirkers, and braggarts that made up the American Expeditionary Forces. Howell and his comrades longed for wounds that would allow them to escape the war, but resolutely engaged the Germans in hand-to-hand combat. They poked fun at their comrades, but were willing to share their last can of food. They endured difficult marches, pursued “mademoiselles” and “frauleins,” and even staged a “strike” to protest mistreatment by their officers. They were as “ribald as any soldiery in any army,” Howell admits, but “underneath this veneer, they were really patriotic, steadfast and sincere.” Patrick provides an editor’s introduction and annotations to explain terms and sources in the memoir. Howell’s account preserves the flavor of army life with conversations and banter in soldier language, including the uncensored doughboy profanity often heard but seldom recorded.画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】We Were Going to Win, Or Die There With the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan【電子書籍】[ Roy H. Elrod ]

In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where he commanded a platoon of 37 mm gunners. They endured Japanese attacks, malarial tropical weather, and starvation rations. His combat leadership earned him a Silver Star and a battlefield promotion. On D-Day at Tarawa his platoon waded their 37 mm cannons ashore, each weighing nearly 1,000 pounds, through half a mile of bullet-laced surf to get to an island where the killing never stopped. His was the only platoon to get its guns ashore and into action that first day. At Saipan, Elrod commanded a platoon of 75 mm halftracks, but he was riddled with shrapnel from an enemy artillery shell that took him out of the war. Fred H. Allison interviewed Elrod, drew upon wartime letters home, and provided annotations to the narrative of this young Marine infantry officer, a job that had an extremely low survival potential.画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Hammering the Blade A World War One Novel【電子書籍】[ Frank Rockland ]

＜p＞The Canadians are being hammered on two fronts.＜/p＞ ＜p＞On the home front, Sir Robert Borden’s government is being rocked by scandals. First it was the soldiers’ bad boots, then charges of graft and corruption in the militia department’s contracts, followed by the shell crisis. With an election in the air and the opposition pounding his minister of Militia and Defence, Major-General Sam Hughes, Borden is fighting desperately to save his government.＜/p＞ ＜p＞On the western front, after six months of constant harsh training, the CEF finally enter the trenches in France. Infantry Captain Llewellyn struggles to keep his men alive as snipers take their toll, and the Ross rifle fails its first combat test. Nothing prepares him for the chlorine gas attack at Ypres. A frustrated Gunner Paul Ryan watches helplessly as his comrades-in-arms suffer. He can’t help, since artillery shells are in short supply. As the battles rage, nursing sister Samantha Lonsdale is nearly overwhelmed as she cares for the sick, the wounded, and the dying.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the hammer blows fall, the blade is being tempered into cold steel.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Smoky the Brave【電子書籍】[ Damien Lewis ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The World's Smallest Dog with the World's Biggest Heart＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Smoky the Brave＜/em＞ is the extraordinary, touching and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles of the Pacific War. In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to engulf Australasia, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshire terrier was discovered hiding in a Japanese shell scrape amidst the thick jungles of Papua New Guinea. The GIs who discovered her presumed she had been some kind of Japanese army mascot, but it soon turned out that she understood neither commands rendered in Japanese nor English. A mystery, she was adopted by Corporal William 'Bill' Wynne, an air-crewman with the US 5th Air Force's 26th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Living in Bill Wynne's tent, sleeping on a piece of green felt salvaged from a card table,and sharing his rations, Smoky became the de facto mascot of the regiment. She went on to fly numerous photo-recce and air-sea rescue missions, cocooned in a soldier's pack hanging next to the machine-guns used to repel marauding Japanese fighters. She was awarded eight battle stars, surviving dozens of Japanese combat raids on Papua New Guinea, and braving a typhoon that ravaged Okinawa. After saving Wynne's life by warning of a falling shell, as their landing craft approached an enemy-held beach - a shell that killed the eight men that Wynne was standing beside - he nicknamed her the 'angel from a foxhole'. In one of her most famous exploits Smoky parachuted using a special rig designed to fit one of the world's smallest but toughest dogs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In perhaps her most heroic exploit of all, Smoky ran a cable through a seventy-foot pipe no wider in places than four inches, to enable telephone lines to be run across the recently occupied airbase of Luzon. Her efforts saved hundreds of ground-crew from being exposed to enemy bombing, preventing injury and loss of life. Amongst her many other awards,she was given the PDSA's Certificate for Animal Bravery or Devotion in 2011, a relatively new class of PDSA award.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Fast Facts on Combating Nurse Bullying, Incivility and Workplace Violence What Nurses Need to Know in a Nutshell【電子書籍】[ Maggie Ciocco, MS, RN, BC ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Provides a wealth of proven anti-bullying resources for all nursing settings＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞This pocket-sized, quick-access guide gives nurses crucial information they need to know to understand, identify, and effectively counter incivility, bullying, and violence in all nursing settings. Viewing nurse bullying as an institutional problem, this text expounds upon the ANA position statement, "Incivility, Bullying, and Workplace Violence" and includes definitions and statistics about nurse bullying, and what nurses at any level can do when faced with a bully.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Delivered in an easy-to-read, bulleted format, this resource covers all aspects of bullying, including an overview of the problem; why nurses bully each other; a discussion and quantification of the cost and impact of bullying on individuals, the workplace, and the broader health care system. Four instructional case study chapters delineate the different forms bullying can take and how to handle them, and a "bully-proofing" chapter replete with such useful tools as a bullying checklist, a guide to "de-toxifying" the workplace, and an explanation of the ANA Code of Ethics related to bullying.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Key Features:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Addresses all facets of nurse bullying, from origins and manifestations to evidence-based interventions and prevention strategies＜/li＞ ＜li＞Based on the hallmark ANA document “Incivility, Bullying, and Workplace Violence＜/li＞ ＜li＞Contains 10 instructive case studies depicting common bullying scenarios＜/li＞ ＜li＞Provides a wealth of anti-bullying resources for use in all nursing settings＜/li＞ ＜li＞Offers overview and chapter objectives and Fast Facts in a Nutshell clinical pearls＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Hot Latin Docs Collection: Santiago's Convenient Fianc?e / Alejandro's Sexy Secret / Rafael's One Night Bombshell / Dante's Shock Proposal【電子書籍】[ Annie O'Neil ]

＜p＞Four sexy, hot-blooded doctors just for you!＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Santiago’s Convenient Fiancee＜/em＞ by Annie O’Neil＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Can a convenient arrangement last forever?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Saoirse Murphy came to Miami to bury herself in work, determined to forget the cancelled wedding she left behind her, and she wants to stay…but only a green card will do!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Enter ex-combat doc Santiago Valentino. Having reluctantly returned to face his dark past, he’s only too happy to be distracted by his paramedic partner and her shocking proposal.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when their ‘convenient’ engagement tips into a very inconvenient passion, Santiago wonders…will she be his for ever wife?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Alejandro’s Sexy Secret＜/em＞ by Amy Ruttan＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas…＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞…If only that were true! Surgeon Kiri Bhardwaj never expected to see sexy exotic dancer Alejandro Valentino after their fantasy, life-changing night together. But now they’re face-to-face and he’s a specialist in her paediatric department!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Working together proves to Alejandro that they haven’t finished what they started all those years ago. To claim what he lost he’ll have to lay his heart on the line and prove to Kiri their chemistry is for keeps!＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Rafael’s One Night Bombshell＜/em＞ by Tina Beckett＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞From passion to pregnancy!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞An encounter with Rafael Valentino is broken-hearted Cassandra Larrobee’s chance to live in the moment! It was supposed to be one night only, but the sinfully hot doc has left her with more than just memories…＜/p＞ ＜p＞Since a heart-breaking decision years ago, Rafe is determined to remain aloneーbut when he’s sent to work with Cassie, he can’t resist their reckless kisses! When he discovers Cassie’s shocking surprise, can Rafe let her bring light into his shadowed life…and become a daddy to their baby?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Dante’s Shock Proposal＜/em＞ by Amalie Berlin＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞An inconvenient desire＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Growing up in the midst of her parents’ fraught union, surgical nurse Lise Bradshaw has never wanted or needed a man by her side. Until a sensual chance encounter with Dr Dante Valentino on the dancefloor of a Miami club sparks a full-blown passionate affair…leading to a shock proposal!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dante knows what he wants ? a family ? and what he doesn’t ?love. But as the fire blazes between him and beautiful Lise he realises that he’s inconveniently falling for his convenient fianc?e!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Valley of Tears【電子書籍】[ Don Bendell ]

＜p＞Guarded by Soviet-made tanks, riddled with deep fortifications, commanded by regiments of well-equipped elite enemy troops, the Plei Trap Valley was called the superhighway of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. So confident of its invulnerability to U.S. assault were the North Vietnamese that they housed a major POW camp beneath its jungle canopy. Acclaimed Special Forces chronicler Don Bendell tells his all-combat true story of the battle for Plei Trap in a blizzard of spent shell casings, with rockets screaming overhead and fog banks of enemy gas rolling in. Virtually unchecked even by B-52 carpet bombing, a swollen torrent of supplies and fresh troops poured out of the valley into the Communist war effort... until a strike force spearheaded by a Special Forces airborne assault team and their one hundred Montagnard strikers dropped deep behind NVA lines. Their mission: to keep retreating NVA from escaping into Cambodia and free American POWs from behind the barbed wire of the NVA camp... at any cost. They paid heavily for the right to call Plei Trap the... VALLEY OF TEARS.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Verdun The Longest Battle of the Great War【電子書籍】[ Paul Jankowski ]

＜p＞At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated trenches, severed communication wires, and drove men mad. As the barrage lifted, German troops moved forward, darting from shell crater to shell crater. The battle of Verdun had begun. In ＜em＞Verdun＜/em＞, historian Paul Jankowski provides the definitive account of the iconic battle of World War I. A leading expert on the French past, Jankowski combines the best of traditional military history-its emphasis on leaders, plans, technology, and the contingency of combat-with the newer social and cultural approach, stressing the soldier's experience, the institutional structures of the military, and the impact of war on national memory. Unusually, this book draws on deep research in French and German archives; this mastery of sources in both languages gives Verdun unprecedented authority and scope. In many ways, Jankowski writes, the battle represents a conundrum. It has an almost unique status among the battles of the Great War; and yet, he argues, it was not decisive, sparked no political changes, and was not even the bloodiest episode of the conflict. It is said that Verdun made France, he writes; but the question should be, What did France make of Verdun? Over time, it proved to be the last great victory of French arms, standing on their own. And, for France and Germany, the battle would symbolize the terror of industrialized warfare, "a technocratic Moloch devouring its children," where no advance or retreat was possible, yet national resources poured in ceaselessly, perpetuating slaughter indefinitely.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Among the Walking Wounded Soldiers, Survival, and PTSD【電子書籍】[ John Conrad ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A gripping account of PTSD, and a stark reminder that, for many, wars go on long after the last shot is fired.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the shadows of army life is a world where friends become monsters, where kindness twists into assault, and where self-loathing and despair become constant companions. Whether you know it by old names like “soldier’s heart,” “shell shock,” or “combat fatigue,” post-traumatic stress disorder has left deep and silent wounds throughout history in the ranks of fighting forces.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Among the Walking Wounded＜/em＞ tells one veteran’s experience of PTSD through an intimate personal account, as visceral as it is blunt. In a courageous story of descent and triumph, it tackles the stigma of PTSD head-on and brings an enduring message of struggle and hope for wounded Canadian veterans. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about Canadian veterans and the dark war they face long after their combat service is ended.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Fallen Hero【電子書籍】[ Sharon Kimbra Walsh ]

＜p＞＜em＞War, trauma, destruction, death. Personal conflict and a love under threat from adversity and fate. Can they survive? Can their love?＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞US Marine Staff Sergeant Joe Anderson is home after having been missing for many months a shell of the man he once was, tormented by guilt, consumed by rage and with a terrible hunger for revenge.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Corporal Katie Anderson, nee Walkerー How far will she go to help the man she loves? Is she willing to put her life on the line to stop Joe from his continuous journey toward mental destruction? Does she have the strength and the commitment to her man? Does she love him enough?＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Afghanistan Katie finds Joe and realizes that she has bitten off more than she can chew. Life in a combat zone is already tough. The Taliban have stepped up their attacks. There is no room for complacency, loss of focus or personal life issues. But, are there worse things than the enemy lining her up in their sights to kill her?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Can Joe find peace or will he die trying? Can Katie find the tenacity to bring Joe back to his senses, convince him that revenge will only get him killed? Is Katie’s love strong enough to overcome Joe’s hate, rage and guilt, his unwavering obsession for retributionーor will fate step in to destroy them before they can move toward healing Joe and healing themselves?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Hinomaru Hatanosuke【電子書籍】[ Shelley Marshall ]

＜p＞Return to old Japan and watch the teenage samurai Hinomaru Hatanosuke combat bandits, kidnappers, thieves, and demons as well as help junior and senior citizens. Full color reproduction of the nearly 200-page, original 1937 Japanese edition.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Best War Ever America and World War II【電子書籍】[ Michael C. C. Adams ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The most readableーand searingly honestーshort book ever written on this pivotal conflict.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes, it was a "cleaner" war than World War I. Although we did not seek the conflictーor so we believedーAmericans nevertheless rallied in support of the war effort, and the nation's soldiers, all twelve million of them, were proud to fight. But according to historian Michael C. C. Adams, our memory of the war era as a golden age is distorted. It has left us with a misleadingーeven dangerousーlegacy, one enhanced by the nostalgia-tinged retrospectives of Stephen E. Ambrose and Tom Brokaw. Disputing many of our common assumptions about the period, Adams argues in ＜em＞The Best War Ever＜/em＞ that our celebratory experience of World War II is marred by darker and more sordid realities.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the book, originally published in 1994, Adams challenges stereotypes to present a view of World War II that avoids the simplistic extremes of both glorification and vilification. ＜em＞The Best War Ever＜/em＞ charts the complex diplomatic problems of the 1930s and reveals the realities of ground combat: no moral triumph, it was in truth a brutal slog across a blasted landscape. Adams also exposes the myth that the home front was fully united behind the war effort, demonstrating how class, race, gender, and age divisions split Americans. Meanwhile, in Europe and Asia, shell-shocked soldiers grappled with emotional and physical trauma, rigorously enforced segregation, and rampant venereal disease.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In preparing this must-read new edition, Adams has consulted some seventy additional sources on topics as varied as the origins of Social Security and a national health system, the Allied strategic bombing campaign, and the relationship of traumatic brain injuries to the adjustment problems of veterans. The revised book also incorporates substantial developments that have occurred in our understanding of the course and character of the war, particularly in terms of the human consequences of fighting. In a new chapter, "The Life Cycle of a Myth," Adams charts image-making about the war from its inception to the present. He contrasts it with modern-day rhetoric surrounding the War on Terror, while analyzing the real-world consequences that result from distorting the past, including the dangerous idea that only through (perpetual) military conflict can we achieve lasting peace.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Staying Young How to Stay Young No Matter How Old You Get【電子書籍】[ Mark ]

＜p＞Discover How To Hinder The Aging Process On Your Body And In Your Life!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dear Friend,＜/p＞ ＜p＞Do you feel left out when it comes to trying to look young and keeping up with other people your age? Do you feel as though your body has been “run down” like an old vehicle on its last legs? Those feelings that you have not only affect you physically, but they can also affect you mentally! That’s not good!!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Your mental state is just as important as your physical state when you start to age. However, you don’t have to think nor look old! Wow! That’s something to behold, right there. You mind advises your body that it is thinking and that means it can have thoughts of looking young, feeling young and staying young! I mean, who wants to go around looking and feeling like an old hag?＜/p＞ ＜p＞There are men and women out there who are desperate to know what they can do to keep their youthful look. They know that they have years left on their life and they want to spend it looking revitalized, refreshed and renewed. Of course, there are many ways to do that. No matter which way you start, you will always have to start with your mind and thought process.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Forget the surgery where you have to wonder whether or not your insurance will pay for it or not. Even if they pay for part of it, you will still have to come up with the other part before they will perform the surgery anyway. Do you know what you could be doing with that money?＜/p＞ ＜p＞What I’m talking about here are some things that anyone can do, and you don’t have to shell out thousands of dollars to do them. Once you start, you will be amazed!＜/p＞ ＜p＞You will have to start today, because time will continue on without you. It doesn’t make any pits stops because you haven’t decided what you want to do.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Believe it or not, there are ways that you can be 60 in age and look 30 in your mind and body! These processes have nothing to do with buying any expensive creams that may or may not work for you. There is other more productive and normal ways that you can regain your youthful years without having to sacrifice lots of money or time to do it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞There are other ways to looking youthful that include:＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Having the right attitude＜br /＞ ? Having the right mindset＜br /＞ ? The mindset of looking young＜br /＞ ? The mindset of thinking young＜br /＞ ? The mindset of feeling young＜br /＞ ? And much more!!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Everytime you have a birthday, you probably used to think, “I’m getting a year older and I’m feeling a year older”. Do you really feel that way? If you do, you need to change that thought process with a quickness. If you feel that you getting older chronologically is a nightmare, this report can give you the answers you need to combat those fears.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Take a look at Staying Young. This report will provide you with clear cut ways on how you can start looking younger now. You will be able to change your lifestyle for the better, transform your mindset to think young, get rid of unnecessary stress in your life and things you can do to keep yourself looking young! Before you know it, you’ll be looking better and better every dayーYou’ll start to look so young that people won’t be able to stop asking your secret!＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Complete Guide to Finally Understanding How to Stay Young＜/p＞ ＜p＞This report will show you how you can reduce the affects of wrinkles and other things that can cause you to look like you want to sit in a rocking chair all day. These are simple things that anyone can do and they’re really easy to take on!＜/p＞ ＜p＞You will discover strategies and ideas you can use to help keep your mind in a youthful mindset and stop the “getting old” process. Most of these things you can do in your own home. Think about itーyou don’t even have to leave your house! With this ebook, you will find natural solutions to look, think and feel better and healthier.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】No Shells, No Attack! - The Use Of Fire Support By 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines During The 1982 Falkland Islands War【電子書籍】[ Lieutenant Colonel Thomas R. Hogan ]

＜p＞The 1982 British campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands was a naval operation of relatively short duration. Nevertheless, many of the British lessons learned are applicable to the U.S. Army. No notice deployment, assignment as part of a naval landing force, and combat operations beyond the range of land based close air support are all reasonable missions for light divisions. This study analyzes one aspect of the British experience-the use of fire support by 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines. Through historical review, the study examines the use of mortars, artillery, naval gunfire, and close air support to complement ground maneuver. The purpose behind the study is to highlight the effectiveness with which 3 Commando Brigade utilized fire support during an island invasion, slightly more than one year before the U.S. Army experience in Grenada. Conclusions focus on three areas. In the first area, fire support relationships, the study contends that the British marriage of maneuver and fire support is exceptionally strong and that the strength is largely attributable to the utilization of the artillery battery commander at maneuver battalion headquarters. In the second area, fire support for naval operations, the importance of Army interoperability with naval gunfire and air support is developed. In the third area, fire support effects, the study asserts that the mental effects of fire support were a major contributor to British victory.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots【電子書籍】[ Jon E. Lewis ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞From yesteryear's flying aces to today's top guns...＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand accounts from all the great military campaigns of aerial warfare, including World Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. Page after exciting page of this singular collection brings into vivid play the exploits of such legendary pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe World War II aces Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and forty other brave airmen from America, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. Here, too, are the planes in which these pilots flew into modern historythe Spitfire, the Mustang, the Me 109, the Zero, the F-16, the MiG, and the Harrier. Together with the death-defying drama of combat, this volume vividly captures other facets of the fighter pilot's life, including the perils of bailing out in enemy territory, the daily horrors of internment in a Japanese POW camp, and a harrowing account of being shot down in a blazing Spitfire. The true-life aerial combat adventures in this stirring collection provide a vicarious, adrenaline-fueled expedition into the shell-blasted skies of war in the twentieth century.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】FLYING FURY: Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps [Illustrated Edition]【電子書籍】[ James Thomas Byford McCudden VC DSO & Ba, MC & Bar MM ]

＜p＞Illustrated Edition ? contains 30 photos＜br /＞ The highest scoring British Air Ace reveals his daily life at the front, in the air and in combat with the Germans above the Western Front.＜br /＞ In the muddy trenches of the Western front few rankers would have considered that they would achieve field rank of major and international celebrity. In the skies above the shell-torn landscape, any man with enough talent, daring and skill could hope to become a 'Flying Ace' by claiming five or more victories over enemy aviators. Such an adventurous warrior was James McCudden; born in 1895 in Kent, he enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1910 as soon as he could. But he was smitten with the service in the air after a flight in his brothers plane in 1913 and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. However he was only an engineer in 1914, but once in France despite his modest rank he was allowed to go up with his squadron and act as an observer in a two seater plane. After much good service as an observer his superiors put him forward for pilot training in 1916.＜br /＞ McCudden's tally of the enemy over the next two years would rank him among the greatest of the World War One Aces; he claimed some 57 enemy aircraft even three in a single day in 1918. His exploits in the air were legendary, surviving an attack by the Red Baron himself, he pioneered new tactics that enabled him the edge of his enemy by using his engineering skill to fine tune his aircraft. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, DSO with Bar, MC with Bar and a Military Medal and the French Croix de Guerre for his daring, bravery and skill. It is with a sad irony that it was not his German foe that eventually ended his outstanding military service but a flying accident in 1918. He was only 23 at the time.＜br /＞ His own exploits, adventures, tactics and escapes are best left to him in his own words, but suffice to say despite his modest retelling of his life in a day-by-day fashion remains both dramatic and engaging.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Officer and the Gentleman【電子書籍】[ J.P. Bowie ]

＜p＞＜em＞A young Scotsman and a Cavalry Officer embark on a forbidden love affair as the winds of war threaten to tear them apart.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Robert Alexander Macdonald locks eyes with Captain Charles Wentworth at a social gathering in London, it's not long before they are also locking lips and engaging in a covert love affair. After an idyllic time spent together in a cottage on the windswept cliffs of Cornwall Charles receives orders to report for combat duty.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Britain and France are at war with Russia, and Charles, an Officer with the 11th Hussars finds himself part of the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade, a military disaster that outraged the British population.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Robert, on hearing that Charles is missing, goes in search of him, but finds only the shell of the man he loves, a man damaged in body and mind, with no memory of his family or loved ones. Faced with the possibility of Charles never again knowing what he and Robert meant to one another, Robert decides to dedicate himself to Charles' full recovery.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Going against all medical advice, Robert removes Charles from the hospital and takes him back to Cornwall in the hope that the familiar surroundings of his old home will bring back some latent memory to his lover's mind. A hope, that as time goes by, becomes less and less of a possiblity.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Verdun The Longest Battle of the Great War【電子書籍】[ Paul Jankowski ]

＜p＞At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated trenches, severed communication wires, and drove men mad. As the barrage lifted, German troops moved forward, darting from shell crater to shell crater. The battle of Verdun had begun. In ＜em＞Verdun＜/em＞, historian Paul Jankowski provides the definitive account of the iconic battle of World War I. A leading expert on the French past, Jankowski combines the best of traditional military history-its emphasis on leaders, plans, technology, and the contingency of combat-with the newer social and cultural approach, stressing the soldier's experience, the institutional structures of the military, and the impact of war on national memory. Unusually, this book draws on deep research in French and German archives; this mastery of sources in both languages gives Verdun unprecedented authority and scope. In many ways, Jankowski writes, the battle represents a conundrum. It has an almost unique status among the battles of the Great War; and yet, he argues, it was not decisive, sparked no political changes, and was not even the bloodiest episode of the conflict. It is said that Verdun made France, he writes; but the question should be, What did France make of Verdun? Over time, it proved to be the last great victory of French arms, standing on their own. And, for France and Germany, the battle would symbolize the terror of industrialized warfare, "a technocratic Moloch devouring its children," where no advance or retreat was possible, yet national resources poured in ceaselessly, perpetuating slaughter indefinitely.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Marketing That Works How Entrepreneurial Marketing Can Add Sustainable Value to Any Sized Company【電子書籍】[ Shellye Archambeau ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Marketing That Works＜/strong＞＜/em＞ introduces breakthrough marketing tools, tactics, and strategies for differentiating yourself around key competencies, insulating against competitive pressures, and driving higher, more sustainable profits.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From pricing to PR, advertising to viral marketing, this book’s techniques are relentlessly entrepreneurial: designed to deliver results fast, with limited financial resources and staff support. They draw on the authors’ decades of research and consulting, their cutting-edge work in＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wharton’s legendary Entrepreneurial Marketing classes, and their exclusive new survey of the Inc. 500’s fastest-growing companies. Whether you’re launching a startup or working inside a huge global enterprise, this will help you optimize every marketing investment you make. You’ll learn how to target the right customer, deliver the right added value, and make sure your customers will pay a premium for it?now, and for years to come.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Build the foundation for extraordinary profit＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Discover faster, smarter techniques for positioning, targeting, and segmentation＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Drive entrepreneurial attitude throughout all your marketing functions＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Master entrepreneurial pricing, advertising, sales management, promotion?and even hiring＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Maximize the value of all your stakeholder relationships＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Profit by marketing to investors, intermediaries, employees, partners, and users＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Generate, screen, and develop better product ideas＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Engage combat on the right battlefields＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Launch new products to maximize their lifetime profitability＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Stage the winning rollout: from fixing bugs to gaining reference accounts＜/p＞ ＜p＞Every dime you spend on marketing needs to work harder, smarter, faster. Every dime must differentiate your company based on your most valuable competencies. Every dime must protect you against competitors and commoditization. Every dime must drive higher profits ＜em＞this quarter,＜/em＞ and help sustain profitability far into the future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Are your marketing investments doing all that? If not, get ＜em＞＜strong＞Marketing That Works＜/strong＞＜/em＞?and read it ＜em＞today＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Includes online access to state-of-the-art marketing allocation software!＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Whatever Gods May Be【電子書籍】[ Sophia Kell Hagin ]

＜p＞Jamie Gwynmorgan doesnt believe in prayer. She doesnt believe in anything much. Except that people cant be trustedcertainly not anyone shes ever met.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But Jamie knows some things. From experience. She knows if she died, nobody would give a damn. Nobody would even notice. She knows the better she can fight, the safer shell be. Thats why she cant resist the sleek, dark lethality of the weaponand the recruiters promise that yes, if shes strong enough, good enough, shell get to fire that weapon in combat. She doesnt care about the uniform. And screw the pretend-camaraderie. Only Safe mattersand if she can do combat, then maybe she can fight her way to Safe.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jamie expects a grueling fight that she might lose. What she never expects is to win love.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。