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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！】How to Love the Perfect Lord【電子書籍】[ Tabetha Waite ]

＜p＞He loves me not. He loves me?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lady Arietta Greenville has long been infatuated with Griffin Barlowe, the Earl of Uxbridge. He is frequent visitor, and particular friends with her father, the Marquess of Hillhouse. The problem is that he doesn't appear to know that she even exists, although he is perfectly polite whenever he's in her presence. It isn't until she visits a new seamstress and starts to wear bolder gowns, that the earl starts to give her more notice, but not in the way she might hope.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Griffin has always felt uneasy in Lady Arietta's presence, but he never really knew why. To combat his unease, he takes it upon himself to find her a husband, not knowing that beneath her shell beats the heart of a confident woman. When Arietta seduces him one fateful night, he realizes what he has been missing, but it's too late. However, if there is one thing Griffin was never good at, it was giving up, and this is one lady he's got his sights set on.＜/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！】Officer-Cadet【電子書籍】[ Rick Shelley ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A military academy reject seeks to prove himself among the ranks of mercenaries in this classic military science fiction action series opener.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ The year is 2804 AD. Humanity has colonized the universe. But the authority of the Confederation of Human Worlds is spread thin. Where the Army of planet Earth cannot reach, mercenaries must keep the peaceーand the Dirigent Mercenary Corps are the best of the best.＜br /＞ Lon Nolan wasn't supposed to be serving with the DMC. He'd earned his place at the elite North American Military Academy, and he'd excelled there. But when he's kicked out of the Academy on trumped-up charges, he's left with no choice: join the DMC or go home.＜br /＞ So join he does, going from top of his class to bottom rung in the DMC. To become an officer, he'll have to survive his first taste of combat with his new army, and if he fails, he won't lose just his honor, but his life . . .＜br /＞ The ＜em＞Dirigent Mercenary Corps＜/em＞ books are classics of military science fiction. Rick Shelley was himself a veteran of the U.S. Army, and his experience and knowledge shine through on every page.＜/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！】Shattered Scrapemetal Symphony【電子書籍】[ Charles Eugene Anderson ]

＜p＞In a war-ravaged Texas, where the echoes of a shattered nation ring out like a scrapemetal symphony, Captain Amelia "Frog" Hayes leads a band of elite mech pilots in a desperate fight against the relentless advance of the rebel forces. Amidst the rubble and ruin of once-great cities, Frog and her team must confront not only the enemy but also the ghosts of their pasts and the uncertain future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From the blood-soaked streets of Waco to the haunted shores of the Gulf Coast, ＜em＞＜strong＞Shattered Scrapemetal Symphony＜/strong＞＜/em＞ is a gritty, action-packed exploration of the bonds forged in the heat of combat and the sacrifices that must be made in the name of loyalty and duty. As the conflict escalates and the lines between friend and foe blur, Frog and her squad are pushed to the brink, forced to question the very cause they fight for and the price they are willing to pay for victory.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With each mech destroyed and each comrade lost, Frog must find the strength to carry on, even as the weight of her brother's memory threatens to crush her. In a world where the only constant is the deafening roar of mechanized warfare, she must lead her team through the fog of war and the shadows of their own doubts, forging a path to redemption one bullet at a time.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Shattered Scrapemetal Symphony＜/strong＞＜/em＞ is a must-read for fans of ＜em＞＜strong＞Robotech, Battletech, and Ghost in the Shell.＜/strong＞＜/em＞ Strap in and prepare for a pulse-pounding journey through a neo-western landscape of mechanized warfare and personal sacrifice, where the only thing louder than the guns is the beating of the human heart.＜/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！】Little Shadow【電子書籍】[ S. L. Schultz ]

＜p＞June 1991. A small town in the American heartland. A painting falls off the wall of the Becker family homestead. Drawing upon folklore, the matron interprets this event as a sign of impending death. The fleeting appearances of angels bear witness to the omen. Someone within the family circle will die over the next few days. Who will it be? Bagwell, a Marine sniper, has just returned home from the first Gulf War wounded and shell shocked. On the day of his injury, he received a Dear John letter from his wife, Brenda, who has taken up with his best friend, James. Emotionally distraught, Bagwell imagines their heads in the crosshairs of his rifle. Could this love triangle prove deadly to one of them? Or could it be Peter, inching his way out of the＜/p＞ ＜p＞closet for the first time? His fugitive partner, Todd, fresh from filming Boy Toy #65, pulls Peter into the dark world of pornography. Maybe Peter's controlling father, Martin, will die, still devastated by the brutal murder of his wife ten years before. Or could it be Martin's brother, Sammie, struggling with the dark reminders of his combat duty in Vietnam? Could it be the child, Lily Rose, running blindly for safety, or the matron herself, fighting to alter the prophesy that the fallen painting has foretold? As thunderous storms roll across the landscape, tightly coiled tensions reach a breaking point.＜/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！】Canine Commandos The Heroism, Devotion, and Sacrifice of Dogs in War【電子書籍】[ Nigel Cawthorne ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Moving accounts of morale-boosting, life-saving dogs in combatーfrom ancient armored war dogs to the highly-trained canines of today's modern military.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ On Stone Age battlefields through both world wars to present-day Afghanistan, dogs have been the loyal companions and trusted compatriots of soldiers worldwide. Now the exciting, heartwarming and heroic stories of history's most famous combat dogs are compiled in this incredible collection.＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞CAIRO＜/strong＞, SEAL Team Six's Belgian Malinois, who was choppered in with his top-secret unit on their heroic mission to take out Osama bin Laden.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞RAGS＜/strong＞, a Highland terrier who dodged German shell-fire, shrapnel and poison gas to deliver crucial messages to the Western Front.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞GANDER＜/strong＞, the Canadian Royal Rifles' Newfoundland, who sacrificed his life by scooping up a grenade and carrying it in his mouth away from his unit.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞EBONY＜/strong＞, the fearless German shepherd who alerted soldiers to an imminent ambush, saving 25 men from sudden death in Vietnam's unyielding jungle.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞COOPER＜/strong＞, the bomb-sniffing Labrador who relentlessly scoured Iraq for explosives until the fateful day when an IED killed him and his handler.＜/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！】All This Hell U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese【電子書籍】[ Evelyn M. Monahan ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Heroic accounts of American women who faced combat, surrender, and captivity. "One chapter in the annals of World War II that must be told." ーRear Admiral Frances Shea Buckley, Nurse Corps, US Navy (Ret.)＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Before December 1941 drew to a close, five navy nurses on Guam became the first American military women of WWII to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than seventy army nurses survived five months of combat conditions in the jungles of Bataan and Corregidor before being captured, only to endure more than three years in prison camps. In all, nearly one hundred nurses became POWs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Many of these army nurses were considered too vital to the war effort to be evacuated from the Philippines. Though receiving only half the salary of male officers of the same rank, they helped establish outdoor hospitals and treated thousands of casualties despite rapidly decreasing supplies and rations. After their capture, they continued to care for the sick and wounded throughout their internment in the prison camps.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When freedom came, the U.S. military ordered the nurses to sign agreements with the government not to discuss their horrific experiences. Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have conducted interviews with survivors and scoured archives to uncover the heroism and sacrifices of these brave women. ＜em＞All This Hell＜/em＞ "adds a tremendous chapter to the narrative of women prisoners in wartime by following a cast of characters almost cinematically through their daily routines and their reflections recorded in letters, diaries, and interviews" ( ＜em＞Rain Taxi＜/em＞).＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Based upon both oral histories and published biographical and autobiographical accounts, the book provides a readable and gripping introduction to the topic for all readers." ー ＜em＞Library Journal＜/em＞＜/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！】Fail Brilliantly Exploding the Myths of Failure and Success【電子書籍】[ Shelley Davidow ]

＜p＞＜strong＞An "immensely intriguing" new approach "that can successfully combat the shame, anxiety, and blame that failing induces too readily in our society"＜/strong＞ ( ＜strong＞Laurie Hollman, PhD, author of ＜em＞Unlocking Parental Intelligence＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜br /＞ We spend much of our lives trying to cope with failure. For many of us, adults and children alike, the prospect of failure looms as a debilitating concept in our minds. It can not only stop us from succeedingーit can stop us from even trying.＜br /＞ ＜em＞Fail Brilliantly＜/em＞ proposes a radical shift: erase the word and concept of ＜em＞failure＜/em＞ from the realms of education and human endeavors. Replace it with new words and concepts. This shift in position has the potential to transform our lives . . . and ultimately reshape our definition of ＜em＞success＜/em＞.＜/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！】From Lightnings to MiGs A Cold War Pilot's Operations, Test Flying & an Airspeed Record【電子書籍】[ Russ Peart ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A Royal Air Force pilot chronicles his career flying during the Cold War in this memoir featuring previously unseen photographs.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ It was supposed to be just a training flight. The two Soviet-manufactured MiG 21s, each with two practice bombs and four air-to-ground rockets, were lined up on the runway in Bangladesh at the height of the Cold War, when air traffic control suddenly reported an incursion by Indian Air Force Jaguars. Though ill-equipped for combat, the two MiGs were scrambled.＜br /＞ One of the MiGs' pilots was an RAF officerーSquadron Leader Russell Peart. On a seven-month loan to the Bangladeshi Air Force, Peart suddenly found himself at the centre of the simmering hostility between two neighbouring nations. By the time they reached the area that had been threatened by the Indian pilots, the Jaguars had gone. Later, when Squadron Leader Russell Peart spoke of the incident to the British High Commissioner, he was told not to shoot down any Jaguars as the Indians had still not paid for them!＜br /＞ Russell Peart flew many other aircraft in his varied career, including the MiG 19, and while a test pilot at Boscombe Down trialled such designs as the Tornado GR1. But it was whilst he was seconded to the Sultan of Oman's Air Force, particularly during the so-called "Secret War" in Dhofar, that he saw the most action. In that theatre the author flew some 200 operational sorties, 180 of which involved live fire, during which he was hit many times. He was also hit and wounded by a 75mm shell.＜br /＞ Russ Peart has written in detail of his exciting RAF career, from flying Lightnings in the Far East to winning the top prize in the International Tactical Bombing Competition against a handpicked team of United States Air Force fighter pilots and being awarded the Sultan of Oman's Distinguished Service Medal. Supplemented by a selection of previously unseen photographs, this uniquely original memoir throws new light on the operational flying undertaken by some RAF pilots during the tense years of the Cold War.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Praise for ＜em＞From Lightnings to MiGs＜/em＞＜br /＞ "Absorbing and highly entertaining. . . . I have no hesitation in recommending ＜em＞From Lightnings to MiGs＜/em＞ as an engrossing and enjoyable read for anyone with an interest in military aviation." ーRAF Historical Society＜br /＞ "There's some pretty jaw-dropping stuff in here." ーRowland White, author of ＜em＞Vulcan 607＜/em＞＜/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！】Redemption Blood, Brothers and Badges【電子書籍】[ Brian Ellis ]

＜p＞Tommy Spenser, a decorated combat veteran and narcotics cop born into a family of cops, is a functioning addict, hooked on daily cocktails of Oxycontin, whiskey, and self-loathing-and his cancer is back. But everything changes when Tommy is summoned to a domestic call down the street from a drug bust. Claire Samuels-Hewitt is a shell of her former self, but Tommy sees something in her-or perhaps it's the other way around. The two lean on each other for support, and an unlikely romance blossoms.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then a hit against the Washington family drug syndicate turns his world upside down: all clues point to somebody in Tommy's family. As Tommy puts the pieces together and learns the truth about those closest to him, he must also come face-to-face with Claire's past and his own demons.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At its core, ＜em＞Redemption＜/em＞ is a story about survivor's guilt, PTSD, abuse, alcoholism, and recovery-but it is also about brotherhood, the inseparable bonds between soldiers, cops, and families, and the healing power of forgiveness.＜/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！】War Prose【電子書籍】[ Ford Madox Ford ]

＜p＞Ford Madox Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, is recognised as one of the great British novels about the First World War. This selection from his other extensive writings about the war, published and unpublished, sheds light on the tetralogy. It includes reminiscences, an unfinished novel, stories and excerpts from letters. Ford was in his forties when he enlisted: this made him one of the few writers of his maturity to fight on the Western Front. His experience of combat was limited, but he was in the Battle of the Somme, was often under bombardment, and suffered from shell-shock. His largely psychological response to the war anticipates the recent renewal of interest in trauma and shell-shock (as, for example, in Pat Barker's Ghost Road trilogy). This book provides important testimony by one of the best writers of his generation.＜/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！】God Makes Angels and Navy Corpsmen A KoreanA Korean War Veteran's Memories of the War and Life【電子書籍】[ Joseph Barna ]

＜p＞I was knocked down by a shell. As I found myself laying on my back, the half-full flamethrower tank pinning me to the ground, a North Korean soldier came at me with his bayonet. In his quilted suit, he seemed to come out of nowhere. I can still see his face and smell the garlic on his breath. As he lunged at me, I was able to turn, but he stabbed my upper left arm with his bayonet. I had a double-barrel shotgun taped on the arm of my flamethrower and gave him both barrels. I think I blew him in half. The battle kept going on around me. Weapons fire was all around me, and I heard other boys being hit and falling. I laid there feeling weak as blood from my deep wound seeped out on the Korean dirt. I must have been ready to blackout when I heard a familiar voice say, “Joe, if I don’t close up that wound, you’ll die.” (Paragraph italicized.)＜/p＞ ＜p＞From growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, through Marine Corps boot camp and training, and finally, remembering and coping with buried memories decades later, Korean War combat veteran Joseph Barna recounts his life events that will put a tear in your eye and a smile on your face.＜/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！】Guns Against the Reich Memoirs of an Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front【電子書籍】[ Petr Mikhin ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"[A] powerful autobiography from a Russian veteran of Stalingrad, Kursk and numerous other battles . . . as he fought his way from Moscow to Vienna." ー ＜em＞Military Illustrated＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ In three years of war on the Eastern Frontーfrom the desperate defense of Moscow, through the epic struggles at Stalingrad and Kursk to the final offensives in central Europeーartillery-man Petr Mikhin experienced the full horror of battle.＜br /＞ In this vivid memoir he recalls distant but deadly duels with German guns, close-quarter hand-to-hand combat, and murderous mortar and tank attacks, and he remembers the pity of defeat and the grief that accompanied victories that cost thousands of lives. He was wounded and shell-shocked, he saw his comrades killed and was nearly captured, and he was threatened with the disgrace of a court martial. For years he lived with the constant strain of combat and the ever-present possibility of death. Mikhin recalls his experiences with a candor and an immediacy that brings the war on the Eastern Frontーa war of immense scale and intensityーdramatically to life.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞"Mikhin's memoirs give us a very valuable picture of life in the Red Army during four years of intense non-stop fighting against a determined and skilled enemy. This allows us to follow the evolution of the Red Army from the nearly defeated force of 1941 to the skilled military machine of 1945, and helps illuminate the price that the Soviet soldiers paid for victory." ーHistory of War＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞"A fast-paced, interesting read that recounts stories of courage under fire and dedication to duty . . . I highly recommend this book." ーMilitary Review＜/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！】Fighter 'Gator【電子書籍】[ Lt Colonel John E. Norvell ]

＜p＞This story is about Lt Colonel John E. Norvell's quest to fly and David Garbe's work to restore the shell of F-4D 0720. It first focuses on Norvell's flight training, selection to be a backseater in the F-4, time in combat in Thailand, and F-4 flying over Alaska, providing "Top Cover for America." Then, the appendix covers Garbe's work to find a bird, get the parts, and rebuild the front cockpit area. It is a story of duty and dedication. It covers how the crews trained to fly the Phantom, the specialized survival schools they attended, their entrance in combat, and the toll it took on them. Lt Colonel John E. Norvell tells the story from the perspective of an F-4 backseater or GIB. It is a story of his comrades and the stress he felt from a year-long separation from his wife. He describes the daily combat and how it affected him. He stresses the professionalism and dedication of the aircrews who flew the hostile skies of South East Asia. When the air war ends, he tells of the boredom and frustrations of warriors without a war. Then his story moves to Alaska, where he attends arctic survival school and is stationed at remote sites to provide "Top Cover" alert guarding North America against Soviet aircraft incursions. Alaska is a very different type of flying, and it is clear that he enjoys all that Alaska has to offer. Finally, he discusses the role that his mentor Major Theodore J. Shorack played in his life. Shorack was lost while on a rescue mission over North Vietnam. Norvell considers him to be a personification of the three cardinal principles of the military: Duty, Honor, County. In the end, Norvell looks at the past nearly 50 years and tells what it meant to him to fly and be a military officer.＜/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 Frenchman's Duty: A Foot Soldier's Journey Through the First World War (3rd. ed.)【電子書籍】[ J. Michael Dumoulin ]

＜p＞A quarter century earlier in a disastrous three-week Prussian War, France had lost its eastern-most regions, Alsace and Lorraine, but every patriotic Frenchman knew France was destined to get them back.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Germany invaded France in 1914 and the war approached the du Nord region, Arthur, a 20-year-old butcher from Roubaix, set out to enlist. It was his duty, and the duty of every able-bodied Frenchman to protect France from the invading "Boch." Everyone said it would be a short war like the last one. He would be home by Christmas, or at least by the beginning of Lent, certainly by Easter.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A Frenchman's Duty" is a true story, chronicling Arthur's four and a half years of service in his own words, from his own hand-penned journal, transcribed; translated; annotated by a 30-year military veteran with context and the perspective of the last 100 years; and illustrated with nearly 50 vintage postcards and photographs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Arthur describes to readers his induction and training as a foot soldier in October, 1914, then his first introduction to battle. He records his experiences at Verdun, in the Marne and Somme, in Belgium, and the day the Armistice brought peace to Europe. His journal entries about seeing a war plane for the first time; cooking for his officers and comrades; mercilessly shelled and pinned down by snipers; and being lost in enemy trenches and on the battlefield in the fog with pack mules in his charge, are all first-person accounts of battles not found in other biography or history books about the war. Arthur details the quieter sides of the war, too: rotations out of the trenches; PTSD, then called "shell shock;" interactions with civilians required to put him up for the night; and his leaves, or "permissions," to see family and friends. He gives a face to the personal side of a soldier's life, in and out of battle, something still relevant today.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A Frenchman's Duty," is Colonel (USAF, ret.) John Michael Dumoulin's eighth book. It is written around his grandfather's unpublished 200-page hand-written, literally war-torn war journal. Each chapter begins with an entry from Arthur's fresh and honest notes, followed by carefully-researched historic, geopolitical, social, and technological context.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Of the 8 million French soldiers who fought in that war, 7 million spent time in combat, some in Russia and in Africa, but most along the Western Front where Arthur fought. Arthur survived the war, so this story isn't one of those where the hero dies a sad, sudden death at the very end of the book.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Although Arthur's diary records the unimaginable horror in war, it is an uplifting read. Like the best-seller "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand, the book reveals the human sides of poise under fire, faith, duty to family and country, a sense of place, and the challenge of wrestling with demons and keeping them locked away.＜/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 Heir of Mondolfo【電子書籍】[ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ]

＜p＞In the beautiful and wild country near Sorrento, in the Kingdom of Naples, at the time it was governed by monarchs of the house of Anjou, there lived a territorial noble, whose wealth and power overbalanced that of the neighboring nobles. His castle, itself a stronghold, was built on a rocky eminence, toppling over the blue and lovely Mediterranean. The hills around were covered with ilex-forests, or subdued to the culture of the olive and vine. Under the sun no spot could be found more favored by nature. If at eventide you had passed on the placid wave beneath the castellated rock that bore the name of Mondolfo, you would have imagined that all happiness and bliss must reside within its walls, which, thus nestled in beauty, overlooked a scene of such surpassing loveliness; yet if by chance you saw its lord issue from the portal, you shrunk from his frowning brow, you wondered what could impress on his worn cheek the combat of passions. More piteous sight was it to behold his gentle lady, who, the slave of his unbridled temper, the patient sufferer of many wrongs, seemed on the point of entering upon that only repose "where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest."[1] The Prince Mondolfo had been united early in life to a princess of the regal family of Sicily. She died in giving birth to a son. Many years subsequently, after a journey to the northern Italian states, he returned to his castle, married. The speech of his bride declared her to be a Florentine. The current tale was that he married her for love, and then hated her as the hindrance of his ambitious views. She bore all for the sake of her only childーa child born to its father's hate; a boy of gallant spirit, brave even to wildness. As he grew up, he saw with anger the treatment his mother received from the haughty Prince. He dared come forward as her defender; he dared oppose his boyish courage to his father's rage: the result was naturalーhe became the object of his father's dislike. Indignity was heaped on him; the vassals were taught to disobey him, the menials to scorn him, his very brother to despise him as of inferior blood and birth. Yet the blood of Mondolfo was his; and, though tempered by the gentle Isabel's more kindly tide, it boiled at the injustice to which he was a victim. A thousand times he poured forth the overflowings of his injured spirit in eloquent complaints to his mother. As her health decayed, he nurtured the project, in case of her death, of flying his paternal castle, and becoming a wanderer, a soldier of fortune. He was now thirteen. The Lady Isabel soon, with a mother's penetration, discovered his secret, and on her death-bed made him swear not to quit his father's protection until he should have attained the age of twenty. Her heart bled for the wretchedness that she foresaw would be his lot; but she looked forward with still greater horror to the picture her active fancy drew of her son at an early age wandering forth in despair, alone and helpless, suffering all the extremities of famine and wretchedness; or, almost worse, yielding to the temptations that in such a situation would be held out to him. She extracted this vow, and died satisfied that he would keep it. Of all the world, she alone knew the worth of her Ludovicoーhad penetrated beneath the rough surface, and become acquainted with the rich store of virtue and affectionate feeling that lay like unsunned ore in his sensitive heart.＜/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！】War and the Arc of Human Experience【電子書籍】[ Glenn Petersen ]

＜p＞Glenn Petersen flew seventy combat missions in Vietnam when he was nineteen, launching from an aircraft carrier in the Tonkin Gulf. He'd sought out the weighty responsibilities and hazardous work. But why? What did the cultural architecture of the society he grew up in have to do with the way he went to war? In this book he looks at the war from an anthropological perspective because that's how he's made his living in all the subsequent years: it's how he sees the world. While anthropologists write about the military and war these days, they do so from the perspective of researchers. What makes this a fully original contribution is that Petersen brings to the page the classic methodology of ethnographers, participant observation-a kind of total immersion. He writes from the dual perspectives of an insider and a researcher and seeks in the specifics of lived experience some larger conclusions about humans' social lives in general. Petersen was long oblivious to what had happened to him in Vietnam and he fears that young men and women who've been fighting the US military's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq might be similarly unaware of what's happened to them. Skills that allowed him to survive in combat, in particular his ability to focus tightly on the challenges directly in front of him, seemed to transfer well to life after war. The same intensity led him to a successful academic career, including the time he represented the Micronesian islands at the United Nations;how could anything be wrong? Then surreptitiously,the danger, the stress, and the trauma he'd hidden away broke through a brittle shell and the war came spilling out. As an anthropologist he sees in this a classic pattern: an adaptation to one set of conditions is put to a new and practical use when conditions change, but in time what had once been beneficial turns into maladaptive behavior. In writing about why we fight, he shed lights on what the fighting does to us.＜/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！】Operation Stargazer【電子書籍】[ Matthew K. Manning ]

＜p＞While Howard To has always been on the geeky side, there's one girl who brings him out of his shell. Unfortunately, she's Hollywood's hottest sci-fi star and about as likely to cross Howard's path as he is likely to be struck by lightning. But when the starlet is hounded by a stalker who uses a drone to spy on her private life, Howard sees his chance to be a knight in shining armor. He employs his own drone to engage in aerial combat with the stalker's UAV, despite complaints from Parker, a fellow Drone Academy member. In the process, Howard also realizes his chance at romance may be closer to home than he realizes. . . .＜/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！】When Zippo Went to War A Lighter Legend【電子書籍】[ Philip Kaplan ]

＜p＞Throughout the 1930s the Zippo Company in Pennsylvania prospered on the growing success of its stylish, charismatic little cigarette lighter. The lighter was made mostly of brass, but with the Second World War that metal was declared a ‘strategic material’ in the U.S. where huge amounts of it were needed for shell and cartridge casings. Zippo replaced the brass with steel, which can corrode, and wartime Zippos were given a new baked-on black ‘crackle’ finish to protect them. That non-reflective characteristic helped save the lives of many American soldiers in combat zones.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The demand of the Armed Forces for the lighter led to the company to earmark its entire production for military. The big wartime market for the Zippo resulted in a rise of imitations. After the war, through subsequent conflicts in Korea, Vietnam and elsewhere, thousands of such phoneys appeared in boot sales and swap meets across the world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Movie stars added sophistication and glamor when someone lit up a cigarette with a Zippo and the distinctive ‘clink-clop’ sound the lighter made when opened and closed was unmatchable. Legend has it that the great star Bette Davis was once asked by an interviewer if she smoked after sex. Her supposed response: “To tell you the truth, I’ve never looked.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞In later years- and a dark medical reality- the cigarette began losing its allure, but in wartime the soldier, sailor, marine and airman was frequently nervous in the service and found solace and a brief time-out-of-war in the relaxation of a quick smoke. Zippo was ready in such moments. Today many examples survive with a special history and cach?.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞When Zippo Went to War＜/em＞ is illustrated with more than 140 unpublished photos those unique little lighters of old. Like the remarkable Zippo itself, the book works well and sheds some new light on its subject.＜/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 306: Dawn【電子書籍】[ Oliver Emanuel ]

＜p＞The 306: Dawn is a new piece of music theatre from the National Theatre of Scotland. Based on real events, it charts the heart-breaking journey of three of the three hundred and six British soldiers who were executed for cowardice, desertion and mutiny during World War I (1914-18).＜/p＞ ＜p＞**'**You are a fucking coward and you will go to the trenches. I give fuck all for my life and I give fuck all for yours and I'll get you fucking well shot' ? Sergeant to Harry Farr.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Joseph Byers (17) from Glasgow.＜br /＞ Too young to enlist, Joe, like so many at the time, has lied about his age to join the other men at the front. However, his dreams of being a solider are quickly destroyed by the brutal realities of trench warfare and he soon finds himself in trouble with the authorities.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Private Harry Farr (25) from London.＜br /＞ Traumatised by the things he has seen and lived through as a serving soldier, Harry is suffering from shell shock and is now unable to fight. He has subsequently been convicted of cowardice, and as he waits to hear his fate, he dreams of his wife and hopes for a last minute reprieve.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lance-Sergeant Joseph Willie Stones (24) from Durham.＜br /＞ Having used his rifle to block the entrance to a trench during fierce fighting, Joseph stands accused of casting away his arms in combat - an offence punishable by death. He thought he was protecting his men, but the top brass want to make an example of him to maintain discipline in the ranks.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With a contemporary score performed live by the Red Note Ensemble, the songs explore the vulnerability and devastation of the battlefields, alongside the inner struggles of the men.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Poignant and powerful, The 306: Dawn will be performed in a transformed barn in the Perthshire countryside.＜/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！】Easing Pain on the Western Front American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice【電子書籍】[ Paul E. Stepansky ]

＜p＞World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses' encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War.＜/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 Templar Chronicles Box Set #2【電子書籍】[ Joseph Nassise ]

＜p＞＜strong＞WHEN WINNING THE BATTLE MEANS LOSING EVERYTHING ELSE.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The first three books of the Templar Chronicles showed you how Cade Williams became a monster hunter. Books 4-6 show you what happens when hunting monsters turns you into one.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After storming the gates of Hell to rescue Gabrielle's soul and defeating the Adversary in brutal combat, Cade Williams should be celebrating victory. Instead, he's a broken shell of a man, his thirst for vengeance finally quenched but his spirit shattered into pieces. The Echo Team has paid for victory in blood and scars. The war with the Ch'iang Shih has left the Templar Order devastated.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And in that moment of weakness, the real nightmare begins.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This omnibus collection delivers three interconnected novels of escalating horror, where every victory comes with a terrible cost, every enemy strikes at the heart rather than the sword-arm, and the line between hero and monster blurs until it disappears entirely.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞THIS OMNIBUS COLLECTION INCLUDES:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞BOOK 4: INFERNAL GAMES＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Keep your friends close and your enemies closer still…＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The sadistic Necromancer, Simon Loganーthe death-mage who once raised armies of the deadーorchestrates a daring prison break and vanishes into the night. Newly promoted Captain Riley and the reformed Echo Team are given the job of hunting him down. Dead or alive.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But the Necromancer isn't running. He's playing a different game entirely.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rather than waiting for Echo to find him, Logan takes the battle straight to themーluring broken, haunted Cade Williams from his sanctuary and stealing the physical form of his wife, Gabrielle. A woman caught between life and death. A soul Cade literally invaded Hell to rescue. It's perhaps the one act that could rouse Cade from his grey haze of despair.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And the Necromancer is about to learn what happens when you wake a sleeping monster.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As Cade ruthlessly tracks Logan through shadow-realms and back alleys, through necropolis cities of the dead and neon-lit streets of the living, one burning question haunts him: What could the Necromancer possibly want with a half-dead woman and the man who traveled to Hell and back to save her? Is this revenge? A twisted experiment?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Or something far, far worse?＜/p＞ ＜p＞The answers are buried deep. The body count is rising. Time is running out. And Cade Williams isn't fighting for duty anymoreーhe's fighting for love. When a Templar warrior fights for love, Heaven and Hell both step aside.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞BOOK 5: JUDGMENT DAY＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The time for a reckoning has come…＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cade's worst nightmare explodes into brutal reality when the Necromancer's black magick not only shatters the infernal chains binding the Adversary but allows the ancient evil to possess Gabrielle's body. When the Templars storm the ritual chamber and put a bullet through the Necromancer's skull, the Adversaryーwearing Gabrielle's stolen fleshーsprouts massive wings and launches into darkness, laughing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞That's when Cade's world truly falls apart.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Branded a traitor by the Templar Order for his cooperation with the sorcerer, Cade finds himself hunted by the very brothers-in-arms who once fought beside him. His former allies now have orders to bring him in, dead or alive. Meanwhile, he's working feverishly to track down the Adversary, racing to rip his wife's soul free from the creature's stranglehold before it's too late.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The exhaustion is bone-deep. The odds are impossible. Resources are gone. The team is scattered. He's running on rage, desperation, and fading hope that some part of Gabrielle still survives inside the monster.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Just when he thinks things can't get worse, Cade makes contact with an entity known only as the Forsaken Oneーa being older and more terrifying than anything he's faced before. From this ancient creature, he finally discovers the answers to questions that have haunted him since the Adversary first carved its way into his life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But these aren't the answers he wanted. They're the answers that will break him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The revelations reshape everything. The cost is higher than imagined. And the final confrontation demands he sacrifice pieces of himself he didn't know he had left to lose. This time, the enemy wears the face of the woman he loves. This time, victory might look exactly like defeat.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞BOOK 6: FALL OF NIGHT＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞*Death is just the beginningーand the darkness rising from within might be deadlier than any demon.*＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cade Williams defeated the Adversary at a terrible cost. Gabrielle is dead. His reputation lies in ruins. Unable to bear the weight of his failure, Cade walks into the Beyondーthe nightmare realm between life and deathーand vanishes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But Cade's war isn't over. And neither is Gabrielle's.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Six months later, Gabrielle's consciousness awakens in the body of Anna Rodriguez, a brain-dead Marine lying in a Mexican hospital. Trapped in a stranger's flesh with fractured memories, she knows one thing with absolute certainty: the Adversary survived. Something calamitous is coming. And she must find Cade before the darkness consumes them all.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Meanwhile, Captain Riley discovers the horrifying truth: the Adversary didn't just surviveーit triumphed. The ritual meant to destroy it instead allowed it to possess seven archangels, stealing divine bodies and turning Heaven's warriors into demonic horrors. Now disguised within the Templar hierarchy, the Adversary uses conqueror wormsーpsychic parasites harvested from nightmare realmsーto infiltrate the Order from within. Two-thirds of the Templars are already possessed, minds enslaved, bodies turned into puppets.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And Cade? He's trapped in the Beyond, where every day brings him closer to Fallingーto becoming the very monster he's spent his life fighting.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After a harrowing escape from Mexico through streets haunted by reanimated corpses, Gabrielle finds Riley and the last handful of loyal Templars making their stand. Together with Uriel, an ancient archangel, they devise a desperate plan: Gabrielle will open a portal between worlds while Riley and his men hold off the Adversary's possessed army long enough for her to rescue Cade.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When parasites burrow into minds and former brothers become enemies, thirty loyal knights must hold the line against two hundred possessed soldiersーor watch the world fall to demonic conquest.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The siege is brutal. Wave after wave of possessed Templarsーmen Riley once called friendsーassault their position. As Gabrielle opens the portal and prepares to step between worlds, she watches Riley make his last stand, sees the grenade bounce to his feet, witnesses the explosion that may have claimed her friend's life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But she can't stop now. Cade is waiting. The darkness is rising. And the only way forward is through Hell itself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞This three-book collection delivers everything readers crave in psychological supernatural thrillers:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞? DEVASTATING ESCALATION:** From personal vendetta (Book 4) to cosmic conspiracy (Book 5) to full-scale demonic invasion (Book 6), each novel raises the stakes beyond what seemed possible.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? BROKEN HERO ARC:** Watch Cade transform from shattered veteran to desperate hunter to something that might not be human anymoreーand decide if that's a tragedy or necessity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE:** These aren't just physical battles. The Necromancer plays mind games. The Adversary possesses Gabrielle. Conqueror worms corrupt from within. Every enemy strikes at the soul.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? GABRIELLE AS PROTAGONIST:** Book 6 shifts focus, making Gabrielle the hero of her own storyーwaking in a dead Marine's body, fighting her way back from death itself, and becoming the warrior Cade needs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? CONSEQUENCES THAT MATTER:** Cade's victory in Book 3 comes with costs that echo through three more novels. Gabrielle dies. The Order turns on him. Allies become enemies. Nothing stays won.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? COSMIC-SCALE REVELATIONS:** The Forsaken One sequence, the seven possessed archangels, the true nature of the Adversaryーanswers that reshape the entire series mythology.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? TEAM FRACTURED:** Riley becomes a captain and leads his own battles. Echo Team is scattered. Cade is hunted. The brotherhood is broken, and putting it back together might be impossible.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? BODY HORROR:** Possession, parasites, reanimated corpses, souls in wrong bodiesーthis trilogy goes dark and visceral in ways the first three books only hinted at.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞FEATURES:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Over 800 pages** of psychological supernatural warfare＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Shifting perspectives** - Cade, Riley, and Gabrielle all take protagonist roles＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Necromancer as antagonist** - Simon Logan's twisted games＜/p＞ ＜p＞? The Adversary's true plan** - Revelation of the conspiracy＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Conqueror worms** - Psychic parasites that possess Templars＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Body-swapping horror** - Gabrielle in a dead Marine's body＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Templar civil war** - Possessed brothers vs. loyal knights＜/p＞ ＜p＞? The Forsaken One** - Ancient entity older than the Adversary＜/p＞ ＜p＞? The Beyond** - Nightmare realm where Cade is trapped＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Archangel possession** - Seven divine warriors corrupted＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Siege warfare** - 30 loyal knights vs. 200 possessed soldiers＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Portal between worlds** - Gabrielle's desperate rescue mission＜/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！】Colonel【電子書籍】[ Rick Shelley ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Explosive space combat as a soldier faces his final battleーfrom the national bestselling author of the Federation War series.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ The year is 2804 AD. Humanity has colonized the universe. But the authority of the Confederation of Human Worlds is spread thin. Where the army of planet Earth cannot reach, mercenaries must keep the peaceーand the Dirigent Mercenary Corps are the best of the best.＜br /＞ As a young cadet, all Lon Nolan ever dreamed of was serving in the military of planet Earth. After a dishonorable discharge on trumped-up charges, he saved himself and his honor by joining up with the Dirigent Mercenary Corps. Over the decades he's forged himself a place with the DMCーand shown himself to be a true hero. There's even talk that he might become the next General.＜br /＞ But Lon isn't after a promotionーin fact, he's thinking about retirement. With his son in the Corps, he's hoping he can leave the fighting to the next generation. But when the political machinations of the Confederation of Human Worlds get in the way, Lon has to return to the front lines, leading not just his troops, but his son among them, into a final bitter campaign.＜br /＞ "Rick Shelley was a soldier at heart, and his books were written from the heart. They carry the real feel of the sweat, blood, and camaraderie of those on the front lines." ーJack Campbell, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞?bestselling author＜br /＞ "Rick Shelly knows how to write compelling military science fiction thrillers that are so action packed, readers hardly have a moment for an oxygen break." ーAllReaders.com＜/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 Complete Memoirs of George Sherston【電子書籍】[ Siegfried Sassoon ]

＜p＞The Memoirs of George Sherston brings together in one memorable volume the three widely-hailed "autobiographical novels" of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Set against the dark background of World War this extraordinary trilogy follows the author's wartime fortunes and examines his emotional growth under the cruel pressures of hand-to-hand combat in the field.＜br /＞ Perhaps the most striking qualities of Sassoon's record are its honesty, its simplicity and its lack of pretentiousness and false heroics. It is, after all, a deeply personal account of a complete phase of a man's life, spanning in continuous narrative form the period from the author's childhood to the war's end.＜br /＞ The trilogy begins with Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, a fond reminiscence of boyhood and adolescence set against the background of the author's rural English home. Full of the scent of leather and the huntsman cries on a frosty autumn morning, the scene is set as the world moves slowly towards war.＜br /＞ In the second volume, The Memoirs of an Infantry Office, the mood deepens. A classic among war books, it tells of the author's steady disillusionment with the Army and of his ultimate rebellion against the cruel realities of war. Finally, in the last of the three, Sherston's Progress, set in an asylum for shell-shocked officers, the author is able to accept these realities and to resolve his emotional turmoil.＜br /＞ Through it all, there is always the presence of Sassoonーthe fluid, sensitive prose, the fine perceptions of the poetーyet spoken here in the voice of the average man. With charm and humor and quiet understatement, he has managed to articulate the hidden feelings of any sensitive man who in the normal course of his life is suddenly exposed to the nightmare of war.＜/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！】Ariel: ou, La vie de Shelley【電子書籍】[ Andre Maurois ]

＜p＞En 1809, le Roi George III d'Angleterre mit ? la t?te de l'aristocratique coll?ge d'Eton le docteur Keate, petit homme terrible, qui consid?rait la bastonnade comme une station n?cessaire sur le chemin de toute perfection morale, et qui terminait ses sermons en disant: ≪Soyez charitables, boys, ou je vous battrai jusqu'? ce que vous le deveniez.≫ Les gentlemen et les riches marchands dont il ?levait les fils voyaient sans d?plaisir cette pieuse f?rocit? et tenaient pour singuli?rement estimable un homme qui avait fouett? presque tous les premiers ministres, ?v?ques et g?n?raux du pays. En ce temps-l?, toute discipline s?v?re ?tait approuv?e par l'?lite. La R?volution fran?aise venait de montrer les dangers du lib?ralisme quand il infecte les classes dirigeantes. L'Angleterre officielle, ?me de la Sainte-Alliance, croyait combattre en Napol?on la philosophie couronn?e. Elle exigeait de ses ?coles publiques une g?n?ration sagement hypocrite. Pour dompter l'ardeur possible des jeunes aristocrates d'Eton, une prudente frivolit? organisait leurs ?tudes. Apr?s cinq ans d'?cole, un ?l?ve avait lu deux fois Hom?re, presque tour Virgile, Horace expurg?, et pouvait composer de passables ?pigrammes latines sur Wellington ou Nelson. Le go?t des citations ?tait alors si parfaitement d?velopp? chez les jeunes gens de cette classe que Pitt, au Parlement, s'?tant interrompu au milieu d'un vers de l'En?ide, toute la Chambre, Whigs et Tories, se leva et termina le vers. Bel exemple de culture homog?ne. Les sciences ?taient facultatives, dons d?laiss?es; la danse obligatoire. Quant ? la religion, Keate jugeait criminel d'en douter, inutile d'en parler. Le docteur redoutait le mysticisme beaucoup plus que l'indiff?rence. Il admettait les rires en chapelle et faisait assez mal observer le repos du dimanche. Il n'est pas inutile de dire ici, pour faire comprendre le machiav?lisme, peut-?tre inconscient, de cet ?ducateur, qu'il de d?testait pas qu'on lui ment?t un peu. ≪Signe de respect≫, disait-il. Des coutumes assez barbares r?glaient les rapports des ?l?ves entre eux. Les ≪petits≫ ?taient les fags, ou esclaves des ≪grands≫. Chaque fag faisait le lit de son suzerain, lui montait le matin l'eau de la pompe, brossait ses v?tements et ses souliers. Toute d?sob?issance ?tait punie par des supplices convenables. Un enfant ?crivait ? ses parents, non pour se plaindre, mais pour raconter sa journ?e: ≪Rolls, dont je suis le fag, avait mis des ?perons et voulait me faire sauter un foss? trop large. ? chaque d?robade, il m'?peronnait. Naturellement ma cuisse saigne, mes ≪Po?tes Grecs≫ sont en bouillie, et mon v?tement neuf d?chir?.≫ La boxe ?tait en honneur. Un combat fut si violent qu'un enfant resta mort sur le plancher. Keate vint voir le cadavre et dit: ≪Ceci est regrettable, mais je tiens avant tout ? ce qu'un ?l?ve d'Eton soit pr?t ? rendre coup pour coup.≫ Le but profond et cach? du syst?me ?tait de former des caract?res durs coul?s dans un moule unique. L'ind?pendance des actions ?tait grande, mais l'originalit? des pens?es, du costume ou du langage le crime le plus d?test?. Un int?r?t un peu vif pour des ?tudes ou des id?es passait pour une affectation insupportable qu'il importait de corriger par la force. Telle qu'elle ?tait, cette vie ?tait loin de d?plaire au plus grand nombre des jeunes Anglais. L'orgueil de participer au maintien des traditions d'une ?cole si ancienne, fond?e par un roi et de tous temps voisine et prot?g?e des rois, les payait bien de leurs souffrances. Seules quelques ?mes sensibles souffraient longtemps. Par exemple, le jeune Percy Bysshe Shelley, fils d'un tr?s riche propri?taire du Sussex et petit-fils de sir Bysshe Shelley, baronnet, ne semblait pas s'acclimater. Cet enfant d'une extr?me beaut?, aux yeux bleus vif, aux cheveux blonds boucl?s, au teint d?licat, montrait une inqui?tude morale bien extraordinaire chez un homme de son rang et une incroyable tendance ? mettre en question les R?gles du Jeu.＜/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！】Vetville: True Stories of the U.S. Marines at War and at Home【電子書籍】[ Mike Sager ]

＜p＞Mike Sager has been called "the Beat poet of American Journalism." Vetville collects the best of his stories about the Marine Corps. Together this tetralogy of long-form pieces charts a life story arc of the modern Devil Dog.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It begins at Camp Pendleton, CA, on field exercises with Lieutenant Colonel Bob Sinclair and his BN One-Fourーthe 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regimentーas they prepare to invade Afghanistan, the first wave of American combatants sent to war after the deadly terrorist attacks of 9/11. "You realize that your country has been attacked," he says. "You wanna strike back."＜/p＞ ＜p＞From there, we head to the Wounded Warriors Barracks at Camp Lejeune where we meet Ringo, Cebula, Wildman, Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell, and the rest of the men recuperating together at a unique barracks where wounded Marines harness their esprit de corps to help one another through emotional and physical recovery. We hear their battlefield stories of war and heroism. And their stories of injury and despair. And we discover the soft center that lives beneath the tough exterior shell of the Marine Corps mystiqueーa deep love of comrades and country. "Wounded Warriors" was awarded a number of awards, including The Military Writers Society of America Founder's Award.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In "Vetville" we visit a small farm in the mountains of Tennessee, where a Marine sergeant, in an effort to save himself and others, has opened his doors to veterans whose deep wounds don't necessarily show. And, we catch up with John Cebula, one of the men encountered aboard the Wounded Warriors barracks. Without a supportive network around him, he has turned to drugs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finally, in "Fifty Grand in San Diego," we focus on the return to civilian life after the corps, with a look at a modern version of the American Dreamーan ex-Marine playing Mr. Mom and finding his silver lining in a dirty diaper.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wounded Warriors was awarded:＜br /＞ *The American Author's Association Golden Quill Award＜br /＞ *The Military Writers Society of America Founder's Award＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Entertaining and fascinating. At the end of the book, you will find yourself changed in some way. Call it empathy, or just a compassionate response to have seen and become aware of another man's pain and suffering; but you will remember these men that you read about long after putting this book to rest." --Military Writers Society of America＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sager has written a gripping account of how these Marines are coping with their combat-altered lives. An experienced interviewer, he lets the Marines' stories speak for themselves…Powerful stuff." --Leatherneck, Magazine of the Marines＜/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！】Underdog Chronicles A 4 Book Box Set【電子書籍】[ Eric Gutierrez Jr. ]

＜p＞When the going gets tough, heroes emerge.＜/p＞ ＜p＞They aren't above the food chain to catch criminals. They are just doing what they can in the name of what's right. They don't wear masks, they aren't loved by all, but that's not going to stop them from completing their missions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞One is a young man who reluctantly takes the mantle of a savior for not only his city, but for the world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The other is a detective who must rise from his family's reputation to solve a murder that can jeopardize more than his career.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A hero exiled from the one family he knew is now called upon to aid a duo of up-and-comers combat an ancient evil that will consume the world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Another is a down and out of his luck man who now can only rely on himself to shed the shell of his former self and rise from his ashes to prove to himself and the crowd watching him that he's more than what meets the eye.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Table of Contents＜/p＞ ＜ol＞ ＜li＞"The Exile" by Eric Gutierrez Jr.＜/li＞ ＜li＞"Journey to Elvander" by Eric Gutierrez Jr.＜/li＞ ＜li＞"City of Doves" by Eric Gutierrez Jr.＜/li＞ ＜li＞"Guillotine" by Eric Gutierrez Jr.＜/li＞ ＜/ol＞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！】Under Dirt, Water, and Fire【電子書籍】[ Forrest McElroy ]

＜p＞The Historical Fiction piece, "The Glen", takes place during the Irish War of Independence, a series of bloody conflicts that lasted through a number of years between Ireland, England, and the Irish Loyalists. The main characters of this story are childhood friends growing up in a politically torn country. When conflicts of beliefs put the two on opposite sides, their friendship is tested to the point of breaking.＜br /＞ "Eastwatch" is a fantastical short story, placing the reader in the middle of a Nordic raid on a walled outpost of an enemy empire. The raid is led by a shieldmaiden bent on revenge for her family against the empire that took them from her. Her desire for vengeance puts the crew at risk, and the crew's captain begins to question their ability to take on the formidable force of the empire.＜br /＞ "Brain Scramble" is a loose interpretation of a traumatic experience during the Iraq war. Following an IED explosion and enemy attack, "Mac" must exfiltrate with a wounded Marine on his back while suffering from the effects of a concussion. The enemy pushes the attack, and the Marines have to fight their way to safety.＜br /＞ "The Beach" is a short Historical Fiction story about "Will", a Private serving in the United States Army during the Normandy Invasion. As his landing vehicle hits the beach, Will is thrown from the craft and into the water, where he is pulled down under the red waves. Will must struggle to shore and fight his way up the beach, or he will be cut down by the enemy like so many of his brothers in arms.＜br /＞ The final story, "Buried", is from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old Combat Engineer serving in the trenches of France during World War I. The young engineer works as a tunneler, and when an enemy artillery shell detonates nearby his posting, a wall of debris and dirt entombs the young man and his comrades. The fight for air begins immediately, accompanied by the knowledge that he might be the only hope his platoon mates have in surviving the crushing walls of dirt now pinning them in the earth.＜/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！】Implementation of State Anti-Corruption and Anti-Money Laundering Policy in the EU Member States Models for Improving Public Administration in the Ukraine【電子書籍】[ Michele Sciurba ]

＜p＞Money laundering schemes are constantly evolving, which requires public authorities to constantly up-date their knowledge and implement state-of-the-art measures to combat corruption. The monograph demonstrates how the Ukraine can improve its implementation of FATF recommendations to fight money laundering and corruption and how it can better organize the mechanisms of state regulation and the monitoring of financial activities. This monograph offers a new approach to implementing an anti-corruption strategy in Ukraine and suggests how the fight against corruption within government can be streamlined using modern methods and a risk-based approach. Drawing on the experience of EU countries through a comparative analysis of the rules and procedures for structuring public administration policy, this work proposes developing recommendations to strengthen the Ukrainian anti-money laundering and corruption policy. Corruption remains a widespread problem at various levels within Ukrainian public administration and it has significantly weakened public confidence in government and in the judicial system. In an international comparison of corruption in 180 countries, Ukraine ranks 130th, making it one of the most corrupt countries in the world. At the same time, Ukraine has an AML/CTF legal administrative framework in place that largely meets the current formal requirements of the FATF. The Ukraine has implemented AML and anti-corruption measures under the Council of Europe's Moneyval monitoring mechanism. In addition, Moneyval has been an associate member of the FATF since 2006. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) practices risk-based banking supervision and has made significant progress in creating transparency regarding the beneficial ownership of banks. In recent years, Ukraine has consistently removed criminal owners from the banking sector and established an efficient sanction regime in response to breaches of legal obligations, including the withdrawal of banking licenses. Furthermore, the establishment of a unified state register for beneficial ownership allows authorities to identify banking clients. In terms of mutual legal assistance on money laundering and corruption, the Ukraine has also made significant progress. Ultimately, the Ukrainian AML/CTF framework has been refined significantly in recent years. Today, there is a clear understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing risks in Ukraine both at the administrative level and at the level of the supervisory authorities. As a result, far-reaching legislation has been established. Nevertheless, this development cannot hide the fact that money laundering via shell companies is still part of everyday life in Ukraine. The Ukrainian criminal justice system continues to be heavily influenced by corruption and has failed to effectively combat it. Ukrainian cross-border prosecution of money laundering offences, in particular the confiscation of proceeds of crime in other countries, is ineffective due to a lack of experience and the absence of legislation spelling out direct areas of responsibility and formal procedures. Finally, a central problem is the lack of confiscation orders which impedes the efficient prosecution of corruption and money laundering.＜/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！】Powder Keg【電子書籍】[ Oren Or Bittoun ]

＜p＞It took 16 years of escaping his problems for Oren Or Bittoun, a former commander of the IDF's Border Police undercover counter-terrorism unit, to get a proper diagnosis of what he was suffering from. Bittoun was one of the first soldiers in the unit, taking part in dozens of classified operations in the West Bank during Israel's First Intifada. During one operation, in 1992, he witnessed his unit's commanding officer shot in the head by a Palestinian terrorist.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While Bittoun witnesses many harrowing events during his service, his commander's death is the last straw. After a short debriefing by the army he goes home to commit suicide. He cocks his weapon, points it to his head and recites the Shema Yisrael prayer. The door opens and his mother grabs him screaming, the gun goes off, hitting the floor, and only then does he realize what has happened. He keeps his suicide attempt to himself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After being released from the army Bittoun tries to escape the memories, living in the Congo, New York, Switzerland, London and Paris before finally returning to Israel with his wife and eldest son.＜br /＞ No matter where he goes, including the Swiss Alps, he carries a gun and a knife, sure that someone is out to kill him. He feels that his body is in Tel Aviv but his soul is in Jenin in the West Bank. He screams out his dead commander's name in his sleep.＜br /＞ The turning point comes one night, 16 years after losing his commander, when Bittoun comes home from work and has a flashback to that tragic event.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He smells the same smells, the smoke and death, he feels someone grab his neck, he grabs the person back and when opening his eyes he sees that he is strangling his six-year-old daughter. She is turning blue. She screams in panic and asks him why he wants to kill her. Distraught, all he can say is that he loves her and will always protect her. That's when his wife makes him seek professional help, otherwise she will leave him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞His novel, Powder Keg, is based on his true story which portrays a chilling mosaic of events that will leave readers with bated breath. The book opens a rare window, with a moving, intimate peek into his complex life and the inner workings of the mind and soul of someone suffering from combat related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, also known as shell shock. Each night Oren fights a battle of survival against mortal fear, and each morning he chooses to live. From within this seemingly endless cycle of post-trauma, Oren paves the way and shows us a path forward. He stumbles and picks himself up, he fails and succeeds, he fights the powder keg within with everything he's got.＜/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 Other Side of the Looking Glass The Memoir of a Military Contractor【電子書籍】[ W. Hairston ]

＜p＞This is a memoir. Four years out of the life of an average American who did his time in service, only to find that he has to start over again in a country still at war and with a shattered economy. He finds that there is a way to make a living, and that is in the military-industrial complex, the new job market that had arisen when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. In this world, he makes ends meet. He is able to support his family but is in the crosshairs of the enemy 24/7. All it takes is one mortar shell, one rocket strike, and one bullet to meet his fate. Although he is out of active military service, he is in a combat zone. His life is in danger, just like theirs, but for him, there are no welcome home parties and no yellow ribbons. Before, he was looked at as a hero; now, hes just an opportunist, a mercenary. But on this side, you see the way things are in this new world of outsourced war.＜/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。