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Author : Kane & Abel
Release : 1999-03-15
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 146/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eyes of a Killer/Behind Enemy Lines by : Kane & Abel
Download or read book Eyes of a Killer/Behind Enemy Lines written by Kane & Abel. This book was released on 1999-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deverell Baty
Release : 2020-06-04
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Book Synopsis Behind Enemy Lines by : Deverell Baty
Download or read book Behind Enemy Lines written by Deverell Baty. This book was released on 2020-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind Enemy Lines: Blood in My Eyes is an autobiographical account of Deacon Deverell Baty. Blood in My Eyes describes a young man who suffered depression and thoughts of suicide as a child, and later, lured into the street life as a young teen. This gripping story follows Deverell, then known as Wicked, on a quest of self-discovery, from the rough streets of Saginaw, Michigan, to the trouble-ladened streets of Lansing. Submersed in the snares of crime, alcohol abuse, addiction, and paranoia, Deverell finds his life spiraling out of control until a supernatural experience changes everything.
Author : James A. Kaser
Release : 2014-07-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 049/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The New Orleans of Fiction by : James A. Kaser
Download or read book The New Orleans of Fiction written by James A. Kaser. This book was released on 2014-07-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of New Orleans in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on New Orleans-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 500 works of fiction significantly set in New Orleans and published between 1836 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction—as well as literary fiction—are included.
Author : Ned Sublette
Release : 2009-09-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 232/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Year Before the Flood by : Ned Sublette
Download or read book The Year Before the Flood written by Ned Sublette. This book was released on 2009-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a style the Los Angeles Times calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The World That Made New Orleans, Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 2004–2005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and polemical, The Year Before the Flood juxtaposes the city's crowded calendar of parties, festivals, and parades with the murderousness of its poverty and its legacy of racism. Along the way, Sublette opens up windows of American history that illuminate the present: the trajectory of Mardi Gras from pre–Civil War days, the falsification of Southern history in movies, the city's importance to early rock and roll, the complicated story of its housing projects, the uniqueness of its hip-hop scene, and the celebratory magnificence of the participatory parades known as second lines. With a grand, unforgettable cast of musicians and barkeeps, scholars and thugs, vibrating with the sheer excitement of New Orleans, The Year Before the Flood is an affirmation of the power of the city's culture and a heartbreaking tale of loss that definitively establishes Ned Sublette as a great American writer for the 21st century.
Author : Juliette Pattinson
Release : 2021-07-08
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 237/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Behind enemy lines by : Juliette Pattinson
Download or read book Behind enemy lines written by Juliette Pattinson. This book was released on 2021-07-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography, as well as official records and film, it explores the extraordinary experiences of male and female agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second World War. With its original interpretation of a wealth of primary sources, it examines how these ordinary, law-abiding civilians were transformed into para-military secret agents, equipped with silent killing techniques and trained in unarmed combat. This fascinating, timely and engaging book is concerned with the ways in which the SOE veterans reconstruct their wartime experiences of recruitment, training, clandestine work and for some, their captivity, focusing specifically upon the significance of gender and their attempts to pass as French civilians. This examination of the agents of an officially-sponsored insurgent organisation makes a major contribution to British socio-cultural history, war studies and gender studies and will appeal to both the general reader, as well as to those in the academic community.
