Jeremiah Workman

Shadow of the Sword

A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published: New York: Ballantine Books, c2009. With new foreword.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780803240964
• ISBN-10: 0803240961
• Artikelnr.: 34747039

Autorenporträt

Jeremiah Workman is a military service coordinator with the Department of Veteran Affairs. John R. Bruning is the author or coauthor of ten books, including How to Break a Terrorist and Bombs Away!: The World War II Bombing Campaigns over Europe. Carlton W. Kent served as the sixteenth Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Sergeant Major Carlton W. Kent
Prologue: Stairwell to Nowhere
PART I
Chapter 1 - Reflection of the Damned
Chapter 2 - The Man without a Face
Chapter 3 - Mop-Up Crew
Chapter 4 - Diagnosis
Chapter 5 - A Mind at War
Chapter 6 - Beaufort
Chapter 7 - Drug Trip
Chapter 8 - The Last Medal
Chapter 9 - Ten-Step Kill Zone
Chapter 10 - Break Contact
PART II
Chapter 11 - Link by Link
Chapter 12 - Disconnect
Chapter 13 - Eight-Thousand-Mile Sniper Shot
Chapter 14 - The Ghost of Ira Hayes
Chapter 15 - A Moment in the Trough
Chapter 16 - Lost Moment
PART III
Chapter 17 - Return to the Island
Chapter 18 - Brothers
Chapter 19 - Bleeding Love
Chapter 20 - The Dark Side of the Brotherhood
PART IV
Chapter 21 - The Wrong Fight
Chapter 22 - Bootstraps
Chapter 23 - Scorched Earth
Chapter 24 - Human Bomb
Chapter 25 - Field-Grade Hero
Chapter 26 - Obliteration
Chapter 27 - Craterscape
Chapter 28 - Battlefield Requiem
Chapter 29 - October Dawn
Chapter 30 - Reconstruction
Chapter 31 - Generations
Chapter 32 - Setbacks
Chapter 33 - No Higher Honor
Chapter 34 - February 21, 2007
Epilogue: The Shadow War
Final Notes: Fall 2008
Acknowledgments