epub |eng | 2005-12-26 | Author:Gary Berntsen

* Gary Schroen in his CIA-approved book First In refers to several meetings between myself (I’m called Gary 2 in the book) and Engineer Aref. He explains that Engineer Aref ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-08 | Author:Isabel George

Camp Bastion: 11pm, Sunday 27 July Someone from the REME produced a hip flask. It was a welcome start to the proceedings and broke a little ice. Gazing into the ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Malkasian, Carter

Image 8: Deputy District Governor Ayub Omar and USAID development officer Gail Long in the Mian Poshtay bazaar. (Photo from Gail Long) Abdullah Jan did not flinch from the debate: ...

epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Bury [Bury, Patrick]

BAZAAR The road to Hades is easily travelled. Diogenes Läertius Bion In the dry wadi the market is bustling, a maze of poles, plastic sheeting, wooden tables, goats and people. ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Sandy Gall [Gall, Sandy]

13 The Protection-Money Racket We don’t trust what they say any more. Pushtun elder, Kandahar, quoted in the New York Times, 26 March 2010 Kandahar is Afghanistan’s second city, the ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-27 | Author:Isabel George [George, Isabel]

If you are in the Army your fellow soldiers are not just part of your team, they can also save your life. In some respects life in the Armed Forces ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter Jan Honigsberg

— CHAPTER 22 — ALONE Detainee Moazzam Begg of the UK was held in solitary confinement in Guantánamo for twenty months, one of the longest periods of isolation at the ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-20 | Author:Patrick Thibeault [Thibeault, Patrick]

EIGHTY SECOND Eighty-second Patch on my shoulder, Pick up your chutes and jump with me I am the Infantry One-oh-one Patch on my shoulder, Pick up your weapons and follow ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Shaffer, Anthony [Shaffer, Anthony]

13 THE “HEART OF DARKNESS” I’M a big fan of movies. One of my top ten favorites is Apocalypse Now, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Junger, Sebastian [Junger, Sebastian]

We drive into the KOP late that afternoon, our destroyed Humvee chained to the one ahead of us and getting dragged through the mud like some kind of stubborn farm ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

A few weeks later Josh, Kate, their little daughter Evelyn, Bob, Brittany, and Debbie White said goodbye to Ashley in Fayetteville just before her deployment. Two days afterward, it was ...

epub |deu | 2010-11-18 | Author:War [War]

»Wenn das geschieht, werden sie uns verfehlen, also stell nur fest, woher sie gekommen sind, und mach sie fertig, alles klar?« »Roger.« Ich konzentriere mich darauf, meine Kamera zu bedienen. ...

epub | | | Author:Marcus Luttrell

mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Rusty Bradley; Kevin Maurer

Chapter 12 “SHOOT INTO THE BUSHES, DADDY!” If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. —ULYSSES S. GRANT My day started with a tug on my ...

mobi, epub | | 2010-12-01 | Author:Jon Krakauer

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE In the predawn hours of March 23, 2003, as Jessica Lynch’s convoy rolled across the Euphrates River and entered An Nasiriyah, Pat Tillman was asleep on his cot ...