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Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466856645 |
Download War Fever Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection by J. G. Ballard, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an end to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories in War Fever feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic-waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island.
Author | : James Ballard |
Publisher | : Koehler Books |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2020-08-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781646631148 |
Download Poisoned Jungle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The napalmed children peered at him, uncomprehending, not understanding what happened, and asked him to fix their burns, alleviate their pain. He tried to explain- such a terrible mistake. No words came out of his mouth." Poisoned Jungle speaks to the long psychological tentacles war has on the lives it touches, and the difficulty of breaking free of them. Realizing changes have occurred deep within, Vietnam War medic Andy Parks must reconcile his new reality to establish a life worth living-not an easy task. How will Andy Parks ever dispel the images he brought home with him? He can't live with them-or outrun them. Even in sleep he finds no rest. In a powerful human saga, Andy teeters on the chasm of survivor's guilt, desperate to find equilibrium in his life. Deep down, he wants to live but doesn't know how. Poisoned Jungle is an intimate glimpse into one veteran's struggle for meaning after experiencing the despair of war.
Author | : Tom Holzel |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2011-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1462017231 |
Download Ballard's War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the midst of bombing raids on Berlin, the Abwehr the German Secret Service-- receives an anonymous letter describing in incredible detail top secrets of the German and Allied war plans. Claiming to be an embittered American, Robert Ballard produces a stream of top secret information from both sides of the conflict that can only come from the very highest levels. Embraced by the Abwehr, his extraordinary success in thwarting Allied attacks soon arouses the suspicions of the Gestapo. How can an foreigner be operating a massive spy ring right under their noses? Oskar Faulheim of the Gestapo discovers Ballard's infatuation with Sabina Pergolesi, a beautiful Italian widow. He quickly resettles her mother in a seedy pension next to the Ravensburg concentration camp. Find out everything you can about your Herr Ballard, Faulheim warns Sabina, or she'll be moved into the camp with you to quickly follow. If Ballard remains a mystery, Sabina Pergolesi is also not what she seems. When Ballard mentions they cannot return to America where he would be branded a traitor, she flees him in tears.
Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : Liveright |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2013-05-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0871404192 |
Download The Unlimited Dream Company: A Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." —New York Times Book Review When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is transformed. Vultures invade rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man’s urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations toward an apocalyptic climax. In this characteristically inventive novel Ballard displays to devastating effect the extraordinary imagination that has established him as one of the twentieth century’s most visionary writers.
Author | : Michael B. Ballard |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2005-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807876216 |
Download Vicksburg Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War. The Union victory at Vicksburg was hailed with as much celebration in the North as the Gettysburg victory and Ballard makes a convincing case that it was equally important to the ultimate resolution of the conflict.
Author | : Tom Holzel |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 146201724X |
Download Ballard's War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the midst of bombing raids on Berlin, the Abwehr the German Secret Service-- receives an anonymous letter describing in incredible detail top secrets of the German and Allied war plans. Claiming to be an embittered American, Robert Ballard produces a stream of top secret information from both sides of the conflict that can only come from the very highest levels. Embraced by the Abwehr, his extraordinary success in thwarting Allied attacks soon arouses the suspicions of the Gestapo. How can an foreigner be operating a massive spy ring right under their noses? Oskar Faulheim of the Gestapo discovers Ballards infatuation with Sabina Pergolesi, a beautiful Italian widow. He quickly resettles her mother in a seedy pension next to the Ravensburg concentration camp. Find out everything you can about your Herr Ballard, Faulheim warns Sabina, or shell be moved into the campwith you to quickly follow. If Ballard remains a mystery, Sabina Pergolesi is also not what she seems. When Ballard mentions they cannot return to America where he would be branded a traitor, she flees him in tears.
Author | : Michael B. Ballard |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780742543089 |
Download U.S. Grant Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What made Ulysses S. Grant tick? Perhaps the greatest general of the Civil War, Grant won impressive victories and established a brilliant military career. His single-minded approach to command was coupled with the ability to adapt to the kind of military campaign the moment required. In this exciting new book, Michael B. Ballard provides a crisp account of Grant's strategic and tactical concepts in the period from the outset of the Civil War to the battle of Chattanooga--a period in which U. S. Grant rose from a semi-disgraceful obscurity to the position of overall commander of all Union armies. The author carefully sifts through diaries and letters of Grant and his inner circle to try to get inside Grant's mind and reveal why those early years of the war were formative in producing the Civil War's greatest general.
Author | : Robert J. Cottrol |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0820344761 |
Download The Long, Lingering Shadow Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere. Ranging across such topics as slavery, emancipation, scientific racism, immigration policies, racial classifications, and legal processes, Cottrol unravels a complex odyssey. By the eve of the Civil War, the U.S. slave system was rooted in a legal and cultural foundation of racial exclusion unmatched in the Western Hemisphere. That system’s legacy was later echoed in Jim Crow, the practice of legally mandated segregation. Jim Crow in turn caused leading Latin Americans to regard their nations as models of racial equality because their laws did not mandate racial discrimination— a belief that masked very real patterns of racism throughout the Americas. And yet, Cottrol says, if the United States has had a history of more-rigid racial exclusion, since the Second World War it has also had a more thorough civil rights revolution, with significant legal victories over racial discrimination. Cottrol explores this remarkable transformation and shows how it is now inspiring civil rights activists throughout the Americas.
Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-03-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476737533 |
Download Empire of the Sun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.
Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-07-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0871404060 |
Download The Drowned World: A Novel (50th Anniversary Edition) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From one of the most powerful and original talents in science fiction comes the story of a new world--a strange world where solar radiation fluctuations have melted the polar ice caps, flooding the land and raising the temperature of the atmosphere.