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  • The East Tennessee Veterans Memorial

    A Pictorial History of the Names on the Wall, Their Service, and Their Sacrifice

    by John Romeiser, Jack H. McCall Jr. ...
    At the northern edge of the World’s Fair Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, a striking set of thirty-two granite pylons stands as a monument to the tradition of military service in East Tennessee. The East Tennessee Veterans Memorial explores the creation and significance of this commemorative monument, providing a window into the lives and courageous actions of the more than 6,200 men and women whose ... Read more

    $30.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pogiebait's War

    A Son's Quest for His Father's Wartime Life

    by Jack H. McCall Jr. ...
    Series series Legacies of War
    Jack H. McCall Sr. was a born storyteller, an inveterate practical joker, and a proud Tennessean whose flaws included a considerable taste for candy, or “pogiebait” in Marine parlance. Like so many other able-bodied young people in on the eve of World War II, he decided to enlist in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Much more than a family memoir or nostalgic wartime reminiscence, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Way Out

    by Jack McCall, Alan Clement ...
    These two old guys talking about life will keep you turning pages for laughs and insights and tugs at the heart and wisdom! They have spent their lives helping others live their lives; Jack, a Jesuit priest with a PhD in both Psychology and Theology, initiated programs at Boston College enabling clerics of all faiths, from all parts of the country, to work together. Alan ran a creative group of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Pacific Time on Target

    Memoirs of a Marine Artillery Officer, 1943-1945

    by Donner, Jack McCall ...
    The gritty combat memoir of a Marine Corps artilleryman and forward observerAs a married man and Stanford graduate student nearing thirty, Christopher Donner would likely have qualified for an exemption from the draft. Like most of his generation, however, he responded promptly to the call to arms after Pearl Harbor. His wartime experiences in the Pacific Theater were seared into his consciousness ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Pacific

    by Hugh Ambrose ...
    **The New York Times bestselling official companion book to the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® miniseries.Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!**Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war ... Read more

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  • Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded

    A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008

    by John Scalzi ...
    On September 13, 1998, John Scalzi sat down in front of his computer to write the first entry in his blog Whatever--and changed the history of the Internet as we know it today.What, you're not swallowing that one? Okay, fine: He started writing Whatever and amused about 15 people that first day. If that many. But he kept at it, for ten years and running. Now 40,000 people drop by on a daily basis ... Read more

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  • Challenge for the Pacific

    Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War

    by Robert Leckie ...
    From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to ... Read more

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  • Familyhood

    by Paul Reiser ...
    For the longest time, based on no evidence other than our own insecurity and sense of incompetence, my wife and I were convinced that we were the flat-out, no-question-about-it, least-skilled parents in the country. Furthermore, we were convinced that every other set of parents we knew was perfect. They were more thorough in going over their kids' homework, they set better boundaries than we do, ... Read more

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  • The Fleet at Flood Tide

    America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower, from the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors—with original maps and more than 120 dramatic photographs“A masterful, fresh account of the latter days of ... Read more

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  • The Need to Say No

    The Importance of Setting Boundaries in Love, Life, & Your World - How to Be Bullish and Not Bullied

    by Jill Brooke ...
    Series series Little Book. Big Idea.
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  • Battle of Guadalcanal (True Combat)

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    Three days later a Japanese force landed at night. They ambushed a 26-man patrol, cutting the Marines down with hidden machine guns. The three survivors who made it back told their fellow Marines that the wounded had been hacked to death with sabres. From then on, the Marines decided they would be every bit as brutal...Read about the US Marine Landings on Guadalcanal; the desperate fight to take ... Read more

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