La dedizione di James Webb alla scrittura per tutta la vita è parte integrante di lui quanto qualsiasi altro aspetto della sua esistenza. La sua opera letteraria attinge profondamente dalle sue estese esperienze, inclusi il suo servizio come ufficiale di fanteria del Corpo dei Marine e veterano di combattimento della guerra del Vietnam. Webb esplora temi profondi e complesse narrazioni umane nella sua prosa. La sua voce e prospettiva distintive rendono la sua scrittura avvincente e intellettualmente stimolante per i lettori.
The book is a facsimile reprint of a significant antiquarian work, reflecting its historical and cultural importance. As it is an older publication, readers may encounter imperfections such as marks, notations, and flawed pages. The reprint aims to preserve the original content while making it accessible in a high-quality, modern edition, highlighting a commitment to the protection and promotion of classic literature.
A profound debut about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever. In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry -freed by the Emancipation Proclamation- seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. But when their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos, including a murder, unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. In the aftermath of so much turmoil, it is Isabelle who emerges as an unlikely leader, proffering a healing vision for the land and for the newly free citizens of Old Ox. With candor and sympathy, debut novelist Nathan Harris creates an unforgettable cast of characters, depicting Georgia in the violent crucible of Reconstruction. Equal parts beauty and terror, as gripping as it is moving, The Sweetness of Water is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances.--Amazon
The Guts of the Matter investigates our oldest ecological challenge. This engaging interdisciplinary study will provide students of public health, environmental history, global history, and medicine with an incisive analysis of the key issues in our ongoing struggle against the transmission of infectious intestinal diseases.
Hailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War when first published in 1978, this book launched a spectacular writing career for James Webb that now includes four bestselling novels. A much-decorated former Marine who fought and was wounded in Vietnam, Webb tells the story of a platoon of tough, young Marines enduring the tropical hell of Southeast Asian jungles while facing an invisible enemy--in a war no one understands. Filled with the sounds and smells of combat, it is nevertheless a book about people, an amazing variety of closely observed characters caught up in circumstances beyond their control. It is a powerful work that brilliantly expresses the basic ambiguity of war: the repulsion of war's destruction contrasted with the grisly attraction of war as the ultimate test of survival. Critics have compared this bestselling first novel to All Quiet on the Western Front and The Naked and the Dead, among other masterpieces, for authentically capturing the fury and agony of combat. This is the real war in Vietnam, told without histrionics or self pity. For many years the novel has been a part of the recommended reading list of the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Former Secretary of the Navy, Navy Cross recipient, and Marine officer James Webb lit the fires of controversy with this startling inside look at life at the U.S. Naval Academy when A Sense of Honor was first published in 1981. Some of his fellow Academy graduates attacked it as exaggerated and extreme, but Webb's portrayal of a gung-ho first classman's campaign to shepherd an unprepared plebe through the academy's complex and unforgiving ethos was hailed as a "considerable achievement" by the New York Times and "a remarkable moral statement" by the Boston Globe.
The outstanding feature of the book is that it provides a unified account of three types of decision problem. It covers the basic ideas of decision theory, classical game theory, and evolutionary game theory in one volume.
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a powerful American debut portraying life after slavery in the vein of WASHINGTON BLACK
Set against the backdrop of World War II, the narrative follows Captain Jay Marsh, who grapples with his unwavering loyalty amidst the chaos of the retreating Japanese army. Haunted by the devastation he witnesses, he faces the emotional turmoil of leaving behind his beloved Filipina fiancée to fulfill his military obligations. The story explores themes of duty, sacrifice, and the personal costs of war, highlighting the conflicts between love and loyalty in a time of unprecedented turmoil.
When Brandon Condley, on a routine mission to recover the remains of unknown American soldiers in Vietnam, finds a body whose dog tags don't match, he discovers a link that may enable him to search for two treasonous Americans known as "Salt and Pepper."
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland.