Forged In Fire

Forged In Fire

David Ferrier

20,44 €
IVA incluido
Consulta disponibilidad
Editorial:
Battle Press
Año de edición:
2023
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781737499114
Añadir a favoritos

An important part of the Vietnam experience by someone who lived it.Author David Ferrier served in the 571st Medical Detachment Dustoff Unit in Vietnam where he rescued the wounded and dying in unarmed helicopter ambulances.The 20 stories in this book chronicle the bloodiest of those times on the war front, the chaos of the Vietnam War, the dissension that ravaged America during and after the war, and the controversial homecoming of many Vietnam Veterans.Dave’s experiences, along with those of his childhood friends Margaret Mary and Teddy are set against the turbulent social and political upheavals of the era. Many sacrifices were made, and cherished illusions were shattered as a generation was Forged In Fire.

Artículos relacionados

  • Scout's Honor
    Dori Ann Dupré
    A story of a self, lost…a self, loathed…and a self, rediscovered In Haddleboro, North Carolina, Scout Webb is a 14 year-old kind, spirited small town southern girl and a tomboy much like her namesake, the young narrator from her mother’s favorite book. With both her name and her Christian faith deeply woven into the fabric of her identity, Scout always felt like she had a lot ...
  • Hopetown Road
    Amy Cross Hile
    From the outside looking in, Lexie and Landon Elliott have the perfect marriage, the perfect children, the perfect life and a thriving business. But when the Charleston, South Carolina, couple decides to chuck it all and move to Costa Rica, tongues begin to wag. Nobody knew that the business was failing, and that their marriage was unraveling at an alarming pace. Hopetown Road ...
  • The Only Witness
    Pamela Beason / TBD
    A MISSING BABYSeventeen-year-old Brittany Morgan dashed into the store for just a minute, leaving her sleeping baby in the car. Now Ivy's gone and half the town believes Brittany murdered her daughter.A HAUNTED DETECTIVEDetective Matthew Finn, a big-city fish out of water in small-town Evansburg, Washington, struggles with his wife's betrayal as he investigates Ivy Morg...
    Disponible

    20,64 €

  • The Boxford Stories
    Kristen Carson
    Welcome to the world of the Runyons and the Feldsteds, two Mormon families in 1970s Maryland. Far from their Western American roots, they cling to each other like exiles clutching a precious box of topsoil from the old country. In The Boxford Stories you will meet Ada Runyon who always turns to Ruthalin Feldsted when she needs an ear—sharing her deepest confidences, her everyd...
    Disponible

    11,97 €

  • The Gender of Inanimate Objects and Other Stories
    Laura Marello
    In the phosphorescent title novella of Laura Marello's collection, an enigmatic drifter pursues her circuitous path through the intricate cultural terrain of Sweetwater County, California, a patchwork of communities where 'everyone speaks the wrong language.' Through subtle, disciplined prose inflected with the deep colors and clear lines of ancient Mykonos and the northern...
    Disponible

    14,01 €

  • What's the Word?
    Lawrence Gordon
    This is a work of non-fiction. The events penned herein reflect real life situations; great times and terrible times; which my family, my friends, and I endured.      This work will reflect the spiritual aspects of my family. I was born and raised in our family church. The name of the church was God’s Universal House of Prayer and my Uncle, James Henderson was the Pastor until...
    Disponible

    7,19 €

Otros libros del autor

  • Wired For Sound
    David Ferrier
    Wired For Sound is the fourth installment of THE MOUNTAINTOP SERIES, once again following the stories of David, Margaret Mary, and Teddy as they mature and move forward with their lives. David and Teddy are home from the Vietnam War to face haunting challenges in their hometown. Margaret Mary makes choices that take her even further away from her envisioned future They face dec...
    Disponible

    28,92 €

  • Les Fonctions Du Cerveau...
    David Ferrier
    Cet ouvrage est une étude des fonctions cérébrales chez les animaux et les humains. David Ferrier, un neurologue écossais du XIXe siècle, a utilisé des techniques de stimulation électrique pour cartographier les zones du cerveau responsables de différents comportements et fonctions sensorielles.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part o...
  • Raised On Rock
    David Ferrier
    In this coming-of-age story in the late 1960’s, Dave Ferrier relates his embellished and enjoyable adventures with his companions Margaret Mary and Teddy as they mature thru the agonies and ecstasies of graduating high school and deciding their future as the world changes rapidly around them. Song lyrics from the Emerging Rock music of the era (The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Bob Dyl...
    Disponible

    20,48 €

  • After Your Military Service
    David Ferrier
    It is the hope of the author that through the use of this guidelet men and women being discharged from the military will increase their chances of post-military success and maximize the usage of their hard earned military benefits. This guidelet is packed with information such as:Discharge preparationHow to get your needed documentsWhere to find counseling and adviceAn example ...
    Disponible

    7,46 €

  • A Cry For Mercy In The Night
    David Ferrier
    This is a chronicle, in verse, of my personal journey to, during, and after serving in a Dustoff unit in Vietnam. Dustoff units provided front-line medical evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield to the field hospital in unarmed, fragile, flammable UH-1H helicopters. Our ships drew enemy fire at a rate seven times higher than any other aircraft flying in the combat zone ...
    Disponible

    13,55 €

  • Born On A Mountaintop
    David Ferrier
    This book is a reminisce, a personal history of events long past, sweetened by time, recalled with longing, factual, but not accurate. The events I have chosen to write about essentially happened, though not in the idealized manner I have recorded them. It is the issues, the perplexing questions and contradictions I encountered growing up which I have attempted to relate most a...
    Disponible

    24,38 €