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Rocky Boyer's War

An Unvarnished History of the Air Blitz that Won the War in the Southwest Pacific

By: Allen D Boyer

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Rocky Boyer's War

An Unvarnished History of the Air Blitz that Won the War in the Southwest Pacific

By: Allen D Boyer

In Rocky Boyer’s War, Allen Boyer offers a wry, keen-eyed, and occasionally disgruntled counterpoint history of the hard-fought, brilliant campaign that won World War II in the Southwest Pacific. Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe “Rocky” Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney's "air blitz" offensive as it was lived both in the cockpit and on the ground. During 1944, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s forces fought their way from New Guinea to the Philippines, Kenney, discarding pre-war doctrine, planned and ran an “air blitz” offensive. His 5th Air Force drove forward like a tank army, crash-landing in open country, seizing terrain, bulldozing new airfields, winning air control, and moving forward. At airfields on the front line, Rocky kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit. Diaries were forbidden, but Rocky kept one—full of casualties, accidents, off-duty shenanigans, and rear-area snafus. He had friends killed when they shot it out with Japanese anti-aircraft gunners, or when their bombers vanished in bad weather. He wrote about wartime camp life at Nadzab, New Guinea, the largest air base in the world, part Scout camp and part frontier boomtown. He knew characters worthy of Catch-22: combat flyers who played contract bridge, military brass who played office politics, black quartermasters, and chaplains who stood up to colonels when a promotion party ended with drunken gunplay and dynamite. This is a narrative of the war as airmen lived it. Rocky’s experience of life on the front line gives from-the-bottom-up detail to the framework of Kenney’s air blitz. The author uses Rocky’s story as a jumping-off point from which to understand the daily life, pranks, mishaps, and casualties, of the men who in 1944 fought their way over the two thousand miles from New Guinea to the Philippines.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682470970

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9781682470978

Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age

By: Allen D. Boyer

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Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age

By: Allen D. Boyer

Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the first judge to strike down a law, gave us modern common law by turning medieval common law inside-out. Through his resisting strong-minded kings, he bore witness for judicial independence. Coke is the earliest judge still cited routinely by practicing lawyers. This book breaks new ground as the first scholarly biography of Coke, whose most recent general biography appeared in 1957, and draws revealingly on Coke's own papers and notebooks. The book covers Cokes early life and career, to the end of the reign of Elizabeth I in 1603 (a second volume will cover Cokes career under James I and Charles I). In particular, this book highlights Coke's close connection with the Puritans of England; his learning, legal practice, and legal theory; his family life and ambitious dealings; and the treason cases he prosecuted.

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356

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Stanford University Press

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0804748098

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9780804748094

Exile to Paradise

Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900

By: Alice Bullard,Allen D. Boyer

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Exile to Paradise

Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900

By: Alice Bullard,Allen D. Boyer

This is the strange story of how, following the failure of the revolutionary Paris Commune in 1871, some 4,500 Communards were exiled to the South Pacific colony of New Caledonia. The surprising parallels and interactions between the "political savages" and the "natural savages," the Melanesian Kanak, in their confrontation with the forces of French civilization, form the subject of this book.

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404

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Stanford University Press

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0804738785

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9780804738781

The Knowledge of God: Essays on God, Christ, and Church

By: Michael Allen

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The Knowledge of God: Essays on God, Christ, and Church

By: Michael Allen

The Knowledge of God turns to consider the knowledge of God revealed in the Word of God, with several essays addressing the doctrine of God, then the person of Christ, and finally the miracle of the church. Michael Allen shows the exegetical shape of historical and dogmatic reasoning as well as the significance of thinking about these topics in their interrelationships with a range of other Christian themes, not least the doctrine of the living and true God. In each of these topics, the theme of the promise and nature of God's presence (whether in his own life or then in the economy of the incarnation and of the church) proves to be a unifying thread. The gospel is shown to be rooted backward in God's own life and to have consequence forward for the ongoing life of Christ displayed in his church. This volume explores what it means to learn of and come to know God, who has life in himself and then shares his life with us in the coming of his Son and the ongoing presence amidst his body, the church of Christ.

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216

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567699382

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9780567699381

Cancer Pain Management

By: Michael Fisch,Allen Burton

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Cancer Pain Management

By: Michael Fisch,Allen Burton

Provides in-depth coverage of all the interventional and medical strategies needed for effective cancer pain management. Logically organized, this practical guide starts with general principles in cancer pain management, followed by management of specific cancer pain syndromes, unique issues, interventional techniques, and other specialized approaches. Reflecting an approach to pain management developed at the prestigious M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Cancer Pain Management addresses the full spectrum of cancer pain syndromes and reviews the selection and administration of various treatment options.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071445358

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9780071445351

Book's by Allen D Boyer

Rocky Boyer's War

Rocky Boyer's War

Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age

Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age

Exile to Paradise

Exile to Paradise

The Knowledge of God: Essays on God, Christ, and Church

The Knowledge of God: Essays on God, Christ, and Church

Cancer Pain Management

Cancer Pain Management

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