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Unlike Any Land You Know

The 490th Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India

By: James Vesely

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Unlike Any Land You Know

The 490th Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India

By: James Vesely

Along with General Claire Chennault's "Flying Tigers," the men and planes of the 490th Bomb Squadron became famous as the "Burma Bridge Busters." From late 1942 to the end of the war, their incredible feats of low-level bombing and strafing of Japanese-held bridges, airfields, and troop facilities in occupied Burma hindered the Japanese advance in Asia, and provided critical air support for the allies fighting on the ground. The author's uncle, a radioman/waist gunner in the 490th, was killed on a mission in the waning days of the war. This book is both a search for his memory, and a tribute to the squadron in which he proudly served and sacrificed his life—the "Burma Bridge Busters." The author was born and raised in Chicago. In addition to writing and traveling, he is an avid fisherman, hunter, and scuba diver. He has published Seasons of Harvest, a three-volume historical novel, and is at work on a second novel titled Cumberland Road. This book is his first nonfiction work.

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0595096999

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9780595096992

Coon Creek

A Novel of the Mississippi River Bottoms

By: JAMES M. VESELY

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Coon Creek

A Novel of the Mississippi River Bottoms

By: JAMES M. VESELY

The Mississippi Valley in western Illinois thirty years after the Civil War. Japheth Bunt, a veteran of that war, is a man who lives to hunt and drink at the expense of honest work. No ones ideal of a husband or a father. Hannah Bunt, of pioneer stock, is the strong-willed woman who fell in love with him years before, and content with her hard, but simple life on Coon Creek. Elias Bunt their son. An adventurous boy who watches in fear as his life and the lives of those he loves are threatened by a bitter family feud that rages in the woods and on the roads of Hancock County, Illinois. And, as the 19th century rolls into the 20th, a grown Elias is torn between his love for two women, and his misplaced loyalty to the notorious outlaw, Charlie Birger as the Bunts are caught up in a struggle to survive the violence and bootleg whiskey war that sweeps across the Mississippi River Valley. A story filled with drama and turmoil, love and hate, heartbreak and humor with a cast of unforgettable characters as vivid and colorfully drawn as the turbulent times that produced them.

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426

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1462078443

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9781462078448

Creature

Shadow of the Sasquatch

By: James M. Vesely

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Creature

Shadow of the Sasquatch

By: James M. Vesely

What begins as the yearly fishing adventure of four old friends into the vast Ontario wilderness becomes a bone-chilling ordeal of terror so intense that one of them vows never to return again. In the company of his best friend, and with beautiful anthropologist Monica Weller, a Russian scientist, a Cree Indian guide named Archie Crow and Archie's daughter, Lorena, both of whom know the eerie truth, millionaire Lucas Tanner returns to the Canadian wilderness to seek the strange and terrifying secret of what lives and roams that dark and tangled forest.

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260

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1475918496

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9781475918496

Lonesome Whistle Blow

A Novel of Hard Times

By: James M. Vesely

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Lonesome Whistle Blow

A Novel of Hard Times

By: James M. Vesely

In this exciting sequel to Coon Creek, Elias Bunt and his family are once again uprooted from their home - this time by the ravages of the Great Depression. The Bunts leave California after Elias decides to take his wife and family back to Dallas City, the small town in Illinois where they were born. But his youngest son is restless. Pushed by the boredom of the farm, and the grinding reality of hard times, young Rafe Bunt bids his family farewell and leaves Hancock County to make his own way through the grim and uncertain landscape of America in the 1930s.

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305

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0595786227

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9780595786220

Journey

A Novel of America

By: James M. Vesely

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Journey

A Novel of America

By: James M. Vesely

The sprawling story of a Czech-American family's determined struggle and unforgettable odyssey from the hunger and hardship of Eastern Europe, across the cold and gray Atlantic in steerage, and on into America's growing cities and isolated farms. The Novaks survive and grow through love and loss, peace and war, epidemic and Depression, in a wondrous new land far from home a young and raw America immersed in the restless throes of change. JOURNEY is a great, new family saga of turmoil, heartbreak, and humor with characters as vivid and colorful as the rich American landscape of the last hundred years.

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342

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1469737825

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9781469737829

Cadet Gray

Stories of Morgan Park Military Academy

By: JAMES M. VESELY

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Cadet Gray

Stories of Morgan Park Military Academy

By: JAMES M. VESELY

Early morning formations and close-order drill, Saturday afternoon football games and the pure hell of being a plebe. Spit-shined shoes and polished brass, flying flags and fluttering guidons. Sunday parades, full-dress balls, and the never-ending grind of studies. The joy of cars and girls and dreams of youth. And above all, the exciting, confusing, always uncertain adventure of growing up and coming of age. Sixteen heartwarming, often humorous stories that cover four decades of ritual, custom, and tradition at Morgan Park Military Academy, seen through the eyes of one legendary instructor Capt. Francis S. Gray. For more than forty years, his common sense and stubborn insistence on academic excellence helped generations of cadets through awkward adolescence and into young manhood.

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268

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0595860230

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9780595860234

Animal House

By: James Brown

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Animal House

By: James Brown

Music, Magazines & Mayhem Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. It won every award going, year after year, and came to define not only its audience but also a generation. Bright, loud, funny, provocative, ambitious and careless, loaded was read from the barracks of Afghanistan to the England dressing room at Euro '96. It captured a hedonistic lifestyle of alcohol, cocaine and more. The last great hurrah before the end of the century. It was the biggest noise in the golden generation of magazine publishing, rocketing from zero to half a million sales in a matter of months. What MTV had been to the 80s, loaded was to the 90s. ANIMAL HOUSE follows James Brown's remarkable career from a high school drop-out fanzine writer with few qualifications to NME features editor aged 22, and loaded founder at 27. In between, his mother died in tragic circumstances and gradually his own drug and alcohol use began to take over. Loaded's unexpected success legitimised (and paid for) James's lifestyle, and it wasn't until he crashed and burned at GQ, and went through rehab, that any sense of perspective kicked in. Recuperating on the island of Mustique whilst plotting his return with Oz founder Felix Denis, James was asked by neighbour Lord Patrick Lichfield: "How on earth did you manage to sell so many magazines whilst taking so many drugs?" This book is his answer.

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1787477924

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9781787477926

Book's by JAMES M. VESELY

Unlike Any Land You Know

Unlike Any Land You Know

Coon Creek

Coon Creek

Creature

Creature

Lonesome Whistle Blow

Lonesome Whistle Blow

Journey

Journey

Cadet Gray

Cadet Gray

Animal House

Animal House

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