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Taught to Kill

An American Boy's War from the Ardennes to Berlin

By: John B. Babcock

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Taught to Kill

An American Boy's War from the Ardennes to Berlin

By: John B. Babcock

By mid-1944, the U.S. Army was facing a critical shortage of the most important commodity in any war, the common foot soldier. Higher-than-expected casualties during the liberation of France had forced the Army to comb its ranks for replacement infantrymen. Plucked in 1944 from the safety and privilege of the Army Specialized Training Program (the World War II version of the college deferment of the Vietnam years), twenty-two-year-old John Babcock suddenly found himself an infantry private headed to Europe. Raised in an upper-middle-class family, this sensitive and literate youth was thrust into a group of coarse, uneducated, and sometimes brutal draftees who were headed to the 78th Infantry Division as replacements. Babcock demonstrates that the "greatest generation" was not always that. Instead, it was like any other cohort--full of liars, cowards, and ordinary men who simply wanted to stay alive and go home. Babcock lets us see the war through his eyes--just over the rim of the foxhole. Undergoing his baptism of fire in the Battle of the Bulge, he endures the trials of combat, advancing through attrition to become the senior sergeant in the company. This ordinary enlisted infantryman in "just another combat division" takes the reader from infantry basic training and seven months of combat to postwar occupation duty in Germany and back home. It is one infantry rifleman's story rather than an account of how his division fit into the grander scheme of the war in Europe--though the author relates to that by providing the reader with a roadmap of dates and locations taken. Babcock offers an intimate taste of combat, casualties, how he fought, and with which weapons (in clear "civilian" language), and both the heroism and cowardice of his fellow soldiers. Published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army, it is a gripping account of how an ordinary American boy felt and experienced the so-called good war.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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ISBN 10

1597973521

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9781597973526

Proceedings of the National Railroad Convention at St. Louis, Mo. November 23 and 24, 1875

By: John Mortimer Harrell

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Proceedings of the National Railroad Convention at St. Louis, Mo. November 23 and 24, 1875

By: John Mortimer Harrell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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214

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385384052

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9783385384057

Five Centuries of Keyboard Music

By: John Gillespie

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Five Centuries of Keyboard Music

By: John Gillespie

Gillespie discusses 350 composers and their works for harpsichord and piano, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Includes 116 musical examples, illustrations, and a glossary of musical terms.

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514

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Courier Corporation

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0486318796

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9780486318790

The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan

By: John C. Wenger

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The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan

By: John C. Wenger

A comprehensive and sympathetic history of all branches of the Mennonites and Amish, including a portrayal of their doctrine, life, and piety. It attempts to present a true picture of the Christian bodies in Indiana and Michigan which are descended from the European Anabaptists of the sixteenth century.

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487

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1579104568

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9781579104566

Financial Analysis, Planning And Forecasting: Theory And Application (Third Edition)

By: Cheng Few Lee,John C Lee

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Financial Analysis, Planning And Forecasting: Theory And Application (Third Edition)

By: Cheng Few Lee,John C Lee

This book is an introduction-level text that reviews, discusses, and integrates both theoretical and practical corporate analysis and planning. The field can be divided into five parts: (1) Information and Methodology for Financial Analysis; (2) Alternative Finance Theories and Cost of Capital; (3) Capital Budgeting and Leasing Decisions; (4) Corporate Policies and their Interrelationships; (5) Financial Planning and Forecasting.The theories used and discussed in this book can be grouped into the following classical theoretical areas of corporate finance: (1) Pre-M&M Theory, (2) M&M Theory, (3) CAPM, and (4) Option Pricing Theory (OPT). The interrelationships among these theories are carefully analyzed. Real world examples are used to enrich the learning experience; and alternative planning and forecasting models are used to show how the interdisciplinary approach can be used to make meaningful financial-management decisions.In this third edition, we have extensively updated and expanded the topics of financial analysis, planning and forecasting. New chapters were added, and some chapters combined to present a holistic view of the subject and much of the data revised and updated.

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1390

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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981472386X

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9789814723862

Meta-Emotion

How Families Communicate Emotionally

By: John Mordechai Gottman,Lynn Fainsilber Katz,Carole Hooven

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Meta-Emotion

How Families Communicate Emotionally

By: John Mordechai Gottman,Lynn Fainsilber Katz,Carole Hooven

This book describes research on the emotional communication between parents and children and its effect on the children's emotional development. Inspired by the work, and dedicated to the memory of Dr. Haim Ginott, it presents the results of initial exploratory work with meta-emotion--feelings about feelings. The initial study of meta-emotion generated some theory and made it possible to propose a research agenda. Clearly replication is necessary, and experiments are needed to test the path analytic models which have been developed from the authors' correlational data. The authors hope that other researchers will find these ideas interesting and stimulating, and will inspire investigation in this exciting new area of a family's emotional life.

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375

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Routledge

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1134795904

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9781134795901

A Treatise on Trial by Jury, Including Questions of Law and Fact

By: John Proffatt

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A Treatise on Trial by Jury, Including Questions of Law and Fact

By: John Proffatt

Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.

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3368725483

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9783368725488

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Taught to Kill

Taught to Kill

Proceedings of the National Railroad Convention at St. Louis, Mo. November 23 and 24, 1875

Proceedings of the National Railroad Convention at St. Louis, Mo. November 23 and 24, 1875

Five Centuries of Keyboard Music

Five Centuries of Keyboard Music

The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan

The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan

Financial Analysis, Planning And Forecasting: Theory And Application (Third Edition)

Financial Analysis, Planning And Forecasting: Theory And Application (Third Edition)

Meta-Emotion

Meta-Emotion

A Treatise on Trial by Jury, Including Questions of Law and Fact

A Treatise on Trial by Jury, Including Questions of Law and Fact

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