This author is extraordinarily lucky to be alive! All those who read this splendid Second World War memoir will doubtless come to the same view. After joining up in 1939 with the Queen's Royal Regiment the Author was posted to the North West Frontier of India where he cut his teeth chasing Pathan tribesman bandit gangs for two years. This was exciting enough but only a taste of what was to come. The Japanese advance into Burma threatened India and along with many thousands of British and Colonial troops Lowry found himself fighting in the Arakan region. Conditions were appalling and the fighting was extremely bitter by any standards. His Battalion was cut off by the Japs for three weeks but refused to surrender yet even worse was to come as the Battalion was thrown into the thick of the action at Kohima which is rated as the most desperate defensive action for the campaign. In one week 173 members of this Battalion were lost. Lowry himself was seriously wounded when a Japanese officer dropped out of a tree onto him. All this is vividly described in this fascinating and inspiring book.
Head football coach and author of the PhD Football series, Mike Lowry, provides you with a comprehensive guide demonstrating innovative approaches to coaching and playing running back and receiver. Mike is a former collegiate receiver who went on to become a head coach at the high school level and throughout the years, has coached prep offenses that have owned multiple passing and receiving state records. In this book, Mike details cutting-edge approaches, techniques, and strategies appropriate for all levels of football encompassing coaching keys and progressions when implementing the foundational and fundamental building blocks for developing championship athletes at the skill positions. Also included for you is a new and updated section covering strength-and-conditioning methodologies for the football program and when teaching and coaching the teenage athlete. Your coaching library is incomplete without this instructional book! Order your copy today and observe as your offense instantly gains more yards, scores more points, and wins more games! Ideal for youth, junior high school, and high school football.
The West Coast Offense is one of the most widely used and successful offenses ever designed for the game of football and throughout the decades, it has underpinned the success of countless championship football teams, coaches, and programs! Now, in this comprehensive instructional book, head football coach, Mike Lowry, guides you through an easy-to-follow, step-by-step process detailing how you can install and implement the proven West Coast Offense system into the scope of your offense. Included for you are detailed discussions, play diagrams, and coaching keys and progressions covering the base run game, complementary play-action packages, the West Coast Offense screen game, ball-control passing attack, route structures, play-calling approaches, coordination of the offense, terminology, and much more! No offensive system and passing attack is complete without understanding the fundamental and foundational building blocks of the West Coast Offense. Enhance your passing efficiency, improve your coaching skill set, increase your completion percentages, control the ball, and learn how to take advantage of any type of defense! Instantly escalate your team
Diverse perspectives on Lincoln’s assassination, its aftermath, and its place in national memory from some of today’s leading Lincoln scholars. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in US history. It continues to attract the interest of scholars, writers, and armchair historians, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. Now leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their most salient studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary—and complicated—public reaction, and the iconography that Lincoln’s murder and deification inspired. Contributors also offer the latest accounts of the pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of the conspirators. Everything from graphic tributes to religious sermons, to spontaneous outbursts on the nation’s city streets, to emotional mass-mourning at carefully organized funerals, as well as the imposition of military jurisprudence to try the conspirators, is examined in the light of fresh evidence and insightful analysis. Contributing to this volume are some of the finest scholars specializing in Lincoln’s assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their originality, and their writing. In addition to the editors, contributors include Thomas R. Turner, Edward Steers Jr., Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan, Elizabeth D. Leonard, and Richard Nelson Current.
One of the most effective offensive systems ever designed for the sport of basketball is half court offense from the 2-3 set. This offense allows a team to take advantage of man-to-man pressure defenses with a variety of back cuts, post and wing entries, and fundamental movements guaranteed to increase your offensive efficiency and output! This book covers all aspects of half court offense from the 2-3 set with comprehensive text and detailed play diagrams covering the following topics: Base sets and alignments for the 2-3 offense
Basketball's back cut and misdirection offense is fully detailed for you! Go old-school with the ideal offense to take advantage of aggressive pressure man-to-man defenses! Traditional back doors, back cuts, back picks, misdirection, and the give-and-go provide you and your team with multiple entries and coordinated movements through a time-tested approach! Learn how to defeat any style of pressure man-to-man defense with this comprehensive playbook! Complete with full-page diagrams, detailed play descriptions, and coaching keys and progressions! Suitable for all levels of basketball! Youth - high school - college - or professional!
Contemporary football offense is defined by the ability to move the ball through the passing game, no matter what style of offense you are running! In Gridiron Air War! Football
The essays in this book engage the original and controversial claims from Michael Boylan's A Just Society. Each essay discusses Boylan's claims from a particular chapter and offers a critical analysis of these claims. Boylan responds to the essays in his lengthy and philosophically rich reply.
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