West Point Way of Leadership
Title | West Point Way of Leadership PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Donnithorne |
Publisher | Crown Currency |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0307568466 |
West Point has bred more CEOs than any business school, and the leadership skills taught there are truly matters of life and death. Bolder than Sun Tzu, savvier than Gracian -- THE book on learning to lead.
Yes, Sir! No, Sir! No Excuse, Sir!
Title | Yes, Sir! No, Sir! No Excuse, Sir! PDF eBook |
Author | Robert George |
Publisher | WestBow Press |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 2016-10-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1512761966 |
The book chronicles a patriotic American boy on the difficult journey to manhood. During high school, he walked away from faith and in college survived the rigorous discipline of The Citadel. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as an Air Force officer spending a year at war, where the loss of close friends, duplicitous politicians and the chaos in America left him angry, disillusioned and confrontive to authority. Newly married, he became a Los Angeles policeman where untreated PTSD left him divorced and depressed eight years later. Each season of life is illustrated with pithy stories from a myriad of life experiences and flawed choices which ultimately led to the brink of suicide. Thankfully, the story doesn't end there.
Glimpses of God’s Grace
Title | Glimpses of God’s Grace PDF eBook |
Author | Lt Col William M. “Spike” Jones |
Publisher | WestBow Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2015-01-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 149084533X |
Have you ever met or even heard of a Christian fighter pilot? Now you have—I’m one. Come read about how an ordinary kid in a Navy family grew up to marry the toddler two doors down. Read about my teen years in Italy and how I, as a 130 lb. band geek, received a congressional appointment to the USAF Academy. Follow me through life as a cadet. Find out how we made our own fun with coke bottles, Frisbees, lighter fluid, super glue, a condom, a pillow case, and a lot of water. See pilot training from the perspective of the student and the instructor. Once I’m all trained up in the F-15, I’ll strap you in with me. (It’ll be a tight fit because there’s only one seat and it’s mine!) Together, we’ll take my mission ready check ride and repeatedly spank Maverick and Goose in their F-14. Then we’ll scramble to fly into the night sky and fly out over the dark Atlantic to intercept Soviet TU-95 Bear bombers patrolling our east coast during the Cold War. Then we’ll join a 4-ship of Eagles to take on an unknown number or type of adversaries. See how our four jets did against six bad guys. During that fight we’ll peel off to go 1 v 2 against F-16s. I push as close as I dare against the barriers that would make this book classified. When you see what God enabled that 130 lb. band geek to achieve; you’ll get it: With God, nothing is impossible. But more importantly, see God’s fingerprints on my life and let me challenge your thinking about His amazing grace.
St Ng #33 Balance Of Power
Title | St Ng #33 Balance Of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Dafydd Ab Hugh |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 16 |
Release | 2012-07-17 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1471107655 |
When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder, be they Federation, Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian. Among the items at auction is a photon pulse canon capable of punching through a starship's shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher is kidnapped from the Academy by renegade Ferengi who have set their sights on the photon canon as well, and Captain Picard must outmaneuver enemies on every side to save Wesley and protect the EnterpriseTM from the deadly fire of the new canon.
The Long Gray Line
Title | The Long Gray Line PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Atkinson |
Publisher | Picador |
Total Pages | 626 |
Release | 2010-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1429979046 |
The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson. "A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson (author of the Liberation Trilogy) illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved—from the boisterous cadet years, to the fires of Vietnam, to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the war. The rich cast of characters also includes Douglas MacArthur, William C. Westmoreland, and a score of other memorable figures. The class of 1966 straddled a fault line in American history, and Atkinson's masterly book speaks for a generation of American men and women about innocence, patriotism, and the price we pay for our dreams
True Blue
Title | True Blue PDF eBook |
Author | Dick Weiss |
Publisher | Sports Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9781596701052 |
Coach Mike Krzyzewski has been Duke University's men's basketball coach for 25 years concluding the 2004-2005 season. To honor his silver anniversary, Dick Weiss has interviewed everyone from former player Christian Laettner to Duke athletic director Joe Alleva piecing together the success Coach K has achieved and how he has become the face of college basketball.
The Unforgiving Minute
Title | The Unforgiving Minute PDF eBook |
Author | Craig M. Mullaney |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 2009-02-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1440686270 |
“The Unforgiving Minute is one of the most compelling memoirs yet to emerge from America's 9/11 era. Craig Mullaney has given us an unusually honest, funny, accessible, and vivid account of a soldier's coming of age. This is more than a soldier's story; it is a work of literature." —Steve Coll, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens "One of the most thoughtful and honest accounts ever written by a young Army officer confronting all the tests of life." —Bob Woodward In this surprise bestseller, West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, Airborne Ranger, and U. S. Army Captain Craig Mullaney recounts his unparalleled education and the hard lessons that only war can teach. While stationed in Afghanistan, a deadly firefight with al-Qaeda leads to the loss of one of his soldiers. Years later, after that excruciating experience, he returns to the United States to teach future officers at the Naval Academy. Written with unflinching honesty, this is an unforgettable portrait of a young soldier grappling with the weight of war while coming to terms with what it means to be a man.