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  • Combat Officer

    A Memoir of War in the South Pacific

    by Charles Walker ...
    TO HELL AND BACKFor the U.S., Guadalcanal was a bloody seven-month struggle under brutal conditions against crack Japanese troops deeply entrenched and determined to fight to the death. For Charles Walker, this horrific jungle battle–one that claimed the lives of 1,600 Americans and more than 23,000 Japanese–was just the beginning. On the eve of battle, 2nd Lt. Walker was ordered back to the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

    Edited by Charles Walker, Svetlana Stephenson ...
    Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive social, economic and political transformation. This book explores the ways in which young people growing up in post-socialist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union negotiate a range of identities and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Demons from Hell-A Reign of Terror

    by Charles Walker ...
    On a mission to the Czech Carpathian Mountains,to investigate rumors of vampire activity. Carl meets Alexi, his homophobic translator. they visit the bucolic valley where they fall in love with the people still living in the 14th Century. They eventually discover their love for each other, and are determined to free the beleagured valley from the terror of Vlad and his 2-demons. First they must ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Python Programming: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Master Python Programming Step by Step with Practical Exercices

    by Charles Walker ...
    Narrated by Russell Newton ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 23 min

    Are you a newcomer to computer programming?Do you want to learn a simple programming language that will get you started?Python could be the one for you!Computers are amazing tools that we would find it hard to live without since they have become a feature in almost every home. Many people, however, struggle with anything that is slightly complex and when it comes to computer programming, most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia

    Vocational youth in transition

    by Charles Walker ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of neo-liberal economic reform. Based on extensive ethnographic research in a provincial Russian region, it follows the experiences of vocational education graduates whose colleges continue to channel them into the ailing industrial and agricultural sectors. Rather than ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    The Biter Bit (Unabridged)

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    by Wilkie COLLINS ...
    Narrated by Charles Walker, Mattie Keller, Gerald Adams, Mickie Harris ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 4 min

    "The Biter Bit" is a humorous short story by British writer Wilkie Collins. Originally published as "Who is the Thief?" in the April 1858 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, it was retitled and published with nine other short stories in the 1859 book, The Queen of Hearts. The tale is told in epistolary form, recounting a comedy of errors involving a young wannabe police detective -- with an exaggerated ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (Unabridged)

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    by Francis Bicknell Carpenter ...
    Narrated by Charles Walker, Rhonda Przedwiecki, Rosa Carter, Elba Anderson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    This memoir by painter Francis Bicknell Carpenter includes observations he made during his time at the White House from February-July 1864, while painting Abraham Lincoln's portrait. We see him in this book of Mr, Carpenter’s to that advantage which perfect unaffectedness and sincerity can never lose. During the time that Mr. Carpenter was making studies for his picture of the President signing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they ... Read more

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  • The Tank Killers

    A History of America's World War II Tank Destroyer Force

    by Harry Yeide ...
    "A fantastic read . . . Whether your interest is armour or history I would highly recommend this book" ( Military Modelling).The tank destroyer was a bold—though some would say flawed—answer to the challenge posed by the seemingly unstoppable German Blitzkrieg. The TD was conceived to be light and fast enough to outmaneuver panzer forces and go where tanks could not. At the same time, the TD would ... Read more

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  • Before Their Time

    A Memoir

    by Robert Kotlowitz ...
    in this memoir of his experiences as a teenage infantryman in the US Third Army during World War II, Kotlowitz brings to life the harrowing story of the massacre of his platoon in northeastern France, in which he--by playing dead--was the only one to survive. 208 pp. 15,000 print. ... Read more

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  • If You Survive

    From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

    by George Wilson ...
    "If you survive your first day, I'll promote you."So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, ... Read more

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  • What A Life: How the Vietnam War Affected One Marine

    by Randy Kington ...
    As a young enlisted man, Randy Kington served on the front line with some of the first Marine combat units in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. Kington describes his transformation from boy to man and the training that allowed him to survive nine months of some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War. The good times of comradeship and of helping the underprivileged are contrasted with the life and ... Read more

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