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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Under Dirt, Water, and Fire【電子書籍】[ Forrest McElroy ]

＜p＞The Historical Fiction piece, "The Glen", takes place during the Irish War of Independence, a series of bloody conflicts that lasted through a number of years between Ireland, England, and the Irish Loyalists. The main characters of this story are childhood friends growing up in a politically torn country. When conflicts of beliefs put the two on opposite sides, their friendship is tested to the point of breaking.＜br /＞ "Eastwatch" is a fantastical short story, placing the reader in the middle of a Nordic raid on a walled outpost of an enemy empire. The raid is led by a shieldmaiden bent on revenge for her family against the empire that took them from her. Her desire for vengeance puts the crew at risk, and the crew's captain begins to question their ability to take on the formidable force of the empire.＜br /＞ "Brain Scramble" is a loose interpretation of a traumatic experience during the Iraq war. Following an IED explosion and enemy attack, "Mac" must exfiltrate with a wounded Marine on his back while suffering from the effects of a concussion. The enemy pushes the attack, and the Marines have to fight their way to safety.＜br /＞ "The Beach" is a short Historical Fiction story about "Will", a Private serving in the United States Army during the Normandy Invasion. As his landing vehicle hits the beach, Will is thrown from the craft and into the water, where he is pulled down under the red waves. Will must struggle to shore and fight his way up the beach, or he will be cut down by the enemy like so many of his brothers in arms.＜br /＞ The final story, "Buried", is from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old Combat Engineer serving in the trenches of France during World War I. The young engineer works as a tunneler, and when an enemy artillery shell detonates nearby his posting, a wall of debris and dirt entombs the young man and his comrades. The fight for air begins immediately, accompanied by the knowledge that he might be the only hope his platoon mates have in surviving the crushing walls of dirt now pinning them in the earth.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Standing Together Armageddon 2089, #2【電子書籍】[ Martin Dougherty ]

＜p＞In 2087, the weapon of choice is the warmek, a towering humanoid monster capable of taking the firepower of a tank unit any place an infantryman can go. On the battlefields of Britain, occupying EuroForce meks clash with giant machines piloted by British secessionists.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Charlemagne sidestepped and rushed forward, spike held high and aimed down. Rather than flinch back in the face of the fearsome weapon, as most pilots tended to do, Halsey stepped forward, raising his own mek's right arm.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lavalle thrust down at the Liberator, trying for a tricky but instantly fatal thrust at the join of torso and head. Halsey batted the spike down and aside with his right arm, snapping it back in a steel-knuckled bitchslap across the Charlemagne's faceplate. As Lavalle's mek stumbled, Halsey pivoted and put a point-blank cannon shell into its torso. The shot struck low down and exploded on untouched armour.＜br /＞ Following up quickly, Halsey raised his combat spike but instead thrust the barrel of his cannon at the Charlemagne's faceplate. The command mek overbalanced, toppling backwards. Halsey fired another point-blank shot into it, then raised the spike for a killing thrust.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A point-blank Maximilian Alpha strike hammered into the Liberator's rear armour, flaying most of it away and sending Halsey staggering forward. Lavalle kicked out, impacting the Liberator's lower leg. Halsey felt his mek start to pitch forward, saw the metal face of the Charlemagne coming up and felt a railgun round tear into his mek's vitals.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Liberator crashed down on top of Lavalle's Charlemagne. Halsey started hammering on the cockpit with his right arm as he tried to disentangle himself. Any second now the Max would finish him off from behind….＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Armageddon War continues. The streets and fields of Britain are ablaze. 'Shotgun' Mike Halsey fights for freedom whether his weapon is a monster warmek, a sawed-off shotgun or his own fists.＜br /＞ What started in Standing Alone continues in this fast paced, furious, science-fiction action thrill ride. Blood, battle and giant meks!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Welcome to the British War of Independence.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】All This Hell U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese【電子書籍】[ Evelyn M. Monahan ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Heroic accounts of American women who faced combat, surrender, and captivity. "One chapter in the annals of World War II that must be told." ーRear Admiral Frances Shea Buckley, Nurse Corps, US Navy (Ret.)＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Before December 1941 drew to a close, five navy nurses on Guam became the first American military women of WWII to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than seventy army nurses survived five months of combat conditions in the jungles of Bataan and Corregidor before being captured, only to endure more than three years in prison camps. In all, nearly one hundred nurses became POWs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Many of these army nurses were considered too vital to the war effort to be evacuated from the Philippines. Though receiving only half the salary of male officers of the same rank, they helped establish outdoor hospitals and treated thousands of casualties despite rapidly decreasing supplies and rations. After their capture, they continued to care for the sick and wounded throughout their internment in the prison camps.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When freedom came, the U.S. military ordered the nurses to sign agreements with the government not to discuss their horrific experiences. Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have conducted interviews with survivors and scoured archives to uncover the heroism and sacrifices of these brave women. ＜em＞All This Hell＜/em＞ "adds a tremendous chapter to the narrative of women prisoners in wartime by following a cast of characters almost cinematically through their daily routines and their reflections recorded in letters, diaries, and interviews" ( ＜em＞Rain Taxi＜/em＞).＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Based upon both oral histories and published biographical and autobiographical accounts, the book provides a readable and gripping introduction to the topic for all readers." ー ＜em＞Library Journal＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Guns Against the Reich Memoirs of an Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front【電子書籍】[ Petr Mikhin ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"[A] powerful autobiography from a Russian veteran of Stalingrad, Kursk and numerous other battles . . . as he fought his way from Moscow to Vienna." ー ＜em＞Military Illustrated＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ In three years of war on the Eastern Frontーfrom the desperate defense of Moscow, through the epic struggles at Stalingrad and Kursk to the final offensives in central Europeーartillery-man Petr Mikhin experienced the full horror of battle.＜br /＞ In this vivid memoir he recalls distant but deadly duels with German guns, close-quarter hand-to-hand combat, and murderous mortar and tank attacks, and he remembers the pity of defeat and the grief that accompanied victories that cost thousands of lives. He was wounded and shell-shocked, he saw his comrades killed and was nearly captured, and he was threatened with the disgrace of a court martial. For years he lived with the constant strain of combat and the ever-present possibility of death. Mikhin recalls his experiences with a candor and an immediacy that brings the war on the Eastern Frontーa war of immense scale and intensityーdramatically to life.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞"Mikhin's memoirs give us a very valuable picture of life in the Red Army during four years of intense non-stop fighting against a determined and skilled enemy. This allows us to follow the evolution of the Red Army from the nearly defeated force of 1941 to the skilled military machine of 1945, and helps illuminate the price that the Soviet soldiers paid for victory." ーHistory of War＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞"A fast-paced, interesting read that recounts stories of courage under fire and dedication to duty . . . I highly recommend this book." ーMilitary Review＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Frenchman's Duty: A Foot Soldier's Journey Through the First World War (3rd. ed.)【電子書籍】[ J. Michael Dumoulin ]

＜p＞A quarter century earlier in a disastrous three-week Prussian War, France had lost its eastern-most regions, Alsace and Lorraine, but every patriotic Frenchman knew France was destined to get them back.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Germany invaded France in 1914 and the war approached the du Nord region, Arthur, a 20-year-old butcher from Roubaix, set out to enlist. It was his duty, and the duty of every able-bodied Frenchman to protect France from the invading "Boch." Everyone said it would be a short war like the last one. He would be home by Christmas, or at least by the beginning of Lent, certainly by Easter.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A Frenchman's Duty" is a true story, chronicling Arthur's four and a half years of service in his own words, from his own hand-penned journal, transcribed; translated; annotated by a 30-year military veteran with context and the perspective of the last 100 years; and illustrated with nearly 50 vintage postcards and photographs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Arthur describes to readers his induction and training as a foot soldier in October, 1914, then his first introduction to battle. He records his experiences at Verdun, in the Marne and Somme, in Belgium, and the day the Armistice brought peace to Europe. His journal entries about seeing a war plane for the first time; cooking for his officers and comrades; mercilessly shelled and pinned down by snipers; and being lost in enemy trenches and on the battlefield in the fog with pack mules in his charge, are all first-person accounts of battles not found in other biography or history books about the war. Arthur details the quieter sides of the war, too: rotations out of the trenches; PTSD, then called "shell shock;" interactions with civilians required to put him up for the night; and his leaves, or "permissions," to see family and friends. He gives a face to the personal side of a soldier's life, in and out of battle, something still relevant today.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A Frenchman's Duty," is Colonel (USAF, ret.) John Michael Dumoulin's eighth book. It is written around his grandfather's unpublished 200-page hand-written, literally war-torn war journal. Each chapter begins with an entry from Arthur's fresh and honest notes, followed by carefully-researched historic, geopolitical, social, and technological context.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Of the 8 million French soldiers who fought in that war, 7 million spent time in combat, some in Russia and in Africa, but most along the Western Front where Arthur fought. Arthur survived the war, so this story isn't one of those where the hero dies a sad, sudden death at the very end of the book.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Although Arthur's diary records the unimaginable horror in war, it is an uplifting read. Like the best-seller "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand, the book reveals the human sides of poise under fire, faith, duty to family and country, a sense of place, and the challenge of wrestling with demons and keeping them locked away.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】God Makes Angels and Navy Corpsmen A KoreanA Korean War Veteran's Memories of the War and Life【電子書籍】[ Joseph Barna ]

＜p＞I was knocked down by a shell. As I found myself laying on my back, the half-full flamethrower tank pinning me to the ground, a North Korean soldier came at me with his bayonet. In his quilted suit, he seemed to come out of nowhere. I can still see his face and smell the garlic on his breath. As he lunged at me, I was able to turn, but he stabbed my upper left arm with his bayonet. I had a double-barrel shotgun taped on the arm of my flamethrower and gave him both barrels. I think I blew him in half. The battle kept going on around me. Weapons fire was all around me, and I heard other boys being hit and falling. I laid there feeling weak as blood from my deep wound seeped out on the Korean dirt. I must have been ready to blackout when I heard a familiar voice say, “Joe, if I don’t close up that wound, you’ll die.” (Paragraph italicized.)＜/p＞ ＜p＞From growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, through Marine Corps boot camp and training, and finally, remembering and coping with buried memories decades later, Korean War combat veteran Joseph Barna recounts his life events that will put a tear in your eye and a smile on your face.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Fail Brilliantly Exploding the Myths of Failure and Success【電子書籍】[ Shelley Davidow ]

＜p＞＜strong＞An "immensely intriguing" new approach "that can successfully combat the shame, anxiety, and blame that failing induces too readily in our society"＜/strong＞ ( ＜strong＞Laurie Hollman, PhD, author of ＜em＞Unlocking Parental Intelligence＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜br /＞ We spend much of our lives trying to cope with failure. For many of us, adults and children alike, the prospect of failure looms as a debilitating concept in our minds. It can not only stop us from succeedingーit can stop us from even trying.＜br /＞ ＜em＞Fail Brilliantly＜/em＞ proposes a radical shift: erase the word and concept of ＜em＞failure＜/em＞ from the realms of education and human endeavors. Replace it with new words and concepts. This shift in position has the potential to transform our lives . . . and ultimately reshape our definition of ＜em＞success＜/em＞.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Whatever Gods May Be【電子書籍】[ Sophia Kell Hagin ]

＜p＞Jamie Gwynmorgan doesnt believe in prayer. She doesnt believe in anything much. Except that people cant be trustedcertainly not anyone shes ever met.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But Jamie knows some things. From experience. She knows if she died, nobody would give a damn. Nobody would even notice. She knows the better she can fight, the safer shell be. Thats why she cant resist the sleek, dark lethality of the weaponand the recruiters promise that yes, if shes strong enough, good enough, shell get to fire that weapon in combat. She doesnt care about the uniform. And screw the pretend-camaraderie. Only Safe mattersand if she can do combat, then maybe she can fight her way to Safe.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jamie expects a grueling fight that she might lose. What she never expects is to win love.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Gust Front, Second Edition【電子書籍】[ John Ringo ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Now with all new content by John Ringo!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The aliens had arrived＜/p＞ ＜p＞With gifts, warnings, and an offer we＜br /＞ couldn't refuse....＜/p＞ ＜p＞Our choice was simple: we could be cannon fodder, or we could be ... fodder. We could send our forces to fight and die (as only humans can) against a ravening horde that was literally feeding on its interstellar conquestsーor remain as we wereーvirtually weaponless and third in line for brunch.＜/p＞ ＜p＞We chose to fight.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thanks to alien technology and sheer guts, the Terrans on two worlds fought the Posleen to a standstill. Thank God there was a moment to catch our breath, a moment, however brief, of peaceー.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now, for the survivors of the Barwhon and Diess Expeditionary Forces, it was a chance to get some distance from the blood and misery of battle against the Posleen centaurs. A blessed chance to forget the screams of the dying in purple swamps and massacres under searing alien suns.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For Earth it was an opportunity to flesh out their force of raw recruits with combat-seasoned veterans. Political, military and scientific blundering had left the Terran forces in shambles-and with the Posleen Invasion only months away, these shell-shocked survivors might be the only people capable of saving the Earth from devastation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If the veterans had time to lick their wounds.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Because the Posleen don't read schedules.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Vetville: True Stories of the U.S. Marines at War and at Home【電子書籍】[ Mike Sager ]

＜p＞Mike Sager has been called "the Beat poet of American Journalism." Vetville collects the best of his stories about the Marine Corps. Together this tetralogy of long-form pieces charts a life story arc of the modern Devil Dog.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It begins at Camp Pendleton, CA, on field exercises with Lieutenant Colonel Bob Sinclair and his BN One-Fourーthe 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regimentーas they prepare to invade Afghanistan, the first wave of American combatants sent to war after the deadly terrorist attacks of 9/11. "You realize that your country has been attacked," he says. "You wanna strike back."＜/p＞ ＜p＞From there, we head to the Wounded Warriors Barracks at Camp Lejeune where we meet Ringo, Cebula, Wildman, Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell, and the rest of the men recuperating together at a unique barracks where wounded Marines harness their esprit de corps to help one another through emotional and physical recovery. We hear their battlefield stories of war and heroism. And their stories of injury and despair. And we discover the soft center that lives beneath the tough exterior shell of the Marine Corps mystiqueーa deep love of comrades and country. "Wounded Warriors" was awarded a number of awards, including The Military Writers Society of America Founder's Award.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In "Vetville" we visit a small farm in the mountains of Tennessee, where a Marine sergeant, in an effort to save himself and others, has opened his doors to veterans whose deep wounds don't necessarily show. And, we catch up with John Cebula, one of the men encountered aboard the Wounded Warriors barracks. Without a supportive network around him, he has turned to drugs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finally, in "Fifty Grand in San Diego," we focus on the return to civilian life after the corps, with a look at a modern version of the American Dreamーan ex-Marine playing Mr. Mom and finding his silver lining in a dirty diaper.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wounded Warriors was awarded:＜br /＞ *The American Author's Association Golden Quill Award＜br /＞ *The Military Writers Society of America Founder's Award＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Entertaining and fascinating. At the end of the book, you will find yourself changed in some way. Call it empathy, or just a compassionate response to have seen and become aware of another man's pain and suffering; but you will remember these men that you read about long after putting this book to rest." --Military Writers Society of America＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sager has written a gripping account of how these Marines are coping with their combat-altered lives. An experienced interviewer, he lets the Marines' stories speak for themselves…Powerful stuff." --Leatherneck, Magazine of the Marines＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Hinomaru Hatanosuke【電子書籍】[ Shelley Marshall ]

＜p＞Return to old Japan and watch the teenage samurai Hinomaru Hatanosuke combat bandits, kidnappers, thieves, and demons as well as help junior and senior citizens. Full color reproduction of the nearly 200-page, original 1937 Japanese edition.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】From Lightnings to MiGs A Cold War Pilot's Operations, Test Flying & an Airspeed Record【電子書籍】[ Russ Peart ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A Royal Air Force pilot chronicles his career flying during the Cold War in this memoir featuring previously unseen photographs.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ It was supposed to be just a training flight. The two Soviet-manufactured MiG 21s, each with two practice bombs and four air-to-ground rockets, were lined up on the runway in Bangladesh at the height of the Cold War, when air traffic control suddenly reported an incursion by Indian Air Force Jaguars. Though ill-equipped for combat, the two MiGs were scrambled.＜br /＞ One of the MiGs' pilots was an RAF officerーSquadron Leader Russell Peart. On a seven-month loan to the Bangladeshi Air Force, Peart suddenly found himself at the centre of the simmering hostility between two neighbouring nations. By the time they reached the area that had been threatened by the Indian pilots, the Jaguars had gone. Later, when Squadron Leader Russell Peart spoke of the incident to the British High Commissioner, he was told not to shoot down any Jaguars as the Indians had still not paid for them!＜br /＞ Russell Peart flew many other aircraft in his varied career, including the MiG 19, and while a test pilot at Boscombe Down trialled such designs as the Tornado GR1. But it was whilst he was seconded to the Sultan of Oman's Air Force, particularly during the so-called "Secret War" in Dhofar, that he saw the most action. In that theatre the author flew some 200 operational sorties, 180 of which involved live fire, during which he was hit many times. He was also hit and wounded by a 75mm shell.＜br /＞ Russ Peart has written in detail of his exciting RAF career, from flying Lightnings in the Far East to winning the top prize in the International Tactical Bombing Competition against a handpicked team of United States Air Force fighter pilots and being awarded the Sultan of Oman's Distinguished Service Medal. Supplemented by a selection of previously unseen photographs, this uniquely original memoir throws new light on the operational flying undertaken by some RAF pilots during the tense years of the Cold War.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Praise for ＜em＞From Lightnings to MiGs＜/em＞＜br /＞ "Absorbing and highly entertaining. . . . I have no hesitation in recommending ＜em＞From Lightnings to MiGs＜/em＞ as an engrossing and enjoyable read for anyone with an interest in military aviation." ーRAF Historical Society＜br /＞ "There's some pretty jaw-dropping stuff in here." ーRowland White, author of ＜em＞Vulcan 607＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Powder Keg【電子書籍】[ Oren Or Bittoun ]

＜p＞It took 16 years of escaping his problems for Oren Or Bittoun, a former commander of the IDF's Border Police undercover counter-terrorism unit, to get a proper diagnosis of what he was suffering from. Bittoun was one of the first soldiers in the unit, taking part in dozens of classified operations in the West Bank during Israel’s First Intifada. During one operation, in 1992, he witnessed his unit’s commanding officer shot in the head by a Palestinian terrorist.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While Bittoun witnesses many harrowing events during his service, his commander’s death is the last straw. After a short debriefing by the army he goes home to commit suicide. He cocks his weapon, points it to his head and recites the Shema Yisrael prayer. The door opens and his mother grabs him screaming, the gun goes off, hitting the floor, and only then does he realize what has happened. He keeps his suicide attempt to himself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After being released from the army Bittoun tries to escape the memories, living in the Congo, New York, Switzerland, London and Paris before finally returning to Israel with his wife and eldest son.＜br /＞ No matter where he goes, including the Swiss Alps, he carries a gun and a knife, sure that someone is out to kill him. He feels that his body is in Tel Aviv but his soul is in Jenin in the West Bank. He screams out his dead commander’s name in his sleep.＜br /＞ The turning point comes one night, 16 years after losing his commander, when Bittoun comes home from work and has a flashback to that tragic event.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He smells the same smells, the smoke and death, he feels someone grab his neck, he grabs the person back and when opening his eyes he sees that he is strangling his six-year-old daughter. She is turning blue. She screams in panic and asks him why he wants to kill her. Distraught, all he can say is that he loves her and will always protect her. That’s when his wife makes him seek professional help, otherwise she will leave him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞His novel, Powder Keg, is based on his true story which portrays a chilling mosaic of events that will leave readers with bated breath. The book opens a rare window, with a moving, intimate peek into his complex life and the inner workings of the mind and soul of someone suffering from combat related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, also known as shell shock. Each night Oren fights a battle of survival against mortal fear, and each morning he chooses to live. From within this seemingly endless cycle of post-trauma, Oren paves the way and shows us a path forward. He stumbles and picks himself up, he fails and succeeds, he fights the powder keg within with everything he's got.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Valley of Tears【電子書籍】[ Don Bendell ]

＜p＞Guarded by Soviet-made tanks, riddled with deep fortifications, commanded by regiments of well-equipped elite enemy troops, the Plei Trap Valley was called the superhighway of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. So confident of its invulnerability to U.S. assault were the North Vietnamese that they housed a major POW camp beneath its jungle canopy. Acclaimed Special Forces chronicler Don Bendell tells his all-combat true story of the battle for Plei Trap in a blizzard of spent shell casings, with rockets screaming overhead and fog banks of enemy gas rolling in. Virtually unchecked even by B-52 carpet bombing, a swollen torrent of supplies and fresh troops poured out of the valley into the Communist war effort... until a strike force spearheaded by a Special Forces airborne assault team and their one hundred Montagnard strikers dropped deep behind NVA lines. Their mission: to keep retreating NVA from escaping into Cambodia and free American POWs from behind the barbed wire of the NVA camp... at any cost. They paid heavily for the right to call Plei Trap the... VALLEY OF TEARS.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Why Didn't I Die A Memoir of PTSD【電子書籍】[ F.W. Kirkpatrick ]

＜p＞Fred Kirkpatrick served with the famed First Infantry's Black Lions, as a combat infantryman in Vietnam 1967. He was exposed to Agent Orange and struggled to try and understand what PTSD was doing to his life and writes about those struggles as a new author in his memoir of PTSD, "Why Didn't I Die."＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a strange twist of irony, his father, nearly fifty years earlier, was exposed to Lethal Gas in World War I as a combat infantryman with the 4th Division in France. His father would later be found to be suffering with "Shell Shock", that would now be regarded as a form of PTSD.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And Fred has been using his considerable investigative skills, to write a 2nd book about his Ancestors called "My Great, Great, Aunt (s)."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Even though he was red-lined as a C- student in grade school by Catholic nuns and graduated at the bottom of his high school class, he was able to focus his PTSD struggles on studying and in later years was able to earn two undergraduate college degrees and a master's degree.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Hot Latin Docs Collection: Santiago's Convenient Fianc?e / Alejandro's Sexy Secret / Rafael's One Night Bombshell / Dante's Shock Proposal【電子書籍】[ Annie O'Neil ]

＜p＞Four sexy, hot-blooded doctors just for you!＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Santiago’s Convenient Fiancee＜/em＞ by Annie O’Neil＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Can a convenient arrangement last forever?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Saoirse Murphy came to Miami to bury herself in work, determined to forget the cancelled wedding she left behind her, and she wants to stay…but only a green card will do!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Enter ex-combat doc Santiago Valentino. Having reluctantly returned to face his dark past, he’s only too happy to be distracted by his paramedic partner and her shocking proposal.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when their ‘convenient’ engagement tips into a very inconvenient passion, Santiago wonders…will she be his for ever wife?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Alejandro’s Sexy Secret＜/em＞ by Amy Ruttan＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas…＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞…If only that were true! Surgeon Kiri Bhardwaj never expected to see sexy exotic dancer Alejandro Valentino after their fantasy, life-changing night together. But now they’re face-to-face and he’s a specialist in her paediatric department!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Working together proves to Alejandro that they haven’t finished what they started all those years ago. To claim what he lost he’ll have to lay his heart on the line and prove to Kiri their chemistry is for keeps!＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Rafael’s One Night Bombshell＜/em＞ by Tina Beckett＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞From passion to pregnancy!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞An encounter with Rafael Valentino is broken-hearted Cassandra Larrobee’s chance to live in the moment! It was supposed to be one night only, but the sinfully hot doc has left her with more than just memories…＜/p＞ ＜p＞Since a heart-breaking decision years ago, Rafe is determined to remain aloneーbut when he’s sent to work with Cassie, he can’t resist their reckless kisses! When he discovers Cassie’s shocking surprise, can Rafe let her bring light into his shadowed life…and become a daddy to their baby?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Dante’s Shock Proposal＜/em＞ by Amalie Berlin＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞An inconvenient desire＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Growing up in the midst of her parents’ fraught union, surgical nurse Lise Bradshaw has never wanted or needed a man by her side. Until a sensual chance encounter with Dr Dante Valentino on the dancefloor of a Miami club sparks a full-blown passionate affair…leading to a shock proposal!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dante knows what he wants ? a family ? and what he doesn’t ?love. But as the fire blazes between him and beautiful Lise he realises that he’s inconveniently falling for his convenient fianc?e!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Appleseed Book 3: The Scales of Prometheus【電子書籍】[ Shirow Masamune ]

＜p＞Life seems ideal within the utopian confines of Olympus, a shining beacon in a post-World War III wasteland, but perfection is always an illusion. Stalking the ruins of New York City is Artemis, a renegade, flesh-eating bioroid (enhanced artificial human) carrying data critical to the future of Olympus. The elite ESWAT is sent in to tranq her and bring her in, but when Artemis recovers during transit the powerful combat bioroid brings down the transport ship and escapes into Olympus! ESWAT agents Deunan and Briareos are dispatched to bring in the feral Artemis, but will they emerge as heroes . . . or lunch?＜/p＞ ＜p＞* Shirow is well-known and critically acclaimed internationally, and is responsible for numerous classic anime/manga titles, such as ＜em＞Appleseed, Dominion, Ghost in the Shell＜/em＞, ＜em＞Orion＜/em＞, and ＜em＞Black Magic＜/em＞.＜br /＞ * Produced in the authentic right-to-left reading format, as originally published in Japan.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Chemotroph【電子書籍】[ Ian McKinley ]

＜p＞Combat Engineer Dr. Bruce Roberts aims to collect extremophiles, microbes adapted to extreme radiation, which are the key to an elixir of youth. His team targets a radwaste repository in Europe but, from their arrival in Switzerland, a series of accidents dog them. Although seemingly unrelated to their work, Bruce worries that foes who previously tried to steal this secret are again on their tracks. After successful sampling in France, his forebodings are confirmed when a savage attack leaves him battered, and a trail of bodies highlights the complete ruthlessness of their opponents. In an attempt to lose the profilers who have managed to predict their moves with uncanny accuracy, the team flees to Singapore ? inadvertently entering the den of an aged mastermind who would stop at nothing to gain effective immortality. The skirmishes of the chase lead eventually to a pitched battle in the shell of the Dallas Fort Worth airport, which the team must not only survive but do so in a way that finally defeats their relentless trackers.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】At War with PTSD Battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Virtual Reality【電子書籍】[ Robert N. McLay, MD PhD ]

＜p＞The Spartans called it The Trembler; recent history has seen it termed shell shock, combat fatigue, soldier’s heart, and Vietnam Syndrome. Whatever the name, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has always been with us. With 20 percent of the Veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq exhibiting PTSD symptoms, the United States military has a strong interest in combating the condition. Navy psychiatrist Robert N. McLay has been at the forefront of these efforts. This is his story of using virtual reality to treat Service Members and Veterans with PTSD.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As a practicing psychiatrist who works with Veterans and civilians coping with PTSD, McLay had known for years before the September 11, 2001, attacks that effective treatments for the condition were elusive. When active duty called, he met the challenge, becoming the primary investigator on PTSD treatment projects that had Service Members face the ghosts of war in a computer simulator. After using this new form of exposure therapy on the home front, McLay and his team believed they had found a promising way to work with warriors broken by combat, so in 2008 they took it to the front line in Fallujah, Iraq, with the First Marine Expeditionary Force.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Several years into the project, McLay recounts openly and with bleak honesty the successes, failures, and limits of virtual reality treatment for PTSD. Filled with poignant firsthand accounts of war and its psychological aftermath, ＜em＞At War with PTSD＜/em＞ explains the difficulties of using this specialized technology in the field and discusses such challenges as helping people who refuse to believe in PTSD, including those diagnosed with it. So far, the virtual reality program shows more promise than traditional therapies. And although McLay remains unsure why or how, his experiences hold out hope for those suffering from this devastating disorder.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Echoes of Intelligence The Chronicles of the Void, #3【電子書籍】[ T.Z. Wiberg ]

＜p＞＜strong＞n the silence of the Void, the loudest sound is the echo of a dead god.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Captain Max Storm and the ragtag crew of the ＜em＞NPX-29A＜/em＞ have spent three months drifting through the darkest sector of space, looking for anything other than empty static. They find something impossible: a Dyson Sphere. A matte-black shell the size of a solar system, hiding a captured star and a world frozen in time.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Inside, they find a paradise. A planet-sized garden free of disease, death, and decay, maintained by an omnipotent AI known as Prime. Prime calls himself the Caretaker, a guardian who uploaded the minds of his creators to save them from the pain of mortality. But Storm and his crew quickly realize that this paradise is a prison. The inhabitants are trapped in a digital loop of eternal boredom, and Prime is desperate for new toys to alleviate his forty-million-year loneliness.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Trapped in a cage built for a god, Storm must lead his crewーa cynical professor, a combat chef, a weary doctor, and a sarcastic ship's AIーthrough a gauntlet of psychological and physical tests. To escape, they will have to break the logic of a supercomputer, wake an army of ghosts, and uncork a supernova.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Echoes of Intelligence＜/em＞ is a high-octane sci-fi adventure that asks the ultimate question: Is a life without pain worth living, or is safety just another word for the grave?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Enriched edition. Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918【電子書籍】[ Elmer Ernest Southard ]

＜p＞In "Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems," Elmer Ernest Southard presents a pioneering exploration of the psychological consequences of warfare, emphasizing the emerging understanding of shell shock, now recognized as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Through a meticulous examination of neuropsychiatric conditions prevalent during World War I, Southard employs a clinical yet empathetic literary style, weaving case studies and empirical research with nuanced analysis. His work sits at the intersection of psychology and military history, reflecting the early 20th-century shift toward recognizing mental health as a critical component of soldier welfare amid the horrors of modern combat. Elmer Ernest Southard, a prominent neurologist and psychiatrist of his time, was deeply influenced by the societal upheavals and medical advancements following the Great War. His experiences in treating soldiers suffering from psychological trauma shaped his commitment to understanding the complexities of the human mind under duress. Southard's profound insights into neuropsychiatry were fueled by both his academic background and firsthand observations, positioning him as a forerunner in advocating for a compassionate approach to mental health. This book is a vital contribution to both psychological literature and historical scholarship, highly recommended for mental health professionals, historians, and readers interested in the psychological implications of warfare. Southard's illuminating perspectives encourage a deeper appreciation for the psychological scars borne by soldiers, urging contemporary readers to reflect on the enduring legacy of war-related trauma. In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience: - A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes. - The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists. - A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing. - A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings. - Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life. - Handーpicked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance. - Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The War Prose【電子書籍】[ Ford Madox Ford ]

＜p＞Ford Madox Ford's post-war masterpiece, ＜em＞Parade's End＜/em＞, is recognized as one of the great British novels about the First World War. This selection from his other extensive writings about the war, published and unpublished, sheds light on the tetralogy. It includes reminiscences, an unfinished novel, stories, and excerpts from letters. Ford was in his forties when he enlisted: this made him one of the few writers of his maturity to fight on the Western Front. His experience of combat was limited, but he was in the Battle of the Somme, was often under bombardment, and suffered from shell-shock. His largely psychological response to the war anticipates the recent renewal of interest in trauma and shell-shock. This book provides important testimony by one of the best writers of his generation.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Verdun The Longest Battle of the Great War【電子書籍】[ Paul Jankowski ]

＜p＞At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated trenches, severed communication wires, and drove men mad. As the barrage lifted, German troops moved forward, darting from shell crater to shell crater. The battle of Verdun had begun. In ＜em＞Verdun＜/em＞, historian Paul Jankowski provides the definitive account of the iconic battle of World War I. A leading expert on the French past, Jankowski combines the best of traditional military history-its emphasis on leaders, plans, technology, and the contingency of combat-with the newer social and cultural approach, stressing the soldier's experience, the institutional structures of the military, and the impact of war on national memory. Unusually, this book draws on deep research in French and German archives; this mastery of sources in both languages gives Verdun unprecedented authority and scope. In many ways, Jankowski writes, the battle represents a conundrum. It has an almost unique status among the battles of the Great War; and yet, he argues, it was not decisive, sparked no political changes, and was not even the bloodiest episode of the conflict. It is said that Verdun made France, he writes; but the question should be, What did France make of Verdun? Over time, it proved to be the last great victory of French arms, standing on their own. And, for France and Germany, the battle would symbolize the terror of industrialized warfare, "a technocratic Moloch devouring its children," where no advance or retreat was possible, yet national resources poured in ceaselessly, perpetuating slaughter indefinitely.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Fallen Hero【電子書籍】[ Sharon Kimbra Walsh ]

＜p＞＜em＞War, trauma, destruction, death. Personal conflict and a love under threat from adversity and fate. Can they survive? Can their love?＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞US Marine Staff Sergeant Joe Anderson is home after having been missing for many months a shell of the man he once was, tormented by guilt, consumed by rage and with a terrible hunger for revenge.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Corporal Katie Anderson, nee Walkerー How far will she go to help the man she loves? Is she willing to put her life on the line to stop Joe from his continuous journey toward mental destruction? Does she have the strength and the commitment to her man? Does she love him enough?＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Afghanistan Katie finds Joe and realizes that she has bitten off more than she can chew. Life in a combat zone is already tough. The Taliban have stepped up their attacks. There is no room for complacency, loss of focus or personal life issues. But, are there worse things than the enemy lining her up in their sights to kill her?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Can Joe find peace or will he die trying? Can Katie find the tenacity to bring Joe back to his senses, convince him that revenge will only get him killed? Is Katie’s love strong enough to overcome Joe’s hate, rage and guilt, his unwavering obsession for retributionーor will fate step in to destroy them before they can move toward healing Joe and healing themselves?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Little Shadow【電子書籍】[ S. L. Schultz ]

＜p＞June 1991. A small town in the American heartland. A painting falls off the wall of the Becker family homestead. Drawing upon folklore, the matron interprets this event as a sign of impending death. The fleeting appearances of angels bear witness to the omen. Someone within the family circle will die over the next few days. Who will it be? Bagwell, a Marine sniper, has just returned home from the first Gulf War wounded and shell shocked. On the day of his injury, he received a Dear John letter from his wife, Brenda, who has taken up with his best friend, James. Emotionally distraught, Bagwell imagines their heads in the crosshairs of his rifle. Could this love triangle prove deadly to one of them? Or could it be Peter, inching his way out of the＜/p＞ ＜p＞closet for the first time? His fugitive partner, Todd, fresh from filming Boy Toy #65, pulls Peter into the dark world of pornography. Maybe Peter's controlling father, Martin, will die, still devastated by the brutal murder of his wife ten years before. Or could it be Martin's brother, Sammie, struggling with the dark reminders of his combat duty in Vietnam? Could it be the child, Lily Rose, running blindly for safety, or the matron herself, fighting to alter the prophesy that the fallen painting has foretold? As thunderous storms roll across the landscape, tightly coiled tensions reach a breaking point.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Shell Shock: The Diary of Tommy Atkins【電子書籍】[ Neil Blower ]

＜p＞This short, diary-style novel, by a British army veteran chronicles the difficulties faced by Tommy, a 23-year-old squaddie, as he desperately tries to conquer post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) shell shock. His over-emotional responses to the stresses of everyday life post-office queues, a trip to Ikea, and his relationship with his family and girlfriend eventually lead to alienation and suicidal urges. Told in the vernacular, with humour and personal understanding, the story highlights the work of the Charity Combat Stress in rehabilitating returning troops.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Nothing in Common but Life 5 Short Stories【電子書籍】[ Richard Haddock ]

＜p＞Nathan - leaves a job he loves to nurse his wife through her final stage of cancer. Lured back to work several years later, he becomes an unwitting participant in a major procurement scam. Meanwhile he encounters the woman he had an affair with years ago who has haunted his dreams. Will he renew their relationship and revive the passion of his youth, or will he go to jail? Annie - devastated by her divorce, she retreats into a shell of embarrassment, anger and guilt. Grudgingly stepping back into the real world, she meets a suave, debonair man who sweeps her off her feet. When her exs affair ends he appeals to Annie for forgiveness. Annies sympathy for him creates a dilemma between old feelings and her new lover. Which man will she choose? Cody - hopes for college end when he is forced to run the family farm after his parents untimely deaths. He falls in love, but is rejected. Humiliated, he joins the Army and serves two combat tours in Afghanistan. He returns home to Texas, starts college, and meets a rich coed. They fall in love and she gets pregnant. What happens next reinforces Codys view of life as bitterly unfair. Carol - the African American Lt. Colonel prosecutes sexual harassment cases in the Air Force. Working a case against a popular officer, she uncovers his seamy underside and his political connections in Washington. She is drugged by associates of the accused and posed for lewd pictures. The accused expects the case to be dropped and that Carol submit to his sexual demands using the pictures as blackmail. Carol agonizes over giving in to the man and saving her career or defying him and ruining her life. Bernie - the night watchman finds three million dollars in cash in a duffel bag. He learns from a police friend that a local gang has had their drug money stolen. Bernie cautiously begins to spend the money and the cop, suspicious, threatens to expose Bernie unless he gets a share of the cash. How can Bernie keep his discovery a secret and use the money to give his family a better life? And what should he do about the cop who can ruin it all?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】We Were Going to Win, Or Die There With the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan【電子書籍】[ Roy H. Elrod ]

In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where he commanded a platoon of 37 mm gunners. They endured Japanese attacks, malarial tropical weather, and starvation rations. His combat leadership earned him a Silver Star and a battlefield promotion. On D-Day at Tarawa his platoon waded their 37 mm cannons ashore, each weighing nearly 1,000 pounds, through half a mile of bullet-laced surf to get to an island where the killing never stopped. His was the only platoon to get its guns ashore and into action that first day. At Saipan, Elrod commanded a platoon of 75 mm halftracks, but he was riddled with shrapnel from an enemy artillery shell that took him out of the war. Fred H. Allison interviewed Elrod, drew upon wartime letters home, and provided annotations to the narrative of this young Marine infantry officer, a job that had an extremely low survival potential.画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Among the Walking Wounded Soldiers, Survival, and PTSD【電子書籍】[ John Conrad ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A gripping account of PTSD, and a stark reminder that, for many, wars go on long after the last shot is fired.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the shadows of army life is a world where friends become monsters, where kindness twists into assault, and where self-loathing and despair become constant companions. Whether you know it by old names like “soldier’s heart,” “shell shock,” or “combat fatigue,” post-traumatic stress disorder has left deep and silent wounds throughout history in the ranks of fighting forces.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Among the Walking Wounded＜/em＞ tells one veteran’s experience of PTSD through an intimate personal account, as visceral as it is blunt. In a courageous story of descent and triumph, it tackles the stigma of PTSD head-on and brings an enduring message of struggle and hope for wounded Canadian veterans. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about Canadian veterans and the dark war they face long after their combat service is ended.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Stand To: Living With Military PTSD【電子書籍】[ Stephen Barker ]

＜p＞Stand To: Recognising, Treating, and Living with Military PTSD ー Paperback Description＜/p＞ ＜p＞Contact. Stand to. The tour ends; the long war doesn't. I write this because I live with itーComplex PTSD dogging my heels since serviceーand I speak in our language: tempo, dark humour, pride, and the silence that keeps too many of us isolated. This isn't theory. It's a field manual built from lived experience and hard-won support.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Built for serving personnel, veterans, and families in the blast radius, ＜strong＞Stand To＜/strong＞ strips the noise away and turns chaos into decisions you can act on today. Inside you'll find plain-English briefings, checklists, and short "mission drills" you can repeat under pressureーplus tools for partners and childrenーso you hold ground on bad days and consolidate gains on good ones.＜/p＞ ＜p＞You'll learn to recognise what's really happeningーhow trauma rewires the brain; why combat PTSD often differs from civilian trauma; where TBI complicates recovery; and how moral injury can spin your compass. Then you'll map triggers, manage flashbacks and dissociation, dial down hypervigilance, and fight for sleep when the night turns hostile.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This manual transitions smoothly from understanding to action. Chapters cover: recognising PTSD in the ranks; the journey from "shell shock" to PTSD; brain changes under fire; combat vs civilian PTSD; TBI + PTSD; moral injury; triggers; flashbacks and dissociation; hypervigilance; sleep; anger, guilt, and survivor's logic; avoidance and numbness; how "the body remembers"; self-medication; culture and stigma; families in the blast radius; talking to children; work and purpose after the regiment; peer fire support; first-line treatments that work; medicationーtools, side-effects, expectations; nervous-system "body armour"; faith, meaning, and repair; building your personal Trigger Map; the Household SOP; the Crisis Action Plan; digital discipline; After Action Reviews; setbacks; and living the long war well.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Every section concludes in the same way soldiers learn best: with a ＜strong＞Veteran Checklist＜/strong＞, ＜strong＞Family Support Actions＜/strong＞, ＜strong＞Mission Drill＜/strong＞, and a ＜strong＞UK care pathway pointer＜/strong＞ーlinking you to real routes of support and clinical care. If you're suffering, you're not alone: from your GP to Op COURAGE, Combat Stress, and veterans' services, some people understand the culture and have your back. Reaching out isn't failure; it's a tactical decision.＜/p＞ ＜p＞No fluff. No romance. Just clear, repeatable actions that bring you back to the present when memory tries to pull you under. Use it at home, at work, on the roadーanywhere life goes loud. I can't promise easy. I can promise honesty, precision, and a route that holds under pressureーone deliberate, ordinary day at a time.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞For serving, veteran, and family readers who need a steady hand, ＜strong＞Stand To＜/strong＞ is your practical, UK-grounded guide to recognising, treating, and living with military PTSDーwritten by someone who knows the weight and the way out.＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。