Book Description
The fun and easy way to name the new bundle of joy
Brimming with over 5,000 names, from traditional to unique, this is the perfect reference for parents-to-be looking for naming guidance. It features a an impressive assemblage of options for both boys and girls-from Biblical, medieval, and Shakespearean names to musical and international names-along with a list of today's most popular names and the favorite names of previous decades. Each entry contains variant spellings as well as the name's meaning, history, and derivations. Plus, fun sidebars offer examples of celebrities who chose unique names for their little ones and perfect suggestions for future political leaders, artists, and movie stars.
Customer Reviews:
More fun and interesting than you might imagine.......2006-08-23
When I first saw this book, I thought to myself "yeah, right" who needs more than a simple list-type of book with--what--like 10,000 names. This author does a great job of explaining various tips, techniques and historical background that should go into choosing a name. I found it fascinating to read about the origins of her name selections--some listed chronologically like "building empires: classical names" to "romanticizing Victorian ideas". I loved the chapter titled "ten practices to avoid." This book offered very creative suggestions without being too wild and out there! I never even pictured myself to be the type that would buy a baby naming book, but I loved this one!
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The Parent's Success Guide to Baby Names (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback))
Manufacturer: For Dummies
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ASIN: 0764559249 |
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The essentials of naming your bundle of joy
Ashley, Michael, Jennifer, Thomas-with all the baby names out there to choose from, what's a busy parent to do?
The Parent's Success Guide to Baby Names tells you everything you need to know to select the right name for your little boy or girl. This convenient, portable guide helps you create a targeted list of names so you can make an informed choice, featuring parent-friendly tips for:
- Choosing the perfect name for your baby
- Sorting through today's most popular and unusual names
- Exploring the origins and meanings of names you like
- Finding a unique name (without making your child a target for teasing!)
Plus, in every Parent's Success Guide, you get Top Ten lists and timesaving tips!
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Baby Names for Dummies
Manufacturer: HUNGRY MINDS (TWLD)
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The images of soldiers and marines coming ashore on hostile shores are embedded in our collective memory of World War II. But what of the sailors who manned the landing craft, going back and forth under fire with nowhere to take cover, their craft the special targets of enemy gunners? In this book, Ken Wiley, a Coast Guardsman on an Attack Transport in the Pacific, relates the intricate, often nerve wracking story of how the United States projected its power across 6,000 miles in the teeth of fanatical Japanese resistance. Each invasion was a swirl of moving parts, from frogmen to fire support, transport mother ships to Attack Transports, the smaller Higgins boats (LCVPs), and during the last terrifying stage the courageous men who would storm the beaches. The author participated in the campaigns for the Marshall Islands, the Marianas the Philippines and Okinawa, and with a precise eye for detail relates numerous aspects of landing craft operations, such as ferrying wounded, that are often discounted. He conveys the terror and horrors of war, as well as, on occasion, the thrill, while not neglecting the humor and cameraderie of wartime life. An exciting book, full of harrowing combat action, Lucky Thirteen also provides a valuable service in expanding our knowledge of exactly how World War II's massive amphibious operations were undertaken. REVIEWS "...Author Ken Wiley tells of his service in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II in Lucky Thirteen: D-Days in the Pacific with the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II, a military memoir in first-person perspective. ... A personable and engaging tale of World War II from an oft-overlooked point of view."www.midewestbookreview.com James Cox April 2007 ".. It's quite a different view of the war, interesting and well worth reading. And keep in mind that the kid who got his parents permission to go into the Coast Guard was only 17. Within a very few years, he was a full fledged man, still too young to drink or vote, but a man."Books On Line 4-18-07 John Matlock "The author knows whereof he speaks. As a coastguard LCVP coxswain, he served in amphibious assaults from the Marshalls and Marinas, to the Philipines and Okinawa. His tale cogently imparts both fear and certain dark humor of war."Proceedings June 2007 Col. G W. Keiser "For unknown reasons, there are virtually no first person books by or about US Coast Guard coxswains in World War II. Ken Wiley corrects that oversight with LUCKY THIRTEEN, a book to be treasured."September 2007/ WWII History Magazine/ M.B. Webb
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LUCKY THIRTEEN: An engaging true life WWII story told from the heart.......2007-06-09
I particularly enjoyed this book because it is an important story about our nation's history and is told from the inside by a man who was there and lived it, instead of by some scholarly historian or journalist with an axe to grind. The pace is even and fast and the story is told compassionately without the slightest hint of bitterness toward the military, the enemy, the author's superiors, or his mates - even the ones who lost their courage under fire. This is the story of young men coming of age in the most extreme and trying circumstances. In any age of our history this will be an important book, but especially now with so many over-stuffed politicians on both sides of the aisle vying for attention while our young men and women, such as the ones in this story, are doing the brave and dirty work. This book gives us reason to stand proud of who we really are as a nation, and reminds us of the sacrifices that were paid for our standing as the world's freest nation.
One Of A Kind Tale.......2007-05-26
Since September 11, the US Coast Guard, the nation's fifth armed service -- almost always overlooked or ignored as even *being* an armed force -- has finally begun receiving the public acknowledgment and respect due the US's oldest, continuously existing branch of service. Most Americans don't know much if anything about the Coast Guard, especially its participation in every American war except Korea, where it had no purpose, or that it is in Iraq and the Persian Gulf today, where it has taken its first killed in action since Vietnam.
When there was an amphibious landing in WW2, a large percentage of the landing craft coxswains were Coast Guard enlisted men. It was the service that had the most coxswain experience with ocean-going small boats, after all. More, Coast Guard, and sometimes Navy, beachparties went ashore with the first wave of Marines in the Pacific theater's island battles, fighting alongside them until a beachhead had been established, when they'd begin organizing the first medical stations, evacuation of the wounded, and orderly supply depots on the beach.
Finally, this book -- Ken Wiley's *Lucky Thirteen* -- has appeared to document this virtually unknown aspect of WW2. A personal memoir told in the first person, the book reads like what it is: a CG coxswain's account of his service in the Pacific. It's apparent that the writer is an amateur recording personal experience from memory, but the book is nevertheless an important contribution -- the only book of its kind, to my knowledge -- documenting a little known part of the war by an often ignored armed force.
And a rollicking good tale.
You want this one in the WW2 section of your library.
Gary Sisco,
former ET3,
USCG,
Vietnam Era
A personable and engaging tale of World War II from an oft-overlooked point of view........2007-04-10
Author Ken Wiley tells of his service in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II in Lucky Thirteen: D-Days in the Pacific with the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II, a military memoir in first-person perspective. Wiley was only 17 when he enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1943; in the Pacific Theater, he was given responsibility of commanding "Lucky Thirteen", his own Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel. His task was to shuttle troops and supplies form the transport to the beaches, often while under fire and during inclement weather conditions. He served in campaigns for the Marshall Islands, the Marianas, the Philippines, and Okinawa. Lucky Thirteen recounts beach combat, kamikazes and suicide boats, sniper fire, and dangerous jungle river expeditions as well as sad tales of lost loves, friends made and lost, and humorous accounts of shipboard life. A personable and engaging tale of World War II from an oft-overlooked point of view.
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In 1941, Winston Churchill realized that if the Allies were to win the war, a new type of ship needed to be designed and constructed. A ship that could land directly on the beaches of Africa and Europe and discharge troops and equipment. This ship became the Landing Ship, Tank or LST. But the United States was already at war and there was a shortage of men in the shipyards. It was the women that went to the shipyards and built the LSTs. These women were not riveters - they were welders. These are the stories, remembered 60 years later, of the women welders who built the LSTs and the men who sailed on them.
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"Don't Call Me Rosie" is a very inspiring book!.......2007-06-28
"Don't Call Me Rosie" is very inspiring! These women and men are terrific role models and proud Americans. I gained a greater appreciation of my father's war experience after reading this book. Everyday people who made a difference!
A different view on a World at War.......2007-06-10
This was truly a different view on life in a world at war. Women and men building ships to defend our country and the type of people that applied to do the job. Truly an interesting and enlightened viewpoint to a time period I did not know. My father served on one of those ships that were built and I would like to thank the women who carefully built the ships and the way they suffered through cold and nasty weather and long days to make sure they were top notch. Thank you.
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U.S. Coast Guard in World War II
Malcolm F. Willoughby
Manufacturer: Naval Inst Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0870217747 |
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A pretty comprehensive look at an undersung service........2005-08-30
Clearly, this book doesn't compare to Adm. Morison's magisterial "History of United States Naval Operations in World War Two." But then, how many things do? As you would expect from this publisher, "The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II" is a comprehensive and well-informed survey that should, almost 50 years after it was published, still be of use to service-members, historians, and interested readers.
Combat operations were only one part of the USCG's activities during the war, as this book makes amply clear. In fact, I found some of the most interesting sections of the book didn't have to do with combat at all, per se, but rather with port security arrangements and the recounting of fires, accidents, sabotage, and other threats the service had to deal with. For the Coast Guard, at least, American beaches and harbors were very much on the front lines.
When the discussion does turn to service under fire, the meaning of the oft-repeated statement that "in war, the Coast Guard becomes part of the Navy" becomes quite clear. Frankly, for much of this section, Coast Guard activities are an addendum to the story of the Navy and Marine Corps. It's important to note that Coast Guardsmen and Coast Guard-manned ships participated in practically every amphibious operation in any theater of the war, from sailing LSTs to acting as beachmasters, to running rescue fleets, though they seldom operated independently. Instances when Coast Guard forces did do that -- such as Coast Guard Rescue Flotilla One during the Normandy landing -- make for especially interesting reading. But even amid the larger picture of naval operations, the valor and dedication of Coast Guard personnel, and their special commitment to saving lives and aiding ships in danger, comes through strongly. For the student of World War II naval operations, this book fills a gap I'd bet many of us didn't even realize we had.
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U.S. Coast Guard Cutters and Craft of World War II
Robert L. Scheina
Manufacturer: Naval Inst Pr
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ASIN: 0870217178 |
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In 1936 in Hamburg, a splendid three-masted sailing ship was christened Horst Wessel in the presence of Adolf Hitler and thousands of cheering Nazis. It became a training vessel for naval officers during World War II. After Germany's defeat, the U.S. Coast Guard found its young crew terrified and half starved. The Coast Guardsmen brought the Germans, so recently their mortal enemies, back to life; the Germans, in return, taught them the ways of the beautiful square-rigged ship, rechristened Eagle. In time, Eagle would become the Coast Guard's elite school ship — the barque of saviors.
Uncannily linking Eagle's malign past and its American present is a Coast Guardsman named Karl Dillmann, who believes that the spirit of a young German sailor drowned in a U-boat explosion inhabits his soul. The voices of Dillmann and other crew members are heard throughout the book, as are, incredibly, the voices of young sailors on the Horst Wessel. Drumm has obtained never-before-published logbooks from the war years, affording fascinating new insights into both the ship's everyday life and its moments of high drama.
A supremely gifted journalist and a vivid, lyrical writer, Russell Drumm knows Eagle intimately. His love of the ship, and of the sea itself, enriches every page. The courage and sacrifice of the "greatest generation" are alive and well today in the dedicated members of the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Cross the Ocean in Majesty.......2002-11-16
This book is an absolute "Must" for any sailor or history buff. For landlubbers this is an affectionate account of the beauty and strength of the sea, the men and women who protect our shores and the surprisingly rich but (until now) overlooked history of The Eagle.
The book combines a hard-core sailing voyage with lyrical history; most touching is Drumm's account of Eagle's return to present-day Germany, where the young boys recruited by Hitler's Germany - now old men - reboard their beloved ship and meet today's young crew.
Book Description
Historic battles, daring rescues, and covert missions—the untold story of the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II
Americans called it “Torpedo Junction,” Germans “Devil’s Gorge,” but historians know it as the Battle of the Atlantic—the four-year Allied struggle to move desperately needed supplies from America to Europe through devastating assaults by German U-boats, ships, and aircraft. Now for the first time, Bloodstained Sea describes in vivid detail the heroic actions of the Coast Guard ships that defended Allied convoys en route through the North Atlantic to England and Russia.
Eyewitness accounts assembled from hundreds of interviews propel this breathtaking, meticulously researched plunge into the thick of a battle fought mostly in the frozen seas east of Greenland. There, courageous but overmatched Coast Guard escorts braved the torpedo attacks of U-boat wolf packs to rescue thousands of men while thousands of others perished. Told in the voices of the men who lived it, this epic drama reveals the indomitable fighting spirit of the World War II Coast Guard.
Customer Reviews:
Horror in the Atlantic.......2007-06-29
Mike Walling backs up for a running start: he describes the sudden attention paid to the Coast Guard by the Navy before WWII was even declared. I wonder if the record of 1 hour and 45 minutes still stands for painting a white ship battleship gray.
In chapter after chapter he delineates the torpedoing of merchant ships by the dozen and the storms never seemed to let up. The rescues of a pitifully few men are nothing short of amazing. It reads like a whodunnit even though we know how it comes out.
Mike takes some statistics and breathes life into them making the reader really care what happens to the ships doomed or not. I'm guessing that surviving U-boat commanders are reading it and learning how it all came out.
The judges of the Samuel Eliot Morison award for Navy literature are to be commended for tearing themselves away from the book and awarding it the prize.
Bloodstained Sea.......2007-03-26
Bloodstained Sea was a pleasure to read, my Dad served on the USCGC Campbell during WWII so this book was special to me. Unfortunately, he passed away at an early age allowing him and me no time to discuss his Coast Guard service. This book has given me the opportunity to understand some of the hardships those men endured.
If history interests you at all this is a must read. The rescues, tragedies and determination of these men are brought to life with the author's detail.
Interesting view on the Battle of the Atlantic.......2006-07-20
Every author that attempts to undertake a project to write a portion of the history of the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II has to pick a specific area to focus on - some focus on the U-Boats, some on the merchant ships, other on the tactics. Michael Walling has chosen to explore a different area than any others I've seen - the US Coast Guard involvement in the battle, with a particular focus on the Secretary Class of the Coast Guard Cutters.
The Secretary class boats were 327 foot long cutters that could run at high speeds and handle the terrible weather prevalent in the North Atlantic, thus making them ideal for escort & sub-hunting duty. Walling focuses on just a handful of ships in his tale, but does so quite nicely.
Naturally, when covering a topic such as an entire theatre of war, many other players partake in the story, and Walling most assuredly has not ignored any of the critical players, including the merchant vessels that the Cutters were escorting, the U-Boats that they were hunting, or (most importantly) the people that they were rescuing.
In my opinion, Walling spends perhaps a little too much time on the weather aspects of the battle, though this certainly made for fascinating reading, since many authors almost completely ignore this facet of this theater of war. Overall, however, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and would say that it is an exciting, well researched, engaging tome covering the topic. I would recommend this book, in conjunction with some others, to any reader looking for a comprehensive story - this is a nice piece, it needed to be told, and is a solid addition to the literature on the topic.
All Coasties: Battle Stations!.......2006-01-25
This is the fascinating and not well known tale of the US Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic during WWII. My father served as a gunner on convoy escort duty in Spring 1945 and I never really understood the dangers of this type of work until I read this book. They were sinking U-boats off the East Coast right up until the surrender in May 1945!
The best parts of this book were the actual stories of the coastguardsmen themselves. The most difficult part was reading through the course of the many battles as described in the skippers' after action reports.
All in all, I have now a greater respect for what the the USCG did in WWII and what it continues to do today in the Global War on Terror.
Like you are there.......2005-06-17
This is an absolutely excellent tale of the Coast Guardsmen who manned the cutters in the battle of the Atlantic. Focuses primarily on the 7 Secretary Class cutters but tell some on all that served in the Atlantic. His narrative is sprinkled with input of many survivors. Those words make it real. You feel the wet, tired and cold that they do and the fear and numbness of war in the convoys. A great read. As a Coast Guardsman who has sailed those waters and still can only imagine what they went through, I highly recommend this book.
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