Roland Gilbert's Stress-free Power Parenting System

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Roland Gilbert's Stress-free Power Parenting System
Roland Gilbert
Manufacturer: Aventine Press
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"A parent's most important job is to give their child a vision of himself and his future. To do this, you must guide the development of his identity ... because his identity determines his behavior, how he responds to life's challenges and if he'll achieve his individual greatness. If you don't have an action plan to form your child's identity--then you're leaving it up to chance and the media, music and movies. Do you really want your child's identity shaped by chance and the media, music and movies? My book gives you a proven, effective and easy to use action plan to help you mold your child's identity. I call this action plan--the Integrity Structure. It will make you--a Stress-free Power Parent."

Roland Gilbert was a bad kid who became a bad parent. But by the grace and mercy of God, he was guided into 5 years of research and 20 years of experience actually teaching bad kids and bad parents to become positive productive people contributing to our society. So, he wrote this book and created a parenting website. This book teaches parents, professionals, and volunteers how to be--a Stress-free Power Parent.

"The parents of Enron executives, tobacco industry leaders, and Osama bin Laden didn't make a plan to raise thieves, liars, and killers--but they did!" says Roland. Roland Gilbert's Stress-free Power Parenting System, Volume 1, Parenting Troubled Youth: Success Secrets for Parents, Professionals, and Volunteers, focuses on teaching adults how to guide the development of young people's identity ... which is pivotal, since our identity determines how we respond to life and if we'll achieve our individual greatness.

"Parents tell me all the time how my system helped them see things they were blind to," says Gilbert. "For example, one mother told me she became aware of how she had transferred the conflict between her mother and herself when she was a teenager, into the relationship today between her and her own daughter. And when she realized what she was doing--their conflict disappeared."

In this book you will find so many great true stories on personal parenting successes.

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GREAT!!! Retired IRS worker

Written by a Tax Collector, Exciting as a Tax Collector

ugh,

A very interesting look at one of America's most hated instiutions

This book is awesome!

Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS (P.S.)
Richard Yancey
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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ASIN: 0060555610
Release Date: 2004-12-28

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Imagine if Brad Meltzer or John Grisham's first book had been a memoir about working for the Internal Revenue Service and you have an idea of just how thrilling Richard Yancey's Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS really is. Serving as a revenue agent--or, more informally, a tax collector--of the IRS for two years, Yancey went through strange transformations--from a tall, pencil-thin theater major, in an unforgiving relationship with no steady income, to a mean, muscle-wielding, unyielding revenue officer at the top of his game. What happens in between this tax collecting, money-hungry metamorphosis makes this memorable memoir the stuff of great fiction.

The Americans who shirk tax laws and responsibilities are inevitably tracked, coded, analyzed, pursued, and in general, marked for tax collection by a legion of government workers take center stage. "We have superior intelligence; we know more about our enemies' lives than they know about themselves. We know where they are. We know what they do. We know what they have. We will execute what they fear," Yancey writes. Just envision the line-up of misfits and average joes who populate the screen on Cops or America's Funniest Home Videos and you'll be close to imagining the range of people Yancey tangles with. Vengeful middle managers, hard-working small business owners, mean-spirited tax protestors, hardened tax evaders--the list of characters goes on and on. Every one of the people tracked within the walls of Yancey's local IRS office has the same, pitiful problem: the tax man cometh and the "beast needs to be fed." Equal parts love story, business tale, high-speed chase, and self-evolution, Yancey's Confessions of a Tax Collector packs plenty of human drama--all of it experienced and survived by one man. --E. Brooke Gilbert

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Twelve years ago, Richard Yancey answered a blind ad in the newspaper offering a salary higher than what he'd made over the three previous years combined. It turned out that the job was for the Internal Revenue Service -- the most hated and feared organization in the federal government.

So Yancey became the man who got in his car, drove to your house, knocked on your door, and made you pay. Never mind that his car was littered with candy wrappers, his palms were sweaty, and he couldn't remember where he stashed his own tax records. He was there on the authority of the United States government.

With "a rich mix of humor, horror, and angst [and] better than most novels on the bestseller lists" ( Boston Sunday Globe), Confessions of a Tax Collector contains an astonishing cast of too-strange-for-fiction characters. But the most intriguing character of all is Yancey himself who -- in detailing how the job changed him and how he managed to pull himself back from the brink of moral, ethical, and spiritual bankruptcy -- reveals what really lies beneath those dark suits and mirrored sunglasses.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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GREAT!!! Retired IRS worker.......2007-06-21

I love the book about IRS that I worked for IRS 20 years from clerk/typist to tax examiner clerk (12/14/1981 to 01/11/2002). The book are funny stories about IRS that I was a sense of humor IRS employee for 20 years to make my co-workers laugh when I said funny things to the co-workers.

Written by a Tax Collector, Exciting as a Tax Collector.......2007-06-17

I picked up this book and really wanted to enjoy it. I slogged through half the book and just can't finish it. A topic matter with great promise, written by an ex-tax collector who fails to write in any compelling way. The writing, to the contrary, seems very childish; as if it would be a reading selection on an elementary school reading list - the book that every kid hated. Overall, it's saturated with a littany of unimportant details, and as a result, the book never gets going.

As to the reviewer that states it reads like a daily log - I couldn't agree more. The sense of time is totally lost. It just seems like a muddle of random days all thrown together with hardly any real beginning or end. There seems to be no real purpose to the book. This is like buying employment inside the IRS. You get all the boredom without the pay.

Not recommended

ugh, .......2007-03-02

This book reads like a daily log. I cannot think of one reason to recommend it.

A very interesting look at one of America's most hated instiutions.......2006-12-18

Although the information in this book is a bit dated as this branch of the IRS is no longer in use this book was an interesting read. It covers one of the most hated branches of the US government and one of the most hated parts of that branch. The need to feed the beast is well illustrated and how one can get sucked into that world is easily seen. Very interesting and scary look at what happens to those in power of our tax system.

This book is awesome!.......2006-11-23

I read this book in one sitting it is that good. This book is set in earlier IRS days (1980s / 1990s if I rememeber correctly) so don't think it's very recent; although, who knows... the same kind of stuff might still go on.

Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War

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A Well-Researched, Thoroughly Documented View of A True Hero
Kerry's X-Mas '68 in Cambodia LIE has him spending New Years '06 in Boston
Happy Anniversary Americans!
Kerry's X-Mas '68 in Cambodia LIE has him spending X-Mas '05 in Boston.
Great book by a truly accomplished author

Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War
Douglas Brinkley
Manufacturer: William Morrow
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ASIN: 0060565233
Release Date: 2004-01-06

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Historian Douglas Brinkley's insightful Tour of Duty covers John Kerry's heroic Vietnam service (where he won the Silver and Bronze Stars and three Purple Hearts) and the fervent antiwar campaign it eventually spawned. Born to Boston Brahmin heritage, the son of an American diplomat, John Forbes Kerry was a child of good fortune--an eventual Yalie whose personal hero (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) shared his initials. However, Kerry's privileged upbringing instilled in him not a sense of entitlement, but a burning sense of public service. Though equally obsessed and revulsed by the burgeoning Vietnam conflict, Kerry's sense of duty led him to enlist in the Navy (after graduating Yale), and then volunteer for training as captain of a Swift boat (small aluminum vessels that patrolled the coastal waters and narrow, dangerous tributaries of Vietnam's massive Mekong delta). Brinkley's meticulous research relies on Kerry's detailed wartime diaries, logs, and interviews, (published here for the first time) as well as a wealth of accounts of the Navy's first extensive "brown water" riverine campaign since the Civil War. Those harrowing months only deepened Kerry's antipathy to the war, and he returned to become one of the most articulate leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Brinkley's account gives crucial human dimensions to a man whose seeming aloofness has long plagued him. With Americans again dying in a controversial war halfway around the world, one cannot help but wonder if Kerry will yet again be able to pose the haunting question first put to a Congressional panel thirty years ago: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" --Jerry McCulley

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Covering more than four decades, Tour of Duty is the definitive account of John Kerry's journey from war to peace. Written by acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley, this is the first full-scale, intimate account of Kerry's naval career. In writing this riveting narrative, Brinkley has drawn on extensive interviews with virtually everyone who knew Kerry well in Vietnam, including all the men still living who served under him. Kerry also entrusted to Brinkley his letters home from Vietnam and his voluminous "War Notes" -- journals, notebooks, and personal reminiscences written during and shortly after the war. This material was provided without restriction, to be used at Brinkley's discretion, and has never before been published.

John Kerry enlisted in the Navy in February 1966, months before he graduated from Yale. In December 1967 Ensign Kerry was assigned to the frigate U.S.S. Gridley; after five months of service in the Pacific, with a brief stop in Vietnam, he returned to the United States and underwent training to command a Swift boat, a small craft deployed in Vietnam's rivers. In June 1968 Kerry was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade), and by the end of that year he was back in Vietnam, where he commanded, over time, two Swift boats. Throughout Tour of Duty Brinkley deftly deals with such explosive issues as U.S. atrocities in Vietnam and the bombing of Cambodia. In a series of unforgettable combat-action sequences, he recounts how Kerry won the Purple Heart three times for wounds suffered in action and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Navy's Silver Star for gallantry in action.

When Kerry returned from Southeast Asia, he joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), becoming a prominent antiwar spokesperson. He challenged the Nixon administration on Capitol Hill with the antiwar movementcheering him on. As Kerry's public popularity soared in April-May 1971, the FBI considered him a subversive. Brinkley -- using new information acquired from the recently released Nixon tapes -- reveals how White House aides Charles Colson and H. R. Haldeman tried to discredit Kerry. Refusing to be intimidated, Kerry started running for public office, eventually becoming a U.S. senator from Massachusetts. But he never forgot his fallen comrades. Working with his friend Senator John McCain, he returned to Vietnam numerous times looking for MIAs and POWs. By the time Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, Kerry was the leading proponent of "normalization" of relations with Vietnam. When President Clinton officially recognized Vietnam in 1995, Kerry's three-decade-long tour of duty had at long last ended.

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A Well-Researched, Thoroughly Documented View of A True Hero.......2006-03-30

Having already proven himself to be one of our best biographers today, with his books on Dean Acheson, JFK, FDR, Jean Monnet, James Forrestal, Henry Ford, Rosa Parks, and others, Douglas Brinkley has done it again with a terrific look at the truth behind an American veteran, politician and lifelong public servant.

Only the ignorant and openly biased will dismiss this highly-detailed examination of John Kerry's war experience, from growing up in Denver and his education at Yale through to his trials, triumphs, and ultimate disgust with the Vietnam War. Any questions you have about Kerry's character or his military service - especially those invented by political opponents who instead backed a corrupt coward named W - you'll find the answers right here.

If you value truth over hype and courage over self-serving cronyism, you'll enjoy this book.

Kerry's X-Mas '68 in Cambodia LIE has him spending New Years '06 in Boston .......2005-12-31

This book along with the book by George Butler is so full of crap and hype about Kerry that it makes me laugh. Should be listed as fiction and would make for a great novel. Everybody who really knows Kerry laughs whenever mention of this book is brought up.

Those who knew Kerry back in 1966-67 knew how much he wanted to prevent being drafted and stay out of the service. Kerry claiming to be a war hero is like Michael Moore claiming to be an athlete. Give me a break!

Happy Anniversary Americans!.......2005-12-09

It was just a little over 13 months ago that Americans flushed this john and voted for leadership. We didn't buy into the lies or false claims of heroism perpetrated by Kerry and writers like Brinkley who rely on their subject for facts (fat chance)

The economy is moving well. Iraq is moving well regardless what Kerry says. This Kerry promotional piece did not work and thank God for that.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY AMERICANS! WE ALL "FLUSHED THE JOHNS IN 2004!"

Kerry's X-Mas '68 in Cambodia LIE has him spending X-Mas '05 in Boston........2005-12-09

Just one of the many lies i n this book overlooked (????) by Douglas Brinkley was Kerry supposedly in Cambodia in 1968 and havinga telephone conversation with Pres. Nixon. HINT: Johnson was the president in 1968, not Nixon.

To read this book 'TOUR OF DUTY', you'd swaer that Kerry was a real life Rambo when in fact, Kerry was more concerned with carrying around 8mm cameras and old fashioned and heavy Smith-Corona typewritters layingt he foundation for his future presidential campaign.

In another regard, what happened to that BIG DRAFT KERRY said was goingt o happen in January 2005? And the reduced social security benefits? And the Herbert Hoover economy? These were just some of the lies that Kerry repeated over and over and over during his failed presidential campaign in 2004.

But what really happened? There was no draft and 2005 is nearly over. Our seniors got a raise, not a cut in social security benefits and all economic factors show that the economy is doing just great thank you.

Are you all glad that Kerry got whipped last year? Say yes.

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Great book by a truly accomplished author.......2005-11-21

I found the book refreshing after hearing so many negative things about John Kerry's war service. It's so sad the way some of these far right people writing reviews believe all of the propaganda by their "party". Discrediting his service is a joke. I mean sure, he wasn't the best soldier our country has ever seen, but just compare him to Bush and it makes him look extremely good. Bush can hardly form a sentence (at his age) and Kerry was performing great anti war speeches at a much younger age. As for one of his purple hearts being earned by a self inflicted injury, thats just preposterous, that is not how it works and I think people know that but choose to to believe it. Bottom line is Kerry wouldn't have been the greatest president we have ever seen, but it would have been nice to see someone holding office that actually had served in a war. He might actually have thought twice about sending kids to die. The swift boat vets for "truth" were only one side of the story, and even if some of the things they said were true, obviously the people the Brinkley interviewed with would know better than most of the "truth vets" as they had actually served WITH Kerry, which is different than serving in the same general area.

A Tour of Duty: Changing Patterns of Military Politics in Indonesia in the 1990s (Cornell Modern Indonesia Project) (Cornell Modern Indonesia Project)

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A Tour of Duty: Changing Patterns of Military Politics in Indonesia in the 1990s (Cornell Modern Indonesia Project) (Cornell Modern Indonesia Project)
Douglas Kammen , and Siddharth Chandra
Manufacturer: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications
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Major General Suharto seized command of the Indonesian military in October 1965 and appointed himself president only a short while after. Forced to resign in 1998 due to nation-wide outrage, protests, and riots, Suharto exemplifies how the military (and particularly the Army) have played a central role in Indonesian politics and intervened in all aspects of civilian life. The authors argue that the lack of support in the government and military for Suharto in 1998 originates from decisions made in the 1960s regarding the structure of the army. This monograph investigates trends in career advancement for officers (a line of study disregarded by other works that focus primarily upon ideological and political factors) and devotes painstakingly detailed attention to the bureaucratic dynamics that have had such extensive political implications. 1999. 98 pages.

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Lies and utter nonsense
John kerry is a real hero
Needs to be Read, But I'm Still Puzzled
Better ways to understand the men who fought in SEA
To see the real Vietnam try Naked In Da Nang

Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War
Douglas Brinkley
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ASIN: 0060565292
Release Date: 2004-09-21

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Covering more than four decades, this is the first full-scale, definitive account of Kerry's journey from war to peace. Brinkley has drawn on extensive interviews with virtually everyone who knew Kerry in Vietnam.Kerry also relegated to Brinkley his letters home from Vietnam, voluminous "war notes" journals and personal reminiscences written during and shortly after the war. This material was provided without restriction, to be used at Brinkley's discretion, and has never before been published.

Throughout, Brinkley deftly deals with issues such as U.S. atrocities in Vietnam and the bombing of Cambodia. Using information from the newly released Nixon tapes, Brinkley reveals how White House aides Charles Colson and H. R. Haldeman tried to discredit Kerry. Refusing to be intimidated, Kerry ran for public office, eventually becoming a senator from Massachusetts. But he never forgot his fallen comrades returning to Vietnam numerous times to look for MIAs and POWs. When President Clinton officially recognized Vietnam in 1995, at long last Kerry's thirty-year-long tour of duty ended.

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Covering more than four decades, Tour of Duty is the definitive account of John Kerry's journey from war to peace. Written by acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley, this is the first full-scale, intimate account of Kerry's naval career. In writing this riveting narrative, Brinkley has drawn on extensive interviews with virtually everyone who knew Kerry well in Vietnam, including all the men still living who served under him. Kerry also entrusted to Brinkley his letters home from Vietnam and his voluminous ""War Notes"" -- journals, notebooks, and personal reminiscences written during and shortly after the war. This material was provided without restriction, to be used at Brinkley's discretion, and has never before been published.

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Lies and utter nonsense.......2005-01-06

Ah yes, John Kerry's life written by none other than.... John Kerry. The Kerry simpletons might find this intriguing, but one should be careful to note that throughout this entire book, there is not a single interview with any of Kerry's peers or commanding officers. Nor is there any interview with the medical personnel that "dressed" Kerry's famous battle wounds. I challenge you to read what other Vietnam Veterans have to say about Kerry's life and times in Vietnam, and I will assure you that he behaved anything but honorably.

John kerry is a real hero.......2004-11-21

I salute Senator John Kerry for serving time in Vietnam. He put his life in danger for the sake of his countrymen. He is a real hero and very patriotic in this country... Senator John Kerry is FIT to be the COMMANDER IN CHIEF of America...

Needs to be Read, But I'm Still Puzzled.......2004-10-30

There was Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, now there's this book. This book is the 'authorized version.' It is based on letters Kerry wrote home and 'extensive interviews with virtually everyone who knew Kerry in Vietnam.'

I turned first to the story of Kerry's first Purple Heart. The versions in the two books can't possibly cover the same person. In one Kerry is in a fire fight at night and trying to clear his jammed M-16 when he feel a hot, burning thing hit his arm. In the other it is daylight and Kerry shoots a grenade launcher at a rock some distance from his boat and a piece of shrapnel comes back and hits him in his arm. Well, at least they both agree that he was hit in the arm. This is the incident, I understand, where the official Navy records are missing.

The essence of democracy is an informed electorate. I'm intend to vote in about five days. Somehow I don't feel very informed.

If you're a Kerry fan, this is clearly the book you need to read, it'll make you feel much better. If you're a Bush fan, you may want to read it just to see what the Kerry fans are saying. If you're trying to inform yourself about the character of this man, you probably should read both.

One final comment, I was out of the Army before Vietnam got started going good. I've only known two people that were in Swift boats, they both hate Kerry. My guess is that Brinkley didn't talk to them.

Better ways to understand the men who fought in SEA .......2004-10-21

To understand Vietnam, it is important to see the human factors. John Kerry dehumanized all Vietnam veterans by accusing them -- across the board -- of war crimes and atrocities. His actions defamed a generation of brave young men whose only crime was caring enough for their country to serve in an unpopular war. Reading about John Kerry will NOT help you find the humanity of Vietnam. Reading about Mike Jackson WILL. Naked In Da Nang (Zenith Press 2004) gives a truly unique perspective on the conflict and the men who fought and died for it. It offers an optimistic view of our Vietnam veterans and tells a vivid coming of age story that even non-military types can relate to. Jackson's wry humor and hard-won wisdom make him seem both blunt and disarming. He shies away from political statements and focuses instead on the personal dynamics of military training, espirit de corps and life in a combat zone. I agree with the above reviewer who understands that the legacy of Vietnam is not found in political rangling or second-guessing. The legacy of Vietnam is found in the human experience of the men who fought there -- and lived to talk, laugh and reflect on it. Naked In Da Nang does all that and more. THERE'S the real story on Southeast Asia.

To see the real Vietnam try Naked In Da Nang.......2004-10-20

I don't care what you think of John Kerry -- war hero or traitor -- all you are going to get prior to November 2 is a pile of political mumbo jumbo targeted to the undecided voter. NOW, if you are interested in the REAL human perspective on the men who served in Vietnam, then Naked In Da Nang is the book you need to read. I have heard the authors speak and I have read the book -- twice. It is very simple in its presentation -- and very complex in all the images and emotions it stirs (especially for veterans.) You can read it and decide if it represents John Kerry's Vietnam or you can read Tour of Duty and contrast it with "Naked." Between these two men, I'd rather see Mike Jackson running for President -- but methinks he's a tad too smart for that! If you're interested in the TRUTH about the guys who fought and died in Vietnam, John Kerry is not the guy to consult.

Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution: Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty 1776-1783

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Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution: Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty 1776-1783
Marvin L. (ed) Brown
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Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS (P.S.)

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Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS (P.S.)
Richard Yancey
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A Forgotten Man/a Combat Doctor's Tour of Duty in Hell!

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A Forgotten Man/a Combat Doctor's Tour of Duty in Hell!
Carl Bancoff
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Grady's Tour: Lieutenant John Grady's Tour of Duty In Korean War

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A Novel About The Korean War and The McCarthy Spy Hunt
GRADY'S TOUR REVIEW
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Grady's Tour: Lieutenant John Grady's Tour of Duty In Korean War
JOHN H. GALLAGHER
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ASIN: 097589921X
Release Date: 2005-07-20

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A historical novel of: Fighting in Korean War; Zealous commanding general at Stateside post; McCarthy communist spy hunt; Politics at home; Romance.

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A Novel About The Korean War and The McCarthy Spy Hunt.......2007-04-15

Author John H. Gallagher takes on the military and even Senator Joe McCarthy in his historical fictionalized story about the Korean War "Grady's Tour". Most books do not take on such a complete stretch of history, in this case, four years that covers both the war and afterwards.

The book has some great action sequences in Korea that will satisfy almost all military buffs who enjoy reading a good war novel. The book goes into an area that most writers of this genre do not. It deals with issues beyond the war itself and takes on the great spy hunt at home by people like Joe McCarthy. It raises some questions and it might open old historic wounds for some people.

Readers will get their money's worth; as the book is well over 500 pages long and is entertaining through out!

GRADY'S TOUR REVIEW.......2005-11-30

John Gallagher has written an outstanding fictional account of American military history --early 1950's era. Having been in Korea during the conflict,I feel the author hit the nail on the head. I sincerely hope there will be another "John Grady" novel.

Ron's review.......2005-11-01

This novel ranks with with Once an Eagle. It is a compelling pageturner that I found hard to put down. Well written and fast moving with military and historical accuracy this is a story of a four year tour of dury in the US Army just before and into the Korean War. No punches pulled about military screwups or battleground horrors. This book demands a sequel to tell us how John Grady continues in civilian life.

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Korea: Tour of Duty and Beyond
William B. Stedman
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Memories of a Tour of Duty: WWII in Europe

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Encore!!
A real story you must read!

Memories of a Tour of Duty: WWII in Europe
Earl S. Parker
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Encore!!.......2004-01-27

Earl is my great uncle and I can honestly say that I never had much interest towards WWII until I read his book. Knowing that he was in Germany and the ordeals he had to go through really put things into new perspectives for me. I applaud his writing and I encourage everyone who reads this to share in my great uncle's story.

A real story you must read!.......2002-05-25

As a child I knew Earl Parker. He was a friend of my fathers. I never knew of his experiences until I read this book. I found out about the everyday heroism that won the war: helping your buddies and maintaining your humanity when in inhuman situations. Earl's stories of surviving capture at the battle of the bulge are told in a matter of fact way that shows you the attitude of this generation. It was their duty to fight and to survive AND to retain their humanity. They risked their lives for their families, friends and freedom and we owe them a debt. This is a simple narrative that inspires me, especially since I knew the man. His strength, his simple leadership and his humility provide an example to us all.

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