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Once An Eagle
Anton Myrer Manufacturer: HarperTorch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0061030864 Release Date: 2001-04-03 |
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America's fighting men have turned to Once an Eagle as a sourcebook for the military's core values since its publication at the height of the Vietnam War. The novel, following the careers of virtuous Sam Damon and opportunistic Courtney Massengale, is required reading for all members of the United States Marine Corps and frequently taught in leadership courses at West Point.Book Description
Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self interest. Massengale, however, brilliantly advances by making the right connections behind the lines and in Washington's corridors of power.
Beginning in the French countryside during the Great War, the conflict between these adversaries solidifies in the isolated garrison life marking peacetime, intensifies in the deadly Pacific jungles of World War 11, and reaches its treacherous conclusion in the last major battleground of the Cold War -- Vietnam.
A study in character and values, courage, nobility, honesty, and selflessness, here is an unforgettable story about a man who embdies the best in our nation -- and in us all.
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A cliche, but this is a must read for those interested in military life........2007-08-03
A military epic for all time.......2007-07-02
Great Book.......2007-01-10
Interesting.......2006-08-17
A tale of a soldier's soldier.......2006-06-06
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Once an Eagle
Anton Myrer Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart, Winston ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: B000IG2VCQ |
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Once They Were Eagles: The Men of the Black Sheep Squadron
Frank E. Walton Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0813108756 |
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The Black Sheep Squadron.......2007-04-26
GREAT history of the Men of the Black Sheep Squadron.......2003-09-01
A more honest look than TV, but then, what isn't?.......2001-09-27
Perhaps the biggest fault in the book is Walton's almost non-telling of Boyington's troubled life. He originally left the Marine Aviators days before they would have put him out for unbecoming conduct and he left the Flying Tigers for much the same reason. This highly skilled combat pilot and gifted leader of men was deeply troubled and it manifested itself in his drinking and unpredictable fighting. Playing it down adds nothing to Walton's attempt to "set the record straight" for the rest of the squadron.
Given the resources at his command, his personal friendship with all 51 original members of the group and his intimate friendship with Boyington, one would have expected a better result. Walton's stated purpose was to clear the record for the men, to present them as the men of ability, honor and skill that they were. In this regard, he does succeed.
Very good book.......2000-04-14
It also gives a terrific look into the people behind the personas of the Black Sheep, especially Pappy Boyington. The writer does a good job of relating the respect that his men had for him as well as about the team of pilots the Black Sheep were.
A very good read for a very good price.
Different Point Of View.......1999-03-28
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Once an Eagle
Anton Myrer Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart And Winston ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: B000NUFI2M |
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Once An Eagle, by Anton Myrer.......2007-10-17
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Once an Eagle
Anton Myrer Manufacturer: Berkley Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000FF42FE |
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A Berkley Medallion Book
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Once Upon a Wedding
Kathleen Eagle Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: B0001GMSXK |
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Mom, Dad, I'm getting married.What do you do when your daughter tells you the big news? If you're Camille Delonga, you fight the urge to go lie down for a year or so ... and then you do what any self-respecting mother of the bride would -- you march right out and buy a sky-high stack of bridal magazines. Once upon a Wedding In award-winning author Kathleen Eagle's astonishing and warm new novel, we see just what happens to Camille, her family, and her friends when her beautiful and young daughter, Jordan, speaks those unforgettable words. After all, weddings are a time of unbelievable joy, a few tender tears -- and sometimes one huge headache. So Camille ignores the thought that her baby is simply too young to take such a big step and throws herself into action. There are flower arrangements to be chosen, favors to be lovingly created by her own two hands ... and lives to be put in order. And one of those disorganized lives belongs to her irrepressible, irresponsible, and somehow still irresistibleex-husband.When they were younger -- as young as Jordan is now -- Camille loved Creed Burke with all her heart and soul. This passionate Lakota swept her off her feet and right to the justice of the peace. Their wedding had been hurried, private ... nothing like the extravaganza their daughter is now planning.Creed is a musician who never seems to stay in one place long enough. Yet his wanderlust has never quite quenched his and Camille's passion for each other or his love for their daughter. But it did unravel their marriage. Now after years of cordial and casual, Camille finds that Creed is invading every aspect of her life. When she comes down for breakfast, he's sitting at the table helping himself to coffee. And when she goes out on the town with her girlfriends, he's sure to show up and ask her for a long, slow dance. Slowly but surely, Creed is weaving himself back into the fabric of her life. And their daughter's upcoming wedding brings back so many tender, tempting, and confusing memories of their own fiery union.Her two best girlfriends aren't much help. "Maybe it'll all work out," says gentle Ellie, a not-so-closet romantic who is clearly hoping for a reconciliation. "Don't trust him!" warns Bridget. But can you really trust someone whose husband has just stormed out of the house? As for Camille's own mother, Rosie, who is facing a serious illness and still has an expectant gleam in her eye and a soft spot in her heart for her ex-son-in-law, she declares Life's too short to pass up another shot at happiness.So when the big day arrives Camille realizes there is only one answer: follow her heart. But where will it take her?Kathleen Eagle has written an extraordinary story, filled with the complexity of female friendships, the tempestousness of the mother-daughter relationship, and the power of everlasting love. Anyone who has ever been a mother, daughter, friend, or lover will never forget Once upon a Wedding.Customer Reviews:
I couldn't make it past page 60..........2002-09-25
The story was forgettable with forgettable characters. Camille and her friends are in their late forties, but act and speak like they are in their eighties. Frump this; frump that.
Camille, who is openly concerned and whiny about her daughter dropping out of college, doesn't bat an eyelash when the daughter announces she is going to marry a childhood crush she met the day before at a wedding. Huh? If you are going to whine about something, this would be a good thing to crank about.
I don't know what happens in the end. Maybe she gets upset. I don't know...I couldn't make it past page 60.
If you like gather-around-the-girlfriends chick books flavored with a beige plot, this book is for you. If not, save your money and buy one of her other books.
Not what I'd expected or hoped.......2002-07-25
I value her writing for its deep insights into the human heart, emotional honesty and intensity, social consciousness, admirable and irresistible heroes, and the fact that most of her heroines must be Virgos like me. ;-)
So, it is with a sigh that I see that the trend I detected in The Last Good Man - away from romance and toward the kind of women's issues novels that Barbara Delinsky and Patricia Gaffney and many others also have embraced - is continuing. I sigh, because I find women's issues novels really, really boring ... but that's my bias, and obviously one many women don't share, or good novelists wouldn't find their editors encouraging them to write that kind of thing.
Once Upon A Wedding is about three generations of women and women friends, and only peripherally about a mature (nearly 50) woman discovering that she still loves her gifted, charming but unambitious ex-husband. I was reminded now and again of LaVyrle Spencer's Bygones in terms of situation, but not in impact, because I also wondered if Ms. Eagle was as bored by the constraints of this style as I am ... I experienced no deep involvement, no pangs, no real concerns about the people involved, no real liking, actually, for anyone in the book but Rosemary, with her cancer treatments and eBay addiction.
After Night Remembers and Sunrise Song, This Time Forever and Reason to Believe it's deeply disappointing to find Ms. Eagle's novels getting shorter and more superficial, apparently turning away from the things that draw me to read and re-read all of her earlier books, not just the mass market ones I mentioned above.
eloping is simpler!.......2002-07-25
A womanly read, about articulate women well versed in relationships; unafraid to murmur awful things to each other, & make up afterwards - it is rich with textures, scents, family scenes, rueful memories & second chances at happiness, at getting it right. Will they take the plunge?
Universal Truths with Heart.......2002-07-18
It's Different, But I Liked It.......2002-07-18
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Once They Were Eagles
Frank E. Walton Manufacturer: Pocket ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0671643096 |
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5 Titles By Kathleen Eagle - Carved in Stone - What the Heart Knows - Once Upon a Wedding - Fire and Rain - This Time Forever
Kathleen Eagle Manufacturer: various ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000M2A28Q |
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5 massmarket paperbacks Titles By Kathleen Eagle - Carved in Stone - What the Heart Knows - Once Upon a Wedding - Fire and Rain - This Time Forever
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JOHNSTOWN FLOOD; ONCE AN EAGLE; ANNIE, COME HOME; SARANG
Manufacturer: READERS DIGEST ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000IK2HLM |
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Once an Eagle
Anton Myrer Manufacturer: Berkley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000M52K6U |
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Evolution Not Revolution: Aligning Corporate Technology with Corporate Strategy to Increase Market Valuation
John Logan Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0071412964 |
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The day when information system leaders and business executives could function blissfully in their own isolated worlds is long gone--if indeed it ever really existed. John R. Logan's Evolution Not Revolution emphasizes why such professionals must now work closely together and outlines a series of six related competencies to help them do it. Logan, founder and CEO of the Aberdeen Group consulting company, says separation between these managers winds up producing a negative drag on performance that could be eliminated by introducing "a common set of management goals and principles for both to follow." Hinging everything on an overall corporate-wide information-age executive skill he dubs "emagineering," Logan spells out his approach to planning, deploying, operating, and measuring the advanced technological steps that spring from his suggested core proficiencies: fulfill the public's shifting demands, forge ties with existing customers and attract new ones, develop a common vision with business partners, maximize economic returns, execute functions on-time throughout the organization, and introduce technical operations necessary for a secure and flexible information system. "Connect the known, the suspected, and the new together," he writes, "and you will surely have the next great idea for improving the value of your company." --Howard RothmanBook Description
John R. Logan, the visionary founder of the Aberdeen Group consulting firm, has launched a call to arms for executives and managers with Evolution Not Revolution. In this book, Logan challenges executives and managers to use IT as a powerful tool to create and execute superior strategies that will help develop:
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Review: Weak Content/Could Have Been Useful 5 Years Ago.......2004-07-05
I think Logan has done a decent job of outlining some IT adoption problems in corporations. Like some of the other reviewers have said, however, the book is simply not useful for large corporatations. It seems like Logan has always been a consultant. Never appreciating the politics and bureaucracy the IT department has to go through to implement new IT initiatives.
These guys like Logan come in with pie in the sky dreams. Fact of the matter is, we IT executives need to focus on getting maximum benefit out of minimum capital. The book simply expects too much. Dreaming.
Maybe business execs could read the book and get more out of it. But Logan is a soporiphic writer. I stopped used sleeping pills. All I needed to do was read a chapter of this book and I'd sleep well:)
Logan's problem is that he is writing a book for IT execs that he should be writing for business executives. He should have written the book with more succinct sentences. He should have cut the book in half at least.
Business guys don't like technology for the most part. To get them to pick up a boring and long book to teach them how to use IT is impossible.
That is the main problem with Logan's stuff -- ok content, terribly written, geared for the wrong audience, and pie in the sky dreams.
Overall, I would not recommend reading this book, unless you are having problems sleeping.
Maybe it would have been pertinent if I had actually gotten around to reading it when it was sent to me. The fact of the matter is that the book is now outdated.
Pass.......2004-04-28
First chapter, good. Then the book got worse and worse. Clearly, the author has never worked in a large organization. He has no idea the difficulties facing CIOs in large and small companies. So while Login's ideas are ok, they have no benefit in the real corporate world in America.
But the book is not academic enough (i.e. good enough) for universities to use this.
I would NOT recommend this book. It is another one of those non-acadmemic, non-thought provoking books that just is not grounded in reality.
Fake Reviews/OK Book.......2004-04-05
That is not right. Amazon should do something about this to ensure the integrity of these reviews.
Anyhoo, this book is decent. I'd recommend this book to mid-level managers in big firms who went to college after the tech revolution. Might have good insights for you.
But for a small firm these ideas dont work. And if you already are even broderline tech savvy, this book is not good. Basically just rehashes what everyone already knows.
If this book were written in the mid90s i would have recommended it to more people. But frankly, it is outdated now. This book came out a decade late.
I give it two stars. not horrible but not worht the money.
Dubious Reviews.......2004-03-22
Logan's book has some decent insights. Heck, he is right, more business and IT execs have to work together. Too many IT ventures fail.
But the book is terribly boring, even for a techie as an author.
The editor should have made the writing better.
I might give 2 stars to this, but those previous 3 reviews were soooo fake, I gotta give it 1 star to counterbalance those fake reviews.
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R. Logan John Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OFKD3A |
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John R. Logan Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OGEUE2 |
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