A New York City homicide detective discusses the real world and work of a dedicated police investigator, shedding light on such notorious cases as the Central Park Jogger Case, the Preppie Murder, and the Baby Maldonado Case.

Manhattan North Homicide: Detective First Grade Thomas McKenna Nypd

Biographies & Memoirs

Harrington, William

McKenna, Thomas

Professionals & Academics

St Martins Pr

Firsthand accounts of New York City's most notorious cases are told from the perspectives of its elite officers and includes descriptions of the Central Park Jogger case, the Preppie Murder, and the Baby Maldonado case. Original.

Manhattan North Homicide (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in what became known as the Easter Offensive. Almost all of the American forces had already withdrawn from Vietnam except for a small group of American advisers to the South Vietnamese armed forces. The 23rd ARVN Infantry Division and its American advisers were sent to defend the provincial capital of Kontum in the Central Highlands. They were surrounded and attacked by three enemy divisions with heavy artillery and tanks but, with the help of air power, managed to successfully defend Kontum and prevent South Vietnam from being cut in half and defeated.Although much has been written about the Vietnam War, little of it addresses either the Easter Offensive or the Battle of Kontum. In Kontum: The Battle to Save South Vietnam, Thomas P. McKenna fills this gap, offering the only in-depth account available of this violent engagement. McKenna, a U.S. infantry lieutenant colonel assigned as a military adviser to the 23rd Division, participated in the battle of Kontum and combines his personal experiences with years of interviews and research from primary sources to describe the events leading up to the invasion and the battle itself.Kontum sheds new light on the actions of U.S. advisers in combat during the Vietnam War. McKenna's book is not only an essential historical resource for America's most controversial war but a personal story of valor and survival.

Kontum: The Battle to Save South Vietnam (Battles and Campaigns)

History

Asia

The University Press of Kentucky

Praying With Vincent De Paul (Companions for the Journey)

Religion & Spirituality

Worship & Devotion

Word Among Us Pr

Saint Vincent de Paul models the fullness of a Christian life that is prayerfully active and actively prayerful.  He found and served God in the "anawim"-poor people, sick people, the abandoned outcasts in the countryside and in the cities.  Vincent will be a good companion to anyone who seeks balance between action and contemplation, between organizing good works and relying on divine providence, between intelligent activity and trusting surrender.

Praying with Vincent de Paul (Companions for the Journey)

Word Among Us Press

Moro Warrior: A Philippine Chieftain, an American Schoolmaster, and The Untold Story of the Most Remarkable Resistance Fighters of World War II in the Pacific

Armin Lear Press

Moro Warrior tells the remarkable true story of the Philippine Muslim (Moro) resistance fighters of World War II-the most successful and least-known guerrillas of the Pacific Theater. It is the story of Mohammad Adil, a sword-wielding warrior chieftain commissioned as a junior officer in Douglas MacArthur's guerrilla army while still a teenager. Confident in his secret protective powers learned from a Sufi master, Adil roamed the highland rainforests with a price on his head, attacking Japanese outposts, surviving ambushes, and gaining a reputation as a man who could not be killed.\nIt is also the story of the colonial official Edward Kuder, foster father to Mohammad Adil and a rare American friend to the Moros, who sheltered him during the Japanese occupation. Kuder was the sole chronicler of the early Moro resistance-an armed opposition so vigorous that the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army found themselves outfought time and again by Moro irregulars.\nWhen the soldiers of the Empire of Japan invaded their homeland, the Moros, sometimes with swords as their only weapons, bravely fought on alone after the rapid American surrender of the Philippines. At the urging of Edward Kuder, they later joined the American-led guerrilla movement that emerged in 1943 and served with distinction, but their exceptional contribution to the defeat of the Japanese occupiers and the liberation of the Philippines has never been properly acknowledged. Here, based on the vivid recollections of Mohammad Adil and the wartime writings of Edward Kuder, the extraordinary achievements and sacrifices of the Moro freedom fighters of Mindanao finally receive their full due.

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