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Book Preview: A lot has been written about World War II: the triumphs, the
tribulations, and the horrors. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down
(2021) includes all three, as he covers the incredible story of
Joseph "Joe" Moser, an American pilot who survived his stay
at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Buchenwald is one of the most infamous German
concentration camps, not for its sheer...
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#1 On January 26, 1977, Melanie Flynn, a part-time referee, called her father to ask for a directory of Kentucky high school coaches. She never arrived home for dinner that night. Two days later, her boss called her family to find out where she was.
#2 In 1975, Melanie had decided to embark on a singing career. She hooked up with an older, married man who paid...
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#1 I was to be the world's only official wolf interpreter. But government funding did not come through for the position, so I had to give it up. I proposed that the position be privately funded, and it worked.
#2 I was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1950s. I spent my first ten years in the nearby small rural town of Billerica. I had an idyllic childhood there,...
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#1 Sue Levitt, who lived in New York City, was a fan of the radio show Grand Central Station. She would spend hours listening to the show and daydreaming about life in the fictional train terminal.
#2 Sue's family was very loving and supportive, but they weren't wealthy. They lived in a pre-war building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and her mother worked as a...
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#1 The seductress is a scarlet inkblot, a Rorschach of our deepest sexual fears and fantasies. She's the blond bimbette in a string bikini, the stacked vamp in Spandex, the Chanel-suited nymphobitch of Sullivan Cromwell. But we've been gulled by chimeras, and we need to demystify and rehabilitate this lost tribe of sexy potentates.
#2 The seductress is a modern-day...
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#1 In August 2015, the Disney hotel in Anaheim, California, hosted the annual meeting of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. Hundreds of forensic psychologists, police officers, and other security experts traveled from around the country to share strategies to head off psychopaths, rapists, and mass murderers.
#2 The twelve hundred or so members of ATAP,...
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#1 The creation of the mortgage-backed security allowed Wall Street to scoop up loans made to people who were buying homes, and then resell the bundle to investors.
#2 The American Dream is synonymous with homeownership. Government policy has long encouraged homeownership, and it has been a statement about values as well as upward mobility.
#3 Fannie Mae and Freddie...
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#1 My mother, Cloerinda Jean Johnson Porter-Ford, was born with a degenerative neurological condition that no doctor or specialist could name. She had to wait until the civil rights movement to sue for medical malpractice, and even then, the courts did not care about black lives.
#2 My mother was born with a disability, and she was treated like a outcast throughout her elementary...
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#1 The Oatman family, who were heading to California, spent their last night on an island in the Gila River in Mexico. They had left their farm in Illinois in May of 1850, joined twenty other families in Missouri in July, and by February of 1851, they were alone in what would become southwestern Arizona.
#2 The Oatman family was saved from starvation by a traveling entomologist...
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#1 The world has dropped out from under me, so I am relieved and euphoric. I can just be, not do anything, and not have to go on tour.
#2 I can finally stop doing anything, and I feel relief, euphoria, and guilt.
#3 I have an utterly ruthless relationship to my words.
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#1 Burl Richard Snider had traveled half a lifetime from the hotel in San Ysidro. He had gone from the U. S. Border Patrol to service as a park policeman on the other side of America, in Washington, D. C. He had remarried, returned west, and had two more children.
#2 The American government had, by 1976, publicly commented that the alien situation appeared almost hopeless....
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#1 The United States developed a superpower military under Marshall, and it has remained that way for the past seven decades. His concept of what makes a good general still influences the promotions today's leaders give to younger officers.
#2 George Marshall was the chief of staff of the US Army, and he was born in 1901. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute...
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#1 Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, was the illegitimate son of Jacob and Polly. He was born in a log cabin and was the representative of the people. His poverty was not genteel, and he was seen as white trash by the better sort. His family had to sell the labor of their children to a third party in desperation.
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#1 I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and after a few weeks my family moved to Japan. I had a Japanese nanny, Sato-san, who taught me my first word: o-heso, which is Japanese for belly button.
#2 My parents were very young when they got married. They had me when they were both just twenty-two years old. They were very young, and it was decided that I should stay with my...
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#1 The author met with Tom Norris, who was in-country to check on two of his Sea Commando teams, and was soaked from the humidity. He was greeted at the MACVSOG compound by Craig Dorman, who was glad to finally meet him.
#2 Tom's first combat tour as assistant platoon OIC was with SEAL Team Two in Vietnam in 1970. He was aggressive, but he always listened to his senior...
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Book Preview: #1 I was a SEAL by 1998 but making it through the selection and training course for DEVGRU was the pinnacle of my career. The nine-month selection course was known as Green Team, and it was the only thing between me and the other candidates moving up to the elite DEVGRU.
#2 I was embarrassed and disappointed with myself after forgetting to tell my teammate to move in...
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#1 The birth was approaching, and Carol was feeling more and more bloated by the hour. She was also having a hard time getting in and out of cars, as her pregnancy had become noticeable. But the most important thing was that she was going to give her husband a son.
#2 Carol was a happy, cheerful person by nature. She rarely dwelled on negatives. She was a top student...
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#1 I remember the feeling of fear I had when the doctor pulled my gown up to check for injuries. I was seven at the time, and had no idea what had happened, but I knew something was very wrong.
#2 I was taken away by the sherriff, and I don't remember talking to Dr. Boudreaux. I was eventually led away by the sheriff, holding Lecia, who had pretended to be asleep.
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#1 The tanks were in place, and the soldiers began to prepare for the ambush. The soldiers were spread out in a half-moon formation with 20 yards between each tank.
#2 The 3rd Armored Division was behind enemy lines, and their mission was to guard the road. They were to let nothing pass. The men were exhausted, and the Spearhead Division was earning its nom de guerre:...
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