Iraq War history — Desert Storm, the Gulf War, and the road to the 2003 Iraq invasion. Narrative American military history of the Middle East, 1990-2003. Colin Powell, George H.W. Bush, and the decisions that shaped America's longest wars.At two in the morning on August 2, 1990, approximately a hundred thousand Iraqi soldiers crossed into Kuwait with more than two thousand tanks. By mid-morning, the Kuwaiti royal family had fled and Iraqi forces controlled the oil ...

Gerald Thomas is the perfect mixture of a streetwise kid and a highbrow intellectual, a blend that is bound to create something intense. From the cheerful samba sessions in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, which he attended enthusiastically, to the cerebral opera houses in Germany, which he scandalized with his exceptional performances, everything in the life of this enfant terrible sounds like a human parade you want to join immediately, a Dionysian feast to which even Apollo would plead for ...

**In 1991, America won a war in the desert in just 100 hours — clean, decisive, triumphant.** Twelve years later, it marched back into Iraq and stumbled into a quagmire still bleeding consequences today. What happened in between? And how did the world's only superpower go from triumph to catastrophe? If you lived through Desert Storm, Shock and Awe, and "Mission Accomplished" but never understood how the pieces actually fit together — the WMD that weren't there, the insurgency no one predi...

Answering the Call to become a minister, the author begins his journey as a camp counselor at church summer-camp. But the lure of a career in radio broadcasting wins his attention away from God's plan. Eight years after graduating from college and working at radio stations, he returns to the Call but this time decides to pursue God's plan rather than his own.After successfully completing seminary and accepting a call to pastor a small Texas congregation, and doing so for four years...

In this small book, I try to encompass different moods and experiences. I focus on the things that excite me, and, also, on the things that give me pause and cause me to wonder about my world. The themes in the series on experience, are based on the human condition: in poems like “Homeless in Herald Square,” and “The Acts of Humankind,” and inner reflection: in poems like “Escape,” and “Death.” The themes in the series based on communication, include everyday news that is distributed through ...

SANDS OF WAR — Audiobook · Narrated by Gabriel Castillo. Listen time: 4 hours 44 minutes Iraq War history — Desert Storm, the Gulf War, and the road to the 2003 Iraq invasion. Narrative American military history of the Middle East, 1990-2003. Colin Powell, George H.W. Bush, and the decisions that shaped America's longest wars. At two in the morning on August 2, 1990, approximately a hundred thousand Iraqi soldiers crossed into Kuwait with more than two thousand tanks. By mid-morning, th...

Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in American history—an enemy who brought the United States what President George W. Bush called “a day of fire,” and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a nighttime raid at the end of a dirt road in Pakistan, the hunt for Bin Laden ended with a gunshot. It was a dramatic climax to a long and painful chapter.But now what? The terrorist threat that has def...

In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult. Combining the no-holds-barred confess...

A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border. Major American cities are leveled by black-market nukes. China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown. Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons. What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How will we respond? Are we prepared?These are the questions that Andrew F. Krepinevich asks—and answers—in this timely and often chilling book. As a military expert and consultant, Krepinevic...

Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features ninety black-and-white images of classic artwork and never-before-published Polaroid images, and is a remarkable glimpse of a man who, in his quest to become an artist, instead became an icon...

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge." Now, in The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror. Kilcullen takes us "on the ground" to uncover the face of modern warfare, i...

A modern-day bildungsroman, featuring a young woman on a quest to discover her family history as she is torn between the US and Spain, the old world and the new.Told with humor, candor, and grit, Madrid Again is a highly original novel, and an homage to the haunting power of history, and how it shapes the identity of two generations of women.Madrid, 1960s. Odilia is a brilliant young student who seems to have it all until she is un...