The Marine Sergeant made famous in FULL METAL JACKETGrowing up, Ermey was known as a mischievous teenager. This behavior continued to progress as he got further into his teenage years. He was frequently in trouble with the law, arrested twice by the time he had turned 17. He was charged with criminal mischief both times, and the judge then gave him an ultimatum -- Go to jail or join the military. He was allowed to choose which branch.This was the start of Ermey's dedicated 1...

How This Book Helps YouThis book gives you, the IELTS Test candidate, detailed guidance on how you can improve your IELTS Writing Task 2 Test band score.The IELTS Writing Task 2 Test is no different from any other exam or test type. There are techniques, which can be practised and which will place candidates in a better position to answer each given question type.This book teaches you those techniques for the IELTS Writing Task 2 Test.

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This book gives IELTS Test candidates, detailed guidance on how to improve their IELTS Reading Test band scores.The IELTS Reading Test is no different from any other exam or test type. There are techniques which, if practised, will place candidates in a better position to answer each given question type.This book teaches IELTS candidates those techniques for the IELTS Reading Test.

How This Book Helps YouThis book gives you, the IELTS Test candidate, detailed guidance on how you can improve your IELTS Writing Task 1 (Academic) Test band score.The IELTS Writing Task 1 (Academic) Test is no different from any other exam or test type. There are techniques, which can be practised and which will place candidates in a better position to answer each given question type.This book teaches you those techniques for the IELTS Writing Task...

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In this book you will get the 10 Insider IELTS tricks that more than 500 students have already used to score their 7 or higher on IELTS.This book is for the student who is stuck at a band score of 6 or 6.5 and is ready to move to a 7 or higher. Our tricks show you exactly what you need to do to increase your score on the Academic or the General Exam. Every trick is directly linked to the way the examiner grades your exam.You'll learn:* Why you must have an overall tr...

The author of Black Hawk Down vividly recounts a pivotal Vietnam War battle in this New York Times bestseller: "An extraordinary feat of journalism". —Karl Marlantes, Wall Street JournalIn Hue 1968, Mark Bowden presents a detailed, day-by-day reconstruction of the most critical battle of the Tet Offensive. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched attacks across South Vietnam. The lynchpin of this campa...

Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us into the skies of World War II aviation, flying aboard the crowded and dangerous B-24 bombers as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine and secured Allied victory.The young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II fought against horrific odds, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary heroism, skill, daring...

“Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. “Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war,” he writes. It didn’t remain that way for long.A year later, after boot c...

Imagine being one of a 7-man team in the middle of a jungle where any person you might encounter will try to kill you. This is enemy territory, inhabited by an unknown number of enemy combatants. You might encounter 1 or 2 of the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese Army or just as easily 50 or more. In addition, there is the danger of man-eating tigers and poisonous snakes! Your mission is to find the enemy without them finding you. You are to report their position so that artillery batteries, b...

True tales of heroism and the men who fought and died in the skies of World War II Europe.In World War II, there were all too many ways for a fighting man to die. But no theater of operations offered more fatal choices than the skies above Nazi-occupied Europe. Inside of a B-17 Bomber, thousands of feet above the earth, death was always a moment away. From the hellish storms of enemy flak and relentless strafing of Luftwaffe fighters, to mid-air collisions, mechani...