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Title: Back in the World_ Stories Author: Tobias Wolff File Type: Mobi Subject:Short Stories Description: To American soldiers in Vietnam, back in the world meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolffs characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace.Stories included are The Missing Person, Say Yes, The Poor Are Always With Us, Sister, Soldiers Joy, Desert Breakdown, Our Story Begins, Leviathan, and The Rich Brother. Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller.--Tim OBrien

Title: Crooked House Author: Agatha Christie File Type: Mobi

Title: Every Man a Tiger_ The Gulf War Air Campaign Author: Tom Clancy File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction:War Description:Amazon.com ReviewThis Tom Clancy real-life military thriller is more nuanced than his novels, because its object is not simply to dramatize armed conflict but to relate the life lessons of his source, jet-pilot-turned-Desert-Storm-air-commander General Chuck Horner. Horner is no war cheerleader like General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove. He loathes the arrogance of the backwards, nuke-happy Strategic Air Command and the madly out-of-touch Vietnam War planner Robert McNamara. McNamara confesses his folly in two books, __ and strong, but Horners you-are-there account more vividly demonstrates Vietnams grim lessons. He flew an F-105 Thunderbird Thud fighter in the Wild Weasels, the unit with the highest medals-per-aircrew ratio, knew pilots who were stoned to death by villagers, and realized all the bombing did zero good. All we really had to do was befriend Ho, says Horner sensibly. Seems he wasnt part of a monolithic Communist plot, and hated the Chinese more than anything else. Horner is savvy about the screwups, the achievements, and the political maneuvering in and after the Gulf War, as leaders and branches of service battled for PR victories. His idea of a hero is Boomer McBrooms pilot Captain Gentner Drummond, who won a Flying Cross medal for refusing AWACS orders to down a jet that turned out to be a Saudi ally. Horner thinks the interservice and international cooperation in the Gulf War was way better than in Vietnam, but theres ample room for improvement. The action scenes arent quite as brilliant as those in strong, but Clancy fans will find plenty to admire. Horners improbable survival of a 150-m.p.h. near-crash in Libya in 1962 belongs in a Tom Clancy film. --Tim AppeloFrom Publishers WeeklyClancys second study in high command of the U.S. armed forces (after Into the Storm, written with Army general Fred Franks) focuses on Air Force general Chuck Horner, the fighter pilot who was overall air commander for Desert ShieldDesert Storm. This book is less about the Gulf War than about the making of a modern fighter general and the remaking of a modern air force. Horner was part of a new Air Force generation that rejected the Strategic Air Command model of predictability, order and control in favor of a holistic approach to air power and air command. A firm believer in central control of air assets, Horner also regarded traditional distinctions between strategic and tactical air as no longer relevant. What mattered was the appropriate situational use of air power in an integrated war plan. The main text demonstrates Horners success in implementing his concepts over Iraq. Though the narrative offers no startling insights or revelations, the authors make the important contribution of presenting command friction as a natural consequence of interaction among senior officers with high intelligence and strong wills. The implication is clear to succeed in an unpredictable international environment, Americas armed forces will need tigers at their head. Tigers are dangerous. They challenge each other. They take issue with higher wisdom and higher authority. And, according to the authors, they can be replaced by safely neutered house cats only at the countrys peril. 500,000 first printing $500,000 adpromo BOMC main selection author tour. br 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.