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When William Bradford Huie, a reporter for H. L. Mencken's American Mercury, joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, he received a commission as a public relations officer in the little-known Civil Engineer Corps' Construction Battalions - the Seabees - and the following year published this account of their landing with the Marines at Guadalcanal and Wake Island, Sicily and Salerno. As readable and entertaining today as it was some fifty years ago, it tells the story of these civilian engineers, carpenters, steam-shovel operators, plumbers, truck drivers, surveyors, and the like, who landed with the first waves of American assault troops, not only in the Pacific but also in Europe and Africa, bringing heavy equipment ashore to build roads, bridges, and airfields and repairing whatever they could. Often working under enemy fire, they incurred many casualties and won the deep respect of everyone who came into contact with them.

Nobel Prize-winner Derek Walcott is the world's most eminent living poet; Peter Doig the world's most coveted living painter. Through a long-standing friendship and creative affinity the two great artists have collaborated to produce a stunning full-colour book of fifty paintings and original poems in response to those paintings. A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable. In" The Golden Compass, " readers meet 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing Speculum Anni 1662 Being the Second After Bissextile or Leap-Year, Or, an Almanack Fitted for Both Sea-Men and Land-Men Wherein Is Contained the Places Both of Sun and Moon and a Tide Table (1662) free epub up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford, England. It quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own nor is her world. In Lyra's world, everyone has a personal daemon, a lifelong animal familiar. This is a world in which science, theology and magic are closely intertwined.

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Author: Wiliam B. Huie
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Published Date: 14 Nov 1997
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Publication Country: Annopolis, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781557503794
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