My Hitch in Hell

My Hitch in Hell
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9781640121126
ISBN-13 : 1640121129
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis My Hitch in Hell by : Lester I. Tenney

Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the rest of the war as a slave laborer in Japanese prison camps. My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor’s epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable suffering. This edition features a new introduction and epilogue by the author. Purchase the audio edition.

A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow

A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 0792277295
ISBN-13 : 9780792277293
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow by : Tim Brookes

A noted cultural critic and NPR essayist offers a lively and provocative account of his hitchhiking odyssey across the United States, documenting his experiences along the way and reexamining America's onetime love affair with the road trip. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hell's Best Kept Secret

Hell's Best Kept Secret
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Publisher : Whitaker House
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9781603749923
ISBN-13 : 1603749926
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Hell's Best Kept Secret by : Ray Comfort

How many souls have you won to Christ? How many are still walking with the Lord? All, some, a few? The facts are: Evangelical success is at an all-time low. We’re producing more backsliders than true converts. The fall-away rate—from large crusades to local churches—is between 80 to 90 percent. Why are so many unbelievers turning away from the message of the gospel? Doesn’t the Bible tell us how to bring sinners to true repentance? If so, where have we missed it? The answer may surprise you. One hundred years ago, Satan buried the crucial key needed to unlock the unbeliever’s heart. Now Ray Comfort boldly breaks away from modern tradition and calls for a return to biblical evangelism. If you’re experiencing evangelical frustration over lost souls, unrepentant sinners, and backslidden “believers,” then look no further. This radical approach could be the missing dimension needed to win our generation to Christ.

My Hitch in Hell

My Hitch in Hell
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Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9781597973465
ISBN-13 : 1597973467
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis My Hitch in Hell by : Lester I. Tenney

My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor's epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable human suffering.

Bataan Death March

Bataan Death March
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 0803266561
ISBN-13 : 9780803266568
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Bataan Death March by : William Edwin Dyess

The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the U.S.-Filipino remnants surrendered to a far stronger force, they unwittingly placed themselves at the mercy of a foe who considered itself unimpaired by the Geneva Convention. The already ill and hungry survivors, including many wounded, were forced to march at gunpoint many miles to a harsh and oppressive POW c& many were murdered or died on the way in a nightmare of wanton cruelty that has made the term "Death March" synonymous with the Bataan peninsula. Among the prisoners was army pilot William E. Dyess. With a few others, Dyess escaped from his POW camp and was among the very first to bring reports of the horrors back to a shocked United States. His story galvanized the nation and remains one of the most powerful personal narratives of American fighting men. Stanley L. Falk provides a scene-setting introduction for this Bison Books edition. William E. Dyess was born in Albany, Texas. As a young army air forces pilot he was shipped to Manila in the spring of 1941. Shortly after his escape and return to the United States, Colonel Dyess was killed while testing a new airplane. He did not survive long enough to learn that he had been awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor.

Some Survived

Some Survived
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Publisher : Algonquin Books
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : 9781565128378
ISBN-13 : 1565128370
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Some Survived by : Manny Lawton

Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who had surrendered on Bataan had perished. But this is not a chronicle of despair. It is, instead, the story of how men can suffer even the most desperate conditions and, in their will to retain their humanity, triumph over appalling adversity. An epic of quiet heroism, Some Survived is a harrowing, poignant, and inspiring tale that lifts the heart.

The Courage to Remember

The Courage to Remember
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 0990638006
ISBN-13 : 9780990638001
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Courage to Remember by :

One of the last handful of survivors of World War II?s Bataan Death March, ninety-four-year-old Lester Tenney reveals how he finally triumphed over the tremendous emotional trauma caused by over three years of barbaric physical abuse as a prisoner of the Japanese. He details precisely how he dealt with and resolved his PTSD by using the same survival skills he employed in wartime -- his heart, mind, and positive spirit. This practical book is filled with hope, inspiration and encouragement, and proves it is not necessary to continue living with the pain of remembering. It is sure to help others suffering from trauma to live full and rewarding lives.

Blues Lessons

Blues Lessons
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 9780743236317
ISBN-13 : 0743236319
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Blues Lessons by : Robert Hellenga

Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself -- in the reassuring routines of growing and harvesting, spraying and pruning. Although his mother wants him to get out of Appleton, which she finds impossibly provincial, and attend a great university -- the University of Chicago, her alma mater -- he has no desire to leave. In the autumn of his junior year of high school, however, in the camp of the migrant workers who come north every year to pick the Dijksterhuis peaches and apples, Martin discovers his vocation, the country blues -- unsettling melodies that cry out from a place in the soul he never knew existed. He also falls in love with Corinna Williams, the strong-willed daughter of the black foreman who runs the Dijksterhuis orchards. His blues vocation and his love for Corinna are the two stories of his life. His struggle to combine them into a single story takes him a long way from home and from the life he had always envisioned for himself, and then it brings him back again in a way he could never have imagined. In this beautifully rendered novel, Robert Hellenga, author of The Sixteen Pleasures and The Fall of a Sparrow, explores the fragility of happiness, the difficulties of following one's calling in life, and the sorrows and satisfactions of being a parent.

Earth to Hell

Earth to Hell
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 502
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ISBN-10 : 9780062208941
ISBN-13 : 0062208942
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Earth to Hell by : Kylie Chan

Author Kylie Chan has a boldly, brazenly unique take on urban fantasy—she combines it with Kung Fu. In Earth to Hell, Chan launches the characters from her Dark Heavens trilogy (White Tiger, Red Phoenix, Blue Dragon) on a new adventure that will take them from the teeming streets of Hong Kong through the portals of Hell to set free a friend—as demons and devils rise up to challenge them in life-or-death battle, forcing Emma Donahoe Chen, wife of God of the Northern Heavens, to seek the help of a sworn foe, the fearsome Demon King. An irresistible blend of Chinese mythology, martial arts action, and ingenious invention, Earth to Hell is a treat for Kung Fu movie fans; for readers of Lilith Saintcrow, Liz Williams, Karen Chance, Devon Monk, and Ilona Andrews; and for anyone who desires a different kind of fantasy.

Hell for Hire

Hell for Hire
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 1530185211
ISBN-13 : 9781530185214
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Hell for Hire by : Remington Kane

From REMINGTON KANE HELL FOR HIRE - A Tanner Novel - Book 13 Tanner runs into a complication while fulfilling a contract. The complication is a ten-year-old boy named Henry, who saw too much.