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Look Out Below!
A veteran of the Second World War and the Korean War, Francis L. Sampson was a real-life hero whose exploits inspired one of the most famous war films of all time, Saving Private Ryan. From rural beginnings in northwestern Iowa, Sampson's life would take him from the University of Notre Dame to the battlefields of Normandy on D-Day, the ambitious failure of Operation Market Garden, the harshness of a winter as a POW of the Germans during the closing stages of the Second World War, to the fall of North Korean capital Pyongyang in the early stages of the Korean War. Part of the very rare breed of Parachute Chaplains, in his case with the 101 st Airborne Division, Sampson spent much of his career as an army chaplain in the center of maelstroms of the 20 th century. Throughout it all, Sampson offered a valuable Christian witness in the darkest of times and the most difficult of circumstances. This second edition of his memoirs, Look Out Below! contains material on his service during the Korean War and occupation duty in Germany and Japan as well as the Second World War, with a new historical introduction by University of Scranton Professor Sean Brennan.
The Fighting Padre
"The fighting padre is a collection of extracts from Pat Leonard's letters which provide an exceptional description of life in the front line. They were written during his service as a chaplain to the forces in France, Belgium, and, after the Armistice, in Germany. Leonard served through the Great War with the infantry and Royal Flying Corps. Along with the many hundreds of letters he wrote to the relatives of those 'parishioners' who died or were wounded, he found time to describe for his parents back home the awful reality of life in the trenches. Later he wrote from the Royal Flying Corps' makeshift aerodromes which, despite the great danger of aerial combat, 'liberated his spirit' from the mud of Flanders"--Jacket.
The Padre (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Padre I applied at the very beginning of things. I just wrote a note in August 1914 offering my services as a chaplain. I thought I knew something about Tommies, having acted as chaplain to a Regimental Depot for six years. After an interval I was told that the powers that be had already made all arrange ments. I had dreams of doing many things. First I had a dream of being a combatant Officer. Then I joined the Volunteer Training Corps. That went on for months. And still the Germans were not beaten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Il mistero delle sette sfere
Si chiama drd4-7r, è la variante di un gene di Homo sapiens, presente nel 20% di noi, ed è quella che spiegherebbe la nostra inarrestabile spinta a esplorare: così la genetica ci spiega perché noi, unici superstiti del genere Homo e forse unica razza intelligente della nostra galassia, siamo diventati «cosmopoliti invasivi», come topi o scarafaggi, in continua espansione. Lasciata l'Africa, figli di un'unica Eva vissuta 143.000 anni fa, in poche decine di migliaia di anni abbiamo esplorato tutto il pianeta, occupandolo fino al suo ultimo pezzettino, la cima dell'Everest, nel 1953. Nel 1961, comincia l'espansione fuori dal nostro pianeta: Yuri Gagarin va in orbita, e dopo altri otto ann...
Padre Porko
A collection of nine folktales about Padre Porko originated from Nothern Spain.
A Christmas Truce
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