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Paperback. Zustand: Good. In 1954 on the remote jungle battlefield of Dien Bien Phu, the communist Vietminh defeated French Colonialism. The pursuing peace was only a pause between conflicts on the Indochinese Peninsula, sustainable peace a myth. Beneath the surface of perpetual wars, Corsican syndicates, Vietnamese gangsters, and the CIA postured for control of the Laotian opium trade. American puppets under an anti-communist banner, exploited the populous. Communist extracted a heavy penance from Western collaborators. Winning hearts and minds competed with death's harvest. Crawling out of the French garrison Isabelle, Max Kohl a German in the French Foreign Legion plunges into this lethal world. As a boy soldier of the Third Reich, his Nazi mentors taught him the military skills to survive. Haunted by past anti-Semitic sins, he drifts on the tides of continuous Indochina conflicts.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his new historical epic, the prequel to The Man who Walked out of Isabelle, J. C. Bourg explores the receding tide of the Second World War and the new world order that surfaces. His detailed research takes you back to the various theaters of that conflict and the swelling Asian communist insurgence. In the waning days of World War II, seventeen-year-old Max Kohl, a German in the 12th Panzer Division, became a soldier without a country. French Holocaust survivor Jean Guillian existed to avenge his family's demise. Pacific island hopping Marine Lieutenant Tom Roche realized he can never go home. And Free France's attempt to reclaim its Indochina colonies turned Hmong tribesman Moua Loc's world into a battlefield. Quest stimulated in the aftermath of the global conflict, sends the unlikely quartet on separate odysseys toward the crossroads of the First Indochina War.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Thailand in the early '80s, American veteran Reno James exists untethered in an expat world of sunny beaches, cold beer, and beautiful girls. Intent on padding his bank account to secure his place in this exiled paradise, he jumps at the chance to profit from an illegal weapons venture and finds himself caught up in the Sri Lankan civil war. Exposing the underbelly of the religious conflict, Feeding the Tiger follows Reno and his fellow battle-scarred expats-surfer and former CIA assassin Longboard and one-legged former Airborne Ranger Raymond Marshall-as they try to expedite the arms deal so they can pay back the notorious Chinese triad that helped them get the contract. In war-torn Sri Lanka, however, things take an unexpected turn when Reno meets recently divorced Sandy, a Dutch surgeon volunteering with Doctors Without Borders. Separated from his partner, Longboard reverts to his training to get out alive. Meanwhile, back in Thailand, the triad is getting restless for its money. But when the triad goes a step too far, Reno and his fellow expats, schooled in search and destroy, devise their own special formula for retribution.…

Broché. Zustand: Bon état. in-8 Description :192 pages. Couverture défraîchie. Langue : français Nb de volumes : 1.

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJ. C. Bourg is the author of The Man Who Walked out of Isabelle, Feeding the Tiger, and now Road to Isabelle. As an American High School student living in Singapore, he fostered a passion for So.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJ. C. Bourg, author of The Man Who Walked Out of Isabelle, is a retired real estate executive living in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife and their two greyhounds. An avid traveler, he s visited all seven conti.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 553 pages. 9.45x6.69x1.18 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Volume 77 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry focuses on important aspects of the geochemistry of geological CO2 sequestration. It is in large part an outgrowth of research conducted by members of the U.S. Department of Energy funded Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) known as the Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 (NCGC). Eight out of the 15 chapters have been led by team members from the NCGC representing six of the eight partner institutions making up this center - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (lead institution, D. DePaolo - PI), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The Ohio State University, the University of California Davis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Washington University, St. Louis. …

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