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Hardback. Condition: Good. In Rocky Boyer?s War, Allen Boyer offers a wry, keen-eyed, and occasionally disgruntled counterpoint history of the hard-fought, brilliant campaign that won World War II in the Southwest Pacific. Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe ?Rocky? Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney's ""air blitz"" offensive as it was lived both in the cockpit and on the ground.During 1944, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur?s forces fought their way from New Guinea to the Philippines, Kenney, discarding pre-war doctrine, planned and ran an ?air blitz? offensive. His 5th Air Force drove forward like a tank army, crash-landing in open country, seizing terrain, bulldozing new airfields, winning air control, and moving forward. At airfields on the front line, Rocky kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit.Diaries were forbidden, but Rocky kept one?full of casualties, accidents, off-duty shenanigans, and rear-area snafus. He had friends killed when they shot it out with Japanese anti-aircraft gunners, or when their bombers vanished in bad weather. He wrote about wartime camp life at Nadzab, New Guinea, the largest air base in the world, part Scout camp and part frontier boomtown. He knew characters worthy of Catch-22: combat flyers who played contract bridge, military brass who played office politics, black quartermasters, and chaplains who stood up to colonels when a promotion party ended with drunken gunplay and dynamite.This is a narrative of the war as airmen lived it. Rocky?s experience of life on the front line gives from-the-bottom-up detail to the framework of Kenney?s air blitz. The author uses Rocky?s story as a jumping-off point from which to understand the daily life, pranks, mishaps, and casualties, of the men who in 1944 fought their way over the two thousand miles from New Guinea to the Philippines. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. In Rocky Boyer?s War, Allen Boyer offers a wry, keen-eyed, and occasionally disgruntled counterpoint history of the hard-fought, brilliant campaign that won World War II in the Southwest Pacific. Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe ?Rocky? Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney's ""air blitz"" offensive as it was lived both in the cockpit and on the ground.During 1944, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur?s forces fought their way from New Guinea to the Philippines, Kenney, discarding pre-war doctrine, planned and ran an ?air blitz? offensive. His 5th Air Force drove forward like a tank army, crash-landing in open country, seizing terrain, bulldozing new airfields, winning air control, and moving forward. At airfields on the front line, Rocky kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit.Diaries were forbidden, but Rocky kept one?full of casualties, accidents, off-duty shenanigans, and rear-area snafus. He had friends killed when they shot it out with Japanese anti-aircraft gunners, or when their bombers vanished in bad weather. He wrote about wartime camp life at Nadzab, New Guinea, the largest air base in the world, part Scout camp and part frontier boomtown. He knew characters worthy of Catch-22: combat flyers who played contract bridge, military brass who played office politics, black quartermasters, and chaplains who stood up to colonels when a promotion party ended with drunken gunplay and dynamite.This is a narrative of the war as airmen lived it. Rocky?s experience of life on the front line gives from-the-bottom-up detail to the framework of Kenney?s air blitz. The author uses Rocky?s story as a jumping-off point from which to understand the daily life, pranks, mishaps, and casualties, of the men who in 1944 fought their way over the two thousand miles from New Guinea to the Philippines. …

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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Chuck Whelon; Dani Jones; Robin Boyer (illustrator).

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Once one nation under God, America today is desperately sick. And the Church seems to have no answers. How can a nation so churched be so untouched by the Gospel? Why has the Glory departed, leaving a nation racked by political hatred, drug addiction, and shattered families? God, Caesar, and Idols asks these questions and calls the Church to seek God's Word for answers. Too many Christians no longer make political choices on the basis of eternal truth, but instead make them on the basis of purely financial considerations. It's time for the Church to break its addiction to humanistic, government schooling and instead bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. This book challenges the Church to reject cheap grace and the easy temptation to be tolerant of society's rebellion. We must again honor the authority of God's Word and embrace the life-altering power available when we reject our cultural idols and proclaim the whole counsel of God without compromise. Armed with careful scriptural exegesis and supported by the words of great Christians from church history, God, Caesar, and Idols encourages the American Church to again contend for the faith in today's culture-whatever the cost.…

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Condition: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Oct. 26 (weekend SALE item) 3rd edition., 512 pp., hardcover, ex library, else text and binding clean and tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

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