Read David Axe's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. The war memoir as graphic novel-an utterly unforgettable and highly original look at war in the 21st century. Street battles with spears and arrows in sweltering East Timor. Bone- jarring artillery duels in Afghanistan's mountains. Long patrols on the sandy wastes of southern Iraq. For four years, war was life for David Axe. He was alternately bored out of his mind and completely terrified. It was strangely addictive. As a correspondent for The Washington Times, C-SPAN and BBC Radio, Axe flew from conflict to conflict, reveling in death, danger, and destruction abroad while, back in D.C., his apartment gathered dust, his plants died, and his relationships withered. War reporting was physically, emotionally, and financially draining-and disillusioning. Loosely based on the web comic of the same name, with extensive new material, War Is Boring takes us to Lebanon and Somalia; to arms bazaars across the United States; to Detroit, as David tries to reconnect with his family-and to Chad, as David attempts to bring attention to the Darfur genocide.Watch a Video

War is Boring: Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World's Worst War Zones

Axe, David

Bors, Matt

Humor & Entertainment

BERKLEY

Anywhere & Anything: A First Novel

Literature & Fiction

iUniverse, Inc.

In 2010 a 32-year-old, socially awkward, unemployed African-American Army Veteran, who had been kicked out of the service and was living with his father in the South Carolina countryside while facing federal pornography changes, spent a significant portion of his life's savings on the filing fee to run for U.S. Senate in the Democratic primary to challenge incumbent tea party kingmaker Jim Demint. Alvin Greene didn't campaign, didn't even have a website and no one knew who he was. Until he won. Graphic Novels by McFarland: McFarland has brought its 33 years of publishing experience to the graphic format.

The Accidental Candidate: The Rise and Fall of Alvin Greene

Biographies & Memoirs

Hutchins, Corey

Community & Culture

McFarland

Anywhere and Anything

Short Stories & Anthologies

Waiver Pub

Song About a Girl

Edwards, Geoff

Columbia

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Features space-based superweapons and their architects, along with the high-stakes politics that reined them in. Orbital fortresses poised to fry entire cities with no warning using giant mirrors. Bombers that take off from Earth, punch through the thin border between the atmosphere and vacuum and take advantage of that lofty altitude to speed across the globe on missions of mass destruction.These and other exotic orbital weapons were under consideration, or even active development, in the early decades of humanity's push into space.And no wonder. The era of frantic, dueling, American and Soviet space-exploration efforts -- which stretched from the end of World War II to the United States' successful Moon landing in July 1969 -- had its roots in Nazi Germany, a country that pinned its hope for global conquest on equally ambitious superweapons.In the decades following World War II, the top scientists in the U.S. and Soviet space programs were ex-Nazis--most notably rocket-designer Wernher von Braun, who sided with the Americans. The basic technologies of the space race derived from Nazi superweapons, in particular von Braun's V-2 rocket.But orbital war never broke out in those heady decades of intense space competition. It's possible to triangulate the moment the seemingly inevitable became evitable. July 29, 1958. The day U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower reluctantly signed the law creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Starting that day, the U.S. military gradually ceded to NASA, a civilian agency, leadership of American efforts in space. Even von Braun, once a leading advocate of orbital warfare, went along. Space-based superweapons and their architects, and the high-stakes politics that reined them in, are the subject of this brief book.

Black Space: The Nazi Superweapons That Launched Humanity Into Orbit

History

Military

Pen and Sword Military

Delliquanti, Blue

Lopez, Dre

Createspace Independent Pub

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