Jim Morris was an educated young man who had always wanted to be a soldier. In 1963, he found the perfect war... "The war was like a great puzzle, great to think about, great to plan, great to do. It was so incredibly peaceful out there in the jungle." As an advisor to a Montagnard strike force, Morris and his guerrillas outfought and outmaneuvered the Viet Cong in his sector. But while he loved the ambushes, the firefights and the Montagnards, he could see a tragedy unfolding in Vietnam. "As I jumped I heard a crack and felt a thud in my right shoulder. I squeezed the trigger on my M-16. The bold went ka-schulgg and that was that, baby. Jammed again." In the most widely admired Special Forces memoir to come out of the Vietnam War, Jim Morris tells his tory: of the ealy days and the Tet Offensive in '68, of the slaughters and the beauty, of the violence, the courage, the loyalty and the loss... "The war was my life and I identified with it totally. To end it was to end me, and that I would not do..."

War Story: The Classic True Story of the First Generation of Green Berets

History

Morris, Jim

Military

St. Martin's Paperbacks

Fighting Men

Somewhere in the jungles of Vietnam, they became something more than soldiers. They became... FIGHTING MEN A special forces adventurer who became Korean Minister of Agriculture for a day...a mini-D-Day that happened when a Green Beret met some Navy guys with a problem...an Operation code named Barroom designed to parachute four five-ton elephants deep in the Vietnamese jungle. In Jim Morris' classic collection of Special Forces stories, we are given a vivid, sometimes humorous, and often terrifying, look at the culture of the elite warrior trained to fight outside the box, survive in hostile terrain, and kill the enemy before the enemy knew he was there. Profiling men who wanted to be the best, Morris leads us through night jumps and ambushes, from the day-to-day action of Green Berets fighting alongside indigenous Vietnamese to the onslaught that was the Tet Offensive. Along the way, the jungle comes alive, the smell of white phosphorous burns the nostrils, and the voices of brave and extraordinary men-some who lived and some who died-are etched in the mind forever...

The Devil's Secret Name

A highly decorated Green Beret commander and acclaimed military writer, Jim Morris spent his post-Vietnam years as a journalist on assignment in the world's most dangerous battle zones. Armed only with a reporter's eye and a soldier's heart, he covered the Third World conflicts that served to forge a post-Cold War world, shaping both lasting peace and sowing the seeds of global terrorism. An embedded journalist, years before the term was coined, he bore witness to the fierce realities and uncertain outcomes of guerilla warfare. From the jungles of Southeast Asia to the shattered peace of the Middle East and the violent twilight world of El Salvador, here are the frontline dispatches of a veteran reporter and seasoned soldier. Inevitably the only reporter on the scene, Morris chronicles more than combat shrouded in the fog of war. Living among the soldiers, these remarkable battlefield reports capture the extraordinary courage, unwavering faith, and the dark humor common to all combat troops.

Presents the inspirational true story of Jim Morris's departure from the minor leagues after a string of injuries, his career as a high school physics teacher, and his eventual return to the minors followed by an all-star career in the majors. 75,000 first printing.

The Oldest Rookie: Big-League Dreams from a Small-Town Guy

Sports & Outdoors

ENGEL, Joel

Biographies

Little. Brown and Company

War Story

A Green Beret veteren recreates the horrors of the Vietnam War experience and the courage and camaraderie of the men who fought side-by-side with the Montagnards, fiercely independent primitive tribesmen from the central Vietnam highlands

Literature & Fiction

Dell

A former Green Beret and "Soldier of Fortune" correspondent tells of the so-called "brushfire wars" of the early 1980s, delineating his theory of KGB involvement in all of them

A former Green Beret recounts the experience of overseas combat, describing firefights under jungle canopy, the trials of POWs and MIAs, and the escapades of Special Forces Sgt. Larry Dring. Original.

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

He Played A Boy's Game. He Lived A Man's Life. As a lonely child, Jim Morris took one thing with him wherever his family moved-his ability to hit and throw a baseball. For Jim, the passion of becoming a major-league ballplayer was his anchor and inspiration...until injuries and life got in the way. A decade after Jim walked away from the minors and began a life of fatherhood and mortgage payments, he made a promise to the hardscrabble high-school team he coached: If they could win their local championship, he would try out again for the big leagues. They did-and he did. Now, in this wondrous, heart-tugging book, Jim Morris tells the story of his remarkable life and his amazing journey to the Big Show at the age of thirty-five...and how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream.

The Rookie: The Incredible True Story of a Man Who Never Gave Up on His Dream

Grand Central Publishing

The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

Working at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, was considered a good job. It was the kind of industrial manufacturing job that allowed blue-collar workers to thrive in the latter half of the 20th century--that allowed them to buy their own home, and maybe a small boat for the lake. But it was also the kind of job that exposed you to toxic chemicals and offered little to no protection from them, either in the way of protective gear or adequate ventilation. Eventually, it was a job that gave you bladder cancer. The Cancer Factory tells the story of the workers who experienced one of the nation's worst, and best-documented, outbreaks of work-related cancer, and the lawyer who has represented the bladder-cancer victims at the plant for more than 30 years. Goodyear, and its chemical supplier, DuPont, knew that two of the chemicals used in the plant had been shown to cause cancer, but made little effort to protect the plant's workers until the cluster of cancer cases--and deaths--was undeniable.In doing so it tells a broader story of corporate malfeasance and governmental neglect. Workers have only weak protections from exposure to toxic substances in America, and regulatory breaches contribute to an estimated 95,000 deaths from occupational illness each year. Based on 4 decades of reporting and delving deeply into the scientific literature about toxic substances and health risks, the arcana of worker regulations, and reality of loose enforcement, The Cancer Factory exposes the terrible health risks too many workers face.

Business & Money

Economics

Beacon Press

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War Story: The Classic True Story of the First Generation of Green Berets

Fighting Men

The Devil's Secret Name

The Oldest Rookie: Big-League Dreams from a Small-Town Guy

War Story

The Devil's Secret Name

Fighting Men

The Rookie: The Incredible True Story of a Man Who Never Gave Up on His Dream

The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers