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Hardback. Condition: Good. Track and Field Writers of America's Book of the Year! ?Great read! ? Evokes a time and place that many of us remember well, and provides insight for those who came after. ??Tom Jordan, author of Pre: The Story of America?s Greatest Running Legend, Steve PrefontaineIn 1968, perhaps the finest US Olympic men?s track-and-field team ever stirred the world in unprecedented ways, among them the victory stand black rights protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos in Mexico City. But in competition no single athlete mirrored the free-thinking ?60s better than Dick Fosbury, a failed prep high jumper who invented an offbeat style that ultimately won him a gold medal and revolutionized the event. No jumpers today use any other style than his.Yet few know the struggles Fosbury endured to achieve his success, as he and Bob Welch recount in The Wizard of Foz. From the tragic death of a younger brother to nearly dying himself, from flunking out of college to nearly being drafted, Fosbury cleared far more obstacles than a high-jump bar. And even when he had seemingly made the US Olympic Team, he faced a "redo" that nobody saw coming.This book tells a story of loss, survival, and triumph, twined in a person (Fosbury), a time (the '60s), and a place (a fantasy-like Olympic Trials venue high in the Sierra Nevada) clearly made for each other. It is a story of a young man who refused to listen to those who laughed at him, those who doubted him, and those who tried to make him someone he was not.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. ?A quintessential tale. Once read, never to be forgotten.? ?Erik Jendersen, lead writer of Band of Brothers on HBOSaving My Enemy is a ?Band of Brothers? sequel like no other.Don Malarkey grew up scrappy and happy in Astoria, Oregon?jumping off roofs, playing pranks, a free-range American.Fritz Engelbert?s German boyhood couldn?t have been more different. Regimented and indoctrinated by the Hitler Youth, he was introspective and a loner.Both men fought in the Battle of the Bulge, the horrific climax of World War II in Europe. A paratrooper in the U.S. Army, Malarkey served a longer continuous stretch on the bloody front lines than any man in Easy Company. Engelbert, though he never killed an enemy soldier, spent decades wracked by guilt over his participation in the Nazi war effort.On the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge, these two survivors met. Malarkey was a celebrity, having been featured in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, while Engelbert had passed the years in the obscurity of a remote German village.But both men were still scarred? haunted?by nightmares of war. And finally, after they met, they were able to save each other?s lives.Saving My Enemy is the unforgettable true story of two soldiers on opposing sides who became brothers in arms.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Bob Welch takes us deeper into the nuances of Frank Capras 1946 tribute to bedrock values.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Bob Welch takes us deeper into the nuances of Frank Capras 1946 tribute to bedrock values.

Paperback. Condition: Good. On April 9, 1942, thousands of U.S. soldiers surrendered as the Philippines island of Luzon fell to the Japanese. But a few hundred Americans placed their faith in their own hands and headed for the jungles. One of them was twenty-three-year-old Clay Conner Jr., who had never even camped before . . . The obstacles to Conner's survival were as numerous as the enemy soldiers who ultimately put a price on his head: among them malaria, heat, jungle rot, snakes, and mosquitoes. Beyond that, the human threats of betrayal, capture, torture, and death. And, finally, he had to overcome self-doubt, struggle with the despair of burying comrades, deal with friction among his fellow American soldiers, and find a way to survive. But if conflict reveals character, Conner showed himself to be a man apart. Inspired by an unlikely alliance with a tribe of arrow-shooting pygmies, by the words in a dog-eared New Testament, and by a tattered American flag that he vowed to someday triumphantly fly at battalion headquarters, Conner emerged victorious from the jungle-after almost three years. Resolve is the story of an unlikely hero who never surrendered to the enemy-and of a soldier who never gave up hope.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. On April 9, 1942, thousands of U.S. soldiers surrendered as the Philippines island of Luzon fell to the Japanese. But a few hundred Americans placed their faith in their own hands and headed for the jungles. One of them was twenty-three-year-old Clay Conner Jr., who had never even camped before . . . The obstacles to Conner's survival were as numerous as the enemy soldiers who ultimately put a price on his head: among them malaria, heat, jungle rot, snakes, and mosquitoes. Beyond that, the human threats of betrayal, capture, torture, and death. And, finally, he had to overcome self-doubt, struggle with the despair of burying comrades, deal with friction among his fellow American soldiers, and find a way to survive. But if conflict reveals character, Conner showed himself to be a man apart. Inspired by an unlikely alliance with a tribe of arrow-shooting pygmies, by the words in a dog-eared New Testament, and by a tattered American flag that he vowed to someday triumphantly fly at battalion headquarters, Conner emerged victorious from the jungle-after almost three years. Resolve is the story of an unlikely hero who never surrendered to the enemy-and of a soldier who never gave up hope.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Two soliders of World War II, one American, a member of the Easy Company Band of Brothers, and one a German, fight in the Battle of the Bulge, then meet decades later and help deliver one another from the nightmares of war.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. IN 2016, BOB WELCH--that rare combination of newspaper columnist and Christian--prayed a prayer that he believes changed his life. Over the next five years, he discovered he'd been quietly complicit in allowing the rage of far-right politics to distort the faith of evangelicals, including his own. During a 2020 sailboat trip to spread his mother's ashes, Welch commits to writing a book that he knows may rankle his fellow believers, but he can't stay silent. Amid hot-button issues such as Trump, COVID, and race, he dares to ply the shores of uncertainty in an attempt to answer a question theologian Henri Nouwen so eloquently asked: "To whom do I belong? To God or to the world?".…