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William B. Breuer
Also known as: William Breuer
On September 5, 1886, the great news from Fort Bowie, Arizona, flashed across the nation.
— from Geronimo
Most acclaimed
Guts
Perhaps the most infamous story by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club–which was adapted into the cult classic by David Fincher, starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt–Guts is an hilarious and grotesque look at those things we hide under the bed, and about the things that we lose in the pool. Debuting in 2003, when Chuck began reading it aloud to audiences, and later published in Playboy, Guts is one of Chuck’s most popular short stories that has caused nearly 70 fainting events to date, due to one of the opening lines of the story as well as outright disgust. The story was later collected in Palahniuk’s novel of short stories Haunted–as the headlining act–which includes stories of the same, and worse, nature. And all in all, you can’t go wrong with a story about breaking the eggs, cracking the nuts, and jamming the carrot.
Vendetta
Now, in this powerful, eye-opening new book, William B. Breuer reveals the startling truth behind the Cuban crisis of the early 1960s. From the Bay of Pigs to Guantanamo Bay and the October '62 missile crisis, Breuer exposes how John and Robert Kennedy worked together to expand the clandestine, sometimes illegal activities to eliminate Castro. Vendetta! is a riveting account of recent history, complete with spies, saboteurs, guerrillas, murder plots, and kidnappings, told in the hard-hitting, dramatic style that has won the author critical acclaim as a chronicler of military intrigue. Based on new firsthand interviews with many of the people who directed and participated in the Kennedys' secret war, Vendetta! includes candid recollections from a host of government officials who are talking about these events for the first time, among them, W. Raymond Wannall, former assistant director of the FBI, and Theodore Shackley, the CIA official who directed the covert actions from Miami. As this fascinating chapter of modern day intrigue unfolds, we are swept into the middle of the action, from tense conferences in the Oval Office to terrifying encounters at Guantanamo Bay, where American-backed forces stood outnumbered and surrounded by Cuban troops.
Geronimo
Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a mythic figure today. This thoroughly researched biography by a renowned historian of the American West strips away the myths and rumors that have long obscured the real Geronimo and presents an authentic portrait of a man with unique strengths and weaknesses and a destiny that swept him into history. Utley unfolds the story through the alternating perspectives of whites and Apaches, and he arrives at a more nuanced understanding of Geronimo's character and motivation than ever before. What it was like to be an Apache fighter-in-training, why Indians as well as whites feared Geronimo, how Geronimo maintained his freedom, and why he finally surrendered--the answers to these questions and many more fill these pages.--From publisher description.