A very entertaining collection of timeless quotations from Mark Twain, along with photos of this most famous son of Hannibal, Missouri. The 19th-centurey American writer, humorist, public speaker, and publisher wrote hundreds of short stories, and his best-known novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, still read more than 130 years later. Born with the visit of Halley s Comet in 1835, he died at the time of the comet s return to the solar system in 1910. He remains one of the most quoted and quotable American writers of all time."

Gary Bloomfield presents here the first unvarnished accounts of the tension and the impact serving on the line can bring. Just one example: Though firefights are rare, US soldiers often hear North Korean soldiers and their laughter and the taunts, but they rarely see their tormentors.