Boy on the Bridge
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EnglishVoice Age
Senior (55+)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM) North American (US Mid-Atlantic) North American (US Midwest- Chicago, Great Lakes)Transcript
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Boy on the Bridge. The Story of John Shelley Couch Vili's American Success One early morning in April 1945 a penniless, stateless refugee boy stood on this bridge in Germany, witnessing the arrival of the 86 U. S. Infantry. These were his first Americans, and then, in a blink of 50 years, he was serving as America's top general chairman of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. How did he do it? How did John Shalikashvili achieved his American success? This question drives the first ever biography of Shalikashvili's dramatic but little known life story, drawing on over 300 interviews and traveled to over 30 city spanning three countries, as well as access to to restricted archives. Dr. Andrew Marble answers the question by bringing to life five exceptional people. Shalikashvili's maternal grandmother, a lady in waiting at the court of the Last Russians, are is great aunt and godmother Countess Julie Papin Heim, his father, a Georgian prince who fought in the armies of Zara's Russia Free Georgia, Poland and Hitler's Germany. His mother, a countess turned Red Cross volunteer who rescued her husband from a German P. O W camp and held the family together through the chaos of war and beyond. And finally, his high school sweetheart who witnesses initial struggles to reconcile the old world with the new U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry calls Boy on the bridge a source of inspiration for every American and anyone who aspires to be one. New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus calls it astonishingly readable. The Germans Former Speechwriter calls Marbles book Ah, thought provoking picture of how nature and nurture dramatically combined to create a human being both genuinely selfless and extremely effective. Boy on the Bridge by University Press of Kentucky in conjunction with the association of the U. S. Army in stores on October 6 2019 and available now for discounted preorder, visit www dot boy on bridge dot com.
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Announcer, Father, Narrator, Storyteller, Business Man, Aged, Authentic, Bold, Commanding, Engaging, Heroic, Inspirational, Mature, Persuasive, Sincere, North American (General), North American (US General American - GenAM), North American (US Mid-Atlantic), North American (US Midwest- Chicago, Great Lakes)