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The Big Country is a Western novel by Donald Hamilton.It was originally serialized in The Saturday Evening Post as Ambush at Blanco Canyon.Published two years prior to Hamilton's Death of a Citizen, which launched his popular Matt Helm series, it explores many of the same themes of self-reliance that dominated the author's work.
The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division .
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 25% of 12 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.9/10. [3]Todd Gilchrist of Variety gave the film a positive review, writing, "Nevertheless smarter and more entertaining than one might expect from a small-scale, outwardly familiar story like this, Ambush feels like a throwback — mostly in a good way — to the ...
In 2006, Tartt's short story "The Ambush" was included in the Best American Short Stories 2006. [32] Her 2013 novel The Goldfinch divided reviewers as to whether it was a literary novel or not, a controversy possibly based on its best-selling status. [26] [33] [34] The book was adapted for the movie The Goldfinch.
Ambush is a 1950 American Western film starring Robert Taylor, John Hodiak and Arlene Dahl. Directed by Sam Wood , the film is based on the serial story Ambush by Luke Short in The Saturday Evening Post (25 December 1948 – 12 February 1949).
Fresh from the discovery of what had happened to their friends, the group agrees to make an attack on the convoys on the highway to Cobbler's Bay. While preparing their ambush, the group is surprised by a small patrol. Homer kills one soldier and injures another with a sawed-off shotgun at close quarters before going into shock.
Al Kameen (الكمين Arabic, meaning "The Ambush") is a 2021 Emirati action-war film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Brandon Birtell and Kurtis Birtell. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film is based on the true story of a 2018 ambush of Emirati soldiers by insurgents.
The poem, set in 18th-century rural England, tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord's daughter. Betrayed to the authorities by Tim, a jealous ostler, the highwayman escapes ambush when Bess sacrifices her life to warn him. Learning of her death, he is killed in a futile attempt at revenge ("so they shot ...