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Book Synopsis A Spartan's Journey by : Weston Liefer
Download or read book A Spartan's Journey written by Weston Liefer and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spartans, our spears will be like Zeus's lightning bolts. Our war cries will shake Olympus! The yells of terror from every Persian will bring a smile to every Greek. The gods will hear us, and they will know that we are Spartan! They will know that once an enemy of Sparta steps onto Laconian soil, they will not be leaving!' In one more year, Lycus will turn eighteen and will graduate the agoge. His training has led him to prove himself as the most talented of the agoge trainees, to study under a great Spartan warrior, and to become one of the greatest warriors in the land. He's ready to finish his training and gain experience in battle. But all that changes, however, when the Spartans hear of a coming invasion from the Persian Empire. In the midst of his final test, Lycus finds himself as an integral part of the battle strategy, even though he's inexperienced and has never led men into battle. He discovers not only his potential and faithful friends but a great destiny that's been waiting for hima "if he can survive. Join author Weston Liefer on the adventure of a lifetime in A Spartan's Journey: The First Strike!"
Book Synopsis A Spartan Journey by : Dale Anderson
Download or read book A Spartan Journey written by Dale Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Spartan's Journey by : Bill Bodeen
Download or read book A Spartan's Journey written by Bill Bodeen and published by Dorrance Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Road to Sparta by : Dean Karnazes
Download or read book The Road to Sparta written by Dean Karnazes and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road to Sparta is the story of the 153-mile run from Athens to Sparta that inspired the marathon and saved democracy, as told--and experienced--by ultramarathoner and New York Times bestselling author Dean Karnazes. In 490 BCE, Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion in the Battle of Marathon. In doing so, he saved the development of Western civilization and inspired the birth of the marathon as we know it. Even now, some 2,500 years later, that run stands enduringly as one of greatest physical accomplishments in the history of mankind. Karnazes personally honors Pheidippides and his own Greek heritage by recreating this ancient journey in modern times. Karnazes even abstains from contemporary endurance nutrition like sports drinks and energy gels and only eats what was available in 490 BCE, such as figs, olives, and cured meats. Through vivid details and internal dialogs, The Road to Sparta offers a rare glimpse into the mindset and motivation of an extreme athlete during his most difficult and personal challenge to date. This story is sure to captivate and inspire--whether you run great distances or not at all.
Book Synopsis The Holy Warrior: Osama Bin Laden and His Jihadi Journey in the Soviet-Afghan War by : Reagan Fancher
Download or read book The Holy Warrior: Osama Bin Laden and His Jihadi Journey in the Soviet-Afghan War written by Reagan Fancher and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought between 1979 and 1989, the Soviet-Afghan War provided vital combat experience for Osama bin Laden and his senior lieutenants in al-Qaeda, allowing them to hone their newly acquired skills in guerrilla warfare to later support Islamist insurgencies worldwide. Yet the ruthless al-Qaeda chief’s success depended on the Soviet leadership’s reluctant prolonging of its military occupation out of fear of leaving Afghanistan in hostile hands. As relative latecomers to the ferocious Afghan frontlines, the inexperienced Arab fighters benefitted militarily from the combat training unwittingly provided by their Soviet foes. After skillfully obtaining this command and battle experience by working within the wartime atmosphere, bin Laden channeled al-Qaeda’s efforts in a global jihadi campaign targeting a second superpower and its allies. While allegations of U.S. support for the Arab jihadis have contributed to a popular image of bin Laden and al-Qaeda as C.I.A. creations, the historical facts appear to demonstrate that the combat opportunities provided by the Soviet occupation forces played a far larger role in transforming them into seasoned guerrilla fighters. In this second edition, Reagan Fancher updates and expands his monograph in an Afterword elaborating on the contemporary U.S.-U.K. perceptions of bin Laden's wartime actions and their results as he applied his battle-honed guerrilla tactics, judo skills, and recruitment capabilities in tactically helping Yemen's anti-communist Salafi guerrillas to emerge victoriously in their country's 1994 Civil War before concluding with an assessment of the founding al-Qaeda leader's impact on history. It offers an opportunity for today's decision-makers to learn from history and avoid creating new generations of Osama bin Ladens.
Book Synopsis Olympian games. Grecian journeys. The wonders of Thessaly by : Burton Holmes
Download or read book Olympian games. Grecian journeys. The wonders of Thessaly written by Burton Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Athens and Olympian games. Grecian journey. Thessaly by : Burton Holmes
Download or read book Athens and Olympian games. Grecian journey. Thessaly written by Burton Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Principal's Personal Journey by : Sylvester Carrington Ed. D
Download or read book A Principal's Personal Journey written by Sylvester Carrington Ed. D and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Olympian games in Athens. Grecian journeys. The wonders of Thessaly by : Burton Holmes
Download or read book The Olympian games in Athens. Grecian journeys. The wonders of Thessaly written by Burton Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Burton Holmes Travelogues: Olympian games. Grecian journeys. The wonders of Thessaly by : Burton Holmes
Download or read book Burton Holmes Travelogues: Olympian games. Grecian journeys. The wonders of Thessaly written by Burton Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Burton Holmes Lectures: The Olympian games in Athens. Grecian journeys. The wonders of Thessaly by : Burton Holmes
Download or read book The Burton Holmes Lectures: The Olympian games in Athens. Grecian journeys. The wonders of Thessaly written by Burton Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Dangerous Journey by : Thomas Hauser
Download or read book A Dangerous Journey written by Thomas Hauser and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser’s newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Reviewing his 2018 collection, Booklist proclaimed, “This is Hauser in a nutshell: compassion, character, and context. As always, an annual delight.” A Dangerous Journey continues Hauser’s tradition of excellence, turning his award-winning investigative reporting skills on the scandal surrounding the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs and the failures of corrupt and incompetent state athletic commissions. Hauser also takes readers into Canelo Alvarez’s dressing room in the hours before and after his rematch against Gennady Golovkin, the biggest fight of the year, and offers in-depth portraits of boxing’s biggest stars—past and present—as well as reflections on fight-related curiosities ranging from Ronda Rousey to David and Goliath. Thirty-five years ago, Hauser began writing about boxing with his superb The Black Lights, which has long been regarded as a boxing classic. He only gets better.
Book Synopsis The Imperfect Spartan by : D. E. Loxwood
Download or read book The Imperfect Spartan written by D. E. Loxwood and published by Google Books. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Sparta, where imperfect babies were thrown to their deaths from Mount Taygetus, and naked Spartan youths cut the throats of Helot slaves as they slept, a Spartan man about to graduate from history’s most brutal military academy is caught in a triangle of lust, love and jealousy from which death or rebellion can be the only escape. This is book one of the series, "Sunset on Sparta".
Book Synopsis One Man's Journey by : Irving McMurren
Download or read book One Man's Journey written by Irving McMurren and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young lad growing up on a farm in British Columbia experiences hair-raising adventures. He learns to fly and becomes a fighter pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and engages the famed Red Baron over France. After the war he becomes a politician, returning to flying in the newly-formed RCAF to fight again in WW II. A must read for young men aspiring to join the air force.
Book Synopsis The Works of Michael de Montaigne, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy by : Michel de Montaigne
Download or read book The Works of Michael de Montaigne, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy written by Michel de Montaigne and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Safe Is Not An Option by : Rand Simberg
Download or read book Safe Is Not An Option written by Rand Simberg and published by Interglobal Media LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of exploration and establishment of new lands, science and technologies has always entailed risk to the health and lives of the explorers. Yet, when it comes to exploring and developing the high frontier of space, the harshest frontier ever, the highest value is apparently not the accomplishment of those goals, but of minimizing, if not eliminating, the possibility of injury or death of the humans carrying them out. For decades since the end of Apollo, human spaceflight has been very expensive and relatively rare (about 500 people total, with a death rate of about 4%), largely because of this risk aversion on the part of the federal government and culture. From the Space Shuttle, to the International Space Station, the new commercial crew program to deliver astronauts to it, and the regulatory approach for commercial spaceflight providers, our attitude toward safety has been fundamentally irrational, expensive and even dangerous, while generating minimal accomplishment for maximal cost. This book entertainingly explains why this means that we must regulate passenger safety in the new commercial spaceflight industry with a lighter hand than many might instinctively prefer, that NASA must more carefully evaluate rewards from a planned mission to rationally determine how much should be spent to avoid the loss of participants, and that Congress must stop insisting that safety is the highest priority, for such insistence is an eloquent testament to how unimportant they and the nation consider the opening of this new
Book Synopsis The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by : Donald Kagan
Download or read book The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War written by Donald Kagan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided? Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war "cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved," Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.
