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A Very Strange Way to Go to War

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Author : Andrew Vine
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1845138465
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book A Very Strange Way to Go to War written by Andrew Vine and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vast and brilliant white, P&O's flagship the SS Canberra was a final salute to a bygone era of opulence even as she embarked on her maiden voyage, For a decade she carried passengers between Britain and Australia, a 90-day voyage of pampering and decadence. But in March 1982, Britain went to war to defend the Falkland Islands and the SS Canberra found herself, surreally, requisitioned as a troop ship to carry the Marines and Paratroops into battle. Against all odds she surived, playing a vital role as a hospital ship, At the end of the war she arrived back in Southampton to a heroes welcome, where she became fondly known as the Great White Whale. This is the extraordinary and, as yet, untold story of how the crew of a luxury ocean liner: waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners, found themselves suddenly thrust onto the front line. A Very Strange Way to Go to War is a candid and captivating story, drawing from first hand accounts and previously unpublished archives, of the heroic courage of ordinary British men and women in the face of great adversity, at the outpost of empire.

The Canberra in the Falklands War

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Author : Andrew Vine
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 0711276161
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Canberra in the Falklands War written by Andrew Vine and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extraordinary story untold until now, of how unlikely combatants like waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners who never in their dreams imagined they could be caught up in a war, found themselves on the front line at the very end of the world.

What Strange Paradise

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Author : Omar El Akkad
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525657916
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book What Strange Paradise written by Omar El Akkad and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "Told from the point of view of two children, on the ground and at sea, the story so astutely unpacks the us-versus-them dynamics of our divided world that it deserves to be an instant classic." —The New York Times Book Review More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna is a teenage girl, who, despite being native to the island, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers, though they don’t speak a common language, Vänna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy. In alternating chapters, we learn about Amir’s life and how he came to be on the boat, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair—and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.

God's Truth and Wisdom Revealed! Achieving Spiritual Vigilance in the Face of Terrorism

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Author : Joshua Stone
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469733609
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book God's Truth and Wisdom Revealed! Achieving Spiritual Vigilance in the Face of Terrorism written by Joshua Stone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-11-27 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most complete and in-depth books ever written on the subject of terrorism from a Spiritual perspective! In this book you will receive a full spectrum prism consciousness understanding from Spirit and the Ascended Masters' perspective on terrorism in general and specifically on the soul's perspective of the terrorist bombing of the twin towers on 9/11. This is one of the most comprehensive overviews ever written on this subject and brings forth an absolutely brilliant and clear understanding of the entire sequence of events from a Spiritual, psychological and political or Earthly perspective. In truth, must reading for everyone in the world given the magnitude of the events we are all now experiencing in our world!

Very Crazy, G.I.!

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Author : Kregg P. Jorgenson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307434699
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Very Crazy, G.I.! written by Kregg P. Jorgenson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMERICAN BOYS AT WAR IN VIETNAM--AND INVOLVED IN INCIDENTS YOU WON'T FIND IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES In this compelling, highly unusual collection of amazing but true stories, U.S. soldiers reveal fantastic, almost unbelievable events that occurred in places ranging from the deadly Central Highlands to the Cong-infested Mekong Delta. "Finders Keepers" became the sacred byword for one exhausted recon team who stumbled upon a fortune worth more than $500,000--and managed, with a little American ingenuity, to relocate the bounty to the States. Jorgenson also chronicles Marine Sergeant James Henderson's incredible journey back from the dead, shares a surreal chopper rescue, and recounts some heart-stopping details of the life--and death--of one of America's greatest unsung heroes, a soldier who won more medals than Audie Murphy and Sergeant York. Whether occurring in the bloody, fiery chaos of sudden ambushes or during the endless nights of silent, gnawing menace spent behind enemy lines, these stories of war are truly beaucoup dinky dau . . . and ultimately unforgettable.

A Very Strange Trip

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Author : L. Ron Hubbard
Publisher : Galaxy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1592121349
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book A Very Strange Trip written by L. Ron Hubbard and published by Galaxy Press LLC. This book was released on 1998-07-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Dumphee, the military's renowned cargo driver, is about to have a very bad few millennia on this VERY STRANGE TRIP. He is a stranger to technology in action. He is use too running valuable commodities, such as moonshine in the rough country. Not a time machine during a volatile storm. The combination of bad weather and bad timing has gotten Dumphee into a very precarious position. In this urban fantasy, Dumphee will have to face off against Mayan civilization, prehistoric threat, the countdown of a clock and Native Americans dead set on having him for a new headpiece. His defenses are some faulty futuristic military weapons and three squaw intent on being his wife (a woman's adventure with a twist!) Dumphee doesn't know how he's going to make it, but with some promises to his stubborn companions and a few bright ideas he may just make it back home alive. "A wild, high-tech ride through time. Read it to have a rollicking good time." --Brian Herbert, co-author Dune: House Attreides

Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War

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Author : Tim Rowland
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616083956
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War written by Tim Rowland and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a series of historical anecdotes about little-known, miscellaneous events and personal experiences of the American Civil War.

Strange Victory

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Author : Ernest R. May
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1466894288
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Strange Victory written by Ernest R. May and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest R. May's Strange Victory presents a dramatic narrative-and reinterpretation-of Germany's six-week campaign that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in spring 1940. Before the Nazis killed him for his work in the French Resistance, the great historian Marc Bloch wrote a famous short book, Strange Defeat, about the treatment of his nation at the hands of an enemy the French had believed they could easily dispose of. In Strange Victory, the distinguished American historian Ernest R. May asks the opposite question: How was it that Hitler and his generals managed this swift conquest, considering that France and its allies were superior in every measurable dimension and considering the Germans' own skepticism about their chances? Strange Victory is a riveting narrative of those six crucial weeks in the spring of 1940, weaving together the decisions made by the high commands with the welter of confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field. Why did Hitler want to turn against France at just this moment, and why were his poor judgment and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan? It is May's contention that in the future, nations might suffer strange defeats of their own if they do not learn from their predecessors' mistakes in judgment.

The Pacific War, 1931-1945

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Author : Saburo Ienaga
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0394734963
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Pacific War, 1931-1945 written by Saburo Ienaga and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1979-07-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrayal of how and why Japan waged war from 1931-1945 and what life was like for the Japanese people in a society engaged in total war.

To Start a War

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Author : Robert Draper
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525561064
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book To Start a War written by Robert Draper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Essential . . . one for the ages . . . a must read for all who care about presidential power.” —The Washington Post “Authoritative . . . The most comprehensive account yet of that smoldering wreck of foreign policy, one that haunts us today.” —LA Times One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020 To Start a War paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. Robert Draper’s fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning. In the spirit of Barbara W. Tuchman’s The Guns of August and Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective scurrying for evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false—evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.

Very Strange Bedfellows

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Author : Jules Witcover
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586486039
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Very Strange Bedfellows written by Jules Witcover and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2007-08-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through tapes, interviews, and primary sources, explores how the at-odds personalities of the unusual political pair of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew led to both of their downfalls.

Sister Martha, Or, A Romance of the Franco-Prussian War

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Author : Benjamin Wilson (Curate of Fordham.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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National Genealogical Society Quarterly

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Author : National Genealogical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book National Genealogical Society Quarterly written by National Genealogical Society and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strange Meetings

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Author : Peter Edgerly Firchow
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813215331
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Strange Meetings written by Peter Edgerly Firchow and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon his earlier book The Death of the German Cousin (1986), renowned author Peter Edgerly Firchow focuses Strange Meetings on major modern British writers from Eliot to Auden and explores the development of British conceptions and misconceptions of Germany and Germans from 1910 to 1960.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007596715
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ...”’

The Things They Carried

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Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547420293
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Tim O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The Living Church

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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