Conrad's Last Campaign

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781495910302
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Conrad's Last Campaign by : Leo Frankowski

Download or read book Conrad's Last Campaign written by Leo Frankowski and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This the last work of Leo Frankowski and the last chapter of the Adventures of Conrad Stargard. It completes a series begun in 1986 and spanning eight books. The series ends in the best of Leo's tradition of rousing adventure intermixed with the engineering details that fleshed out his earlier work. When Leo returned from Russia in 2006, he began working on the final chapter of Conrad's life. His age and declining health made progress slow, but he was eventually able to complete the plot outline and write part of the final book. Leo and I had agreed that Conrad would grow and change in the last book and find a way to noble retirement or noble death. You will have to read the last chapter to know which path was chosen. Unfortunately, Leo died before finishing the text. On Christmas Morning 2008, he died suddenly and peacefully from the effects of various drugs that he was prescribed. However, the book was well started and the plot known and Leo wanted everyone to know what happened to Conrad. I was familiar with Leo's writing style, having been coached by him to enable me to contribute to earlier writings, so I finished it.

Conrad's Time Machine

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Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618243470
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Conrad's Time Machine written by Leo Frankowski and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to Be Weird... When Tom Kolczyskrenski got his discharge papers from the Air Force, he decided to look up his old pals¾and the world would never be the same. At one time, the oddly mismatched trio had been roommates, then they'd gone their separate ways. Tom, for lack of money, enlisted in the Air Force to learn electronics. The other two had finished college, lan McTavish going into mechanical engineering and a job with GM, and Jim Hasenpfeffer into behavioral science, leading to his having gotten a Department of Defense grant to¾this is serious stuff, now¾study social interactions in motorcycle gangs. So the three set out to be their own motorcycle gang. But these easy riders had barely begun to closely observe their own interactions when they ran across a strange perfectly hemispherical hole in the ground where a house used to be, with everything that had been in the sphere of influence slowly materializing in bits and pieces in the surrounding area. And they found the plans for the machine that had done this, and were sure they could duplicate it and get rich. But before long they would be wishing they had kept on being the three musketeers on bikes, instead of the three stooges of time travel.... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Conrad's Lady

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Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618245074
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Conrad's Lady written by Leo Frankowski and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One moment Conrad Schwartz was suffering from a severe hangover as he hiked through the mountains of present-day Poland, the next he was hurled back to the same country in the 13th century. He remembered from his history classes that in another ten years, Mongol hordes were scheduled to attack, pillage, burn and kill¾and Conrad was likely to suffer all of the above. So, he set out to turn Poland into a world power by introducing universal education, aircraft, radios, steamboats, and generally discourage Mongols or anybody else from messing with either Poland or Conrad. But things weren't going to be quite that simple. . . . The Mongols were not quite as awed by advanced technology as he had hoped.He was under observation by mysterious Time Lords who didn't approve of disruptions in the flow of historical time.Last, and anything but least, he had married the formidable Lady Francine, and there was absolutely nothing simple about that noble-born and tempestuous woman. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Lord Conrad's Lady

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Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345368492
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Lord Conrad's Lady written by Leo Frankowski and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern-day time-traveling hero, Conrad Stargard, returns to medieval times where Countess Francine, his wife, complicates Conrad's swashbuckling life

The Cross-time Engineer

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Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345327628
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Cross-time Engineer written by Leo Frankowski and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accidentally plunged back in time to Poland in the year 1231, Conrad Schwartz is determined to build up the country before the Mongol invasion that will come ten years later

Lord Conrad's Crusade

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ISBN 13 : 9780977386901
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Lord Conrad's Crusade written by Leo Frankowski and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Flying Warlord

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Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345327659
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (276 download)

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Book Synopsis The Flying Warlord by : Leo A. Frankowski

Download or read book The Flying Warlord written by Leo A. Frankowski and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Young Lions

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811768406
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis The Young Lions by : James Lee Conrad

Download or read book The Young Lions written by James Lee Conrad and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the South’s four major military colleges—the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the South Carolina Military Academy (later The Citadel), the Georgia Military Institute, and the University of Alabama—The Young Lions is the story of young Confederate military cadets at war. From the opening of VMI in 1839 through the struggles of all the schools to remain open during the war, the death of Stonewall Jackson (a VMI professor), and the Pyrrhic victory of the Battle of New Market to the burning of the University of Alabama in 1865, this book reveals the everyday dramatic actions of cadets on battlefield and beyond.

Richard M. Nixon

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Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786727039
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Richard M. Nixon by : Conrad Black

Download or read book Richard M. Nixon written by Conrad Black and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and reviled for his shady manner and cutthroat tactics. Conrad Black, whose epic biography of FDR was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, now separates the good in Nixon—his foreign initiatives, some of his domestic policies, and his firm political hand—from the sinister, in a book likely to generate enormous attention and controversy. Black believes the hounding of Nixon from office was partly political retribution from a lifetime's worth of enemies and Nixon's misplaced loyalty to unworthy subordinates, and not clearly the consequence of crimes in which he participated. Conrad Black's own recent legal travails, though hardly comparable, have undoubtedly given him an unusual insight into the pressures faced by Nixon in his last two years as president and the first few years of his retirement.

Flight of the Eagle

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Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594037590
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Eagle written by Conrad Black and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation’s way to independence. With the first buds of public relation techniques—of communication, dramatization, and propaganda—America flourished into a vision of freedom, of enterprise, and of unalienable human rights. In Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black provides a perspective on American history that is unprecedented. Through his analysis of the strategic development of the United States from 1754-1992, Black describes nine “phases” of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of “Superpower.” Black discredits prevailing notions that our unrivaled status is the product of good geography, demographics, and good luck. Instead, he reveals and analyzes the specific strategic decisions of great statesmen through the ages that transformed the world as we know it and established America’s place in it.

The Radiant Warrior

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Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345327642
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Radiant Warrior written by Leo Frankowski and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610392132
Total Pages : 1328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Franklin Delano Roosevelt written by Conrad Black and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin Delano Roosevelt stands astride American history like a colossus, having pulled the nation out of the Great Depression and led it to victory in the Second World War. Elected to four terms as president, he transformed an inward-looking country into the greatest superpower the world had ever known. Only Abraham Lincoln did more to save America from destruction. But FDR is such a large figure that historians tend to take him as part of the landscape, focusing on smaller aspects of his achievements or carping about where he ought to have done things differently. Few have tried to assess the totality of FDR's life and career. Conrad Black rises to the challenge. In this magisterial biography, Black makes the case that FDR was the most important person of the twentieth century, transforming his nation and the world through his unparalleled skill as a domestic politician, war leader, strategist, and global visionary--all of which he accomplished despite a physical infirmity that could easily have ended his public life at age thirty-nine. Black also takes on the great critics of FDR, especially those who accuse him of betraying the West at Yalta. Black opens a new chapter in our understanding of this great man, whose example is even more inspiring as a new generation embarks on its own rendezvous with destiny.

Heart of Darkness

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Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180943640
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad

Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Darkness is often considered the world’s best short novel. The book serves as a bridge between the 19th century and modernism, an adventure tale revolving around the ambiguity of themes such as truth, morality, and evil. Joseph Conrad witnessed the European exploitation of the Congo with his own eyes. He once sailed up the Congo River himself to locate a countryman at a trading station deep within the country – even though this man wasn't named Kurtz. The goal and enigma of the journey have become synonymous with this name, one of the most unforgettable fictional characters of our time. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, and ended his career as a captain in the English merchant navy. His most famous work is the novella Heart of Darkness [1899], adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 as Apocalypse Now.

The Dawn Watch

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594205817
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (942 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dawn Watch by : Maya Jasanoff

Download or read book The Dawn Watch written by Maya Jasanoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad [and] his turbulent age of globalization--and our own"--Provided by publisher.

A Matter of Principle

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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551993163
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Principle written by Conrad Black and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it." —Conrad Black, in his statement to the court, June 24, 2011 In 1993, Conrad Black was the proprietor of London's Daily Telegraph and the head of one of the world's largest newspaper groups. He completed a memoir in 1992, A Life in Progress, and "great prospects beckoned." In 2004, he was fired as chairman of Hollinger International after he and his associates were accused of fraud. Here, for the first time, Black describes his indictment, four-month trial in Chicago, partial conviction, imprisonment, and largely successful appeal. In this unflinchingly revealing and superbly written memoir, Black writes without reserve about the prosecutors who mounted a campaign to destroy him and the journalists who presumed he was guilty. Fascinating people fill these pages, from prime ministers and presidents to the social, legal, and media elite, among them: Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Jean Chrétien, Rupert Murdoch, Izzy Asper, Richard Perle, Norman Podhoretz, Eddie Greenspan, Alan Dershowitz, and Henry Kissinger. Woven throughout are Black's views on big themes: politics, corporate governance, and the U.S. justice system. He is candid about highly personal subjects, including his friendships - with those who have supported and those who have betrayed him - his Roman Catholic faith, and his marriage to Barbara Amiel. And he writes about his complex relations with Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, and in particular the blow he has suffered at the hands of that nation. In this extraordinary book, Black maintains his innocence and recounts what he describes as "the fight of and for my life." A Matter of Principle is a riveting memoir and a scathing account of a flawed justice system.

Copernick's Rebellion

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Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345340337
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Copernick's Rebellion written by Leo Frankowski and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Heinrich Copernick and Martin Guibedo discover that their latest inventions can free humanity from want and oppressive governments forever, they come up with a scheme that can only lead to disaster

American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953

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Total Pages : 270 pages
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Book Synopsis American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953 by : Conrad C. Crane

Download or read book American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953 written by Conrad C. Crane and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the type of conflict it expected or wanted to fight. As the first air war of the nuclear age, it posed a major challenge to the service to define and successfully carry out its mission by stretching the constraints of limited war while avoiding the excesses of total war. Conrad Crane analyzes both the successes and failures of the air force in Korea, offering a balanced treatment of how the air war in Korea actually unfolded. He examines the Air Force's contention that it could play a decisive role in a non-nuclear regional war but shows that the fledgling service was held to unrealistically high expectations based on airpower's performance in World War II, despite being constrained by the limited nature of the Korean conflict. Crane exposes the tensions and rivalries between services, showing that emphasis on strategic bombing came at the expense of air support for ground troops, and he tells how interactions between army and air force generals shaped the air force's mission and strategy. He also addresses misunderstandings about plans to use nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in the war and includes new information from pilot correspondence about the informal policy of "hot pursuit" over the Yalu that existed at the end of the war. The book considers not only the actual air effort in Korea but also its ramifications. The air force doubled in size during the war and used that growth to secure its position in the defense establishment, but it wagered its future on its ability to deliver nuclear weapons in a high-intensity conflict—a position that left it unprepared to fight the next limited war in Vietnam. As America observes the fiftieth anniversary of its initial engagement in Korea, Crane's book is an important reminder of the lessons learned there. And as airpower continues to be a cornerstone of American defense, this examination of its uses in Korea provides new insights about the air force's capabilities and limitations.