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Download or read book Hard Aground written by Brendan DuBois and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With echoes of Rear Window, award-winning Brendan DuBois’ new thriller finds defense analyst Lewis Cole trapped and under siege in his beachfront home. In his eleventh outing, Lewis Cole—former Department of Defense research analyst—is “hard aground” at his beachfront home, recovering from major surgery. Alone at night, he’s convinced he’s hearing someone breaking into his home, and during the day, he’s harassed by genealogy researchers. Then a local gang involved in the highly lucrative and dangerous heroin business brutally make their appearance known. The unexplained murder of a local antiques dealer and historian then kicks off a long, bloody trail of old history and feuds, bringing Lewis and his historical home right into the center of the violent opioid epidemic, where no one is safe—and no one will be spared.
Book Synopsis Hard Aground by : Andrew C. A. Jampoler
Download or read book Hard Aground written by Andrew C. A. Jampoler and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three intertwined stories highlighting the many challenges the US Navy faced during strategic and material evolution Hard Aground brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navy’s strategic and matériel evolution following the end of the Civil War through the First World War. These incidents had lasting consequences for how the navy would modernize itself throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The first story focuses on the reconstruction of the US Navy following the swift and near-total dismantling of the Union Navy infrastructure after the Civil War. This reconstruction began with barely enough time for the navy’s campaigns in the Spanish-American War, and for its role in the First World War. Jampoler argues that the federal government discovered that the fleet requested by the navy, and paid for by Congress, was the wrong fleet. Focus was on battleships and cruisers rather than destroyers and other small combat vessels needed to hunt submarines and serve as convoy escorts. The second story relates the short, tragic life of the USS Tennessee (later renamed Memphis), one of the steel-hulled ships of the new Armored Cruiser Squadron that was a centerpiece of the navy’s modernization effort. The USS Tennessee was ordered on two unusual missions in the early months of World War I, long before the United States formally entered the war. These little know missions and the sudden destruction of the ship by a storm surge in the Caribbean serves as the centerpiece of the story. Threaded through the narrative are biographical sketches of the principal players in the drama that unfolded following the ship’s demise, including two of Tennessee’s commanding officers: Vice Admiral Sims, who commanded the US Navy squadrons deployed to Europe in support of the Royal Navy; Rear Admiral William Caperton, who commanded the Caribbean squadron before the Memphis (formerly the Tennessee) was lost; Charles Pond, squadron commander during the wreck; and the American ambassador to the Ottoman court, President Wilson’s enthusiastic supporter, Henry Morgenthau. Jampoler concludes with an account of how the USS Tennessee’s destruction prompted fierce deliberations about the US Navy’s operations and chains of command for the remainder of the First World War and the high-level political wrangling inside the Department of the Navy immediately after the war, as civilian appointees and senior officers wrestled to reshape the department in their image.
Download or read book Hard Aground written by James Wilson Hall and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Secretary of War by : United States. War Department
Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of War written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearst's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis My Life on the Mississippi by : Richard Bissell
Download or read book My Life on the Mississippi written by Richard Bissell and published by eNet Press. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A skillful, and frequently hilarious, comparison of Mark Twain and the author, Richard Bissell. Part commentary and part autobiography, Bissell deftly interweaves family history, anecdotes, and career paths into an unforgettable linking of two outstanding authors and river boat buffs living almost a century apart.
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Download or read book Hearst's Magazine, the World To-day written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Schweikart v. Stivala, 329 MICH 180 (1950) written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19
Book Synopsis Current Encyclopedia by : Samuel Fallows
Download or read book Current Encyclopedia written by Samuel Fallows and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MotorBoating written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail by : David Hepper
Download or read book British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail written by David Hepper and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant new reference book provides a complete list of the ships of the Royal Navy which were lost at sea in the age of sail. Arranged in chronological order, it includes outline details of each vessel lost and the circumstances of her loss. 1649 is the start date, which coincides with the execution of Charles I and that time when the Royal Navy entered a new phase as an instrument of state: the launch of the steam-powered and iron-hulled Warrior in 1860 effectively marks the end of the great era of the wooden-hulled sailing warship. Life at sea in the age of sail was a hazardous pursuit, and there were many reasons for a ship being lost. A correspondent to the Nautical Magazine in 1841 detailed some fifty reasons and causes, from being short of crew, abandonment without sufficient cause, the poor condition of a ship, incorrectness of charts, poor dead-reckoning as well as less obvious reasons such as the presence of captains wives and other women. Navigational error, particularly before the chronometer allowed for the accurate calculation of longitude, was a common reason, while poor weather in the form of fog or gales was an obvious peril. So many ships suffered the melancholy fate of lonely disappearance overwhelmed by storm and sea, and witnessed by none. Collisions and fire feature regularly as does, of course, loss to the enemy. Each entry includes details of the ship, its name and type, tonnage and dimensions, origin and place of build, the circumstances of the loss, the date and a list of the main references used. All this material is presented here in a single and highly accessible volume, and represents a major milestone both in naval research and publishing; it offers too a fund of fascinating and compelling stories of maritime misadventure. Praise for the author's previous work: This volume is an amazing encyclopaedic, catalogue of British warships lost between 1920 and 1982 It is strongly recommended to historians, authors, researchers and all those with an interest in the history of the Royal Navy and the Second World War. -Scuttlebut Magazine
Download or read book Motor Boat written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Northern Neck Chapter-Military Officers Association of America Publisher :Xlibris Corporation ISBN 13 :1469103729 Total Pages :500 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (691 download)
Book Synopsis Recollections by : Northern Neck Chapter-Military Officers Association of America
Download or read book Recollections written by Northern Neck Chapter-Military Officers Association of America and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-27 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections is the result of many meetings with the twenty-eight veterans interviewed, and many hours of editing. The veterans’ names appear in the Contents section of the book. Their stories and their enthusiasm in telling them took me back to those years of uncomplicated patriotism, of courage, honor and glory, and, yes, of loss and suffering. We are proud of them still.
