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Download or read book The Rising Sun written by John Toland and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”—Chicago Sun-Times This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened—muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox.” In weaving together the historical facts and human drama leading up to and culminating in the war in the Pacific, Toland crafts a riveting and unbiased narrative history. In his Foreword, Toland says that if we are to draw any conclusion from The Rising Sun, it is “that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history.” “Unbelievably rich . . . readable and exciting . . .The best parts of [Toland’s] book are not the battle scenes but the intimate view he gives of the highest reaches of Tokyo politics.”—Newsweek
Book Synopsis The Limbs In The Loch Murderer by : Greg Patrick
Download or read book The Limbs In The Loch Murderer written by Greg Patrick and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1999, as Scotland prepared for the biggest Hogmanay of all time, a gruesome discovery was made by a police diving team on a training exercise in Loch Lomond. One by one, limbs from a cadaver were found and brought to the surface. Days later, a severed head was washed up on a beach in western Scotland and forensically matched with the limbs. Police soon had a prime suspect for the murder - William Beggs. But how had they been able to ascertain that it was Beggs right from the start? Just eight years earlier, Beggs had met Brian McQuillan at a disco and the pair had returned to Beggs' flat. He had set upon McQuillan with a knife, slashing him severely on the body but brave McQuillan escaped with his life by leaping through a first-floor window. Beggs was jailed for six years for the attack and, once released, was kept under the watchful eye of Strathclyde police. This in-depth and fascinating book investigates Beggs from his somewhat ordinary days as a member of the Young Conservatives through to his eventual conviction and incareration for the horrific murder of Barry Wallace. It examines how he managed to create an air of respectability around himself while perpetrating the most vicious of crimes; it looks at how, following the attack on McQuillan, police became aware that they had a serial killer in the making on their hands and how, from behind bars, Beggs still manages to make headlines.
Download or read book Shattered written by Debra Puglisi Sharp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1998, Debra Puglisi Sharp -- wife, nurse, and mother of teenage twins -- was tending the roses in her garden when a factory worker with a cocaine habit slipped in through an open door and waited for her to come in. Nino, her husband of twenty-five years, got in the way and was shot. The man then attacked and raped Debra, placed her in the trunk of his car, and drove away. Kept hog-tied in her abductor's house, Debra finally learned of her husband's murder from a newscast on a radio that the man blared to muffle her screams while he was out. After five excruciating days, Debra's mounting rage at her captor -- and the wrenching thought of her children burying their father alone -- gave her the courage and strength she desperately needed. She loosened her ties, groped her way to the phone...and dialed 911. Shattered is an indelible portrait of hope, determination, and the agonizing journey back to life. Struggling to heal from her horrendous ordeal and the devastating loss of her husband, Debra also had to endure an agonizing court trial, the raw grief of her children, and her own crippling fear. But through her work in hospice care and as an advocate for victims of violence and trauma, she has slowly discovered the measure of her own strength. A compelling survival story -- tragic and ultimately heroic -- Shattered represents one woman's attempts to make sense of a senseless crime.
Download or read book The Scapegoat written by René Girard and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1989-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal." -- John Yoder, Religion and Literature.
Download or read book Anywhere written by Phil Smith and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mythogeography of South Devon and how to walk it
Book Synopsis A Secret History of the IRA by : Ed Moloney
Download or read book A Secret History of the IRA written by Ed Moloney and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrayal of the Irish Republican Army includes coverage of its associations with Qaddafi's regime, Margaret Thatcher's secret diplomacy with Gerry Adams, and the Catholic Church's negotiations with Republican leadership.
Book Synopsis Mighty Marvel Masterworks by : Stan Lee
Download or read book Mighty Marvel Masterworks written by Stan Lee and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #29-38. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created an unabashed cultural phenomenon in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! Their dramatic blend of Peter Parker's everyday woes mixed with his web-slinging alter ego's exploits was something undeniably special. And after years of perfecting that formula, Lee and Ditko unleashed their Spider-Man masterpiece: the Master Planner saga! It's as perfect a Spider-Man story as you'll ever find, including one of the most iconic moments in Marvel history! Plus: Peter's first days on campus at Empire State University introduce you to Gwen Stacy, tease something strange afoot with Norman Osborn and feature villains from the colorful (Kraven the Hunter) to the crazed (J. Jonah Jameson)!
Download or read book Steps in Time written by Fred Astaire and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost entertainers of the twentieth century—singer, actor, choreographer, and, of course, the most dazzling "hoofer" in the history of motion pictures—Fred Astaire was the epitome of charm, grace, and suave sophistication, with a style all his own and a complete disregard for the laws of gravity. Steps in Time is Astaire's story in his own words, a memoir as beguiling, exuberant, and enthralling as the great artist himself, the man ballet legends George Balanchine and Rudolf Nureyev cited as, hands down, the century's greatest dancer. From his debut in vaudeville at age six through his remarkable career as the star of many of the most popular Hollywood musicals ever captured on celluloid, Steps in Time celebrates the golden age of entertainment and its royalty, as seen through the eyes of the era's affable and adored prince. Illustrated with more than forty rare photographs from the author's personal collection, here is Astaire in all his debonair glory—his life, his times, his movies, and, above all, his magical screen appearances and enduring friendship with the most beloved of all his dancing partners, Ginger Rogers.
Book Synopsis The Detroit Lancet by : Leartus Connor
Download or read book The Detroit Lancet written by Leartus Connor and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis This Truth Must Be Told! by : Edna Washington Turner
Download or read book This Truth Must Be Told! written by Edna Washington Turner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We must speak TRUTH in order to direct our way to inner freedom! And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." ~John 8:32. So often were seeing on a regular basis the effects of the shame and guilt of our past lives. Many of us are carrying burdens from the past that we have not let go that continue to hinder us from the process of traveling our Earthly journey according to Gods Holy Will. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. Four our light afflictions, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.~ II Corinthians 4:16-18. Letting go of these burdens will not be an easy task, but it will release the shackles that keep us in bondage, therefore enabling us to believe and trust ALL the promises of God! Freedom train is coming around the mountain; its time to get on board!
Book Synopsis Captured by History by : John Toland
Download or read book Captured by History written by John Toland and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured by History is an autobiography like none other, for few historians have interviewed as many men and women who helped shape the most momentous events of our century than John Toland. Here, for the first time, Toland reveals how he found these key players and how he persuaded them to talk to him. From disgraced Japanese generals to the German doctor who nearly succeeded in assassinating Hitler, Toland's sources are remarkable for what they reveal about their subjects, along with the secrets and stories they would tell no one else. Toland's unorthodox approach to history came from his early desire to be a playwright. Even before graduating from Williams College during the depths of the Depression, Toland spent his summers hitchhiking and riding the rails as a hobo. He lived and worked with other bindle stiffs, learning their lingo and ways. He served five short jail sentences for riding freights and trespassing. His experiences and the characters he met encouraged Toland to write plays and early novels (unsuccessfully) until 1957, when he published his first book, Ships in the Sky. His work in the next four decades was nothing short of extraordinary, for Toland found that he saw history as a play, with narrative structure and drama, not as a dry series of dates and names. The result was a series of landmark works such as Infamy;The Rising Sun, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1970 and reflected his ability, with the help of his Japanese wife, to open doors normally closed to Westerners in Japan; In Mortal Combat;The Last 100 Days; and his best-selling biography of Adolf Hitler. Captured by History is not only the summation of a lifetime of groundbreaking works, but the story of a man who through his historical investigations became a witness to many of the most catastrophic events of the twentieth century. A self-effacing man in person, Toland nonetheless comes across as having had a life as fascinating as the lives of the many historical figures he has interviewed. Written by one of our last witnesses to the terrible and deracinating conflicts that split the world asunder at mid-century, Captured by History is an astonishing personal story of a hugely inquisitive man who became a historian not by accident or design, but by fate; a man who succeeded in chronicling the most tumultuous events of our century.
Book Synopsis Strange Shores by : Arnaldur Indridason
Download or read book Strange Shores written by Arnaldur Indridason and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades after a woman disappears from the Icelandic fjords amid a tempest of lies, betrayal, and revenge, Detective Erlendur searches the same region for his long-lost brother, only to uncover disturbing secrets.
Download or read book Infrathin written by Marjorie Perloff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components. The “infrathin” was Marcel Duchamp’s playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. “Eat” is not the same thing as “ate.” The poetic, Marjorie Perloff suggests, can best be understood as the language of infrathin. For in poetry, whether in verse or prose, words and phrases that are seemingly unrelated in ordinary discourse are realigned by means of sound, visual layout, etymology, grammar, and construction so as to “make it new.” In her revisionist “micropoetics,” Perloff draws primarily on major modernist poets from Stein and Yeats to Beckett, suggesting that the usual emphasis on what this or that poem is “about,” does not do justice to its infrathin possibilities. From Goethe’s eight-line “Wanderer’s Night Song” to Eliot’s Four Quartets, to the minimalist lyric of Rae Armantrout, Infrathin is designed to challenge our current habits of reading and to answer the central question: what is it that makes poetry poetry?
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Book Synopsis Indescribable Ordeal by : Michael Dorosh
Download or read book Indescribable Ordeal written by Michael Dorosh and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany's fast-hitting Panzer divisions made history with their astonishing victories in the opening years of World War II, but the bulk of the Army marched into battle on foot, with their artillery and supplies following behind on horse-drawn limbers and carts. The 65th Division was typical of the front-line infantry divisions of the German Army. Raised for coastal duty in 1942, the Division went to Italy after the collapse of the Axis partnership. The 65th saw action throughout the Italian Campaign, from the soggy banks of the flooded Sangro River, to the trenches of the Anzio beachhead, to the final battles of the war in front of the Po River. Constantly short of troops, manned by war-weary conscripts, and always under attack by Allied artillery, fighter-bombers and tanks, the experience of the 65th Infantry Division was summed up by one of its soldiers in two words: INDESCRIBABLE ORDEAL. For the first time in English, this is the full war record of the 65th Infantry Division: a story of bravery, sacrifice and the limits of human endurance.
Book Synopsis Family Crash by : Dr. Martin Okechukwu C. Anumba
Download or read book Family Crash written by Dr. Martin Okechukwu C. Anumba and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Crash is a fictional book that was, purely, based on actual events that took place in my marriage which lasted for twenty-five years, with five kids but, finally, came to a crashing and tragic end, with no point of return, as a result of a single woman. The family commenced as a grass root type with very limited resources for life and which means that we were barely making it, in terms of our daily livelihood. It is accurate to note that although the family was a below average one, at this stage, there was unification between me and my wife. Under the state of unification we worked very hard to improve ourselves in terms of education and job environment. With severity and sincere effort we strongly attained the highest level of educational standard with greater employment status as a result of our academic achievements. Besides being fruitful in academics and job environments, we also got involved in business activities of all types which were also very progressive at all levels of intensities. With all these achievements it is good to note that the family was enjoying the above average life and lived in the best area you could imagine in the State of Michigan. With all in place, we believed that it must be for the rest of our lives, but we were wrong because we allowed a woman to become a friend to the family. Note that when this woman was encountered through my wife, she never had any means of livelihood as a result of her family issues of all types. Being as nice as we were, we welcomed her with all of our hearts and solved all of her problems. Having settled her, including giving her a job within our company she decided to plan all kinds of strategies which were geared toward breaking my family and finally she succeeded. In executing her plan she, specifically, targeted my wife and turned her mind to become a lesbian with her. In this case, my wife had to forget everything about me and the entire family and turned her life, her personal bank account and our business bank account to this woman's disposal, without my knowledge. Under this condition, my wife established this woman as her new husband that makes all decisions for her. She even tried to incorporate my kids under the decision machinery of this woman and due to my active intervention everything proved abortive. Note that when I observed the various indications of the new life of my wife I took several actions to counter the situation, as mentioned in the text, but to no avail. As you know, once a person chooses a new life, it is always hard to back track to the old life which will not be comparable to the present enjoyable one. Having exhausted all possible avenues, as mentioned in text, without any success at all levels, I have no choice but to institute a divorce proceeding against my wife. During the divorce processes, the woman played several significant roles in order to frustrate me and win my entire properties, kids and the family finances for my former wife, which is now her wife, as mentioned in the text. The entire event that took place during this period was like a big war between me and the woman, which I finally won. Finally, on August of 2011, the entire family came to a crashing end with various repercussions and consequences, as mentioned in the text Everyone needs to read this book in order to understand the intensities of what this single woman did to a family that was united by God because we were formerly married under Roman Catholic Church and also by the Court because we were also, formerly married under the State of Michigan. Sincerely, I had personally forgiven her while she waits for the punishment from God Almighty Who Has the final say, on all of our activities, on the face of this earth Finally, I will advice everyone to b
Download or read book Ralph Bunche written by Brian Urquhart and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the United Nations mediator and winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the armistice between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
