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Fortress Malta

Author : James Holland
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780225970
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Fortress Malta written by James Holland and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta - smaller than the Isle of Wight - than on the whole of Britain during the first year of the Blitz. Malta had become one of the most strategically important places in the world. From there, the Allies could attack Axis supply lines to North Africa; without it, Rommel would be able to march unchecked into Egypt, Suez and the Middle East. For the Allies this would have been catastrophic. As Churchill said, Malta had to be held 'at all costs'. FORTRESS MALTA follows the story through the eyes of those who were there: young men such as twenty-year-old fighter pilot Raoul Daddo-Langlois, anti-aircraft gunner Ken Griffiths, American Art Roscoe and submariner Tubby Crawford - who served on the most successful Allied submarine of the Second World War; cabaret dancer-turned RAF plotter Christina Ratcliffe, and her lover, the brilliant and irrepressible reconnaissance pilot, Adrian Warburton. Their stories and others provide extraordinary first-hand accounts of heroism, resilience, love, and loss, highlighting one of the most remarkable stories of World War II.

Under Siege

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231535953
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Under Siege written by Rashid Khalidi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut. Utilizing unconventional sources and interviews with key officials and diplomats, Khalidi paints a detailed portrait of the siege and ensuing massacres, providing insight into the military pressure experienced by the P.L.O., the war's impact on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, and diplomatic efforts by the United States. A new preface by Khalidi considers developments across the Middle East in the thirty years since the conflict. The preface also cites recently declassified Israeli documents to offer surprising new revelations about the roles and responsibilities of both Israeli leaders and American diplomats in the tragic coda to the war, the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

Island Under Siege

Author : James Rosone
Publisher : Front Line Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781961748095
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Island Under Siege written by James Rosone and published by Front Line Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2024-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islands Under Siege

Author : John Carter Freemuth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Islands Under Siege written by John Carter Freemuth and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of threats to national parks (noise and water pollution, smog, industrial spills and acid rain) from a political perspective. The focus is on two cases: the proposed mining of the tar sands of south- central Utah, near Canyonlands National Park, and poor air quality in several western parks caused by pollution. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sanibel Island Under Siege

Author : Emmet Sparks
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602477604
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Sanibel Island Under Siege written by Emmet Sparks and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invasion of terror for the pristine island begins when Eleanor Pippin, who was collecting shells, makes a discovery that changes the lives of the island residents forever.

Solidarity Under Siege

Author : Jeffrey L. Gould
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108419194
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Solidarity Under Siege written by Jeffrey L. Gould and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the rise and fall of the militant labor movement in modern El Salvador.

Cuba Under Siege

Author : K. Bolender
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137275553
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Cuba Under Siege written by K. Bolender and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 50 years America's unrelenting hostility toward the Cuban Revolution has resulted in the development of a siege mentality among island leadership and its citizens. In a vibrant new look at Cuban-American relations, Keith Bolender analyzes the effects this has had on economic, cultural, and political life.

Islands Under Siege

Author : John C. Freemuth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780700606276
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Islands Under Siege written by John C. Freemuth and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly national parts have come under environmental attack from sources outside the parks, beyond the jurisdiction of the Park Service. Freemuth outlines a diverse set of political strategies, evaluating each in terms of environmental effectiveness and political feasibility.

Under Siege

Author : Stephen Coonts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671742949
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Under Siege written by Stephen Coonts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Jake Grafton faces the duel threats of a determined assassin and a vicious drug lord, both intent on plunging the U.S. into chaos.

Fortress Malta

Author : James Holland
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780752852881
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Fortress Malta written by James Holland and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on this tiny Mediterranean island - an island smaller than the Isle of Wight - than on the whole of Britain during the first year of the Blitz. Malta had become one of the most strategically important places in the world. From there, the Allies could attack Axis supply lines to North Africa; without it, Rommel would be able to march unchecked into Egypt, Suez and the Middle East. For the Allies this would have catastrophic. The battle that ensued stretched the civilian population and their defenders to the limits of human endurance. Slowly but surely they fought back, taking the fight back to the enemy. Without Malta, El Alamein could not have been won. As Churchill said, Malta had to be held 'at all costs.' A Beacon of Hope follows the story through the eyes of those who were there; young men such as twenty-year-old fighter pilot Raoul Daddo-Langlois, and anti-aircraft gunner Ken Griffiths; American Art Roscoe and submariner Tubby Crawford - who served on the most successful Allied submarine of the Second World War; cabaret dancer-turned RAF plotter Christina Ratcliffe, and her love

Devil-Land

Author : Clare Jackson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141984589
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Devil-Land written by Clare Jackson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022* A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed. Devil-Land reveals England as, in many ways, a 'failed state': endemically unstable and rocked by devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and concluding with a not-so 'Glorious Revolution' a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a spectacular reinterpretation of England's vexed and enthralling past.

Fortress Malta

Author : James Holland
Publisher : Miramax
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fortress Malta written by James Holland and published by Miramax. This book was released on 2003-09-24 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of one of the great, little-known stories of World War II--the siege of Malta. 16-page photo insert.

Nature Under Siege

Author : INIODU GEORGE-UKPONG
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1477259910
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Nature Under Siege written by INIODU GEORGE-UKPONG and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressions such as Environmental terrorism or eco-anarchy may sum up the state of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, in a bid to explain the indiscriminate cutting of pristine forests, terminal scare of wildlife and extinction of biodiversity, loss of soil fertility and fecundity of rivers, acidified atmosphere, corroded roofs, disease, conflicts, militarization, extra-judicial killing, inflation and collapse of traditional economy, poverty, prostitution, rape, death.... But embedded in the clatter of this semantic analysis are the realities of an abused environment, where uncertainty looms in daylight and grief rules the night; for well over five decades that the region has come under intense ravaging by the oil industry, the effect is evident in the physical, biological and socio-economic environments. Against the background of rich but fragile ecosystems where nature experiments with its components at will; and the picture of a consciously raped ecology, this book examines the lingering environmental crises in Nigerias oil-rich region. With appropriate use of case studies based on practical field experience, and explicit discourse on remedial measures, the book is fashioned to meet the interest of all classes of persons including students of environmental management, policy makers and stakeholders in the Niger Delta environment.

Charleston Under Siege

Author : Douglas W. Bostick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423034X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Charleston Under Siege written by Douglas W. Bostick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charleston was the prize that the Union army and navy desperately sought to capture. Union General Halleck, in writing to General W.T. Sherman, declared, "Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed." However, despite bringing to bear the full firepower of the U.S. Army and Navy, Charleston would not relent. The defense of Charleston employed every tool available to an outmanned Confederate army. Yet after 567 days of constant attack by infantry, gun batteries and the Union fleet, Charleston would not surrender. Only after the evacuation of the Confederate forces to reinforce General Joe Johnston in North Carolina did the Federal government gain control of the city. Join historian Doug Bostick as he tells the story of the siege of Charleston, the longest siege of the Civil War.

The City Under Siege

Author : Michael Russell
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472130391
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The City Under Siege written by Michael Russell and published by Constable. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and war-torn London. When Ireland's greatest actor is arrested in Soho, after the brutal murder of a gay man, Stefan extricates him from an embarrassing situation. But suddenly he is looking at a series of murders, stretching across Britain and Ireland. The deaths were never investigated deeply as they were not considered a priority. And there are reasons to look away now. It's not only that the killer may be a British soldier, Scotland Yard is also hiding the truth about the victim. But an identical murder in Malta makes investigation essential. Malta, at the heart of the Mediterranean war, is under siege by German and Italian bombers. Rumours that a British soldier murdered a Maltese teenager can't go unchallenged without damaging loyalty to Britain. Now Britain will cooperate with Ireland to find the killer and Stefan is sent to Malta. The British believe the killer is an Irishman; that's the result they want. And they'd like Stefan to give it to them. But in the dark streets of Valletta there are threats deadlier than German bombs... Praise for Michael Russell 'Complex but compelling . . . utterly vivid and convincing' Independent on Sunday 'A superb, atmospheric thriller' Irish Independent 'A thriller to keep you guessing and gasping' Daily Mail 'Atmospheric' Sunday Times

Island Under Siege

Author : Pedro Prada
Publisher : Ocean Press (AU)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Under Siege written by Pedro Prada and published by Ocean Press (AU). This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cuba Under Siege

Author : K. Bolender
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137275553
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Cuba Under Siege written by K. Bolender and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 50 years America's unrelenting hostility toward the Cuban Revolution has resulted in the development of a siege mentality among island leadership and its citizens. In a vibrant new look at Cuban-American relations, Keith Bolender analyzes the effects this has had on economic, cultural, and political life.