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Rain of Steel

Author : Stephen Moore
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 168247531X
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Rain of Steel written by Stephen Moore and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last Pacific campaign of World War II was the most violent on record. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher’s Task Force 58 carriers had conducted air strikes on mainland Japan and supported the Iwo Jima landings, but his aviators were sorely tested once the Okinawa campaign commenced on 1 April 1945. Rain of Steel follows Navy and Marine carrier aviators in the desperate air battles to control the kamikazes directed by Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki. The latter would unleash ten different Kikusui aerial suicide operations, one including a naval force built around the world’s most powerful battleship, the 71,000-ton Yamato. These battles are related largely through the words and experiences of some of the last living U.S. fighter aces of World War II. More than 1,900 kamikaze sorties—and thousands more traditional attack aircraft—would be launched against the U.S. Navy’s warships, radar picket ships, and amphibious vessels during the Okinawa campaign. In this time, Navy, Marine, and Army Air Force pilots would claim some 2,326 aerial victories. The most successful four-man fighter division in U.S. Navy history would be crowned during the fight against Ugaki’s kamikazes. The Japanese named the campaign tetsu no ame (“rain of steel”), often referred to in English as “typhoon of steel.”

Days of Steel Rain

Author : Brent E. Jones
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316451096
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Days of Steel Rain written by Brent E. Jones and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate true account of Americans at war follows theepic drama of an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war. At its center lies U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer, who vowed to return to action after suffering a horrific wound. He accepted the ship's command in 1944, knowing it would be his last chance to avenge his injuries and salvage his career. Yet with the nation's resources and personnel stretched thin by the war, he found that just getting the ship into action would prove to be a battle. Tensions among the crew flared from the start. Astoria's sailors and Marines were a collection of replacements, retreads, and older men. Some were broken by previous traumatic combat, most had no desire to be in the war, yet all found themselves fighting an enemy more afraid of surrender than death. The reluctant ship was called to respond to challenges that its men never could have anticipated. From a typhoon where the ocean was enemy to daring rescue missions, a gallant turn at Iwo Jima, and the ultimate crucible against the Kamikaze at Okinawa, they endured the worst of the final year of the war at sea. Days of Steel Rain brings to life more than a decade of research and firsthand interviews, depicting with unprecedented insight the singular drama of a captain grappling with an untested crew and men who had endured enough amidst some of the most brutal fighting of World War II. Throughout, Brent Jones fills the narrative with secret diaries, memoirs, letters, interpersonal conflicts, and the innermost thoughts of the Astoria men—and more than 80 photographs that have never before been published. Days of Steel Rain weaves an intimate, unforgettable portrait of leadership, heroism, endurance, and redemption.

Storm of Steel

Author : Ernst Junger
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0143108255
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Storm of Steel written by Ernst Junger and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great war memoirs, published here in a stunning Deluxe Edition for the centenary of World War I and the Battle of the Somme—and featuring a foreword by the New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn A worldwide bestseller published shortly after the end of World War I, Storm of Steel is a memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism. It illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, as seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-aware, Ernst Jünger exulted in the Great War, which he saw not just as a great national conflict but also—more importantly—as a unique personal struggle. Leading raiding parties, defending trenches against murderous British incursions, simply enduring as shells tore his comrades apart, Jünger keeps testing himself, braced for the death that will mark his failure. His account is ripe for rediscovery upon the centennial of the Battle of the Somme—a major set piece in Storm of Steel—and a bracing read for fans of Redeployment and American Sniper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Cold Steel Rain

Author : Kenneth Abel
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1628158158
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Cold Steel Rain written by Kenneth Abel and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing stays dead in New Orleans. Not for long, anyway… No one knows this better than ex-district attorney Danny Chaisson—the dead show up in his bathroom mirror every morning, staring right back at him with hollow eyes. Chaisson is the legman for Jimmy Boudrieux, speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, for whom dirty dealing is more than just a way of life. So when Danny makes his regular pick-up of a briefcase full of handguns at a downtown Vietnamese restaurant, leaves the room for a moment, and returns to find a bloodbath, he knows the next bullet has his name on it. And nobody—least of all Boudrieux or the crooked cops who control the NOPD—is going to lift a finger to help him. From the bestselling author of Bait: “A scorcher . . . clever, tough and terrific enough to make you comb publishers’ lists for his next.” —Time Out

Ring of Steel

Author : Alexander Watson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465056873
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Ring of Steel written by Alexander Watson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: fers a groundbreaking account of World War I from the other side of the continent, brilliantly covering the major military events and the day-to-day life which resulted in the destruction of one empire, and the moral collapse of another

Steel Rain

Author : Tom Neale
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 0755377303
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Steel Rain written by Tom Neale and published by Headline. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Agent Vincent Piper is an FBI Field Officer based in London. Any crime involving Americans is his business. He's estranged from his wife and he loves his only daughter Martha, but she is drifting away from him. A terrorist bomb goes off in Barnes & Noble bookshop in Charing Cross road and as Vincent surveys the carnage, he starts to weep. He had arranged to meet Martha in the bookshop. She dies in his arms. Vincent vows revenge and relentlessly pursues all the leads he can find on active anti-capitalist groups. But what he discovers is even more shocking than his daughters' death...

Shadowrun Legends: Steel Rain

Author : Nyx Smith
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadowrun Legends: Steel Rain written by Nyx Smith and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SWORD OF THE SERPENT... Machiko is second-in-command of the Green Serpent Guard, an elite corps of Elven samurai who are sworn to defend the Chairman of Nagato Corporation. But she soon gets a promotion—after her superior is ruthlessly cut down in a slew of attacks aimed at the famous Guard itself. Only the wealthiest can afford assassins with enough muscle to take on the Green Serpent Guard, and Machiko turns up evidence that points ot Nagato's biggest rival, Fuchi Corp. It looks like Fuchi has designs on Nagato's sensitive research division, where the incredible future of the communications matrix is taking shape. When magical attacks and sabotage begin taking out more of Nagato's personnel, things between the two megacorporations really heat up. But behind the growing hostilities with Fuchi looms a more sinister threat, requiring far more of Machiko's talents than her flashing sword. And staying alive may require defeating a high-tech foe with virtually unlimited powers—and absolutely no mercy...

Blood and Rain

Author : Glenn Rolfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913138172
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Rain written by Glenn Rolfe and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenn Rolfe's Blood and Rain returns in an all-new edition from Poltergeist Press!

Super Black

Author : Adilifu Nama
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292735456
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Super Black written by Adilifu Nama and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A welcome overview of black superheroes and Afrocentric treatments of black-white relations in US superhero comics since the 1960s.” –ImageTexT Journal Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value—and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity—in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts. Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia, and others, some of whom also appear on the small and large screens, as well as how the imaginary black superhero has come to life in the image of President Barack Obama. Super Black explores how black superheroes are a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice. “A refreshingly nuanced approach . . . Nama complicates the black superhero by also seeing the ways that they put issues of post-colonialism, race, poverty, and identity struggles front and center.” –Rain Taxi

Sunshine & Rain

Author : Dawn Desiree
Publisher : Urban Books
ISBN 13 : 1622868722
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Sunshine & Rain written by Dawn Desiree and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their families torn apart by the vicious life of the streets, Sunshine and Rain find each other living with the same foster mother, who has a secret life of her own. With Rain's stern heart of steel and Sunshine's innocent heart of gold, they try to cope with traumatic, unforeseen circumstances that come their way. As these two diamonds hook up and shine, they go from rags to riches. Watch as Sunshine and Rain deal with death, betrayal, love, and sweet temptation. Can their newfound friendship survive through all the madness?

Nerves of Steel

Author : Captain Tammie Jo Shults
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0785228411
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Nerves of Steel written by Captain Tammie Jo Shults and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nerves of Steel is the captivating true story of Tammie Jo Shults’s remarkable life—from growing up the daughter of a humble rancher, to breaking through gender barriers as one of the Navy’s first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots, to safely landing the severely crippled Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 and helping save the lives of 148 people. Tammie Jo Shults has spent her entire life loving the skies. Though the odds were against her, she became one of the few female fighter pilots in the Navy. In 1994, after serving her country honorably for eight years, Tammie Jo left the Navy and joined Southwest Airlines in the early 1990’s. On April 17, 2018, Tammie Jo was called to service once again. Twenty minutes into a routine domestic flight, Captain Shults was faced with the unthinkable—a catastrophic engine failure in the Boeing 737 caused an explosion that severed hydraulic and fuel lines, tearing away sections of the plane, puncturing a window, and taking a woman’s life. Captain Shults and her first officer, Darren Ellisor, struggled to stabilize the aircraft. Drawing deeply from her well of experience, Tammie Jo was able to wrestle the severely damaged 737 safely to the ground. Not originally scheduled for that flight, there is no doubt God had prepared her and placed her right where she needed to be that day.

Steel Rain, the Tet Offensive 1968

Author : john harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977045447
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Steel Rain, the Tet Offensive 1968 written by john harrison and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the bloodiest year of the Vietnam War, 1968, including the Tet Offensive. Like the original Band of Brothers, we were formed in the States as the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. As the story shows we specifically formed the make the second large unit combat parachute jump in the Vietnam War. The first had been made by a battalion of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate). Our original commanding officer was Lt. Col. John P. Geraci. Geraci had started his military career in the Marines during World War II. He continued it as an Army platoon leader in the Korean War and then went on to serve two tours in Vietnam with the Green Berets prior to heading up our battalion. He was good enough and famous enough to inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame at Fort Benning. While we never made that jump, we were ready.The book starts with me attending Airborne School and ends with a case I had as a lawyer long after the Vietnam War was over defending a former 173rd Airborne trooper from criminal charges related to his use of marijuana while undergoing cancer treatment at Walter Reed Army Hospital. I tell our story episodically with each chapter capable of being read alone. Many of the stories have already appeared in my blog. Among the readers were many of the men that served with me and that literally brought me home. Some of their comments appear at the beginning of each story.It is a story of men at war doing the best they could in a war they did not choose, in a place we never really did understand. We managed to be there on the bloodiest day, the bloodiest week, the bloodiest month and the bloodiest year of a long bloody war. The 1968 Tet Offensive is a big part of what we saw and what we did in our year in country. War never really leaves you, it brings out the best and the worst in men and because of those two facts normally the story of a war is well told. However, the Vietnam War was different. Never have there been more myths reported as facts. Never has the actual story of the war been more ignored. If you read almost any history of the Vietnam War at some point it will say something like: "The enemy attacks during the Tet Offensive were quickly beaten back except in Khe Sanh, Saigon, Hue and Phan Thiet." Then the history will go on to describe the fighting in Khe Sanh, Saigon and Hue, but Phan Thiet will never be mentioned again. This is our story. We fought and won in Phan Thiet.

Steel Rain

Author : Nyx Smith
Publisher : New Amer Library
ISBN 13 : 9780451455932
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Steel Rain written by Nyx Smith and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 1997-02-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is up to a female member of a megacorporation's elite battalion of Elven samurai to uncover a diabolical blackmail scheme perpetrated by the company's biggest rival, a high-tech foe with unlimited powers. Original.

Storm of Steel

Author : Ernst Jünger
Publisher : WWW.Bnpublishing.com
ISBN 13 : 9781607961895
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Storm of Steel written by Ernst Jünger and published by WWW.Bnpublishing.com. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Junger's great book matter-of-factly conveys the mysterious glamour of war, the exhilaration of its excess and intensity and, not least, the undeniable glory of men bravely preparing for battle as for "some terrible silent ceremonial that portends human sacrifice."

Sun & Steel

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780436281556
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Sun & Steel written by Yukio Mishima and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Steel Rain

Author : Molly Briar
Publisher : Molly Briar
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Steel Rain written by Molly Briar and published by Molly Briar. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ajax. My world as an MMA trainer for the Irish mob was supposed to be temporary. Just a debt I needed to pay when the big boss saved my life. Then I watched her fight, and she was brought into my gym. I unravelled her secrets, bit by bit, as we laid it bare on the mat. Now I'm joining a war I wanted no part of, because she needed me in her corner. Sin. My mission was simple. Get my sister out of foster care. I had a plan. But the sins of our father came knocking at the locker door and offered a smooth path to reuniting my family. But can I get through the vipers den with my soul and secrets intact?

Steel Rain

Author : Elizabeth Miller
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540335951
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Steel Rain written by Elizabeth Miller and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These men and women may fight in the forces which guard our country, but they're about to declare war on your heart. In this emotional and sexy anthology, ten popular authors deliver stories of sacrifice, hope and redemption, all to bring awareness to the struggle our home grown heroes continue to battle.