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Download or read book THE FLAK BUCKET written by Richard Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1944, a crash in the Burmese jungle leads a war weary B-25 crew to lost temples, tigers and a secret enemy aircraft that had been hidden away for over a year. Now, the five man American crew takes off in the stolen plane on a perilous and potentially deadly mission. A mission that none of them could have ever imagined.
Download or read book The Purple Decades written by Tom Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1982-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.
Book Synopsis Nefertiti in the Flak Tower by : Clive James
Download or read book Nefertiti in the Flak Tower written by Clive James and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Clive James is more or less the only living poet who manages to be both entertaining and moving.”—Edward Mendelson Clive James’s renown as an internationally celebrated poet continues to expand, and there is no stronger evidence for this than Nefertiti in the Flak Tower, a collection “steeped in the lessons of Philip Larkin and W.B. Yeats” (London Times). Here, his polymathic learning and technical virtuosity are worn more lightly than ever; the effect is to produce a deep sense of trust into which the reader gratefully sinks, knowing they are in the presence of a master. The most obvious token of that mastery is the book’s breathtaking range of theme: there are moving elegies, a meditation on the later Yeats, a Hollywood Iliad, and odes to rare orchids, wartime typewriters, and sharks—as well as a poem on the fate of Queen Nefertiti in Nazi Germany. Despite the dizzying variety, James’s poetic intention becomes increasingly clear: what marks this new collection is his intensified concentration on the individual poem as a self-contained universe. Poetry is a practice he compares (in “Numismatics”) to striking new coin, and Nefertiti in the Flak Tower is a treasure chest of one-off marvels, with each poem a twin-sided, perfect human balance of the unashamedly joyous and the deadly serious, “whose play of light pays tribute to the dark.”
Download or read book TEMPLE OF LEAVES written by Richard Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casey Wright has been a bush pilot for over ten years and loves his job, but while flying a special charter down the Amazon River with two National Geographic journalists, his normal work day soon turns into a reeling nightmare. Discovering a lost civilization filled with unimaginable carnivorous creatures was not what he was expecting. Now, trapped in an ancient temple with his two charter passengers and a native guide, Casey sees only one way out, and has only one shot at success
Download or read book The Fin Chasers written by Richard Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sighting of Great Whites in the Gulf of Mexico was more than a rare event, it was an extraordinary event. Now, almost overnight, the vicious attacks started. The deadly encounters occurring from Biloxi all the way down to Tampa. The great whites seemed to be on an unexplainable killing rampage. A 47 foot U.S. Coast Guard Motor Life Boat and five brave crewmen were assigned the task of finding the cause of the attacks and why the creatures were suddenly appearing in alarming numbers along the beaches of the Gulf Coast. What these five men discovered was much more sinister than a marauding band of great white sharks - they found something lurking deep in the Gulf that had been lying dormant for half a century - A mindless killer void of thought or compassion - It lie on the sandy bottom and waited to be awakened.
Download or read book The Big Fellah written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Theatre Play 2011 Young New Yorker Michael Doyle decides to live up to his Irish heritage by joining the IRA. He’s recruited by Costello, the charismatic “Big Fellah”, who wants to use Doyle’s brownstone apartment in The Bronx as a safe house for an escaped killer. But it soon becomes clear that someone is leaking information to the FBI... Set among Irish Americans in New York, Richard Bean’s dark, glinting, funny play spans three turbulent decades. A boisterous and witty story of loyalty, disillusionment and betrayal.
Book Synopsis Finger Lickin' Fifteen by : Janet Evanovich
Download or read book Finger Lickin' Fifteen written by Janet Evanovich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 bestselling author Evanovich comes the next book in her Stephanie Plum series, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten.
Book Synopsis Secrets In Deep Water by : Richard Smith
Download or read book Secrets In Deep Water written by Richard Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two teens from Roswell, New Mexico discover something hidden in a meteorite fragment they found in 1955.Sixty years later, the Federal Government is still trying to keep the discovery a secret. But now, the secret has been uncovered and has escaped. The creature manages to evade capture as it flies a bee-line path toward Nevada - toward its sleeping brood hidden away in the dark catacombs of 'Area 51'.
Book Synopsis The Boys With Wings by : Richard Smith
Download or read book The Boys With Wings written by Richard Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Spring of 1943, the Japanese begin building a massive secret weapon in the pacific. A P-38 training squadron is called on to attack and destroy the remote facility. Little do these brave flyers know, the secret weapon is not at all what it appears - but something much more sinister - something capable of destroying the entire west coast of the United States.
Download or read book Phantom Leader written by Mark Berent and published by Mark Berent. This book was released on 1991 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January 1968. The full fury of the communist Tet Offensive is about to explode, forever chaning the lives of America's bravest warriors: FAC pilot Toby Parker, shot down over the jungles of Vietnam and trapped in the middle of a tank attack. Major "Flak" Apple, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese and about to undergo torture. Special Forces Colonel Wolf Lochert facing criminal charges for murdering an enemy agent, and USAF Major Court Bannister who has the opportunity to become the Air Force's first ace in Vietnam-but at the possible cost of his career. "Berent is the real thing!"-Tom Clancy "Berent tells it like it was!"-Chuck Yeager, Brigadier General, USAF (Ret.)
Book Synopsis The Shark's Window by : Richard Smith
Download or read book The Shark's Window written by Richard Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old aquarium had been abandoned for years, but Beverly, Pete and Butch knew that something still lurked in the huge, waterless tank. They had all heard the stories for years, and now the three 15 year olds were determined to uncover the truth about the legend of the ghost shark.
Book Synopsis Buckets from an English Sea by : Louis Barry Rosenblatt
Download or read book Buckets from an English Sea written by Louis Barry Rosenblatt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...As author Lou Rosenblatt explains, the year 1832 in Darwin's life was crucial for the development of his theory of evolution. A century and a half of study of Darwin, the man, and his work, including close readings of his books, notebooks, letters, and even the books he read, has led to a working appreciation of his genius. The "success" of this account has, however, kept us from seeing several important issues: most notably, why did he pursue evolution in the first place? While this book is neither an almanac of 1832, nor a biography of Charles Darwin (though both are at the heart of Rosenblatt's work), Buckets from an English Sea offers a unique take on the factors that shaped Darwin's legendary theory and the making of him as a scientist..."--Dust jacket.
Book Synopsis The Siege of Kustrin, 1945 by : Tony Le Tissier
Download or read book The Siege of Kustrin, 1945 written by Tony Le Tissier and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed WWII historian and author of Race to the Reichstag vividly chronicles the preliminary battle that opened the Red Army’s path to Berlin. In January of 1945, the arrival of Soviet troops at the garrison town of Küstrin came as a tremendous shock to the German High Command. The Soviets were now only fifty miles from Berlin itself. Before they could advance on the capital, the Red Army needed the vital road and rail bridges passing through Küstrin. A combination of flooding and strategic blunders resulted in a sixty-day siege by two Soviet armies which totally destroyed the town. The delay in the Soviet advance gave the Germans time to consolidate the defenses shielding Berlin. Despite Hitler's orders to fight to the last bullet, the Küstrin garrison commander and a thousand defenders managed a dramatic break-out to the German lines. The protracted siege had an appalling human cost, with thousands of lives lost on both sides and many more wounded. With painstaking research and eyewitness testimony, Tony Le Tissier bring the story of the siege to life.
Book Synopsis Rain Falls Like Mercy by : Jack Todd
Download or read book Rain Falls Like Mercy written by Jack Todd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Call is a young Wyoming sheriff running the murder investigation of a young girl in mid-1941. But the case is disrupted by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Tom joins the U.S. Air Force and is deployed to England to fly bombers, where he tries to continue his investigation of the murder.
Download or read book Jungvolk written by Wilhelm Gehlen and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary account of a young boy caught up in the middle of a war . . . frank and even funny at times . . . utterly absorbing” (Books Monthly). This is the wartime memoir of a boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany’s intelligence agency. The author, only ten years old when the war began, became a helper at the local Luftwaffe flak battery, fetching ammunition. It was exciting work for Will, a member of the “Jungvolk,” and by the end of the war, he had become expert at judging attacks. As fighter raids increased in frequency, he noted that the pilots became less skilled. Gehlen’s town was repeatedly bombed, and he often had to help with the wreckage or to pull survivors from basements. He witnessed more death than a child ever should; nevertheless, his flak battery continued firing until US tanks were almost on top of the position. In this book, Gehlen provides an intimate glimpse of the chaos, horror, and black humor of life just behind the front lines. As seen through the eyes of a child who was expert in aircraft identification and bomb weights, food-rationing and tank types, one encounters a view of life inside Hitler’s wartime Reich that is both fascinating and rare. “Although the memories Gehlen shares are narrow, and offer little insight into the Reich itself, they’re remarkable for the child’s perspective they bring to bear on a warring country’s ferocious struggle.” —Publishers Weekly “A real gem, a quiet tour de force . . . Despite its serious subject matter the book reads as an adventure story from start to finish.” —Military Modelling
Book Synopsis The Winter Years of World War II by : Freia Hooper-Bradford
Download or read book The Winter Years of World War II written by Freia Hooper-Bradford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk with one German family on the most extraordinary journey through the Third Reich, on battlefields from Africa to Russia, in a Nazi-crazed village and bombed cities. A riveting human drama based on true events and the author's family. Beautiful Alice is a Lightening Girl in the Luftwaffe, in a highly secret bunker near Hitler's bunker. Karl faces death in a notorious political prison. For Alfred, every crossing of the Mediterranean to Africa to supply Rommel, might be the last. Will Charlotte's two children in Bavaria grow up without a father? Oma and Opa cling to the hope that Chemnitz will be spared the bombings and firestorms of other cities. Uli von Boxberg faces a hopeless last battle in Leipzig and starvation in a brutal POW camp. The Russians throw Joachim into a cellar in Berlin where his comrades are executed. Heinz is certain that his days in Berlin are numbered when the Russians enter the suburbs. Oma obstinately believes that someday her family will reunite. A rare insight into little known historical events and places adds intrigue to a war story of epic proportions as well as a story of love and determination.
Download or read book The Third Watch written by John Smith and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of an ancient Spanish Caravel buried beneath a coquina-strewn beach near the nation's oldest city, St. Augustine, Florida is hailed by clergy as a sign from on high; scattered about the wreck are earthenware ceramics containing Hebrew documents, some dating back millennia, and the discovery causes an international media frenzy. The Jesuits claim the wreck is the property of the Church while the Israelis claim the Hebrew scribed on the parchment proves the Caravel and contents belong to the Jewish people as part of their heritage. A summer archaeological field school is organized by a local university where budding archaeologists can work alongside older, experienced archys in hopes of establishing why the vessel sailed the waters in 1527CE, not long after Spanish explorers discovered what is now considered the State of Florida. Caught between the Catholics and Jews, the press and local law enforcement, Ben David and Lindsey Hall, both graduate students in comparative religion, find themselves working the dig in the midst of several mysterious deaths connected to the discovery. The Israeli Rabbinate on one side and the Roman Catholic Vatican on the other search for ancient scrolls both sensitive and conspiratorial, and each seems willing go to whatever length necessary to find and conceal the parchment or destroy it before certain truths become public knowledge. Lindsey's research uncovers dramatic evidence proving that Yeshua could not have been killed by the Romans on Good Friday, or the Jewish Shabbat. Yeshua's sentence of death could not have been carried out on Passover, earlier in the week, during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, nor the preparation for Shabbat. Jewish law would have allowed for Yeshua's crucifixion on Wednesday. As promised, after spending 72 hours in the ground following his death, Yeshua rose on Saturday night, and Mary saw Yeshua during the Third Watch on Sunday.
