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Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues

Author : David W. Mills
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440859167
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues written by David W. Mills and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students, military historians, and casual readers will all find this compelling collection useful in learning about escape strategies, hostage situations, and rescue operations during times of conflict. Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues tells the captivating stories of dozens of escapes and rescues from conflicts dating from the 16th century to present, with extensive coverage of the world wars of the 20th century and the Vietnam War. In addition, escapes and rescues related to terrorist activities and regional conflicts are featured. Some stories of escapes and rescues included in this work have been written about extensively and portrayed in films, including The Great Escape and Captain Phillips' rescue by Navy SEALs. Other stories are less widely known but just as absorbing. The book opens with a detailed introductory essay that illuminates the government policies and tactics various countries have used to rescue soldiers and civilians during wartime, as well as the diverse methods that prisoners of war have used to escape notorious camps and prisons. The entries, organized alphabetically, are augmented by engaging sidebars related to the escapes and rescues. The book also includes references to such sources as autobiographies, biographies, news accounts, and interviews with veterans.

The Heart and the Abyss: The Life of Felice Benuzzi

Author : Rory Steele
Publisher : Connor Court Publishing Pty Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781925501049
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Heart and the Abyss: The Life of Felice Benuzzi written by Rory Steele and published by Connor Court Publishing Pty Limited. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943 Felice Benuzzi broke out of a POW camp to scale the second highest mountain in Africa, with no maps and only hand-made gear, passing through a jungle up to the ice-capped top. Seventeen days later he broke back into the camp and reported to the astonished commandant. His life was extraordinary from start to finish. He lived through fascism, married a Berlin-born Jewess, served as a colonial administrator and was decorated for bravery in combat. Later as a diplomat he was consul in Berlin during the Cold War, ambassador to Uruguay and twice visited Antarctica. He was a colourful writer, a deep thinker and an attractive personality. Mountaineering was his passion. He began when some peaks were unnamed and many had never been climbed, and continued into the modern era when better access and equipment gave everyone the chance. He was a founder member of the environmental group Mountain Wilderness. This biography was written with full help from the Benuzzi family including access to their archives and thousands of letters written by Felice. Rory Steele lived in Liguria and Tuscany in 1954-55, taught in Naples in 1964-65 and was Australia's ambassador to Italy 1997-2001.

Adventure Tourism and Outdoor Activities Management

Author : Ian Jenkins
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1786390868
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Adventure Tourism and Outdoor Activities Management written by Ian Jenkins and published by CABI. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential resource for those wishing to understand the key factors behind the operation of an adventure tourism company and how to be able to deliver a profitable as well as a sustainable product. It discusses important factors such as how the use of technologies and the current importance of environmental impacts and climate change are areas that are key to adventure tourism firms. To remain profitable companies need to address these issues along with the important elements of risk and safety. Created from the author's experience in delivering adventure tourism courses over the last 20 years, this long-awaited book is aimed at both university courses on adventure tourism and outdoor recreation as well as those working within the industry.

Felice Beato

Author : Anne Lacoste
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 160606035X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Felice Beato written by Anne Lacoste and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating life and work of an artist who captured some of the first photographs of the Far East are presented in this gorgeous volume.

It's Our Turn to Eat

Author : Michela Wrong
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061886939
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book It's Our Turn to Eat written by Michela Wrong and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of one man’s fight against corruption: "like a John Le Carré novel” that shows “how and why Kenya descended into political violence” (Washington Post). In January 2003, Kenya was hailed as a model of democracy after the peaceful election of President Mwai Kibaki. By appointing respected longtime reformer John Githongo as anticorruption czar, the new Kikuyu government signaled its determination to end the shady practices that had tainted the previous regime. Yet only two years later, Githongo himself was on the run, having secretly compiled evidence of official malfeasance throughout the new administration. Unable to remain silent, Githongo, at great personal risk, made the painful choice to go public. The result was a Kenyan Watergate. Michela Wrong’s account of how a pillar of the establishment turned whistle-blower—instantly becoming one of the most hated and admired men in Kenya—grips like a political thriller while probing the very roots of the nation’s predicament. “A fast-paced political thriller. . . . Wrong’s gripping, thoughtful book stands as both a tribute to Githongo’s courage and a cautionary tale.” —New York Times Book Review

Democracy in a Divided Australia

Author : Matthew Lesh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925826104
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in a Divided Australia written by Matthew Lesh and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia has a new political, cultural, and economic elite. The class divides of yesteryear have been replaced new divisions between Inners and Outers. This divide is ripping apart our political parties, national debate, and social fabric. Inners are highly educated inner-city progressive cosmopolitans who value change, diversity, and self-actualisation. Inners, despite being a minority, dominate politics on both sides, the bureaucracy, universities, civil society, corporates, and the media. They have created a society ruled by educated elites - that is, ruled by themselves. Outers are the instinctive traditionalists who value stability, safety, and unity. Outers are politically, culturally, and economically marginalised in today's graduate-dominated knowledge society era. Their voice is muzzled in public debate, driving disillusionment with the major parties, and record levels of frustration, disengagement, and pessimism. In an era of global political upheaval, Democracy in a Divided Australia is the first empirically grounded investigation of Australia's political tribes, the capture of policymaking by a new elite, and charting of a path forward in a divided nation built on the five pillars of Liberal Populism: Egalitarianism, Localism, Freedom, Dignity and Unity.

To End All Wars

Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547549210
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book To End All Wars written by Adam Hochschild and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before... World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain’s most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. Hochschild forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn’t cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?

Notes From Woketopia

Author : James Macpherson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922449863
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Notes From Woketopia written by James Macpherson and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of essays James Macpherson lays bare the lunacy of woke culture and exposes the incoherence of identity politics. From virtue signalling public officials to woke sporting organisations; from so-called anti-racists to climate-bedwetters and the transgender phenomena, Macpherson has them all in his sights. He will have you laughing at the insanity of woke culture while making the case that people must be free to speak and react to events as normal people would speak and react if the West is to avoid being transformed into Woketopia, which is no utopia at all. James Macpherson was a News Limited journalist before leading one of Australia's largest churches. He writes regularly for The Spectator.

Diaspora Parliaments

Author : Bruno Mascitelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921421884
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Diaspora Parliaments written by Bruno Mascitelli and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irving Penn

Author : Irving Penn
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892369966
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book Irving Penn written by Irving Penn and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a catalog of an exhibition of photographs focusing on blue collar workers.

Manituana

Author : Wu Ming
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178960141X
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Manituana written by Wu Ming and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1775-The conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies erupts in all-out war. Rebels and loyalists to the British Crown compete for an alliance with the Six Nations of the Iroquois, the most powerful Indian confederation, boasting a constitution hundreds of years old. In the Mohawk River Valley, Native Americans and colonists have co-existed for generations. But as the thunder of war approaches and the United States struggles violently into existence, old bonds are broken, friends and families are split by betrayal, and this mixed community is riven by hatred and resentment. To save his threatened world, the Mohawk war chief Joseph Brant sets off in a restless journey that will take him from New York to the salons of Georgian London at the heart of the British Empire.

Ghosts in the Helmet Trees

Author : Rory Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781740273831
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts in the Helmet Trees written by Rory Steele and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World War II, Italian partisans became a thorn in the side of the German occupiers. This is the story of Tommaso, who left his partisan colleagues during their last stand and slipped through the attackers to reach his beloved Loredana, daughter of a Fascist official. 'Rory Steele is an energetic and sensuous writer and he weaves the two strands of his narrative together with considerable skill.' - The Age

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

Author : Felice Benuzzi
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1681440156
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book No Picnic on Mount Kenya written by Felice Benuzzi and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadow of Mount Kenya, surrounded by the forests and creatures of the savannah, life drags interminably for the inmates of POW Camp 354, captured in Africa during World War II. Confined to an endless cycle of boredom and frustration, one prisoner realizes he can bear it no longer. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, Felice Benuzzi is transfixed. The tedium of camp life is broken by the beginnings of a sudden idea--an outrageous, dangerous, brilliant idea. Not many people would break out of a POW camp and trek for days across perilous terrain before climbing the north face of Mount Kenya with improvised equipment, meager rations, and a picture of the mountain on a tin of beef as their most accurate guide. Fewer still would break back into the camp on their return. This is the remarkable story of three such men--a powerful testament to the human spirit of rebellion and adventure--reissued in a deluxe edition featuring Benuzzi's own watercolor paintings of the expedition and a final chapter that has never before appeared in English.

Christian Dogmatics

Author : Franz Pieper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Dogmatics written by Franz Pieper and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of Christliche Dogmatik, Volume 1 addresses Nature and character of theology Holy Scripture Doctrine of God Creation Divine providence Angelology Doctrine of man Sin and evil and more

One Mountain Thousand Summits

Author : Freddie Wilkinson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101456132
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book One Mountain Thousand Summits written by Freddie Wilkinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The account of one of the deadliest and most mysterious tragedies in mountaineering history-the 2008 K2 disaster. One Mountain Thousand Summits reveals the true story of the K2 tragedy that claimed the lives of eleven men. Based on his numerous trips to Nepal and in-depth interviews he conducted with the survivors, the families of the lost climbers, and the Sherpa guides whose heroic efforts saved the lives of at least four climbers, Freddie Wilkinson's narrative uncovers what actually occurred on the mountain, while delivering a criticism of the mainstream press's incomplete coverage of the event, and an insightful look into the lives of the six Sherpas who were involved.

Crazy River

Author : Richard Grant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439157642
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Crazy River written by Richard Grant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All comes a rollicking travelogue from East Africa. NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of an unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid in Zanzibar by thieves, whores, and a charismatic former golf pro before crossing the Indian Ocean in a rickety cargo boat. And then the real adventure begins. Known to local tribes as “the river of bad spirits,” the Malagarasi River is a daunting adversary even with a heavily armed Tanzanian crew as travel companions. Dodging bullets, hippos, and crocodiles, Grant finally emerges in war-torn Burundi, where he befriends some ethnic street gangsters and trails a notorious man-eating crocodile known as Gustave. He concludes his journey by interviewing the dictatorial president of Rwanda and visiting the true source of the Nile. Gripping, illuminating, sometimes harrowing, often hilarious, Crazy River is a brilliantly rendered account of a modern-day exploration of Africa, and the unraveling of Grant’s peeled, battered mind as he tries to take it all in.

In Our Own Image

Author : Fred Ritchin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book In Our Own Image written by Fred Ritchin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Ritchin's" In Our Own Image is a comprehensive account of computer technology's impact on what we see and, ultimately, what we believe about the world. Both a history of photojournalism and a primer of computer technology, "In Our Own Image is a philosophy of vision and reality for the twenty-first century. Extensively revised and updated," In Our Own Image is sure to remain a staple of one of the most important debates for many years to come.