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The Maddest Idea

Author : James Nelson
Publisher : Corgi
ISBN 13 : 9780552160513
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Maddest Idea written by James Nelson and published by Corgi. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the enthrallingRevolution at Seaseries In the late summer of 1775, General George Washington discovers that his cache of gunpowder has dwindled to a mere nine shots per man. A desperate plan is hatched - to send a ship under the command of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb to Bermuda to capture the British powder known to be there. But the plan is a trap, set by a traitor among the patriots, and one from which even Biddlecomb cannot escape. Washington despatches his aide-de-camp, Major Edward Fitzgerald, to hunt the traitor down, while Biddlecomb must rely on cunning and seamanship to free his men and the ship, and to capture the gunpowder that is the lifeblood of the fight for liberty. Divided by an ocean but bound by the cause, as well as by their own private fears, Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald must take on a common enemy - the greatest military power on earth... A powerful saga of the American Revolution - a stirring maritime adventure in the epic, true-to-life tradition of Patrick O'Brian.

The Maddest Idea

Author : James L. Nelson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493064908
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Maddest Idea written by James L. Nelson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late summer of 1775, General George Washington discovers that his cache of gunpowder has dwindled to a mere nine shots per man. A desperate plan is hatched—to send a ship under the command of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb to Bermuda to capture the British powder known to be there. But the plan is a trap, set by a traitor among the patriots, and one from which even Biddlecomb cannot escape. Washington dispatches his aide-de-camp, Major Edward Fitzgerald, to hunt the traitor down, while Biddlecomb must rely on cunning and seamanship to free his men and the ship, and to capture the gunpowder that is the lifeblood of the fight for liberty. Divided by an ocean but bound by the cause, as well as by their own private fears, Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald must take on a common enemy—the greatest military power on earth. This is a powerful saga of the American Revolution—a stirring maritime adventure in the epic, true-to-life tradition of Patrick O’Brian.

The Maddest Idea

Author : James L. Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Maddest Idea written by James L. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Maddest Idea in the World

Author : Harris R. Zeiler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The Maddest Idea in the World written by Harris R. Zeiler and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Idle Ideas in 1905

Author : Jerome K. Jerome
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368622455
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Idle Ideas in 1905 written by Jerome K. Jerome and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

The Abyss Above

Author : Silke-Maria Weineck
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791488284
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Abyss Above written by Silke-Maria Weineck and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Abyss Above, Silke-Maria Weineck offers the first sustained discussion of the relationship between poetic madness and philosophy. Focusing on the mad poet as a key figure in what Plato called "the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry," Weineck explores key texts from antiquity to modernity in order to understand why we have come to associate art with irrationality. She shows that the philosophy of madness concedes to the mad a privilege that continues to haunt the Western dream of reason, and that the theory of creative madness always strains the discourse on authenticity, pitching the controlled, repeatable, but restrained labor of philosophy against the spontaneous production of poetic texts said to be, by definition, unique.

Lords of the Ocean

Author : James L. Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671013831
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Lords of the Ocean written by James L. Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After helping to rescue the Continental Army after the Battle of Long Island, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb takes Benjamin Franklin to France and raids the British coast.

Silent Film's Last Hurrah

Author : David Meuel
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476668957
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Silent Film's Last Hurrah written by David Meuel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound. The book offers in-depth looks at several of the best of these films and discusses the gifted artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Lillian Gish who helped bring them to life, even as the art they had taken to remarkable heights was about to be obliterated. It depicts some of the silent medium's most talented filmmakers and their efforts--in the face of inescapable technological change--to give their dying art a rousing last hurrah.

The First Salute

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307798577
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The First Salute written by Barbara W. Tuchman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland, demonstrating how the aid to the American colonies of both these nations made the triumph of independence possible. She sheds new light on the key role played by the contending navies, paints a magnificent portrait of George Washington, and recounts in riveting detail the decisive campaign of the war at Yorktown. By turns lyrical and gripping, The First Salute is an exhilarating account of the birth of a nation. Praise for The First Salute “Nothing in a novel could be more thrilling than the moment in this glorious history when French soldiers arrive [to] see a tall, familiar figure: George Washington. . . . It is only part of Tuchman’s genius that she can reconstitute such scenes with so much precision and passion.”—People “Tuchman writes narrative history in the great tradition. . . . A persuasive book, which brings us entertaining pictures, scenes and characters.”—Chicago Tribune “[A] tightly woven narrative, ingeniously structured.”—The Christian Science Monitor

John Adams

Author : Anne Burleigh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351510665
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book John Adams written by Anne Burleigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: man for the ages. John Adams, philosopher of the Revolution and early America, and participant in many of the major events of that period, strove to fi nd universal patterns in the lives of all men. His life and ideas are as pertinent to our time as they were to his own. We still ponder the nature of the unbreakable bond between liberty and law. As did Adams, we question how to relate the goal of freedom to the authority necessary in political society.

Mad Stacks

Author : Scott Nicholson
Publisher : Haunted Computer Books
ISBN 13 : 1614759219
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Mad Stacks written by Scott Nicholson and published by Haunted Computer Books. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nobody thrills like Nicholson does. Nobody." - J.A. Konrath, THE LIST BAD STACKS is the complete text of three story collections covering suspense, psychological mystery, and paranormal tales. A total of 29 stories originally published in professional magazines and anthologies such as Writers of the Future, The Third Alternative, Cemetery Dance, Crimewave, and more. The box set of 118,000 words also includes a bonus essay. Scott Nicholson is the international bestselling author of 15 novels, six screenplays, four children’s books, and four comic book series, as well as 80 short stories. His novels include LIQUID FEAR, CHRONIC FEAR, THE HARVEST, AS I DIE LYING, THE RED CHURCH, DISINTEGRATION, and more. Send your questions to his Amazon Author Central page by clicking on his name below the book title at the top of the page. Guest contributors include Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Tim Lebbon, William Meikle, and John Everson. Look for the other Kindle box sets in the series, ODD STACKS and BAD STACKS, to complete your Nicholson story collection!

United States Security Interests in the Post-cold-war World

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book United States Security Interests in the Post-cold-war World written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zambia

Author : Andrew Sardanis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736981
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Zambia written by Andrew Sardanis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, Andrew Sardanis provides a sympathetic but critical insider's account of Zambia, from independence to the present. He paints a stark picture of Northern Rhodesia at decolonisation and the problems of the incoming government, presented with an immense uphill task of rebuilding the infrastructure of government and administration – civil service, law, local government and economic development. Sardanis was a minister at the heart of the government and later a highly successful entrepreneur. As a friend and colleague of many of the most prominent names in post-independence Zambia – from the presidencies of founding leader Kenneth Kaunda to the incumbent Michael Sata – he uses his unique eyewitness experience to provide an inside view of a country in transition. He looks at the highs and lows of Zambia's political development: a purposeful beginning followed by many blunders; confusion, at times bordering on chaos, interspersed with flashes of sensible action and good work. This book provides a detailed examination of the major events in Zambia's history since independence and their effect on the country's development and progress, based on Sardanis's in-depth knowledge of Zambia and its people and the inner workings of its government.

Surface Warfare

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Surface Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Long Road to Annapolis

Author : William P. Leeman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833835
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Long Road to Annapolis written by William P. Leeman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its founding. --from publisher description

Gloria Swanson

Author : Tricia Welsch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617037508
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Gloria Swanson written by Tricia Welsch and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson (1899-1983) back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman. Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals. Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson turned down a million-dollar-a-year contract. After a wild ride making unforgettable movies with some of Hollywood's most colorful characters--including her lover Joseph Kennedy and maverick director Erich von Stroheim--she was a million dollars in debt. Without hesitation she went looking for her next challenge, beginning her long second act. Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods activist decades before it was fashionable; an exhibited sculptor; and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and abroad. Though she had one of Hollywood's most famous exit lines--"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"--the real Gloria Swanson never looked back.

Harmer John

Author : Hugh Walpole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmer John written by Hugh Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: