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Bloody Fields

Author : David Rickerby
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326619764
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Bloody Fields written by David Rickerby and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NORTHERN LIGHTS TRILOGY BOOK ONE Leaving England in a hurry, Peter Arnett - thief, grifter, vagabond - requires someplace where no one would think to look for him; and who ever heard of a bank robber hiding out in Denmark? Keeping out of trouble, one low paid honest job follows another but it's hard to lay low when the Danes will befriend even a grumpy ex-con. Following a chance encounter with an ambitious small-town cop he finds himself pulled back into The Life but who exactly is corrupting who? Sure, the girl's a looker but she might also be deadlier than anyone he's ever met, himself included. With his old life becoming tangled in the new, Peter soon realises that his best odds for survival lay in the planning and execution of a score so reckless that no one in their right mind would even dream of attempting it. He can expect a few surprises that day but the prime suspect will not be one

The Field of Blood

Author : Joanne B. Freeman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717613
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Field of Blood written by Joanne B. Freeman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.

Blood in the Fields

Author : Julia Reynolds
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613749724
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Blood in the Fields written by Julia Reynolds and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece, East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia, one of the most violent gangs in America. Born in the prisons of California in the late 1960s, Nuestra Familia expanded to control drug trafficking and extortion operations throughout the northern half of the state, and left a trail of bodies in its wake. Prize-winning journalist and Nieman Fellow Julia Reynolds tells the gang's story from the inside out, following young men and women as they search for a new kind of family, quests that usually lead to murder and betrayal. Blood in the Fields also documents the history of Operation Black Widow, the FBI's questionable decade-long effort to dismantle the Nuestra Familia, along with its compromised informants and the turf wars it created with local law enforcement agencies. Written as narrative nonfiction, journalist Reynolds used her unprecedented access to gang members, both in and out of prison, as well as undercover wire taps, depositions, and court documents to weave a gripping, comprehensive history of this brutal criminal organization and the lives it destroyed. Julia Reynolds coproduced and wrote the PBS documentary Nuestra Familia, Our Family, and reported on the northern California gang for more than a decade. She currently works as a staff writer at the Monterey County Herald, and has reported for National Public Radio, the Discovery Channel, The Nation, Mother Jones, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more.

Fields of Blood

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385353103
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Fields of Blood written by Karen Armstrong and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The History of God • “Elegant and powerful.... Both erudite and accurate, dazzling in its breadth of knowledge and historical detail.” —The Washington Post In these times of rising geopolitical chaos, the need for mutual understanding between cultures has never been more urgent. Religious differences are seen as fuel for violence and warfare. In these pages, one of our greatest writers on religion, Karen Armstrong, amasses a sweeping history of humankind to explore the perceived connection between war and the world’s great creeds—and to issue a passionate defense of the peaceful nature of faith. With unprecedented scope, Armstrong looks at the whole history of each tradition—not only Christianity and Islam, but also Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Judaism. Religions, in their earliest days, endowed every aspect of life with meaning, and warfare became bound up with observances of the sacred. Modernity has ushered in an epoch of spectacular violence, although, as Armstrong shows, little of it can be ascribed directly to religion. Nevertheless, she shows us how and in what measure religions came to absorb modern belligerence—and what hope there might be for peace among believers of different faiths in our time.

Royal Blood

Author : Bertram Fields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750943901
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Royal Blood written by Bertram Fields and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immortalized by Shakespeare and historians, Richard III is history's royal villain. This book offers a look at the case of Richard and the princes in the tower. It outlines and evaluates the arguments on both sides, weighs the evidence, and offers the truth about this man. It also attempts to answer the questions inherent in the drama.

The General vs. the President

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101912170
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The General vs. the President written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. "A highly readable take on the clash of two titanic figures in a period of hair-trigger nuclear tensions.... History offers few antagonists with such dramatic contrasts, and Brands brings these two to life." —Los Angeles Times At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world, when he suggested that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly decorated commander of the American and U.N. forces, had his finger on the nuclear trigger. At a time when the Soviets, too, had the bomb, the specter of a catastrophic third World War lurked menacingly close on the horizon. A correction quickly followed, but the damage was done; two visions for America’s path forward were clearly in opposition, and one man would have to make way. The contest of wills between these two titanic characters unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of a faraway war and terrors conjured at home by Joseph McCarthy. From the drama of Stalin’s blockade of West Berlin to the daring landing of MacArthur’s forces at Inchon to the shocking entrance of China into the war, The General and the President vividly evokes the making of a new American era.

The Secret Service, the Field, the Dunge

Author : Albert Richardson
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429015500
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Service, the Field, the Dunge written by Albert Richardson and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Field of Honor : Being a Complete and Comprehensive History of Duelling in All Countries ; Including the Judicial Duel of Europe, the Private Duel of the Civilized World, and Specific Descriptions of All the Noted Hostile Meetings...

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Author : Ben C. Truman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.I/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Field of Honor : Being a Complete and Comprehensive History of Duelling in All Countries ; Including the Judicial Duel of Europe, the Private Duel of the Civilized World, and Specific Descriptions of All the Noted Hostile Meetings... written by Ben C. Truman and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bloodied Field

Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788492293
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The Bloodied Field written by Michael Foley and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiancé to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of police and military rumbled through the city streets as hundreds of people clamoured at the metal gates of Dublin Castle seeking refuge. Some of them were headed for Croke Park. Award-winning journalist and author Michael Foley recounts the extraordinary story of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park and the 90 seconds of shooting that changed Ireland forever. In a deeply intimate portrait he tells for the first time the stories of those killed, the police and military personnel who were in Croke Park that day, and the families left shattered in its aftermath, all against the backdrop of a fierce conflict that stretched from the streets of Dublin and the hedgerows of Tipperary to the halls of Westminster. Updated with new information and photographs.

The Color of His Blood

Author : J. F. Lewis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059562541X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book The Color of His Blood written by J. F. Lewis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When commoner Adam Wat Tyler, the son of a smithy, is falsely accused of murder he sees no recourse but to flee the windy cliffs of Cornwall, England, and travel to the new colonies in America. With the aid of a freed slave and two Iroquois, Adam and Lady Anne Danamoor, a British aristocrat, learn to survive in the rugged, colonial world and come to understand and respect the disappearing Native American way of life. As war clouds gather, Adam follows Benedict Arnold on an attack of the frozen fortress of Quebec, fiery battles on Lake Champlain, and bloody battlefields at Saratoga. When Adam learns of Arnolds betrayal, he joins George Washingtons master spy and returns to British-held New York City, risking his life to deliver Arnold to Washington and to justice. Anne also has returned to the city in search of her lost nephew, but an anonymous note leads her into a death trap. As Adam and Anne draw closer to the British gallows, this story of love and hate, trust and betrayal, generosity and greed, recounts the struggle to survive, not only for Adam and Anne, but for the nation they are helping to create.

The National Preacher

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The National Preacher written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The National Preacher and Village Pulpit

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Preacher and Village Pulpit written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ohio's Silver-tongued Orator

Author : David Dwight Bigger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Ohio's Silver-tongued Orator written by David Dwight Bigger and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voices in the Storm

Author : Karen E. Fritz
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410778
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Voices in the Storm written by Karen E. Fritz and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices in the Storm examines the significance of oratory in the Confederacy and also explores the nuances and subtle messages within Confederate speeches. Examining metaphor, argument, and figures of speech, Fritz finds some surprising shifts within the Civil War South. Her research indicates that four years of bloody conflict caused southerners to reconsider beliefs about their natural environment, their honor, their slaves, and their northern opponents. Between 1861 and 1865 southerners experienced shattering calamities as they waged their unsuccessful struggle for independence. Confederate orators began the war by outlining a detailed and idealized portrait of their nation and its people. During the conflict, they gradually altered the depiction, increasingly adding references to the grotesque and discordant, as all around them southerners were losing homes and family members in the maelstrom that consumed their cities and fields, polluted their rivers, and destroyed their social order. Oratory played a fundamental role in the southern nation, whose citizens encountered it almost daily at military functions, before battle, in church, and even while lying in hospital beds or strolling on city streets. Because Confederate citizens frequently commented on oratory or spoke out during speeches, Fritz also considers audience behavior and response. By the end of the war, speakers described their nation in savage terms, applying to it expressions and characteristics once reserved only for the North. This analysis thus indicated that southerners listened as orators gradually shaped them and their nation into rhetorical facsimiles of their enemy, suggesting that separation at some level effected reunion.

History of the Ninety-sixth Regiment

Author : Charles Addison Partridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book History of the Ninety-sixth Regiment written by Charles Addison Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anecdotæ Eboracenses

Author : Richard Vickerman Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Anecdotæ Eboracenses written by Richard Vickerman Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Campaigns of 1812, 1813, and 1814

Author : James MacQueen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Campaigns of 1812, 1813, and 1814 written by James MacQueen and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: