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Download or read book Seized by the Sun written by James W Ure and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seized by the Sun introduces teens to the remarkable life of Gertrude Tommy Tompkins, who overcame many challenges to find her passion in flying. She became one of 126 elite women chosen to pilot World War II fighter planes for the Women s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs). Her dissappearance remains a mystery and no crash site was ever found. The result of sixteen years of research and interviews, Seized by the Sun is an invaluable addition to any student s or history buff s bookshelf."
Download or read book Seized by the Sun written by James W. Ure and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the 38 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) confirmed or presumed dead in World War II, only one—Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins—is still missing. On October 26, 1944, the 32-year-old fighter plane pilot lifted off from Mines Field in Los Angeles. She was never seen again. Seized by the Sun is the story of a remarkable woman who overcame a troubled childhood and the societal constraints of her time to find her calling flying the fastest and most powerful airplane of World War II. It is also a compelling unsolved mystery. Born in 1912 to a wealthy New Jersey family, Gertrude's childhood was marked by her mother's bouts with depression and her father's relentless search for a cure for the debilitating stutter that afflicted Gertrude throughout her life. Teased and struggling in school, young Gertrude retreated to a solitary existence. As a young woman she dabbled in raising goats and aimlessly crisscrossed the globe in an attempt to discover her purpose. As war loomed in Europe, Gertrude met the love of her life, a Royal Air Force pilot who was killed flying over Holland. Telling her sister that she "couldn't stop crying, so she focused on learning to fly," Gertrude applied to join the newly formed Women's Air Force Service Pilots. She went on to become such a superior pilot that she was one of only 126 WASPs selected to fly fighter planes. After her first flight in the powerful P-51 Mustang, her stutter left her for good. Gertrude's sudden disappearance remains a mystery to this day. Award-winning author Jim Ure leads readers through Gertrude's fascinating life; provides a detailed account of the WASPs' daily routines, training, and challenges; and describes the ongoing search for Gertrude's wreck and remains. The result of years of research and interviews with Gertrude's family, friends, and fellow WASPs, Seized by the Sun is an invaluable addition to any student's or history buff's bookshelf.
Download or read book Seized! written by Max Hardberger and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outpirating the pirates with one of the most interesting men alive: Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships and sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok. His adventures in rescuing ships pit him against a rogue's gallery of antagonists, including Haitian rebels, modern-day Caribbean pirates and Russian mobsters. • Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed expose of the seedy underworld of international shipping. As a professional ship extractor, he risks death and imprisonment in dangerous third-world ports to steal ships from modern buccaneers and corrupt governments and deliver them back to their rightful owners. In the course of his adventures, he's had to outwit resourceful crime families, subdue armed soldiers, and turn the tables on clever con artists. He's escaped imprisonment in Venezuela and avoided death at the hands of the Russian mafia. Because Max shuns the use of force, the ingenious methods he must use to accomplish his missions are the stuff of legend he's employed a witch doctor in Haiti, tricked armed guards off a ship in Honduras, and rented a brothel in Mexico, all to thwart the designs of ship-thieves. Seized! is an intense, fast-paced window on the underbelly of ocean shipping, where all power comes from the barrel of a gun, and the only law is the law of survival. -- "Max Hardberger, maritime repo man extraordinaire ... Using a combination of ingenuity, stealth and good old-fashioned derring-do, he has made his name retaking vessels which have been hijacked or which, through local corruption, are impounded by authorities hungry for bribes." • -- Sunday Express • "With most people, the longer you spend talking to them, the more normal they appear. With Hardberger, the reverse applies. Just when you think you've heard it all, he comes up with something wilder ... Over the years, he's distracted crews with prostitutes and witch doctors, bribed officials to look the other way, conned Russian mobsters and hidden from naval radar by riding out thunderstorms at sea; he's even taken a 10,000-tonne freighter out of Haiti while the 2004 revolution was going on around him." • -- Guardian • "Required reading, fascinating. Maritime Repo Man Hardberger does it tough; his life is flown by the seat of his pants, or shipped, much like his profession ... This book delivers." • -- Paul Carter, bestselling author of Don't Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs and This Is Not A Drill • "In this heart-stopping account of his work recovering stolen (or otherwise illegally-seized) ships from 'hellhole' ports, commercial captain Hardberger proves himself tough as a tank and articulate as a poet ... [He] has a seafarer's gift for atmospheric storytelling, layering details to create a sense of place, history, and foreboding ... Hardberger's escapades make undeniably fun reading." • -- Publishers Weekly • "One of the strengths of Hardberger's book is his prose, which is lucid, entertaining and dramatic." • -- Daniel Sekulich, author of Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern Day Pirates
Book Synopsis A Sanskṛit-English Dictionary Etymologically and Philologically Arranged by : Sir Monier Monier-Williams
Download or read book A Sanskṛit-English Dictionary Etymologically and Philologically Arranged written by Sir Monier Monier-Williams and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seized Again written by Richard F. Davis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: noneAs I was working on the cover, looking at the photos of what our brain neurons look like, I began to think it looked like one of my favorite games, Asteroids, when your goal was to destroy the asteroids before they destroyed your spaceship. That was 30 years ago. I thought how funny it would be to paint into the cover picture a space ship like that to see if anyone would notice it, but the more I thought about it, the more it made me laugh. So I designed my own game in my imagination station and drew them out here for you to enjoy, Ill call it Seizuroids with the goal to destroy all the meteorites called, fear, stress, anxiety, worry, depression, loneliness, and anger before it hits the brain, causing a seizure and destroying all the electrical neutrons. Laughter truly is the best medicine.
Book Synopsis Starting Forfeiture Programs by : Janet E. Ferris
Download or read book Starting Forfeiture Programs written by Janet E. Ferris and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mutiny on the Rising Sun by : Jared Ross Hardesty
Download or read book Mutiny on the Rising Sun written by Jared Ross Hardesty and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future United States was with the wider world, how illegal trade created markets for exotic products like chocolate, and how slavery and smuggling were key factors in the development of American capitalism.
Book Synopsis Chasing the Sun by : Natalia Sylvester
Download or read book Chasing the Sun written by Natalia Sylvester and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Laura Lippman and Marisa de los Santos, a tense family drama about a husband's quest to save his wife, who has been kidnapped in Lima, Peru in 1992. How far will he go to save their imperfect marriage?
Book Synopsis Ao-Naga Dictionary by : Edward Winter Clark
Download or read book Ao-Naga Dictionary written by Edward Winter Clark and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seized written by Charles W. Pumphrey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Hunter is a man of principles who is drawn into circumstances beyond his control. Unaware of his preordained destinies, he embarks on an adventurous mission to right the wrongs of a society spiraling out of control—hunting down and destroying evil while trying to reconcile himself to the loss of loved ones, and encountering supernatural individuals along the way, guiding him toward the destiny he is only just becoming aware of.
Book Synopsis Bagobo Myths by : Laura Estelle Watson Benedict
Download or read book Bagobo Myths written by Laura Estelle Watson Benedict and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chasing the Sun by : Tracie Peterson
Download or read book Chasing the Sun written by Tracie Peterson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Tracie Peterson launches an exciting, romantic new series about a feisty young woman fighting to protect her family's Texas ranch against mounting threats.
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Book Synopsis U.S. Customs Service Seized-property Program and Forfeiture Fund by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight
Download or read book U.S. Customs Service Seized-property Program and Forfeiture Fund written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sikandar N̄ama, E Bara : Or, Book of Alexander the Great, Written A.D. 1200 by :
Download or read book The Sikandar N̄ama, E Bara : Or, Book of Alexander the Great, Written A.D. 1200 written by and published by London : W. H. Allen. This book was released on 1881 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shooting the Sun written by Max Byrd and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Babbage was an English genius of legendary eccentricity. He invented the cowcatcher, the ophthalmoscope, and the “penny post.” He was an expert lock picker, he wrote a ballet, he pursued a vendetta against London organ-grinders that made him the laughingstock of Europe. And all his life he was in desperate need of enormous sums of money to build his fabled reasoning machine, the Difference Engine, the first digital computer in history. To publicize his Engine, Babbage sponsors a private astronomical expedition—a party of four men and one remarkable woman—who will set out from Washington City and travel by wagon train two thousand miles west, beyond the last known outposts of civilization. Their ostensible purpose is to observe a total eclipse of the sun predicted by Babbage’s computer, and to photograph it with the newly invented camera of Louis Daguerre. The actual purpose, however… Suffice it to say that in Shooting the Sun nothing is what it seems, eclipses have minds of their own, and even the best computer cannot predict treachery, greed, and the fickle passions of the human heart.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Classics: with a Translation, Critical and Exegetical Notes, Prolegomena, and Copious Indexes ; in Seven Volumes by : James Legge
Download or read book The Chinese Classics: with a Translation, Critical and Exegetical Notes, Prolegomena, and Copious Indexes ; in Seven Volumes written by James Legge and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
