Canopy of War
Author | : Bryan Perrett |
Publisher | : Thorsons Publishers |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Bryan Perrett |
Publisher | : Thorsons Publishers |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Eric Rutkow |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2013-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439193584 |
In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan's "Second Nature," this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation's history.
Author | : Patrick O'Kelley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781956904314 |
In the US Army there are only a few men who are able to earn all three tabs worn on the uniform, the Airborne Tab, the Ranger Tab and the Special Forces Tab. Those men are known by many terms, but one of them is "Triple Canopy". These are three stories from the journey of Patrick O'Kelley, a "triple tabber". One from Airborne - the story of being a sniper during the invasion of the island of Grenada. One from Ranger - the story of the loss of a close friend during a training accident. One from Special Forces - the story of operating behind Iraqi lines during Operation Desert Storm.
Author | : Thoraiya Dyer |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765385937 |
The highly-anticipated fantasy debut from Aurealis and Ditmar Award-winning author Thoraiya Dyer, set in a giant mythical rainforest controlled by living gods. Now in trade paperback. Unar dreams of greatness. Determined but destitute, she escapes her parents’ plot to sell her into slavery. Now she serves in the Garden of the goddess Audblayin, ruler of growth and fertility. But when Audblayin dies, Unar sees her opportunity for glory – at the risk of descending into the unknown dangers of Understorey to look for a reincarnated newborn god. In its depths, she discovers new forms of magic, lost family connections, and murmurs of a revolution that could cost Unar her chance...or grant it by destroying the home she loves. “I am majorly impressed with Thoraiya Dyer's Crossroads of Canopy. A unique, gorgeous, and dangerous world, a stubborn female hero, and a writer to watch!”—Tamora Pierce At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Angela Hunt |
Publisher | : HarperChristian + ORM |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2003-08-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1418512796 |
Deep in the lush and dangerous rain forests of Peru, Alexandra Pace and her team search determinedly for a cure for deadly diseases. One strain of the disease has already begun the process of ravaging Alexandra's own mind and body. Finding a cure is the only hope for her and for her daughter, who has almost certainly inherited the same disease. Alex believes she is searching for a needle in a haystack until she meets Michael Kenway, a British doctor who lost his wife when "mad cow disease" ravaged Britain in the 1990's. He presents her with an incredible story--a patient suffering from the disease was cured by a mythical "healing tribe" living deep in the Amazon jungle. Reluctantly placing her faith in Michael, who is entirely too religious for her comfort, Alexandra and her team seek out an unreached indigenous group who may hold the cure not only for Alex, but also for the world. Award-winning, best-selling author Angela Hunt combines the unique rainforest setting, modern science, and a thrilling race for a cure into a powerful message of faith and redemption.
Author | : James P. Busha |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2015-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1627887792 |
Experience the exciting combat tales of both Allied and Axis pilots around the world during World War II.Wings of War encompasses the World War II air war from late 1939 through 1945 and provides a chronological snapshot not only of famous and significant events from the global air war, but also of other lesser-known events that are equally thrilling and important. Over three dozen different Allied and Axis airplanes are featured, giving you a unique experience at the controls of a variety of World War II’s famed fighters, bombers, liaison, and jet airplanes.Here are just a few of the stories included about World War II aces from author Jim Busha’s vast archival research and interviews: ·A pilot that flew a P-36 against the Japanese at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, while still in his Sunday pajamas. ·A B-25 pilot who launched off the USS Hornet along with his fellow Doolittle Raiders. ·P-40 pilots who flew against Rommel and his Afrika Korps. ·A PBY pilot helped locate and recover a downed Zero over the Aleutians, which was later used as a test bed to learn its deadly tricks. The action is truly global—from the skies over England, Greenland, mainland Europe, the African deserts, the CBI Theater, the entire Pacific Theater (including the Aleutians, Russia, Japan, and China), and many more—this is one book no fan of warbirds will want to miss!
Author | : Roger Allan Byer |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2014-02-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781492774372 |
A desire to join the military is fulfilled when Roger Byer signs up with the US Army in 1968 during the height of the Vietnam conflict. This decision takes the young Grenadian on a journey from the sun-soaked beaches of his island home to the jungles of wartime Vietnam and Cambodia. Then, a decade after his military service was completed, fate reconnected Roger with his past, when on the morning of October 25th 1983 the U.S Armed forces invaded his country, Grenada.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Author | : Marc Ambinder |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476760381 |
“An informative and often enthralling book…in the appealing style of Tom Clancy” (Kirkus Reviews) about the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union. What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) into the field, placing them on a three-minute alert Marc Ambinder explains the anxious period between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1984, with the “Able Archer ’83” war game at the center of the tension. With astonishing and clarifying new details, he recounts the scary series of the close encounters that tested the limits of ordinary humans and powerful leaders alike. Ambinder provides a comprehensive and chilling account of the nuclear command and control process, from intelligence warnings to the composition of the nuclear codes themselves. And he affords glimpses into the secret world of a preemptive electronic attack that scared the Soviet Union into action. Ambinder’s account reads like a thriller, recounting the spy-versus-spy games that kept both countries—and the world—in check. From geopolitics in Moscow and Washington, to sweat-caked soldiers fighting in the trenches of the Cold War, to high-stakes war games across NATO and the Warsaw Pact, “Ambinder’s account of a serious threat of global annihilation…is spellbinding…a masterpiece of recent history” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Brink serves as the definitive intelligence, nuclear, and national security history of one of the most precarious times in recent memory and “shows the consequences of nuclear buildups, sometimes-careless language, and nervous leaders. Now, more than ever, those consequences matter” (USA TODAY).
Author | : Emile Simpson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190935065 |
As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of revealing case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Ground Up offers a distinctive perspective on contemporary armed conflict: while most accounts of war look down at the battlefield from an academic perspective, or across it as a personal narrative, the author looks up from the battlefield to consider the concepts that put him there, and how they played out on the ground. Simpson argues that in the Afghan conflict, and in contemporary conflicts more generally, liberal powers and their armed forces have blurred the line between military and political activity. More broadly, they have challenged the distinction between war and peace. He contends that this loss of clarity is more a response to the conditions of combat in the early wenty-first century, particularly that of globalisation, than a deliberate choice. The issue is thus not whether the West should engage in such practices, but how to manage, gain advantage from, and mitigate the risks of this evolution in warfare. War From The Ground Up draws on personal experience from the frontline, situated in relation to historical context and strategic thought, to offer a reevaluation of the concept of war in contemporary conflict. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATURE 2013.