Download or read book Bleeding Sky written by Joey Maddox and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Captain Fletcher E. Adams and the famous 357th Fighter Group. Known collectively as the “Yoxford Boys” the 357th was the first P-51 Mustang fighter group in the history of the “Mighty” 8th Air Force. Although active for less than two years during World War II, the group set many records and became one of the greatest fighter outfits the U. S. Air Force would ever send into combat. Between February 1944 and April 1945 the 357th produced more aces than any other American fighter group. They also shot down more German jets than any other group in the Army Air Corps during the Second World War. On January 14, 1945, a day that will forever be known as “The Great Rat Race” and “The Big Day”, the 357th Fighter Group shot down 55 1⁄2 German fighters in just over two hours setting a record in military aviation that has never and probably will never be broken. Among the members of this amazing group of fighter pilots were: Chuck Yeager, Bud Anderson, Kit Carson, John England, and others destined for fame. So was Captain Fletcher E. Adams, a native son of the small village of Ida, Louisiana. Then, on May 30, 1944, Adams, the leading ace of the 357th Fighter Group with 9 kills to his credit, was shot down over Tiddische, Germany and murdered by civilians on the ground. This is their story as told by the pilots through their books, diaries, and interviews with the author. Theirs was an adventure never to be matched again in the annals of aviation history. Find out what it was really like to go “to war with the Yoxford Boys”! “This book gives us the best insight into a tragic causality of WW II and the mystery of what happened to Captain Fletcher E. Adams. Joey Maddox’s use of other voices, quotes and investigative interviews make the story interesting. You’ll not only learn about Fletcher Adams but also the history of the 357th Fighter Group. I found the use of Adams’ personal diary, an illegal practice in wartime, particularly interesting to learn of his personal feelings during his training and combat.” Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson Colonel, USAF Ret.
Download or read book The Bleeding Sky written by Louis Brandsdorfer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bleak Horizon written by Declan Hunter and published by RWG Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world ravaged by oppression and despair, hope flickers like a dying ember. "The Bleak Horizon: A Journey into Darkness" invites readers to embark on a gripping dystopian odyssey, where the human spirit confronts its deepest fears and forges a path towards redemption. In a society on the brink of collapse, hope crumbles as the Fall of Hope unravels the foundations of a once-thriving civilization. Shadows of Desperation cast a bleak pall over a society teetering on the edge, pushing individuals to their limits. Amidst the struggle, Struggling Embers offer a glimmer of resistance, a spark that refuses to be extinguished. Follow the journey of Sarah Thompson, a courageous protagonist who becomes an unwitting catalyst for change. As she navigates the ruins of civilization and confronts the echoes of tyranny, Sarah delves into the abyss, descending into the underbelly of a world ravaged by darkness. Betrayal lurks around every corner, as Broken Bonds test the loyalty and resolve of those who dare to fight for a better world. Amidst the desolation, innocence is lost, and the children of a darkened era bear the weight of a shattered reality. As the iron fist tightens its grip, Echoes of Tyranny resound, threatening to crush any semblance of freedom. Sarah and her allies find themselves entangled in a power struggle, where kings and pawns vie for control in a desperate bid to shape a broken world. Unholy alliances form amidst the chaos, as survival becomes the ultimate currency. Sacrifices are made, moral decay permeates the shadows, and shattered dreams haunt the hearts of the brave who dare to defy. Amidst the turmoil, a ray of light pierces through the darkness, offering a glimmer of hope. A united front emerges, whispering rebellion and sowing the seeds of change in a society starved for liberation. But as the journey progresses, deception is unveiled, revealing the masked truth that has been carefully woven into the fabric of their existence. Paranoia takes hold, tightening its clutches around the hearts of the brave souls who stand against the forces of oppression. In the face of adversity, the indomitable human spirit rises, redefining freedom within the chains that bind them. The silent suffering of the marginalized emerges from the margins, demanding to be heard and challenging the moral decay that festers in the shadows. As secrets of a broken world are unveiled, the characters grapple with their own identities, navigating a fractured landscape where truth is elusive. Survival becomes a relentless battle in the barren land, where every step forward comes at a cost. Yet, against the backdrop of a bleeding sky and the great divide that threatens to tear them apart, nature's last stand provides a beacon of resilience. Lines are drawn in blood, forcing individuals to confront their deepest convictions and choose their path in this desperate struggle. In the midst of the darkness, alliances are forged, betrayals are revealed, and the human spirit finds redemption. A glimpse of dawn emerges on the bleak horizon, as Sarah and her allies confront the unknown future, embracing it with courage, resilience, and an unwavering belief in the transformative power of hope. "The Bleak Horizon: A Journey into Darkness" is a gripping dystopian saga that explores the depths of the human spirit in the face of oppression, the power of unity amidst chaos, and the unwavering pursuit of a better world. Join the characters on this epic odyssey, where love, loss, sacrifice, and the indomitable human spirit intertwine on a path towards redemption.
Download or read book The Minnesota Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book More Nights than Days written by Yudit Kiss and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique exploration of the experience of children who survived the Holocaust—including Roma and Sinti victims—and the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Children are among the principal victims of armed conflicts and slaughters; nonetheless, they perceive events through the prism of their unique perspective and have a different range of coping techniques than adults. This overview of the writings of ninety-one child survivors bears evidence to a wide range of human ruthlessness. The author presents little-known texts along with famous memoirs and autobiographical fiction, with abundant quotations. Many of these are not only compelling as historical testimony, but poetic, moving and stirring. Yudit Kiss has not written a historical study or literary criticism of the children’s books. She explores, instead, what the authors went through and what they felt and understood about their experience. Accessible and captivating, this volume presents a close-up, human-size dimension of destruction. The books written by child survivors also describe the resources and means that helped them to remain human even in the deepest well of inhumanity, offering precious lessons about resistance and resilience.
Download or read book Child of a Stolen Land written by Paul Burroughs and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the death of his father, Pardis becomes the chosen Black King who holds the strength to save the Day and Night people from the Aduboola. Pardis is not your ordinary boy; he is the only one left of his kind that was not taken captive by the Aduboola. The Aduboola came to Earth to destroy harmony and peace. Hidden evil forces are hard at work, so good has no day off. Pardis possesses numerous abilities, which gives him the chance to punish every wicked being. Evil shall never inherit this divine land.
Download or read book Bleeding Sky written by Ken White and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight months after solving Joshua Thomas's murder, life has mostly returned to normal for private investigator Charlie Welles. He's working cases by day, training new vampire investigators sent by Deputy Area Governor Phillip Bain by night, and hoping that Bain will leave one in place long enough to provide a break from the nightly training.When the former German ambassador to the United States visits the city as part of nationwide trip to explore the possibility of reopening diplomatic relations, Welles is hired to protect Dr. Konrad Heymann and his staff, including a young European vampire and a rogue U.S. Army captain.The threats to Heymann and his staff?The human Resistance to the vampire occupation of the country. And elements inside the vampire hierarchy who oppose normal diplomatic relations with the rest of the world.The problem? Nobody is quite who they seem to be...
Download or read book The Battle Months of George Daurella written by Beulah Marie Dix and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bleeding Sunsets of the Sundarbans written by Priya Somaiya and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunderbans… Beautiful forests as the name says… The largest mangrove forests of the world, home to several endangered species of fauna, a tourist’s dream destination, stunning landscapes that ignite a painter’s passion… But, what of the humans who inhabit this picture-perfect land of tiny islands, estuarine streams, marshy swamps, and lush green fields? Beneath the breathtakingly beautiful sky of myriad colours and the flaming red, bleeding sunsets, they lead a life of extreme hardship, every day a challenge, with the fear of attacks by the man-eating tigers, the crocodiles that abound the streams, and the constant threat of storms and cyclones that can turn their fertile fields into saline swamps in a few minutes, wiping out a lifetime’s labour. And the women… second-class humans like everywhere, but more so in this rural, remote corner, treated like beasts of burden, hard toil taking a toll of their lives, subjected to domestic violence, sexual assaults from human predators with rape and murder being common events, at the mercy of the rich and powerful… This is the saga of the courage of one such woman—Kalyani, orphaned before reaching her teens, married before fourteen, mother of four, widowed in the early thirties, extremely poor, but uncompromising in her dignity, who does not succumb to pressures or favours and brings up her children single-handedly, relying only on her own hard labour. This story, set in the village of Sajnekhali, on the banks of the Matla River, could be the story of so many who live under the bleeding skies with bleeding hearts.
Download or read book Blood Zero Sky written by J. Gabriel Gates and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unprofitables are banished to work camps to pay off their credit. Other tie-men and women look on apathetically. Fair is fair. Everyone knows you shouldn't use more credit than you are worth to the Company. They turn their attention to the next repackaged but highly coveted N-Corp product on the market, creatively advertised on the imager screens that adorn virtually every available flat surface. All the while, their mandatory cross-implants and wrist-worn "ICs" keep them focused on the endless cycle of work and consumption to which they are enslaved. May Fields—the CEO's daughter—would like to believe she is above all that. Head of N-Corp's marketing team, the young woman who has almost everything anyone could want spends her days dreaming up ingenious ways to make workers buy more of what they already have and don't need. Even before May discovers that the Company is headed for its first loss in thirty years, she is feeling the stirrings of dissatisfaction with the system that has given her everything she's ever wanted . . . except the freedom to be herself. When she is kidnapped by a member of the Protectorate—a secret order dating back to the American Revolution—May is suddenly faced with the frightening truth of what the Company's greed has done to our most basic human rights. Will she embrace who she is and join the battle to restore America's democratic freedom, or put her blinders back on and return to her safe and passionless life? More prediction than fiction, Blood Zero Sky is a riveting, nonstop, and suspenseful gaze into the looking glass, destined to rise with the zeitgeist of our times to become the anthem of a generation.
Download or read book The Bride of the Moor written by August Stramm and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People of the Earth written by W. Michael Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dawn of agriculture, a young woman is caught between the love of two men who must have her and the vision given to her people long ago by the spirit of the wolf.
Download or read book A Stately Southerner written by Rex Clements and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poet Lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Defender of Camelot written by Roger Zelazny and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LAST DEFENDER OF CAMELOT is a collection of breathtaking stories that showcase the incredible abilities of several authors. Edited and with an introduction by award-winning author Robert Silverberg, it includes such tales as “For a Breath I Tarry,” and “Halfjack.” It also features the Hugo Award-winning “24 Views of Mt. Fuji,” by Hokusai, “Permafrost,” and “Home is the Hangman.”
Download or read book Daughters of the Rich written by Edgar Saltus and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Middletown America written by Gail Sheehy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The single event that we know as 9/11 is over, but the shock waves continue to radiate outward, generated by orange alerts, terrorism lockdowns, and the shrinking of personal liberties we once took for granted. The stories in this book, of real people faced with extraordinary trauma and gradually transcending it, are the best antidote to our fears. Middletown, America is a book of hope. All Americans were hit with some degree of trauma on September 11, 2001, but no place was hit harder than Middletown, New Jersey. Gail Sheehy spent the better part of two years walking the journey from grief toward renewal with fifty members of the community that lost more people in the World Trade Center than any other outside New York City. Her subjects are the women, men, and children who remained after the devastation and who are putting their lives back to-gether. Sheehy tells the story of four widowed moms from New Jersey who started out scarcely knowing the difference between the House and the Senate, yet turned their sorrow and anger into action and became formidable witnesses to the failures of the country’s leadership to connect the dots before September 11. Sheehy follows the four moms as they fight White House attempts to thwart the independent commission investigating 9/11 and expose efforts at a cover-up. What would become of the young wives carrying children their husbands would never see, wives who had watched their dreams literally go up in smoke in that amphitheater of death across the river? Amazingly, each finds her own door to the light. Here, too, is the story of the widow and widower who met in the waiting room of a mental-health agency and brought each other back from the brink of despair across a bridge of love. Sheehy also reveals how bereft mothers who will never have another son or daughter found reasons to recommit to life. And she follows in the footsteps of the robbed children, documenting the incredible resilience of four-year-olds, the anger of teenagers, the courage of sisters and brothers. Sheehy follows survivors who escaped the burning towers only to find themselves trapped inside a tower of inner torment, from which it took love, family, and faith to free themselves. She is taken into the confi-dence of the night crew at Ground Zero, police officers who worked in that pit for eight months straight and then faced the “returning home” phenomenon. She recounts the confessions of religious leaders who struggled to explain the inexplicable to their flocks. Mental-health professionals confide in her, as do corporate chiefs, educators, friends and neigh-bors, town officials, and volunteers who rose to the occasion and committed themselves to healing their wounded community. As a journalist who conducted more than nine hundred interviews, Gail Sheehy is an impeccable researcher. As a writer with a novelistic gift, she weaves the individual stories into a compelling narrative. Middletown, America illuminates every stage of a tumultuous passage—from shock, passivity, and panic attacks, to rising anger and deep grieving, and on to the secret romances and startling relapses, the realignment of faith, the return of a capacity to love and be loved, and, finally, the commitment to constructing new lives.
