Download or read book First Flight of the Crowe written by E.W. NICKERSON and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the rapidly changing street's of Thatcher's England to the mosques and squares of Turkey, and finally to the unassuming town of Oakville, Canada, First Flight of The Crowe is a sharp and energetic spy thriller.
Download or read book Crowe S Bait written by Ed W. Nickerson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The circumstances of the April 26, 1986, explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine raises questions about its classification as accidental. This is quickly clarified when one of the plants lead operators leaves the country with a More to come message. Ed Crowe, part-time travel agent and part-time consultant with Britains secret intelligence service (MI6), is on his way from Oakville, Canada, to England. His plans to serve as best man for his friends wedding are interrupted by a call from Lord Stonebridge, head of MI6. Ed and his fellow operatives must find the man responsible for the explosion; the man who knows when the next nuclear disaster will occur. He is from Chechnya, a Soviet republic that has been historically repressed by Russia. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has asked MI6 to find the man before rogue members of the KGB find him in order to destabilize Gorbachev and his reforms. The search leads to Istanbul, Turkey; a brief Mediterranean cruise; and KGB agents in Canada. Personal relationships are complicated when Eds ex-girlfriend is asked to work with him along with Carolyn Andrews, daughter of the head of MI6, who Ed is planning to ask for her hand in marriage following their friends wedding.
Download or read book Irish Aces of the RFC and the RAF in the First World War written by Joe Gleeson and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War had an enormous impact on Ireland. Over 240,000 Irish men and women volunteered to serve with the Allied forces, suffering almost 40,000 casualties. The Irish contribution to the air war remains overlooked, not just in Ireland, but also by historians generally. Although just 6,000 Irish served with the Allied flying services at a cost of 500 casualties, their impact was out of all proportion to their numbers. The contribution of Irish aces of the RFC and RAF to the Allied cause was enormous, just over thirty of whom accounted for 400 enemy aircraft. Irishmen such as Mannock, McElroy and Hazell were among the highest-scoring pilots of the war. Some were revered by their men, others were controversial figures – reckless with their own lives and those under their command – but many of their stories remain untold. This book seeks to restore all those who were written out of Irish history, while also providing for their achievements to be considered in the overall context of the first air war. Illustrations: 24 black-and-white photographs
Download or read book A Murder of Crowes written by Ed W. Nickerson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The December 27, 1985, terrorist attacks at Rome and Vienna airports organized by the Palestinian militant splinter group Abu Nidal Organization result in direct action by the British Intelligence Service--MI6. Their part-time consultant Ed Crowe travels from his Oakville, Canada home to search and destroy the ANO. His missions in Damascus, Syria, are hampered by a rogue CIA agent, and international relations involving the changing USSR and their recently elected leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, are at risk. Significant changes in his personal relationship with Carolyn Andrews, daughter of the head of MI6, and a budding relationship with a young lady from Oakville only add complications to the task at hand.
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Download or read book Crowe on the Banjo written by Marty Godbey and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first biography of legendary banjoist J. D. Crowe, Marty Godbey charts the life and career of one of bluegrass's most important innovators. Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Crowe picked up the banjo when he was thirteen years old, inspired by a Flatt & Scruggs performance at the Kentucky Barn Dance. Godbey relates the long, distinguished career that followed, as Crowe performed and recorded both solo and as part of such varied ensembles as Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, the all-acoustic Kentucky Mountain Boys, and the revolutionary New South, who created an adventurously eclectic brand of bluegrass by merging rock and country music influences with traditional forms. Over the decades, this highly influential group launched the careers of many other fresh talents such as Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, and Doyle Lawson. With a selective discography and drawing from more than twenty interviews with Crowe and dozens more with the players who know him best, Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J. D. Crowe is the definitive music biography of a true bluegrass original.
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Download or read book Crowe s Nest written by E. W. Nickerson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a special consultant to the British Secret Service MI6 Ed Crowe works again with his special friend Pat W. from CSIS to assist in the identification and capture of the members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who were directly involved in the Brighton Bombing. The bombing on October 12, 1984, was aimed at the British Cabinet and resulted in five deaths and thirty-four injured. Lord Stonebridge, the head of MI6, on behalf of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher requests the assistance of Canada through Prime Minister Brain Mulroney to bring the terrorists to justice. English-born Ed Crowe travels from his Oakville, Ontario-based home to England, Holland, and Scotland in search of the IRA leader Patrick Magee. Operation Tea Party offers him the opportunity to see and spend more time with the love of his life, Carolyn Andrews, the daughter of Lord and Lady Stonebridge.
Download or read book United States Air Force History written by Carl Berger and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hardcore written by Michael Lutwyche and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s Aston Villa Hardcore has been arguably the most prolific football hooligan gangs in the UK. Described by the police and press as one of the worst two hooligan firms on the England international scene. There are currently 80 Villa Hardcore members subject to football banning orders and sentences totalling over 80 years have been handed out to participants in a series of high profile incidents.Gang member Michael Lutwyche reveals how Villa Hardcore - led by Category C football hooligan Steven Fowler - became one of the most highly organised and notorious football hooligan gangs in the country. Known to police forces the world over Fowler first came to the notice of the world media when he was thrown out of France during the World Cup in 1998. He is now subject to one of the longest banning orders in British football.
Download or read book Fighter Aces written by Alex Revell and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gerald Constable Maxwell was flying as a fighter pilot in World War I, his brother Michael was born. Both went on to have distinguished flying careers in World War II. This is the story of both men and how their paths crossed during the second conflict.Gerald served with distinction with 56 Squadron, one of the crack fighter units of WWI in France. Upon his return to England he became Chief Flying Instructor of No. 1 Fighter and Gunnery School at Turnberry. In World War II he served as Station Commander at RAF Ford, a night Fighter station near Arundel, one of the most efficient and happy stations in 11 Group.Michael followed in his brothers footsteps and joined 56 Squadron in April 1940 to fly the Hawker Hurricane. During May the squadron was moved to France to assist the fast retreating British and French forces as the Germans rapidly advanced. On 27 May, he was shot down whilst attacking ten Heinkel 111s on their way to bomb Dunkirk. Fortunately his first contacts upon landing by parachute were French and he managed to find his way to Ostend where he boarded a trawler and crossed the Channel back to Deal.56 Squadron had by now returned to their English base at North Weald from where they were flying patrols over the French coast and escorting RAF bombers raiding the German positions. On 8 June, whilst trying to reach returning Blenheims over Le Treport, the Hurricanes were bounced by Bf 109s and again Michael was hit, wounding him in the leg and foot, fortunately he eventually managed a crash landing back at North Weald. During the height of the Battle of Britain Michael was again forced to make a crash landing near Herne Bay which he was lucky to survive as his Hurricane had disintegrated around him.In the autumn of 1941 Michael was posted to 604 Nightfighter Squadron, led by the legendary Cats Eyes Cunningham flying Beaufighters and eventually Mosquitos. He was eventually to Command the squadron whose tally of enemy aircraft shot down when he left it had reached 100. This remarkable story includes first-hand combat accounts from both Michael and Gerald and the author has had access to the Constable Maxwells family records.
Download or read book Naval Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversations with Wilder written by Cameron Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned director talks to Cameron Crowe about 30 years at the very heart of Hollywood. Wilder's distinct voice provides a fascinating insider's view of the film industry past and present.
Download or read book Abergavenny s War written by Tim Butters and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the experiences of the people of Abergavenny in the Second World War in their own words.
Download or read book A 12 Acquisition written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the New Aviation written by Brian Milton and published by Air World. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth narrative that stitches together the history and evolution of hang gliding, a pastime enjoyed by hundreds of thousands around the world. The New Aviation began with a hang-gliding meeting on a sand-dune in southern California on 23 May 1971. The longest flight that day was 196 feet, the longest time in the air just 11 seconds. But it was a start – the start of a movement that has grown exponentially world-wide with every passing year. The essence of the New Aviation is to stand on a hill, spread your wings, and climb into the sky by your own skill. It is the fundamentals of flight as it is meant to be, and this is the story of the development of this exhilarating sport, and of its largely unknown pioneers. The first of these was German pioneer aviator, Otto Lilienthal. Despite dozens of deaths before him, Lilienthal was the first to establish that manned flight was actually possible; before him, flight was just a dream. His tragic death in 1896 inspired the American Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, to their own experiments on a wind-swept beach in Kittyhawk, North Carolina, where the first powered flight there on 17 December 1903. The book begins and ends with two significant tales, opening with the life and death of Englishman Alvin Russell, and ending with the fabled Swiss flyer Didier Favre, who traversed the length of the Alps ‘by foot or by flight’. It is full of terrific stories, often repeating exploits of the mainstream aviators but flying just a kite and a trapeze bar, flying with eagles and teaching orphaned geese to migrate. It has exclusive accounts of record-breaking distances, on adding engines to ‘rag wings’, on how women broke into the machismo world and an English girl led a team in which every other competitor was a man, and beat them all. A History of the New Aviation is the first in-depth ‘narrative’ to stitch together the history and evolution of a pastime which is enjoyed by hundreds of thousands around the world. It is told by Brian Milton, the man who formed the British Hang Gliding League and led the first two British teams to beat the mighty Americans, for which he won the Prince of Wales Cup from Prince Charles, now King Charles III. Brian went on to make the first flight around the world by a powered hang glider. Two men set off on this flight; Brian returned alone.
Download or read book Scorpio Rising written by Alan Annand and published by Alan Annand. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A criminal profiler uses astrology, palmistry and numerology to solve a triple murder.
