Download or read book Helicopter Heroine written by Charles Morgan Evans and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valérie André is one of the great military aviators of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat and one of the first three helicopter medevac pilots. Flying more than 150 helicopter rescue missions during the French war in Indochina (including at Dien Bien Phu), and parachuting into the field twice, André was a trailblazer, a pioneer of flying helicopters in combat and an innovator of battlefield medicine, who risked her life to treat the wounded, whether they were French or Vietnamese, whether they were friend, civilian, or foe. Aviation historian Charles Morgan Evans tells her story with verve and pathos. André was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1922. From an early age, she wanted to fly, but as a woman, she faced challenges. While boys could receive government-funded flight lessons, André had to pay for hers by tutoring. During World War II, she left Strasbourg against German prohibitions in order to study medicine in Paris, where she completed her studies under threat of arrest by the Gestapo. Assigned to an army hospital in Saigon in French Indochina in the late 1940s, André trained as a neurosurgeon, performing one hundred procedures per month. When the French medical corps developed mobile surgical units to be air-dropped into military outposts, she quickly volunteered, and then when the service acquired a few primitive helicopters, she volunteered for that, which meant learning to fly helicopters in combat. Flying through bullets and bombs, fatigue, parasitic illness, and mechanical issues with the helicopters— not to mention the French army’s prejudice against a female pilot and surgeon—André nonetheless became a legend in Indochina. The Vietnamese called her “the woman who comes down from the sky” and “Mrs. Ventilator.” On one day in December 1951, she flew her chopper into the teeth of antiaircraft fire to a besieged base, where she performed emergency brain surgeries, then flew the wounded to hospitals in Hanoi, two at a time. After Indochina, she continued to be an innovator in military aviation and medicine as well as an advocate for women’s integration into the French military. In the early 1960s, she flew another 236 missions in Algeria. In 1975, she became the first female general in the French army, and at her retirement, she had flown nearly 500 combat missions, logged 4,000 hours in helicopters, and won the Croix de Guerre five times, the Cross of Military Valor twice, and the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit. André, who just turned ninety-nine, is still alive and lives near Paris, and this book is based on a series of author interviews with her and comprehensive research in other sources.
Download or read book Helicopter Heroine written by Charles Morgan Evans and published by . This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helicopter Heroine is the story of Valérie André, who began her medical career in Paris under the eyes of the Gestapo, trained as a neurosurgeon, and blazed trails as a helicopter pioneer and battlefield medicine innovator during the French Indochina war. Flying through bullets and bombs to treat and evacuate the wounded, André became a legend.
Download or read book The Action Heroine s Handbook written by Jennifer Worick and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the would-be Wonder Woman or Charlie’s Angel: an empowering how-to guide for conquering life’s toughest challenges—and saving the world one baddie at a time For every woman who wants to be as tough as Lara Croft, as nimble as the Bionic Woman, and as babe-a-licious as Charlie’s Angels, The Action Heroine’s Handbook shows you the essential skills you’ll need to conquer the bad guys and save the day without breaking a sweat. Find out how the real action heroines do it, directly from a host of experts, including stuntwomen, jujitsu instructors, helicopter pilots, detectives, forensic psychologists, survivalists, primatologists, and many others. Learn to: • Profile a serial killer • Outwit a band of home intruders • Navigate white water rapids • Go undercover as a beauty queen • Outrun a fireball And dozens of other Tough Chick Skills, Beauty Skills, Brain Skills, Brawn Skills, and Escape Skills. Special sections and appendices feature the top action heroine hairdos, handbag essentials, and the best footwear for every action situation. With step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow illustrations, The Action Heroine’s Handbook will prepare you to save the world, one baddie at a time.
Download or read book What s the T written by Juno Dawson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first century in this candid and funny guide for teens from the bestselling author of This Book is Gay. In What's the T? Stonewall ambassador and bestselling author Juno Dawson is back again, this time with everything you've wanted to know about labels and identities and offering uncensored advice on coming out, sex, and relationships with her trademark humor and lightness of touch. It is informative, helpful, optimistic, and funny but with a good dose of reality and some of the things that can downright suck too. The companion title to the groundbreaking This Book Is Gay, What's the T? tackles the complex realities of growing up trans with honesty and humor and is joyfully illustrated by gender non-conforming artist Soofiya. This book is for: Anyone with questions Parents of trans and/or non-binary kids Educators looking for advice about the transgender community Praise for This Book is Gay: A Guardian Best Book of the Year 2018 Garden State Teen Book Award Winner "The book every LGBT person would have killed for as a teenager, told in the voice of a wise best friend. Frank, warm, funny, USEFUL."—Patrick Ness, New York Times bestselling author "This egregious gap has now been filled to a fare-thee-well by Dawson's book."—Booklist *STARRED REVIEW*
Download or read book Jewish Heroes Heroines of America written by Seymour Brody and published by Frederick Fell Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the contributions of Jewish heroes and heroines throughout the nation's history. Spanning the pre-revolutionary years to the present, this essential book documents the lives of 151 men and women who have contributed to all areas of life--the arts,sciences,sports,entertainment,business,and politics. JEWISH HEROES AND HEROINES OF AMERICA details where each individual has worked, the awards he or she has won, and the accomplishments that have brought fame and the respect of other Jews and non-Jews in America.
Download or read book Day Zero written by Chris Jayne and published by Blushing Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAVY SEAL DEACON HALE is on vacation. But when planes start falling out of the sky, he knows he and everything around him is going to change in a hurry. MIAMI CATERER LORI DOVNER, on the run from a madman, is nearly to the safe haven of her sister’s Montana farm when the world goes dark. Through only the slimmest chance, Deacon knows where she is. But of all the people in the world, Deacon is the last person Lori wants to rescue her. MAFIOSO RAOUL SALDATA will catch Lori Dovner and her two children, and the last thing he will do is kill them. Quite nearly to his prize, fate intervenes. Can Deacon, trying to navigate a world gone mad, reach Lori before Saldata does? With no electricity, no phones, no cars, no computers, who will survive Day Zero? “Day Zero: Stronghold Book 2” continues, minute by minute, the new world that Lori, Deacon and Lori’s sister Louise must now navigate. Who will survive in a post-apocalyptic landscape where any rules can be broken?
Download or read book Hollywood Divas Indie Queens and TV Heroines written by Susanne Kord and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines offers an entertaining and critical look at the representation of women in recent movies. Written in a refreshingly accessible style, the book analyzes over thirty box-office hits. The authors explore the screen personae of top stars such as Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan, and Renée Zellweger, as well as independent movie queens like Parker Posey and TV heroines like Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A must-read book for all film buffs who are tired of the mixed gender messages of mainstream culture.
Download or read book To Find and Wake the Dreamer written by Hugh Cook and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-moving fantasy novel, a no-holds-barred novel written on an adult level, about the war on terror. In the city state of Oolong Morblock, where a certain proportion of the people have a natural ability to cause themselves to explode, in effect making them potential suicide bombers, Ibrahim Chess tries to find the middle road: to steer a course of moderation and sanity in a world which is going mad, and where the civil peace is threatened by the increasingly intolerant fanaticism of the conflict between the minority group to which Ibrahim belongs, the astrals, and the city state's dominant group, the norms. Note: this book contains some disturbing scenes. If you do not find something in this book to disturb you then you are a seriously disturbed person. Are you a person of exquisite good taste? Then, sorry, but you are disqualified as a reader. This book pretty much takes the attitude that boundaries (especially boundaries of taste) are there to be breached. You have been warned!
Download or read book Butterfly The First Black Superheroine written by Mini Komix and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Premiering in Hell-Rider magazine from 1971 during the Bronze Age, The Butterfly was the very first African-American comic book superheroine! Marian Michaels leads a double-life not only as a hit Vegas nightclub singer, but as the masked maiden known as Butterfly. Aside from being a hand-to-hand combat expert, Butterfly also uses blinding light effects, suction gloves, and a jumping jet pack to fight the forces of evil! She clashes with the crafty Claw and his clan of costumed cat-men, plus the Grand Master along with the Brothers of the Crimson Cross! Written by Gary Friedrich; art by John Celardo, Mike Esposito, Rich Buckler, and Bill Everett. Also included are tales of other foxy mamas like Salimba the Jungle Goddess by Stephen Perry, Lady Satan by Al Hewetson and Ricardo Villamonte, plus Go-Go Girl and Disappointed Doll by Jack Kirby(the creator of Black Panther!). Fly off into action with the original black female superhero!
Download or read book Geek Heroines written by Karen M. Walsh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geek Heroines not only tells the stories of fictional and real women, but also explores how they represent changes in societal views of women, including women of color and the LGBTQ community. Geek culture stems from science and technology and so is frequently associated with science fiction. In the beginnings of science fiction, the genre was tied to "magic" and dystopic outcomes; however, as technology turned "geek" into "chic," geek culture extended to include comics, video games, board games, movie, books, and television. Geek culture now revolves around fictional characters about whom people are passionate. Geek Heroines seeks to encourage women and young girls in pursuing their passions by providing them with female role models in the form of diverse heroines within geek culture. Carefully curated to incorporate LGBTQ+ identities as well as racial diversity, the book defines geek culture, explains geek culture's sometimes problematic nature, and provides detailed fiction and nonfiction biographies that highlight women in this area. Entries include writers and directors as well as characters from comic books, science fiction, speculative fiction, television, movies, and video games.
Download or read book First Certificate Avenues Revised Edition Student s Book written by David Foll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Certificate Avenues Workbook gives the student additional language practice and FCE training.
Download or read book The Last Helicopter written by Jim Laurie and published by Jim Laurie. This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir: A young woman is left behind with slim chances of survival under the Khmer Rouge. A young reporter comes of age in a world of war in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Download or read book 500 Things You Didn t Know About Stranger Things written by Nick Stones and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want more arcane Stranger Things trivia than you can shake at a Demogorgon at? Well, you've come to the right place. 500 Things You Didn't Know About Stranger Things contains all manner of trivia relating to the blockbuster Netflix show. There are facts, among many other topics way too numerous to mention, about the origins of the show, the cast, special effects, monsters, Dungeons & Dragons, guns & weapons, Vecna, the Mind Flayer, episodes, easter eggs, and pop culture influences in both film and literature.
Download or read book Star Island written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A whole lot Survivor, a little bit The Tempest, with a pinch of Laurel and Hardy ... Hiaasen's ear is pitch-perfect." --- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution --
Download or read book Endings in the Cinema written by Michael Walker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new way of thinking about film endings. Whereas existing works on the subject concentrate on narrative resolution, this book explores the way film endings blend together a complex of motifs, tropes and other elements to create the sense of an ending—that is, it looks at ‘endings as endings’. Drawing on a wide range of examples taken from films of different periods and national cinemas, the author identifies three key features which structure the work: thresholds and boundaries, water, and, above all, the beach. The beach combines water and a boundary and is the most resonant of the key sites to which film endings gravitate. Although beach endings go back to at least 1910, they have increased markedly in post-classical cinema, and can be found across all genres and in films from many different countries. As the leading example of the book’s argument, they illustrate both the aesthetic richness and the structural complexity of film endings.
Download or read book True Heroines written by William Wilbanks and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the circumstances and events which led to the 138 women law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty, the identity of their perpetrator(s), and the deposition of the case, with a biography and photo of each officer and their descendants. Author Dr. William Wilbanks carefully researched each case and unveiled the mystery of unsolved deaths.
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