Download or read book Jump Damn It Jump written by Edward F. Logan, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after the United States entered World War II, American ground and air forces were on their way to the European theater of operations. Among that offensive buildup was the 15th Air Force, consisting of four-engine heavy bombers--the B-17 and B-24--as well as twin-engine medium bombers and several types of fighter aircraft. The 15th was first stationed in North Africa and then in southern Italy, where pilots could strike at any military target within a 700 mile radius. After ferrying a B-17 to England with the 8th Air Force, Lt. Edward Logan was transferred to the 15th Air Force, Fifth Wing, 483rd Bomb Group, 817th Bomb Squadron in Italy. Logan and members of his unit were assigned to use American air power to destroy the German military's manufacturing and petroleum complexes as well as its intricate transportation system. This gripping memoir gives a detailed account of Logan's experiences throughout his Army Air Corps career. It outlines the progression of a determined would-be pilot through two years of training, his 1944 journey to the war's theater and advent into actual combat. While other missions are summarized, the work's main focus is the author's thirty-fourth combat mission, which took place in March 1945. During this operation, his B-17 bomber sustained damage so severe that he and nine crewmen were forced to bail out over enemy territory. Aided by Slovenian partisans, Logan and his crew evaded the German troops who were searching for them and returned safely to their base. This firsthand account includes insider details, technical specifications of the B-17 bomber and previously classified information. An epilogue provides additional information on the partisans and the composition of the 15th Air Force.
Download or read book Jump written by Normand Berlin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-03-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jump is a fast and funny thriller. Chris Caine is a ex-big league pitcher who’s now a Sports Agent and a lawyer, although he brags that he’s never been in a courtroom and he hires other lawyers to check his client’s contracts. He’s a man with too much time on his hands and whose life is without any real challenge, that is until Kate Winters walks into his office and his life. Kate’s son Charlie is missing and she believes that Chris can find him. Chris disagrees but Kate’s beauty and tears convince him otherwise. Pretty soon Chris is up to his neck with men with long knifes and short tempers. He’s on journey that will test his heart and his courage. Finding Charlie becomes very important to Chris as he falls in love with Kate. But the bad guys keep getting in the way and Chris has to dodge them and find a boy that doesn’t want to be found. The shocking finale will cause Chris to question everything he thought he knew about good and evil.
Download or read book The Horsewoman written by James Patterson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "hugely entertaining, riveting page-turner" (Louise Penny) follows the complicated relationship between mother and daughter as they face off in the Olympics—and into a ride they can barely control. Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world. Coronado is Maggie’s horse. An absolutely top-tier Belgian warmblood. Sky is Becky’s horse. A small, speedy Dutch warmblood. Only James Patterson could bring you such breakneck speed, hair-raising thrills and spills. Only hall of fame sportswriter Mike Lupica could make it all so real.
Download or read book Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression A Penguin Classic Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him. Of Mice and Men represents an experiment in form, which Steinbeck described as “a kind of playable novel, written in a novel form but so scened and set that it can be played as it stands.” A rarity in American letters, it achieved remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films. This edition features an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw, one of today’s leading Steinbeck scholars. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Military Auxiliary written by Xi Yangmei and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a type of ship in the sea army called an army support ship. The order of this ship is to replenish all kinds of energy for the battle of the Battleship. They don't care about everything else but the battle Battleship.Liu Li had always firmly believed that her love was this kind of military support. She would live for him, die for him, and give up her entire life for him.And she, was precisely the one who had gone all out just to find her battle Battleship, in order to support him in battle!"
Download or read book Forsaken written by Lisa Renee Jones and published by Julie Patra Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third book in the sexy, suspenseful “The Secret Life of Amy Bensen” series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones, we meet Amy’s brother Chad—and the woman who either loves him or wants him dead. Six years ago, Chad’s hunt for a dangerous treasure turned deadly when his family home was set on fire, his parents killed. Faking his and his sister Amy’s death to protect her from further retaliation, he set her up in a new life with a friend’s help, letting her believe he’d died. But now the men who hired Chad to find the treasure have found him, imprisoning and torturing him to learn where it’s hidden. A dark-haired beauty named Gia helps him escape, promising him access to his worst enemy. And as he tries to unravel the deep secrets of the past, he starts falling for her…only to discover she’s not what she seems. Unable to trust anyone, Chad focuses on only two things: protecting his sister Amy and getting revenge. Is love even possible in the midst of heartache?
Download or read book Jumping Fire written by Murry A. Taylor and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “terrifying, grimly funny” memoir about fighting forest fires in Alaska offers “an affectionate portrait of a fraternity of daredevils” (The New Yorker). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Fighting fires since 1965, legendary smokejumper Murry A. Taylor finally hung up his chute after the summer of 2000—the worst fire season in more than fifty years. In Jumping Fire, Taylor recounts in thrilling detail one summer of parachuting out of planes to battle blazes in the vast, rugged wilderness of Alaska, with tales of training, digging fire lines, run-ins with bears, and the heroics of fellow jumpers who fell in the line of duty. This unique memoir, filled with humor, fear, tragedy, joy, and countless stories of man versus nature at its most furious, is a “tale of love and loss, life and death, and sheer hard work, set in an unforgiving and unforgettable landscape” (Publishers Weekly). “Filled with adventure, danger and tragedy.” —The New York Times Book Review “A beautifully crafted, wise yet thrilling book.” —Los Angeles Times
Download or read book Mr Midshipman Hornblower written by C. S. Forester and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower" is a captivating historical novel by C. S. Forester, chronicling the early career of Horatio Hornblower, a young and inexperienced midshipman in the British Royal Navy during the late 18th century. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, the novel follows Hornblower's journey from a shy and uncertain youth to a competent and courageous officer. Through a series of adventurous episodes, including naval battles, daring rescues, and personal challenges, Hornblower demonstrates his evolving leadership skills, strategic acumen, and innate sense of duty. Forester masterfully blends historical detail with rich character development, making "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower" a compelling introduction to one of literature's most enduring naval heroes. classical literature, world literature, historical fiction, career, adventure, war, military fiction, maritimes, adventurous episodes, naval battles, personal challenges
Download or read book Of Bags Counts and Nightmares written by Ron Marks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommie Bauer is an ordinary young American drafted into a war to defend freedom in Southeast Asia, a war that consumes his life, as he knew it. Through the eyes of this highly trained young patriot, we discover how constant exposure to killing, death and dying poses a serious threat to the psychological, physical and emotional wellbeing of a combatant. Day to day, while humping the thick jungles of Vietnam, Bauer escapes one day's nightmare only to be engulfed in more gruesome ones in following days. His assigned mission is to seek and destroy the enemy. However, his immediate mission becomes the struggle to outlast the enemy while battling constant sorrow and hardship. Equally important, he must avoid occupying the next body bag tagged for appropriate disposal. He has to kill or be killed and do his part to increase the enemy body count, the bloody measure of who is "winning." Bauer finds himself trapped in this brutal and morally confusing nether world. During his journey through hell he meets a precocious young nurse while convalescing. She unknowingly becomes the incentive Bauer needs to endure his ordeal. This is Bauer's story, his struggle to rationalize the need for war and the carnage it creates. He is troubled by his exposure to combat and the changes he sees within himself, which he knows might haunt him the rest of his life.
Download or read book The Kitten S Cooler written by Judy Richter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in the day, my sisters name, Carol Hofmann Thompson, was a household word in the horse show world here and abroad. I have been blessed with many good memories of her and others who have brightened my life. To call this collection a memoir feels a bit too formal and pretentious, so I prefer to say these are a gathering of good old memories of people and events in my life from the fifties to the present day. There was no better decade than the 1950s to grow up in. The war was over, we won, and Eisenhower was our president. No more noble and able a man existed, except possibly Churchill, but he was British and, even then, old. It was a safe world; we never went to bed wondering if wed wake up to World War III. Our parents never worried about where we were, if they even wondered. They knew wed be home at dark for dinner. How different from today! What is most heartening about recollecting these stories, old and new, is that life does indeed go on, and for us horse people, it is the horses who carry us forward.
Download or read book Grimmer Than Hell written by David Drake and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2003-01-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen military-oriented science fiction stories follow the Fleet, a special operations company involved in a war against aliens.
Download or read book Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia written by Georgia. Court of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Who Are Alive and Remain written by Marcus Brotherton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Marcus Brotherton, co-author of Call of Duty, comes a new collection of untold stories from the Band of Brothers. Look for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix! They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and, later, Operation Market Garden. They fought their way through Belgium, France, and Germany, survived overwhelming odds, liberated concentration camps, and drank a victory toast in April 1945 at Hitler's hideout in the Alps. Here, revealed for the first time, are stories of war, sacrifice, and courage as experienced by one of the most revered combat units in military history. In We Who Are Alive and Remain, twenty men who were there and are alive today—and the families of three deceased others—recount the horrors and the victories, the bonds they made, the tears and blood they shed...and the brothers they lost.
Download or read book Still Trappin 4 Lyfe Down To Ride For An ATL Menace written by Tay Mo'nae and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her pregnancy test comes back positive, Natasha wonders how she's going to take care of a baby alone, after her baby's father has been killed. Hiding her pregnancy from her family for as long as she can, she realizes they're her only support until someone else steps up to the plate. Chris and his long-term girlfriend, Mia, are dealing with the loss of their first child. When Mia refuses to let Chris in and allow him to help her through the pain, their relationship becomes strained. Chris, knowing Natasha is pregnant, offers to be there for her as a friend through her pregnancy, but what happens when feelings run deeper?
Download or read book The Jump Off written by Doug Dixon and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troy likes his love life casual and free of attachments. But when he meets Jennifer, he quickly changes his mind. She inspires a commitment in him that he thought was impossible. When Jennifer leaves town for a job, Troy finds himself tempted by Dana Suarez and ends up tangled in a web of lies that threatens the only real relationship he's ever had.
