Download or read book Lion Resurgent written by Stuart Slade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SECOND EDITION - Great Britain has walked a long, hard road back from defeat and occupation. In the process it has rebuilt its armed forces and created an army and a navy that are at the cutting edge of modern operational technology. But, they are untested and untried. Now, as the Argentine Government casts covetous eyes on the Falkland Islands, Britain must show the world that it is, once again, a worldwide presence with a voice to be heard in the halls of power. To do so, they must fight an unprecedented campaign at the end of an 8,000 mile long supply line and endure a brutal slugging match with its enemies. Has their army shaken off the specter of defeat and rebuilt itself? Is the Royal Navy capable of fighting so far from its home bases? Who are the mysterious Auxiliary units whose very existence is denied? Most of all, is the Lion Resurgent?

Download or read book Kazan Thunderbolts written by Stuart Slade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Volga River is the heart of the Russian People and the last line of defense against the German invasion. The Russian Army is fighting desperately to defend against the German onslaught and to hold the last bridgeheads on the west bank of the Volga. But, help is coming. American personnel, supplies and equipment are pouring into Russia and at the head of the flood are the B-17 Flying Fortresses and P-47 Thunderbolts. Together the heavy bombers and their fighter escorts strike at targets deep in the heart of German-occupied Russia. As the great air battles take place, the Luftwaffe pilots realize that their days of air superiority and easy victories are over and they now face a fight just to survive. Meanwhile, as Russians and Americans fight side by side, what began as an uneasy alliance matures into a firm friendship.

Download or read book Winter Warriors written by Stuart Slade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SECOND EDITION -- One great German offensive has broken through the Russian defenses, leaving an allied army trapped in the frozen wasteland of the Kola Peninsula. While the armies try and survive the bitter cold, ski troops fight a vicious private war to dominate the ground between their armies. Desperate to break the deadlock, the German Navy sets sail in an effort to destroy the convoys that keep the allied armies on Kola alive. And so, an epic naval battle brews in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. In the midst of the fighting, the crew of a U.S. Navy railway gun, Russian railway engineers and Siberian ski troops come together in a desperate struggle to save the great guns from the advancing German troops. Behind the scenes, in a war-weary America, a political battle is being fought. One in which a supposed friend can be as deadly an enemy as any to be found on the Kola Peninsula.

Download or read book A Mighty Endeavor written by Stuart Slade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Second World War started, the countries that made up the British Commonwealth agreed that if Britain was forced to surrender, the Dominions would carry on the war by themselves. On June 19, 1940, the unthinkable happened and Britain was forced out of the war. The Commonwealth was left on its own and has to shoulder the burder of fighting Germany without the center of Commonwealth military, economic and political power. In a world now full of unexpected enemies and unlikely friends, the Commonwealth faces a desperate struggle to survive.

Download or read book The High Frontier written by Stuart Slade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living and working in space is man's greatest challenge. The men and women serving on the Manned Orbiting Laboratories and the new Manned Orbital Weapons Station know the are the leading edge of most important project humanity has ever attempted. The conquest of space will guarantee man's survival. Yet, there may not be enough time left. On Earth, one empire is collapsing under its own weight and there are those in its government who would prefer to suffer utter destruction rather than defeat. Will a conspiracy to stop them succeed? Another is trying to repair the damage from previous blunders and rebuild its relations with the rest of the world. Can they succeed before their enemies use a horrifying new weapon against them? As these crises converge to threaten destruction, a baffling mystery is solved. But, the question remains, will humanity have time to scale The High Frontier?

Download or read book The Big One written by Stuart Slade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Summer, 1947. Europe is being torn apart by a war nobody can win. Nazi Germany occupies everything from the Pyranees to the Volga. In the East, American and Russian troops fight side-by-side to hold the Germans back. in the West, the U.S. Navy owns the Atlantic and uses its aircraft carriers to hurl fleets of fighter-bombers against any targets they can find, Nothing can stop the madness except the one last card America has left to play. A fleet of the largest bombers the world has ever seen and a terrifying new weapon to arm them.

Download or read book Anvil of Necessity written by Stuart Slade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SECOND EDITION ¿ A year after The Big One ended World War Two in a single day, Europe is fighting to survive the aftermath of the nuclear strike. A catastrophic famine has struck Europe, spreading starvation to every country in its path. Winners and losers alike struggle to feed their populations as food supplies run out and they must depend on aid from the rest of the world.Yet, for all the fury of the B-36s and their nuclear weapons, the fighting is not yet over. Germany may have been utterly destroyed but its armies on foreign soil survive. Now, Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel and Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky must struggle to put aside the legacy of seven year vicious fighting and try to avoid more bloodshed. As they maneuver to save the lives of the men under their command, a shipyard worker in a shattered and defeated Britain must fight to find a future for his family.Yet, despite the hideous example set by the total destruction of Germany, there are still those who would resort to war in order to achieve their ends. Now is the time for those who wish for peace to band together and deter those who prefer war. It is time for nations across the world to remember that hard decisions are not made from desire but on the anvil of necessity.

Download or read book Conrad s Other Eye written by Stuart Slade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad Lorenz, Inquisitor. A Soul eternally damned. There was a time when Conrad knew that he was doing God's Work - until a horrifying miscarriage of justice opened his eyes. This volume contains five more stories of Conrad's eternal search for redemption and forgiveness. They range from New York in the Roaring Twenties through the horror of the Second World War and its aftermath to the night-life of Bangkok in the 1990s. During their course Conrad learns that even simple justice is sometimes out of reach but also that redemption may be closer than he thinks. For those wrongly accused and in desperate need, there is one last hope for justice. That Conrad will cast his eye upon their case.

Download or read book Les Miserables written by Victor Hugo and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 1747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Misérables is a novel on an epic scale.

Download or read book Alexander s Generals written by Stuart Slade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander the Great: Conqueror of the known world whose Macedonian phalanx defeated all who dared challenge it. Poisoned at the peak of his power by an unknown hand. Who shall succeed him? On his death-bed, Alexander left his empire "to the strongest." In doing so he condemned the vast empire he had ruled to a catastrophic series of civil wars as his generals tried to carve out realms of their own. As old friends and allies turn on each other in a deadly struggle to prove themselves "the strongest", a bitter and relentless blood feud cuts them down, one by one. With their eyes fixed on the battlefield, Alexander's Generals never realize that their deadliest enemy is a man they believe to be already dead.

Download or read book Conrad s Angel written by Stuart Slade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad de Llorente, Inquisitor: A Soul Eternally Damned After centuries tormented by guilt, Conrad's work saving the innocent finally won him a measure of peace and at least some of the Redemption he craves Now, respected by his peers, he lives in Bangkok and carries on his work protecting those unjustly condemned and who have nowhere else to turn. It is here that he faces his greatest ever challenge, a young woman who survived a horrifying attack as a child and has now become a career criminal. Conrad faces a new and unprecedented challenge.Knowing that Angel was betrayed by her family and believing his Church was responsible for the path her life has taken, he feels obliged to try and save her soul. Yet, how does he go about saving somebody who does not want to be saved and redeeming a soul that spurns redemption? Driven by the principle of ""hating the sin but loving the sinner"" Conrad accepts this new challenge and is determined to save Angel's soul- if necessary at cost of his own.

Download or read book Les Miserables Movie Tie In written by Victor Hugo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picure, adapted from the acclaimed Broadway musical, starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Sacha Baron Cohen Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Misérables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830. This striking edition features the widely celebrated and eminently readable translation by Norman Denny.

Download or read book Unlocking the Poetry of W B Yeats written by Daniel Tompsett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlocking the Poetry of W.B. Yeats undertakes a thorough re-reading of Yeats' oeuvre as an extended meditation on the image and theme of the heart as it is evident within the poetry. It places the heart at the centre of a complex web of Yeatsian preoccupations and associations—from the biographical, to the poetic and philosophical, to the mythological and mystical. In particular, the book seeks to unlock Yeats’ mystifying aesthetic vision via his understanding of the ancient Egyptian "Weighing of the Heart" ceremony. The work provides a chronological narrative arc that looks to use the theme of the heart as it recurs in the poetry in order to circumvent and overcome more established frameworks. Its purpose is to offer refreshing ways of conceptualizing and building alternatives to more deeply entrenched, but not entirely satisfactory arguments that have been offered since Yeats' death in 1939, while demonstrating the centrality of the occult to Yeats' art.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism written by Magnus Boström and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global phenomenon of political consumerism is known through such diverse manifestations as corporate boycotts, increased preferences for organic and fairtrade products, and lifestyle choices such as veganism. It has also become an area of increasing research across a variety of disciplines. Political consumerism uses consumer power to change institutional or market practices that are found ethically, environmentally, or politically objectionable. Through such actions, the goods offered on the consumer market are problematized and politicized. Distinctions between consumers and citizens and between the economy and politics collapse. The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism offers the first comprehensive theoretical and comparative overview of the ways in which the market becomes a political arena. It maps the four major forms of political consumerism: boycotting, buycotting (spending to show support), lifestyle politics, and discursive actions, such as culture jamming. Chapters by leading scholars examine political consumerism in different locations and industry sectors, and in consideration of environmental and human rights problems, political events, and the ethics of production and manufacturing practices. This volume offers a thorough exploration of the phenomenon and its myriad dilemmas, involving religion, race, nationalism, gender relations, animals, and our common future. Moreover, the Handbook takes stock of political consumerism's effectiveness in solving complex global problems and its use to both promote and impede democracy.

Download or read book The Marsh Lions written by Brian Jackman and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For five years Brian Jackman and Jonathan Scott followed the Marsh pride ... recording the daily drama of life and death in Kenya's finest big-game country. In time they came to regard many of the lions as old and familiar companions: the irascible Notch and her half-sister Shadow, the misfit Mkubwa and the majestic Scar. These lions are real individuals whose lives - intimately observed and ... illustrated - offer a unique insight into the ... world of the African plain. ..."--Back cover.

Download or read book In the Lion s Court written by Derek Wilson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Henry VIII and his six wives is a well-known example of the caprice and violence that dominated that king's reign. Now Derek Wilson examines a set of relationships that more vividly illustrate just how dangerous life was in the court of the Tudor lion. He tells the interlocking stories of six men-all, curiously enough, called Thomas-whose ambitions and principles brought them face to face with violent death, as recorded in a simple mnemonic: 'Died, beheaded, beheaded, Self-slaughtered, burned, survived.' Thomas Wolsey was an accused traitor on his way to the block when a kinder death intervened. Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell, whose convictions and policies could scarcely have been more different, both perished beneath the headman's axe. Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, would have met the same end had the king's own death not brought him an eleventh hour reprieve. Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, though outliving the monarch, perished as a result of that war of ambitions and ideologies which rumbled on after 1547. Wriothesley succumbed to poison of either body or mind in the aftermath of a failed coup. Cranmer went to the stake as a heretic at the insistence of Mary Tudor, who was very much the daughter of the father she hated. In the Lion's Court is an illuminating examination of the careers of the six Thomases, whose lives are described in parallel-their family and social origins, their pathways to the royal Council chamber, their occupancy of the Siege Perilous, and the tragedies that, one by one, overwhelmed them. By showing how events shaped and were shaped by relationships and personal destinies, Derek Wilson offers a fresh approach to the political narrative of a tumultuous reign.

Download or read book S Rajaratnam The Authorised Biography Volume Two The Lion s Roar written by Irene Ng and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. Rajaratnam, one of Singapore’s core founding fathers and its first Foreign Minister, was a man of ideas, ideals and action. In engaging prose, Irene Ng, bestselling author of the first volume of Rajaratnam’s biography, The Singapore Lion, reveals—as never before—how Rajaratnam changed the course of his country’s history, often by the sheer force of his ideas and will. The second volume, The Lion’s Roar, begins with his struggles during Singapore’s traumatic years in Malaysia from 1963 to 1965. Informed by decades of research, numerous interviews, and access to Mr. Rajaratnam’s private and government papers, the book gives new insight into his personality and priorities as he was confronted with Singapore’s sudden independence, which left the island exposed to all the calamities of a vulnerable state. The book relates in fine narrative and analytical detail the evolution of Singapore’s foundational ideals and values as well as its foreign policy principles and strategies. Through its pages, we follow him as he transformed Singapore’s relations with its neighbours, co-founded ASEAN, and rallied the regional grouping to oppose the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. We look over his shoulder as he drafted what would become Singapore’s National Pledge. We witness his political skills as labour minister as he steered through the most far-reaching labour reform in the nation’s history and laid the foundation for Singapore’s unique cooperative model of tripartism. And we experience Rajaratnam’s final years, when he faced the end of his life with the same courage that he brought to every battle he ever fought. More than merely the definitive biography of Rajaratnam, the book is also a story about the human condition; about what individuals, given genius, courage and willpower, can achieve beyond what most thought is possible, and what people and nations will endure if they have inspirational and moral leadership.