Download or read book Down Around Midnight written by Robert Sabbag and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Snowblind shares his true story of surviving a 1979 plane crash in the woods on Cape Cod, and reconnects with other survivors in an attempt to come to terms with the emotional ramifications of the incident.

Download or read book Ralph on the Midnight Flyer or The Wreck at Shadow Valley written by Allen Chapman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Fairbanks works for the Great Northern Railway as a train dispatcher. He is a young man who is just beginning to attract the attention of girls. He has worked his way up the ranks and is now a trusted and respected employee. When the story begins there is a strike and Ralph's employers are asking his opinions about it. This is a children's novel and is an exciting story set in the world of railways in the early 20th century.

Download or read book Radio s Captain Midnight written by Stephen A. Kallis, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the horror and conflict of World War II, a fictional radio character named Captain Midnight stormed his way into the consciousness of American radio listeners. Captain Midnight (a.k.a. Charles J. Albright) was a vigorous, mature figure whom listeners could easily perceive defending their United States. The scripts, well written and expertly plotted, had a wide appeal--from excited children and their Secret Squadron Code-O-Graphs to U.S. Army Air Corps flight crews. But to fans (then and now) of the original 15-minute serial adventures, the "real" Captain Midnight retired when the show went to 30 minutes, replaced actor Ed Prentiss, and simplified the writing and plotting. Using facts, details and events from those original early radio scripts of Captain Midnight, the author has constructed a "biography" of the great wartime aviation hero, covering his origins and adventures. Concluding the work are thorough appendices that discuss Secret Squadron equipment, aircraft and rocketry; cryptology and code-cracking in the series; and Captain Midnight's portrayal in various media (books, radio, television, serials, comics and newspaper strips).

Download or read book Flying Through Midnight written by John T. Halliday and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riveting, novelistic, and startlingly candid, John T. Halliday's combat memoir begins in 1970, when Halliday has just landed in the middle of the Vietnam War, primed to begin his assignment with the 606th Special Operations Squadron. But there's a catch: He's stationed in a kind of no-man's-land. No one on his base flies with ID, patches, or rank. Even as Richard Nixon firmly denies reporters' charges that the United States has forces in Laos, Halliday realizes that from his base in Thailand, he will be flying top-secret, black-ops night missions over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail. A naive yet thoughtful twenty-four-year-old, Halliday was utterly unprepared for the horrors of war. On his first mission, Halliday's C-123 aircraft dodges more than a thousand antiaircraft shells, and that is just the beginning. Nothing is as he expected -- not the operations, not the way his shell-shocked fellow pilots look and act, and certainly not the squadron's daredevil, seat-of-one's-pants approach to piloting. But before long, Halliday has become one of those seasoned and shell-shocked pilots, and finds himself in a desperate search for a way to elude certain death. Using frank, true-to-life dialogue, potent imagery, and classic 1970s song lyrics, Halliday deftly describes the fraught Laotian skies and re-creates his struggle to navigate the frustrating Air Force bureaucracy, the deprivations of a remote base far from home and his young wife, and his fight to preserve his sanity. The resulting nonfiction narrative vividly captures not only the intricate, distorted culture of war but also the essence of the Vietnam veteran's experience of this troubled era. A powerhouse fusion of pathos and humor, brutal realism and intimate reflection, Flying Through Midnight is a landmark contribution to war literature, revealing previously top-secret intelligence on the 606th's night missions. Fast-paced, thrilling, and bitingly intelligent, Halliday illuminates it all: the heart-pounding air battles, the close friendships, the crippling fear, and the astonishing final escape that made the telling of it possible.

Download or read book Kangaroo Squadron written by Bruce Gamble and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1942, while the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single U.S. Army squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy. Based in Australia with inadequate supplies and no ground support, the squadron's pilots and combat crew endured tropical diseases while confronting numerically superior Japanese forces. Yet the outfit, dubbed the Kangaroo Squadron, proved remarkably resilient and successful, conducting long-range bombing raids, carrying out armed reconnaissance missions, and rescuing General MacArthur and his staff from the Philippines. Before now, the story of their courage and determination in the face of overwhelming odds has largely been untold. Using eyewitness accounts from diaries, letters, interviews, and memoirs, as well as Japanese sources, historian Bruce Gamble brings to vivid life this dramatic true account. But the Kangaroo Squadron's story doesn't end in World War II. One of the squadron's B-17 bombers, which crash-landed on its first mission, was recovered from New Guinea after almost seventy years in a jungle swamp. The intertwined stories of the Kangaroo Squadron and the "Swamp Ghost" are filled with thrilling accounts of aerial combat, an epic survival story, and the powerful mystique of an invaluable war relic.

Download or read book Midnight s Mask written by Paul S. Kemp and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroic Mask agent takes to the high seas for the good of the Forgotten Realms in this final Erevis Cale adventure As shadows deepen in every corner of the realms, Erevis Cale rises further into the heights of his powers. But with such power comes a steep cost: the last of his humanity, which he feels slipping further and further away with each passing day. But destiny waits for no shade, and Cale is forever in motion to discover his—from his clashes with pirates and a monstrous kraken on the Inner Sea to his ever-complicated rivalry-slash-friendship with Riven. In the end, being chosen by a god like Mask may be more curse than blessing . . .

Download or read book Death in the Everglades written by Randi Minetor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden in the tall grasses and shallow waters of the Florida Everglades are true tales of mysterious deaths, clandestine crime, and disasters, both natural and manmade. Desperados fled here after escaping from prison, rum runners gunned down their enemies, and killers slipped their prey into canals as food for reptilian wildlife. Commercial airlines crashed and burned in the sawgrass, while smaller planes vanished from view. Hurricanes tore through the region, forcing Lake Okeechobee to overrun its banks and wipe out entire towns. And every once in a while, an alligator made someone its lunch. Collected here are some of the most gripping accounts in Everglades history, caused by natural forces, crime, operator error, or human folly.

Download or read book Aircraft Wrecks of the Pacific Northwest written by David L. McCurry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Military History. Detailed history of each of 33 aircraft wreck sites visited and investigated by the authors, with photos of the aircraft before the accident, and numerous photos of the crash site and evidence found at the site. Includes Washington, Oregon and Idaho state crash locator lists. 354 color photos, 42 B&W photos.

Download or read book How to Wreck a Nice Beach written by Dave Tompkins and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular music. In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase “how to recognize speech”—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin’s gulags, from the 1939 World’s Fair to Hiroshima, from artificial larynges to Auto-Tune. We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, JFK, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Kraftwerk, the Cylons, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, “We must go off!” And now vocoder technology is a cell phone standard, allowing a digital replica of your voice to sound human. From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music’s most provocative innovators.

Download or read book Captain Midnight Volume 4 Crash and Burn written by Joshua Williamson and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reeling from the death of one friend and the betrayal of another, Captain Midnight ponders what the world needs more: the brawn of a superhero or the brains of his civilian identity, genius inventor Jim Albright? But the madman responsible for the assassination of Arcadia's police chief, Tempus, has escaped prison! Addicted to technology, Tempus wants Captain Midnight's inventions . . . and he'll happily kill to get them! Captain Midnight Volume 4 collects issues #12--#15 of the ongoing superhero epic

Download or read book The Prodigal Sun written by Sean Williams and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Roche, commander in the intelligence arm of the Commonwealth Empires, has been charged with protecting the AI known as The Box on a secret voyage across the galaxy. But en route her ship is ambushed by the Dato Bloc, and she is forced to crash-land on a nearby prison planet. MAROONED ON SCIACCA’S WORLD: Battling deadly inmates and treacherous guards, she fights her way through a hostile environment toward her only hope of escape, the mysterious Adoni Cane at her side. A genetically enhanced warrior with a past not even he can fathom, he could be the savior of the human race, or its downfall--but either way, Morgan Roche won’t survive without him… “THE PRODIGAL SUN is a close-knit personal story told on a galaxy-sized canvas. Filled with action as well as intriguing ideas.” --Kevin J Anderson “With echoes of vintage Jack Williamson and Poul Anderson, as well as Niven, Asimov and Vinge, Williams and Dix proudly continue a vital tradition, proving SF as diverse a field as ever.” --Asimov's “[A] very satisfying classic Golden Age-style yarn…. strongly recommended” --Locus “Space opera of the ambitious, galaxy-spanning sort... fast and furious action.” --New York Review of SF

Download or read book My Savior written by Winter Travers and published by Winter Travers. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ride continues with the Iron Fiends MC. Olive was just trying to make enough money to survive. All of that changed when her world literally exploded, and in walked Cue Ball. The rough-around-the-edges biker and a member of the Iron Fiends MC was there to keep her safe. What she didn't expect was for Cue Ball to show her that just surviving wasn't enough. He could give her so much more if she just let go.

Download or read book Changing Lanes written by Winter Travers and published by Winter Travers. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bristol lives a simple life. Work a few days a month and relax the rest. Now her world is turned upside down by one handsome biker who wants more. So much more.

Download or read book Livin on the Edge written by Winter Travers and published by Winter Travers. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was just supposed to be one drunken night between Zephyr and Lynn. One. Night. Except Zephyr and Lynn can't seem to stay away from each other. With the club moving in a new direction, Zephyr needs to focus on club business. Club business, that if they aren't careful, could get more people killed. Can Zephyr help Lynn balance on the edge of her family drama, and also focus on his own responsibilities to the club? Everyone knows you don't mess with the Kings of Vengenace, but sometimes people need reminding.

Download or read book Six Gun written by Winter Travers and published by Winter Travers. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one ever messes with the Royal Bastards. At least they never have before. Spilled blood. A president gone rogue. A killer on the loose. Who is going to put all of the pieces back together?

Download or read book His Reward written by Winter Travers and published by Winter Travers. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood or not, the Banachis are family… When a typical day turns into an unexpected meeting with Kitty, Princeton quickly realizes he’s got something good right in front of him. Something he doesn’t want to let go. As a ghost from his past waltzes in without warning, threatening to take away Kitty, Princeton knows nothing will happen to Kitty and her family as long as he’s breathing. Kitty may not be blood, but she’s family now, and the Banachis do anything for the family. Anything.

Download or read book Gambler s Longshot written by Winter Travers and published by Winter Travers. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opposites attract, or so they say. With Gwen constantly throwing sass and questioning every word that comes out of Gambler’s mouth, Gambler and Gwen maybe the first couple to prove that saying wrong. All Gambler wants to do is keep Gwen safe. He never expected the unwanted attraction and the need to protect her. Gwen has learned the hard way that things are not always what they seem. Can Gambler persuade Gwen to take a chance on him, or will all bets be off?