Download or read book She Landed By Moonlight written by Carole Seymour-Jones and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual mission: to fight for her beloved, broken France and to find her lost love. Pearl's lover was a Parisian parfumier turned soldier, Henri Cornioley, who had been taken prisoner while serving in the French Logistics Corps and subsequently escaped from his German POW camp. Agent Pearl Witherington's wartime record is unique and heroic. As the only woman agent in the history of SOEs in France to have run a network, she became a fearless and legendary guerrilla leader organising, arming and training 3,800 Resistance fighters. Probably the greatest female organiser of armed maquisards in France, the woman whom her young troops called 'Ma Mère', Pearl lit the fires of Resistance in Central France so that Churchill's famous order to 'set Europe ablaze', which had brought SOE into being, finally came to pass. Pearl's story takes us from her harsh, impoverished childhood in Paris, to the lonely forests and farmhouses of the Loir-et-Cher where she would become a true 'warrior queen'. Shortly before Pearl's death in 2008, the Queen presented her with a CBE in Paris. While male agents and Special Force Jedburghs received the DSO or Military Cross, an ungrateful country had forgotten Pearl. She had been offered a civilian decoration in 1945 which she refused, saying 'There was nothing civil about what I did.' But what pleased her most was to receive her Parachute Wings, for which she had waited over 60 years. Two RAF officers travelled to her old people's home and she was finally able to pin the coveted wings on her lapel. Pearl died in February 2008 aged 93.
Download or read book We Landed by Moonlight written by Hugh Verity and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the 2nd World War the RAF flew small aircraft into Occupied France at night, landing and taking off in total secrecy. Their mission was to transport agents to and from France to support the activities of the French Resistance and SOE. The chronicle of these operations tells an extraordinary adventure story, full of danger for both agent and aviator. Hugh Verity flew many of the missions recounted in We Landed by Moonlight and was probably the most outstanding pick-up pilot of them all.
Download or read book Bound by Moonlight written by Donna MacMeans and published by Donna MacMeans. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun historical book
Download or read book The Trouble with Moonlight written by Donna MacMeans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MACMEANS/TROUBLE WITH MOONLIGHT
Download or read book Bad Moonlight written by R. L. Stine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danielle Verona can’t believe the band picked her to be their new lead singer. She’s on the road, performing at all the hot clubs. The adoring fans, the bright lights—it’s a dream come true! But when nighttime falls, Danielle can feel the terror in the darkness. There’s eerie howling outside her window. And then a band member is killed, ripped to shreds by a wild animal. Danielle knows something is out there, lurking in the moonlight. Something savage...and hungry.
Download or read book Our Western Border written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kiera s Moon written by Lizzy Ford and published by Lizzy Ford. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Gypsy Curse written by D.A. McGrath and published by D.A. McGrath. This book was released on 2014-09-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gypsy curse that must be broken. A dangerous secret that cannot be revealed… Clara’s a shape-shifter who’s cursed. The curse is making life impossible and she wants rid of it - even though she’s been told it can’t be done. Luke’s a Gypsy whose clan is camped at Clara’s town. He spends his days exploring the area while carefully avoiding the ‘townies’ that live there. Then Clara and Luke’s worlds collide and an opportunity arises that Clara simply can’t resist - the Gypsies may know how to break the curse. Can Clara infiltrate the mysterious and distrustful Gypsy clan? Will she be able to uncover their secrets – at the risk of revealing her own? A Litpick Top Choice Award winner, ‘A Gypsy Curse’ is the second book in the Full Moon series. If you enjoy a rollercoaster ride of action and suspense, then this book is a must read.
Download or read book Code Name Pauline written by Pearl Witherington Cornioley and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl Witherington Cornioley, one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters, shares her remarkable story in this firsthand account of her experience as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Told through a series of reminiscences—from a difficult childhood spent in the shadow of World War I and her family's harrowing escape from France as the Germans approached in 1940 to her recruitment and training as a special agent and the logistics of parachuting into a remote rural area of occupied France and hiding in a wheat field from enemy fire—each chapter also includes helpful opening remarks to provide context and background on the SOE and the French Resistance. With an annotated list of key figures, an appendix of original unedited interview extracts—including Pearl's fiancé Henri's story—and fascinating photographs and documents from Pearl's personal collection, this memoir will captivate World War II buffs of any age.
Download or read book The Lesser Known Ghardavian Tales written by Sheikh Safwan Fayaz and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latifa, a young girl from Kashmir, seeks to discover her inner potential. Her life changes when her bedridden mother gifts her a mysterious present. What secrets lie in this new possession of hers? Will she be able to uncover those secrets? The Naqash family is like any other middle-class family of Kashmir, until their only son, Ahmed, dies in an accident. Was it really an accident? If not, then who murdered the innocent child? Buck, a plum-headed parakeet, is cursed by the vicious Marlet Kites who control Marland, a magical forest. Will he be able to break the curse and set himself free in time? Will he be able to bring justice to his fellow creatures of Marland? The Lesser-Known Ghardavian Tales is an enthralling collection of short stories and poems that celebrate the importance of magic in ones life. The stories very subtly try to remind the readers that anything can happen in this world and that life in itself is a miracle. Ghardavia is the authors childhood imaginary world.
Download or read book Comeback written by Doranna Durgin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her intervention in a hostage crisis had made her an instant hero. But Selena Shaw Jones still had nightmares. Now the CIA had approached her for another do-or-die mission — to locate a terrorist informant and his case officer, who were missing in the same Middle Eastern hot spot. Selena had to put aside her self-doubts — because the missing ex-terrorist had crucial intel about a strike against America…and the case officer in question was her husband, Cole. With the clock ticking and her know-it-all new partner questioning her competence, could Selena track her wily husband and control this runaway mission while facing her deadliest enemy — herself? Athena Force: Chosen for their talents. Trained to be the best. Expected to change the world.
Download or read book Glacier s Tear written by Melissa McCarty and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glacier's Tear: Book 1 of the Everith Series By: Melissa McCarty Born in the midst of a dragon’s curse, a small child lies, orphaned and close to death. With magick, she lives, forever altered and gifted with abilities beyond imagination. Glacier's Tear is the first of her kind, walking among two different worlds. As she journeys to learn about her abilities, she’ll learn far more than she could imagine about the lands and the people in them. As she finds allies and enemies, she will be forced to do the unimaginable.
Download or read book Up Island Harbor written by Jean Stone and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all the seaside charm and small-town heart that have made fans of Debbie Macomber and Elin Hilderbrand fall in love with her Martha’s Vineyard-set novels, Jean Stone transports readers to a picturesque side of the island rarely visited by tourists, as an archeology professor inherits a quaint cottage that will change her life forever… She’s coming back to the home she didn’t know she had . . . The quaint, historic fishing village of Menemsha is a side of Martha’s Vineyard that tourists don’t always see. Maddie Clarke’s late mother was born on the Vineyard, and Maddie hazily recalls childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy’s cottage above Menemsha Harbor. Now divorced with a teenage son, Maddie is awaiting news of a tenureship at her Massachusetts college when a letter arrives that could change everything . . . It turns out Grandma Nancy didn’t die long ago, as Maddie believed. In fact, Nancy just passed away at 89—and left Maddie her gray-shingled cottage. Maddie intends her visit to Martha’s Vineyard to be a brief one, just long enough to settle the estate and sell the cottage. But on arriving in Menemsha, she finds far more than memories . . . There are other family secrets waiting to be uncovered, and a Native American heritage Maddie knew nothing about. Most surprising of all, there is the glimmer of a very different future—a chance to connect with her people and find herself, and perhaps find love, on this beautiful, celebrated island . . .
Download or read book All Through the Night written by Tara Johnson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her stammering tongue and quiet ways, Cadence Piper has always struggled to be accepted. After the death of her mother, Cadence sets her heart on becoming a nurse, both to erase the stain her brother has left on the family’s honor and to find long-sought approval in the eyes of her father. When Dorothea Dix turns her away due to her young age and pretty face, Cadence finds another way to serve . . . singing to the soldiers in Judiciary Square Hospital. Only one stubborn doctor stands in her way. Joshua Ivy is an intense man with a compassionate heart for the hurting and downtrodden. The one thing he can’t have is an idealistic woman destroying the plans he’s so carefully laid. When the chaos of war thrusts Cadence into the middle of his clandestine activities, he must decide if the lives at stake, and his own heart, are worth the risk of letting Cadence inside. Everything changes when Joshua and Cadence unearth the workings of a secret society so vile, the course of their lives, and the war, could be altered forever. If they fight an enemy they cannot see, will the One who sees all show them the way in the darkest night?
Download or read book Throne of Glass eBook Bundle written by Sarah J. Maas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 2869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best fantasy book series of the past decade - Time Magazine When magic has gone from the world and a vicious king rules from his throne of glass, an assassin comes to the castle. She is a prisoner, but if she can defeat twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition to find the greatest assassin in the land, she will become the king's champion and earn her freedom. But the evil she encounters in the castle goes deep, and as dark forces gather on the horizon – forces which threaten to destroy her entire world – the assassin must take her place in a fight greater than she could ever have imagined. This is the epic, heart-stopping fantasy series that has turned #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas into a worldwide phenomenon. Fans new and old will dive into this ebook bundle containing the whole series: Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn, the thrilling finale Kingdom of Ash, and the companion anthology The Assassin's Blade.
Download or read book The Collected Works of William Morris The defence of Guenevere The hollow land written by William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eight Companions written by Andrew Congleton and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eight Companions By Andrew Congleton The Eight Companions is a story about eight seemingly random people brought together by one of them, a wizard. He made it their fates to bring them together to help him save the country. The companions consist of Peter Bacon, the town fool; Ash, the wizard; Arnold Fishbourne, a lycan; Calassan Venerald, a one-of-a-kind elf; Adthorn Venerald, Calassan’s brother and another elf; Alindri Bertholm, an assassin; Abigail Florence, the princess; and Sabrina Venerald, a vampire.
