Download or read book The Desert Rat written by Annette Adams and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Annette Adams shares the remarkable story of Aileen Coleman, an Australian missionary to the Arab world. Known by many names including the Desert Rat, Angel of the Desert, Blood Brother to the Bedouin, Aileen has been honored by queen Noorah of Jordan and Queen Elizabeth of England and celebrated by the princely and noble as well as the lowly and oppressed. Franklin Graham of Samaritan's Purse, asks: "How in the world could a lady from the Outback of Australia turn ... the Arab world upside down?"
Download or read book Desert Rats written by Calum Laird and published by Carlton Books. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These pocket-format compilations each contain three classic Commando war stories printed the same size as the original comics. Desert Rats features "Fighting Fool!," "Oasis of Death," and "Chariot of War." Tales of courage in the North African desert make this action-packed but handily formatted collection of stories a thrill for Commando fans of all ages.
Download or read book Desert Rat 1940 43 written by Tim Moreman and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osprey's examination of the 'Desert Rats', a popular nickname used to describe first 7th Armoured Division and then all the mixed body of British Commonwealth troops - British, Australian, New Zealand and Indian - that fought against Axis forces in North Africa between 1940 and 1943. For a long period during the early years of World War II (1939-1945), this was the only theatre of war where the United Kingdom could strike back against the Axis powers, and the seesaw desert war fought out along the coast of the Mediterranean in Egypt, Libya and then Tunisia proved a harsh testing ground for British arms - in terms of organization, equipment and methods of waging war. The distinctive dress, equipment and weapons developed and carried by the Desert Rats into battle will be examined as will the expansion, organization and training of the desert army. To illustrate the distinctive combat experience gained by the Desert Rats between 1940 and 1943, three representative operations will be examined in detail - Operation Compass in 1940, the battle of Gazala in May 1942 and finally the last phase of the decisive fighting at El Alamein in October-November 1942. Accompanied by full-color illustrations, this title will shed new light on these fascinating troops.
Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.
Download or read book Desert Rats written by Tim Moreman and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Moreman examines the creation and deployment of British 8th Army, probably the most famous military formation raised by the British during World War II. Formed in September 1941 from the Western Desert Force, it went on to wage a lengthy, hard-fought campaign against German and Italian troops across the deserts of North Africa. It was composed of British and Commonwealth troops - as well as smaller numbers of French and Polish troops. Additionally, a variety of specialized elite forces came under its umbrella including the Special Air Service, Popski's Private Army and the Long Range Desert Group. This book will provide a fascinating insight into these unconventional troops who became the inspiration for today's Special Forces. It was also the first Allied army to rely on close air support; a revolutionary, war-winning tactic that would shaped combined forces strategy throughout the rest of the war. The Desert War was unlike any other fought by the British Army. The hot, dusty, and unforgiving climate and environment in which its troops lived, moved, and fought was almost as troublesome as the enemy. During its two-year period of service in North Africa, 8th Army underwent major changes in organization, equipment, and training to adapt it to the terrain. Discover the difficulties of desert warfare and how these were overcome by the 8th Army to defeat Rommel and become masters of the desert.
Download or read book Desert Rats written by Chinle Miller and published by Yellow Cat Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Generously described as eco-humor, anything's fair game for Chinle's understated tongue-in-cheek writing."--Back cover.
Download or read book Blue Desert written by Charles Bowden and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
Download or read book Desert Night Shift written by Conrad J. Storad and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny Pack Rat waits until the night air cools down the Sonoran Desert before she leaves her cluttered burrow to collect her treasures.
Download or read book The Diary of a Desert Rat written by R. L. Crimp and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Love Letters from a Desert Rat written by Liz Macintyre and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Liz Macintyre's mother died she found a collection of 300 letters from her father Alex, spanning his service in Italy and Egypt in the Second World War. His career began in 1940 sailing down the west coast of Africa, then up to Egypt, and the next few years were spent chasing Rommel and the Afrika Corps all over North Africa. By 1943 he was in mainland Italy, where he spent the rest of the war. Beautifully written, Alex's letters offer an intimate account of war from a regular ' desert rat' and cover such daily matters as football, insects and sandstorms alongside accounts of survival in the Italian mountains, escape during the retreat at Tobruk, and leave in Cairo and Palestine. Nan wrote as many letters to Alex as he wrote to her, but he had a ritual of burning the letters as he went so that he would not have to carry them with him and sadly none have survived. However, Alex's letters often answer her questions point by point so the reader can easily envisage Nan's feelings as well as following Alex's personal account of war.
Download or read book The Desert Rat written by Royal Delano Wayne and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hog is not your ordinary prospector. After nearly forty years wandering the wastelands, he well knew the creatures and plants. To that man of the arid wastelands, the desert was a place of employment, a grocery store, apothecary and clothing store, not to mention provide a variety of arms. But when this man of the wastelands visits a town large enough to support a saloon, the odds were better than even that head wind up stepping on his own tongue. A real pain in the ass to any and all lawmen. His weapons of choice, in which he was very proficient, were a razor-sharp fourteen-inch Bowie knife and a rim fire 44/40 Henry rifle that the Indians dubbed aspeak true.a
Download or read book Sunshot written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil’s Highway crosses a stretch of borderland desert in northern Mexico where many immigrants have traveled—and too many have died. It is a despoblado where desperate people defend secret places. But it is also known as El Gran Desierto—a place where stately saguaros stand near aromatic elephant trees, where sand dunes caress the edges of jagged granite mountains, where one can watch bighorn sheep in the morning and whales in the afternoon. Over the years, desert rat Bill Broyles has ventured repeatedly into this sunshot landscape, slogged across its salt flats and sand dunes, and defied its deadly heat. This book chronicles his years of exploration, a vivid and personal introduction to a thorny but ultimately enchanting place that manages to endear itself over time, if it doesn’t kill you first. Michael Berman’s stark black-and-white photographs capture the desolate beauty of the desert while conveying a sense of Broyles’ adventures. Gleaned from more than 4,000 images shot with a large-format camera, these exquisite photographs translate the desert’s formidable monotone into finely tuned studies of light and represent some of the best photos ever taken of this mysterious region. El Gran Desierto is a grand desert indeed, with beauty, spirit, and mystery rivaling any place on Earth, and anyone captivated by the earlier explorations of Lumholtz, Ives, or Hornaday—or by Edward Abbey’s love of desert places—will revel in these modern-day adventures. Sunshot defies the stereotype of a punishing wilderness to show how even the most perilous desert can be alluring if approached with knowledge and respect.
Download or read book The Desert Rats written by G. L. Verney and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploits of the Desert Rats Based on official records and personal accounts Traces the division's progress in North Africa, Italy, Normandy and Germany This classic and inspiring account of the progress of the 7th Armoured Division from the sands of North Africa to the cold of wintery Holland and the mud of a German springtime. Based on official records, and written by one of the division's key officers, this book is an outstanding testament to the officers and men of an astonishing unit. The division's reputation was born in the desert. It first went into action against the Italians in 1940 and then, subsequently, fought Rommel's Afrika Korps in Montgomery's successful Western Desert campaign. It was during this period of intense fighting that the division won its affectionate nickname of 'Desert Rats'. From there the division was transported to Italy and, later, Normandy and from then on was almost constantly in battle until the end of the war. The Desert Rats was written with official support, and with the help of most of the division's senior officers, and the author has been able to provide a unique insight into the workings of a formidable unit. The book stands testament to the unique morale of the division and is an enduring story of difficulties overcome. Major-General Verney served as a tank brigade commander in World War II and went on to command 7th Armoured Division in Normandy in 1944.
Download or read book The Desert Rats written by Christopher Church and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange things start to happen as soon as psychic investigator Mason and his boyfriend, Ned, and their roommate, Peggy, arrive in the high desert. An old friend sends him on a quest to identify an artifact found hidden among his dead father's possessions, and the journey brings him into contact with a series of odd characters—not least the enigmatic Laura, who's camping out on the desert but seems to be up to something else. With the help of a manicurist, a librarian, and a revealing side-trip back to Los Angeles, Mason manages to sharpen his psychic skills and gain insights into Gilbert's artifact—and perhaps even the hidden structure of the world. The second book in the Mason Braithwaite psychic mystery series, The Desert Rats follows Mason as he grows into his new career as an investigator and confronts the paranormal phenomena swirling around in the desert. In the face of Ned's skepticism and some counterintuitive experiences, Mason has to decide whether he can handle this new version of reality.
Download or read book Desert Rat written by Tom Good and published by . This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert Rat: Travels In The Wild West is a narrative of three decades of travel in the deserts of North America. Inspired by the classic desert exploration books, Tom Good has followed the old mining roads in search of solitude and adventure. From Death Valley to Big Bend and into the harsh lava fields of Sonora, Mexico he describes the beauty and dangers of these arid lands. The author's criteria for desert adventure is that if you can walk out to a highway it is not the real thing. He dreams of remote desert camps beyond the highest dunes where a single human error, a faulty spark plug, a leaking water container or too much Australian lager, eliminates the possibility of returning to civilization. Desert Rat also includes descriptions of the animals and plants of the desert and includes a chapter on astronomy in the desert. One of the passionate arguments of the book is the need to protect the desert from urban encroachment and blight. There is also a chapter devoted to a discussion of the role of the military in the desert. Tom Good has read the old issues of Desert magazine to locate every nook and cranny (from scorching sand dunes to lonely Palm Oases) of the Great Basin, Sonoran, Mojave and Chihuahuan deserts.
Download or read book Operation Desert Sabre written by Bob Morrison and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
