Download or read book Under the Ashes of the Stormy War written by Alauldeen Al-Mudarres and published by Al Manhal. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Monday, April14, 2003, is the day in which I preferred to start writing and recording certain painful memories about the days of the American aggression and its destructive war against my country, Iraq. The Americans came under an illegal, unethical and uncultural pretext: freedom and democracy; and disarming the Iraqi regime of the massdestructive weapons. That autocratic regime led by Saddam and his party for more than 30 years has led the country to its present condition. It had no pluralism, no institutions and no constitution. However, such a condition does not give a reason or a legitimate cover for the invasion and destruction which we witnessed during the past three weeks. Descriptor(s): MILITARY OCCUPATION | WEAPONS | WAR | MILITARY OPERATIONS | FOREIGN INTERVENTION | CRUDE OIL | IRAQ | USA
Download or read book A Sky Beyond the Storm written by Sabaa Tahir and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare for the jaw-dropping finale of Sabaa Tahir's beloved New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes fantasy series, and discover: Who will survive the storm? Picking up just a few months after A Reaper at the Gates left off... The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning. By his side, Commandant Keris Veturia declares herself Empress, and calls for the heads of any and all who defy her rule. At the top of the list? The Blood Shrike and her remaining family. Laia of Serra, now allied with the Blood Shrike, struggles to recover from the loss of the two people most important to her. Determined to stop the approaching apocalypse, she throws herself into the destruction of the Nightbringer. In the process, she awakens an ancient power that could lead her to victory—or to an unimaginable doom. And deep in the Waiting Place, the Soul Catcher seeks only to forget the life—and love—he left behind. Yet doing so means ignoring the trail of murder left by the Nightbringer and his jinn. To uphold his oath and protect the human world from the supernatural, the Soul Catcher must look beyond the borders of his own land. He must take on a mission that could save—or destroy—all that he knows.
Download or read book Mi Mar a Surviving the Storm written by Ricia Anne Chansky and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2021-09-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, it left no part of the archipelago unscathed. The hurricane triggered floods and mudslides, washed out roads, destroyed tens of thousands of homes, farms, and businesses, caused the largest blackout in US history, knocked out communications, led to widespread food, drinking water, and gasoline shortages, and caused thousands of deaths. The seventeen oral histories collected in Mi María: Surviving the Storm share stories of surviving the storm and its long aftermath as people waited for relief and aid that rarely arrived. Zaira and her husband floated on a patched air mattress for sixteen hours while floodwaters rose around them. The road washed out in front of Emmanuel as he desperately tried to drive his pregnant wife who had begun labor to the hospital. Luis and his father anxiously counted the days that the dialysis clinic remained closed and lifesaving treatment was unavailable, while Miliana’s mother was sent home from the hospital —undiagnosed— only to fall critically ill in her own home. Weaving together long-form oral histories and shorter testimonios, the book offers a multivocal peoples’ history of disaster that fosters a greater understanding of the failures of governmental disaster response and the correlating perseverance of the people impacted by these failures, highlighting the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. Ultimately, the ways in which these oral histories demonstrate the strength of community response to disaster in Puerto Rico are pertinent to other parts of the world that are being impacted by our current climate emergency.
Download or read book Herald of the Storm Steelhaven Book One written by R. S. Ford and published by Headline. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Steelhaven . . . Under the reign of King Cael the Uniter, this vast cityport on the southern coast has for years been a symbol of strength, maintaining an uneasy peace throughout the Free States. But now a long shadow hangs over the city, in the form of the dread Elharim warlord, Amon Tugha. When his herald infiltrates the city, looking to exploit its dangerous criminal underworld, and a terrible dark magick that has long been buried once again begins to rise, it could be the beginning of the end.
Download or read book The Family Library of British Poetry from Chaucer to the Present Time written by James Thomas Fields and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memories and Representations of War written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to the present volume approach World War I and World War II as complex and intertwined crossroads leading to the definition of the new European (and world) reality, and deeply pervading the making of the twentieth century. These scholars belong to different yet complementary areas of research – history, literature, cinema, art history; they come from various national realities and discuss questions related to Italy, Britain, Germany, Poland, Spain, at times introducing a comparison between European and North American memories of the two World War experiences. These scholars are all guided by the same principle: to encourage the establishment of an interdisciplinary and trans-national dialogue in order to work out new approaches capable of integrating and acknowledging different or even opposing ways to perceive and interpret the same historical phenomenon. While assessing the way the memories of the two World Wars have been readjusted each time in relation to the evolving international historical setting and through various mediators of memory (cinema, literature, art and monuments), the various essays contribute to unveil a cultural panorama inhabited by contrasting memories and by divided memories not to emphasise divisions, but to acknowledge the ethical need for a truly shared act of reconciliation.
Download or read book Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War and Now Republished from the Original Manuscripts written by Philip Morin Freneau and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hirohito s War written by Francis Pike and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis Pike offers many challenges to the standard interpretations with regards to the causes of the war; Emperor Hirohito's war guilt; the inevitability of US Victory; the abilities of General MacArthur and Admiral Yamamoto; the role of China, Great Britain and Australia; military and naval technology; and the need for the fire-bombing of Japan and the eventual use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hirohito's War is accompanied by additional online resources, including more details on logistics, economics, POWs, submarines and kamikaze, as well as a 1930-1945 timeline and over 200 maps.
Download or read book Black s Picturesque Tourist of Scotland Sixteenth Edition written by Adam BLACK (Publisher, and BLACK (Charles) Publisher.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harp of the Willows written by Elvira Johnson Perkins and published by Willamette Heritage Center. This book was released on 1858-07-14 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvira Perkins was one of the first people to arrive in Oregon. She stayed there for 20 years. During those 20 years, she and her husband had many adventures, including saving an Indian boy from being buried alive. She wrote a lot of those adventures down in the form of poetry. From saving lives to losing them, this book is a wonderful read for anyone who likes poetry.
Download or read book Black s Picturesque Tourist of Scotland With Illustrations and Maps written by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Bonehunters written by Steven Erikson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume in Eriksons truly epic fantasy sequence begins as The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Dogged by self-doubt and ill omens, the 14th Army must lay siege to the city, and Adjunct Tavore must seek to outwit Leoman of the Flails, the deadliest foe she has ever faced.
Download or read book An Ember in the Ashes Ember Quartet Book 1 written by Sabaa Tahir and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Tahir spins a captivating, heart-pounding fantasy’ – Us Weekly Read the explosive New York Times bestselling debut that’s captivated readers worldwide. Set to be a major motion picture, An Ember in the Ashes is the book everyone is talking about.
Download or read book Indian Wars of the United States written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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