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Book Canadians Behind Enemy Lines  1939 1945

Download or read book Canadians Behind Enemy Lines 1939 1945 written by Roy MacLaren and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, almost one hundred Canadians served the Allied forces by passing as locals in occupied countries. At the behest of two British secret services, these men made language and custom their costumes. They risked their lives assisting resistance groups in sabotage and ambush missions or in smuggling Allied airmen out of occupied territories. Quiet heroes of the war, these bold Canadians helped to make the brutal and unrelenting warfare of the underground a potent weapon in the Allied arsenal. This is a study of unstinting personal courage in the face of overwhelming odds.

Book Tigers Burning Bright

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Ogden
  • Publisher : Bene Factum Publishing
  • Release : 2013-12-01
  • ISBN : 1909657158
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Tigers Burning Bright written by Alan Ogden and published by Bene Factum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the remarkable efforts to bolster Britain's defensive capability in South East Asia in the face of the Japanese threat after 1941Alan Ogden brings to life the extraordinary story of SOE in the Far East as an organization battling against vested interests and competing Allied agencies and how over time it became a significant provider of strategic and tactical intelligence as well as carrying out countless dangerous missions behind enemy lines, some of which inflicted massive losses on the enemy. Behind this history lie the stories of some exceptional men who defied all odds in successfully prosecuting the war against a ruthless and efficient enemy in one of nature's toughest and most dangerous environments, the jungle. Ogden draws on both published and unpublished sources to tell their remarkable stories, always ensuring that the political context of their missions is fully explained.

Book The Malayan Emergency

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Forsdike
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
  • Release : 2022-06-20
  • ISBN : 1399082256
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book The Malayan Emergency written by Mark Forsdike and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generalship and the dedication and resilience of the officers and men, the security forces eventually broke the terrorists’ resolve. 1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment was just one of many British units involved in this successful campaign, known as the Malayan Emergency. Their tour between 1949 and 1953 coincided with the most crucial years when the future of the country and, arguably, the South East Asia region lay in the balance. As this book describes in words and superb contemporary images how the Battalion, the majority of whom were National Servicemen, operated under the most demanding jungle and climatic conditions, earning itself an enviable reputation. The Battalion’s experiences are well recorded here and typify those of tens of thousand servicemen whose efforts secured a unique victory.

Book SOE in the Far East

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Greig Cruickshank
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book SOE in the Far East written by Charles Greig Cruickshank and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the work of the Special Operations Executive in the five countries of Mountbatten's South East Asia Command-- India, Burma, Ceylon, Malaya and Sumatra, later expanded to include the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina-- and how the actions of the command could have made Force 136 a more decisive player in the liberation of the South East Asia.

Book You Had Me at Jaguar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terry Spear
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2019-02-26
  • ISBN : 1492677272
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book You Had Me at Jaguar written by Terry Spear and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting shifter mate romance from USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear full of passion, action, and mystery. They're not the only ones on the prowl...but they're the most dangerous... When jaguar shifters Howard Armstrong and Valerie Chambers are trapped in the jungles of Belize, neither of them will come out with their hearts intact. The United Shifter Force gave jaguar agent Howard Armstrong an impossible task—to protect fierce she-jaguar Valerie Chambers, when the last thing she wants is protecting. They're going international to take down a killer, two shifters unbound and ready to face intense danger. Armstrong is certain he can guard Valerie and keep her from being captured. But guard his heart? He doesn't stand a chance. Praise for Terry Spear's shifters: "Fantastic! Again Terry Spear weaves her magic."—Fresh Fiction for Jaguar Pride "Sensual, intense...Terry Spear captivates."—The Reading Café "[T]hrilling from start to finish."—RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars for Jaguar Pride "Packed with adventure... Magnificently entertaining."—RT Book Reviews, TOP PICK for Billionaire in Wolf's Clothing, 4 1⁄2 Stars "Loaded with passion, action and mystery... Terry Spear is an amazing storyteller." —Night Owl Reviews for All's Fair in Love and Wolf

Book Clandestine Warfare

Download or read book Clandestine Warfare written by James D. Ladd and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the weapons and equipment used by the British SOE and the American OSS.

Book Author Under Sail

Download or read book Author Under Sail written by Jay Williams and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1902–1907, Jay Williams explores Jack London’s necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his vast imagination. In this second installment of a three-volume biography, Williams captures the life of a great writer expressed though his many creative works, such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, as well as his first autobiographical memoir, The Road, some of his most significant contributions to the socialist cause, and notable uncompleted works. During this time, London became one of the most famous authors in America, perhaps even the author with the highest earnings, as he prepared to become an equally famous international writer. Author Under Sail documents London’s life in both a biographical and writerly fashion, depicting the importance of his writing experiences as his career followed a trajectory similar to America’s from 1876 to 1916. The underground forces of London’s narratives were shaped by a changing capitalist society, media outlets, racial issues, increases in women’s rights, and advancements in national power. Williams factors in these elements while exploring London’s deeply conflicted relationship with his own authorial inner life. In London’s work, the imagination is figured as a ghost or as a ghostlike presence, and the author’s personas, who form a dense population among his characters, are portrayed as haunted or troubled in some way. Along with examining the functions and works of London’s exhaustive imagination, Williams takes a critical look at London’s ability to tell his stories to wide arrays of audiences, stitching incidents together into coherent wholes so they became part of a raconteur’s repertoire. Author Under Sail provides a multidimensional examination of the life of a crucial American storyteller and essayist.

Book A Billionaire Wolf for Christmas

Download or read book A Billionaire Wolf for Christmas written by Terry Spear and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear delivers plenty of Christmas magic and mystery in her Billionaire Wolf shifter series, the perfect paranormal Christmas romance to curl up with, featuring: Billionaire beasts who really just want to help everyone A frightening illness that threatens to ruin the holidays for all wolves The mysterious she-wolf who might have the key to finding a cure A Christmas miracle that could save them both Wolf shifter Dr. Aidan Denali has been working day and night to find a cure for werewolves' alarmingly sudden decline in lifespan. The key to the problem eludes him. But when Aidan grudgingly leaves his work to do some holiday shopping, he meets a remarkable she-wolf whose mysterious pack could bring him one step closer to the answer. Dr. Holly Gray is thrilled to meet the wolf who's been working so hard to help others. Now, it's her turn to help him. But while their attraction is sizzling, the packs are at odds, and the danger is increasing. It's going to take everything they've got for Holly and her wolf to get themselves?and their loved ones?out of this alive... Praise for Terry Spear's action-packed Silver Town Wolf series: "A perfect read to get into the right mood for the coming festivities... fun, sweet, steamy."—Fresh Fiction for Silver Town Wolf: Home for the Holidays "Another awesome paranormal romance from Terry Spear."—Night Owl Reviews TOP PICK for Silver Wolf Christmas "Terry Spear weaves paranormal, suspense, and romance together in one non-stop roller coaster of passion and adventure."—Love Romance Passion for Destiny of the Wolf

Book Jungle Hunt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Don Pendleton
  • Publisher : Gold Eagle
  • Release : 2012-04-03
  • ISBN : 0373644019
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book Jungle Hunt written by Don Pendleton and published by Gold Eagle. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genocide is spreading through the jungles of South America. The swift and silent massacre in villages on the Ecuadorian border seems to be part of a larger plan fueled by blatant greed. Mack Bolan heads into the rain forest to expose the truth behind the slaughter and put an end to this new wave of atrocities. Bolan comes face-to-face with pure evil when he gets caught in the cross fire between a rogue army general hungry for power and a ruthless multinational corporation plotting to reap billions from the blood of the innocent. But the Executioner is ready to lay his trap as he heads deep into the bush to stalk the deadliest predator of all--man.

Book The Moonlight War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terence O'Brien
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Moonlight War written by Terence O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1987 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Phantom 70 years of FREW

Download or read book Phantom 70 years of FREW written by Frew and published by . This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantom-70 years of FREW

Book Everybody s Magazine

Download or read book Everybody s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Garo Jungle Book

Download or read book The Garo Jungle Book written by William Carey and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Christian missionary activities among the Garo people of Assam.

Book Law of the Jungle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul M. Barrett
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2015-09-22
  • ISBN : 0770436366
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Law of the Jungle written by Paul M. Barrett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest. Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron’s lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules. Donziger, a larger-than-life, loud-mouthed showman, proved himself a master orchestrator of the media, Hollywood, and public opinion. He cajoled and coerced Ecuadorian judges on the theory that his noble ends justified any means of persuasion. And in the end, he won an unlikely victory, a $19 billion judgment against Chevon--the biggest environmental damages award in history. But the company refused to surrender or compromise. Instead, Chevron targeted Donziger personally, and its counter-attack revealed damning evidence of his politicking and manipulation of evidence. Suddenly the verdict, and decades of Donziger’s single-minded pursuit of the case, began to unravel. Written with the texture and flair of the best narrative nonfiction, Law of the Jungle is an unputdownable story in which there are countless victims, a vast region of ruined rivers and polluted rainforest, but very few heroes.

Book Danger Zone  Books 1 3  Action Adventure Romance

Download or read book Danger Zone Books 1 3 Action Adventure Romance written by Delilah Devlin and published by Delilah Devlin. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous Liaisons Pampered travel agent, roughing it at an anti-terrorist training school, escapes through the jungle with an undercover DEA agent when a drug lord mistakes her for a rival’s daughter. Mutiny’s Bounty A former Navy SEAL races to rescue the passengers aboard a luxury yacht after it's captured by pirates, but first, he has to rescue the woman he's trapped with inside a shark cage on the ocean floor. It Takes a SEAL A travel agent visiting friends in the Bahamas is stranded on a desert island with a sexy ex-SEAL after their private pleasure cruise is interrupted by men who mistake her lover for a reclusive billionaire.

Book Three of the First

Download or read book Three of the First written by Hilton Owens Dr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilton Owens, Sr., one of the first African American special agents in the Internal Revenue Service, offers a unique glimpse into the intriguing world of undercover IRS operations. Owens chronicles his story, and those of fellow African American special agents William E. Mannie and Frederick L. Sleet, in Three of the First. The agents survival was solely dependant on their wits and, on occasion, their government-issued .38s. The first years were rough, and early undercover operations seemed destined to fail. The agents drove their own cars, carried no fake IDs, and had to rely on winnings at the gambling establishments they infiltrated to fund their shoestring investigations., Despite the obstacles, however, they successfully toppled several large illegal gambling operations. Throughout their careers, the three men faced challenges related to family, politics, and race, but all three advanced up the career ladder, eventually gaining supervisory positions. With their knowledge and experience, they assisted in formalizing undercover operations for the IRS. Three of the First introduces three IRS pioneers who will be remembered as important figures in both black history and government service.

Book Annual Report of Pend D Orielle Timber Protective Association for the Year

Download or read book Annual Report of Pend D Orielle Timber Protective Association for the Year written by Pend d'Oreille Timber Protective Association and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: