Download or read book Floating Madhouse written by Alexander Fullerton and published by Canelo + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping historical adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers. It is the summer of 1904 and Tsar Nicholas II is sending his Baltic fleet – a ragtag bunch of old crooks, untrained, potentially mutinous crews and hopelessly inefficient officers – halfway around the world to reinforce his few remaining ships in the Far East. Here the Japanese fleet under Admiral Togo has been scoring success after success against the Russians. Michael Henderson, a lieutenant caught in a forbidden tryst with the young Princess Natasha Volodnyakova on the eve of her engagement party to another man, is offered the dubious honour of sailing as an observer to Tsushima, where one of the most devastating sea battles in history will be waged. Unable to refuse, Henderson will need all his wits, and a good measure of luck, if he wants to survive... Floating Madhouse is a masterpiece of historic and military detail, ideal for fans of Douglas Reeman and Philip McCutchan.
Download or read book Floating Madhouse A written by A. Fullerton and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Floating Madhouse written by Alexander Fullerton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1904, Tsar Nicholas II sends his Baltic fleet, re-named the Second Pacific Squadron, to the Far East. Consisting mostly of old crocks with untrained crews and inefficient officers, the squadron's primary aim is to relieve Port Arthur, which is under siege by the Japanese... Michael Henderson, Lieutenant RN, has been caught in flagrante delicto with eighteen-year-old Princess Natasha Volodnyakov. Tasha's great-uncle is able to get rid of the young Englishman by offering him a privilege he can't refuse - to sail as an observer with the Second Pacific Squadron. Nobody expects any of them to get back - that's the crux of it. .
Download or read book Rendezvous with Destiny written by Leonard Rapport and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Tank Battles In The Pacific written by Oscar E. Gilbert and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No previous book has been devoted to Marine Corps armor in World War II. Gilbert's gripping narrative combines exhaustive detail on Marine armor and combat with moving eyewitness accounts, never before published, of what it was actually like to be a Marine tanker in action in the Pacific.
Download or read book Adrift in the Stratosphere written by A.M. Low and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó A 1937 space adventure written for young people by Prof. A.M. Low, then-president of the British Interplanetary Society. The occupants of a spaceship launched from a stratosphere balloon discover a hostile civilization. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
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Download or read book Parachute Infantry written by David Webster and published by Dell. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel. From the beaches of Normandy to the blood-dimmed battlefields of Holland, here are acts of courage and cowardice, moments of irritating boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror, and pitched urban warfare. Offering a remarkable snapshot of what it was like to enter Germany in the last days of World War II, Webster presents a vivid, varied cast of young paratroopers from all walks of life, and unforgettable glimpses of enemy soldiers and hapless civilians caught up in the melee. Parachute Infantry is at once harsh and moving, boisterous and tragic, and stands today as an unsurpassed chronicle of war—how men fight it, survive it, and remember it. NOTE: This edition does not include photos.
Download or read book Band Of Brothers written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** The book that inspired Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis. In Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy Company, a crack rifle company in the US Army. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the dangerous parachute landings on D-Day and their triumphant capture of Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ in Berchtesgaden. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. Repeatedly send on the toughest missions, these brave men fought, went hungry, froze and died in the service of their country. A tale of heroic adventures and soul-shattering confrontations, Band of Brothers brings back to life, as only Stephen E. Ambrose can, the profound ties of brotherhood forged in the barracks and on the battlefields. ‘History boldly told and elegantly written . . . Gripping’ Wall Street Journal ‘Ambrose proves once again he is a masterful historian . . . spellbinding’ People
Download or read book The Maker of Opportunities written by George Gibbs and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was two o'clock. Mr. Mortimer Crabb pushed back the chair from his breakfast tray and languidly took up the morning paper. He had a reputation (in which he delighted) of dwelling in a Castle of Indolence, and took particular pains that no act of his should belie it. There were persons who smiled at his affectations, for he had a studio over a stable in one of the cross streets up town, where he dawdled most of his days, supine in his easy chair. The age was running to athletics, so Mr. Crabb in public had become the apostle and high priest of flaccidity. He raised a supercilious eyebrow at tennis, drawled his disparagement of polo and racquets and recoiled at the mere mention of college football. But those highest in Crabb's favor knew that there were evenings when he met professional pugilists at this same shrine of æstheticism, who, at liberal compensation, matched their skill and heft to his.
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Download or read book Armed Madhouse written by Greg Palast and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Razor sharp research ... shows why every US citizen should be quaking in their boots’ Metro, Books of the Year ‘Bill Hicks with a press pass’ The List Award-winning guerrilla journalist Greg Palast has gone where most have been too scared to unearth the ugly truth about the haves and have-mores who rule our world ... America. Here he reports from behind enemy lines to reveal just how bad it’s got in a dangerous regime: how elections are bought and free speech comes at a price. How citizens are ruled by fear. And how our brave new globalized world means the poor get hammered, while corporations silently buy up the planet. It’s not pretty – but it’s all true ... ‘Palast is one of the few journalists writing who has both the anger and the wit to offer himself up as a persuasive – and more importantly, readable – voice of the left’ Observer ‘A rollercoaster ride from Baghdad to New Orleans and Osama bin Laden’s cave to the back rooms of the Pentagon’ Big Issue ‘Very funny ... For anyone who thinks that no-one from the US knows what’s going on, Palast is the perfect riposte’ Guardian
Download or read book Submariner written by Alexander Fullerton and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malta, 1942. Lieutenant Mike Nicholson commands Ursa, one of the 10th Submarine Flotilla?s boats who, in their time, destroyed more than a million tons of war supplies shipped from Italian ports to Rommel?s Afrika Korps in the Western Desert. German Intelligence has recently warned Berlin that unless drastic measures are undertaken, the Mediterranean and Middle East will be lost to them.But Ursa is a lucky submarine, and Mike is the flotilla?s top scorer. He also has problems of a more personal nature: before leaving England about two years ago he was heavily involved in an affair with the wife of another submariner, who?s now bringing his own new U-class boat, Unsung, to the flotilla . . .
Download or read book Six Days written by Philip Webb and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will they find the lost treasure before time runs out? A gripping adventure about a desperate race through the wastelands of future London to find a relic of extraordinary power.For Cass and Wilbur, life as scavengers is all they've ever known -- rummaging the ruins of London in search of a precious, powerful relic no one, not even their new Russian masters, has ever seen.But when Erin and Peyto, two strangers from a faraway place, show up and claim they hold the key to locating the mysterious missing artifact, the treasure hunt takes on a lethal urgency. If the kids don't find the crucial object in SIX DAYS, their world will come crashing to an end!
Download or read book The City Always Wins written by Omar Robert Hamilton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named as one of the Best Books of 2017 by The Boston Globe and The Arts Desk We've been doing the same thing for hundreds of years. Marching, fighting, chanting, dying, changing, winning, losing . This time will be different. This time the future can still be made new. The City Always Wins is a novel from the front line of a revolution. Deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Mariam and Khalil move through Cairo’s surging streets and roiling political underground, their lives burning with purpose, their city alive in open revolt, the world watching, listening, as they chart a course into an unknown future. They are—they believe—fighting a new kind of revolution; they are players in a new epic in the making. But as regimes crumble and the country shatters into ideological extremes, Khalil and Mariam’s commitment—to the ideals of revolution and to one another—is put to the test. From the highs of street battles against the police to the paralysis of authoritarianism, Omar Robert Hamilton’s bold debut cuts straight from the heart of one of the key chapters of the twenty-first century.Arrestingly visual, intensely lyrical, uncompromisingly political, and brutal in its poetry, The City Always Wins is a novel not just about Egypt’s revolution, but also about a global generation that tried to change the world.
Download or read book Sea Power written by and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a hundred of Cuyvers's own photographs - some displayed in a double-page format - add an immediacy to the eloquence of his prose. Through his lens the romance and vibrancy of life at sea are captured in evocative yet crisp imagery.
