Download or read book Rather Die Fighting written by Frank Blaichman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Blaichman was sixteen years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began in Poland. With his family and friends decimated by the roundups, Blaichman decided that he would rather die fighting; he set off for the forest to find the underground bunkers of Jews who had already escaped. Together they formed a partisan force dedicated to fighting the Germans. This is a harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who chose not to go quietly and defied the mighty German war machine during World War II.
Download or read book Live Working Or Die Fighting written by Paul Mason and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is micro-historical writing at its best."--Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination "Brilliant."--Ken Loach The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America's Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I. It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us. Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book. Paul Mason is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor rights and social justice stories as economics editor for BBC World News America and BBC Newsnight. In addition to Live Working or Die Fighting, which was shortlisted as a 2007 Guardian First Book Award, Mason is the author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed (Verso Books).
Download or read book This Republic of Suffering written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Download or read book written by Joseph Lessard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In December Belisarius entered Rome from the south through the Porta Asinaria by the Basilica of Constantine. The Gothic garrison fled north out the Porta Flaminia towards Ravenna. Belisarius suffered from no illusions; he knew the Goths would soon be back in force to lay siege to the city. This would be the decisive battle for Italy, and he would be prepared for it." Fifty years ago, the Western Empire fell, and now the Eastern Roman Empire is threatened on all sides. If it is to survive, a strong emperor must come to the throne, and a hero must lead the emperor's armies. In 527 CE, Justinian I rose to the throne with a vision of restoring Rome to its former glory. He soon found a general--and a hero--named Belisarius. General Belisarius gave hope to the people and once more rekindled the flames of conquest in the Roman army. Belisarius showed faith in God, unquestionable loyalty to his emperor, and compassion for his warriors and the Roman people. He was, without a doubt, "The Hero of Byzantium,"
Download or read book How Civilizations Die written by David Goldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to collapsing birthrates, much of Europe is on a path of willed self-extinction. The untold story is that birthrates in Muslim nations are declining faster than anywhere elseâ??at a rate never before documented. Europe, even in its decline, may have the resources to support an aging population, if at a terrible economic and cultural cost. But in the impoverished Islamic world, an aging population means a civilization on the brink of total collapseâ?? something Islamic terrorists know and fear. Muslim decline poses new threats to America, challenges we cannot even understand, much less face effectively, without a wholly new kind of political analysis that explains how desperate peoples and nations behave. In How Civilizations Die, David P. Goldman, author of the celebrated Spengler column read by intelligence organizations world wide, ??reveals how, almost unnoticed, massive shifts in global power are remaking our future.
Download or read book Though I Walk written by Dale Harris and published by Word Alive Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truths of the past are often the hardest to face. When Grace Stewart?s fianc Stephen leaves Halifax in 1937 to pursue his dream of becoming an archaeologist in Greece, neither of them expect that war will soon engulf the world, keeping them apart for nearly ten years. As Stephen gets caught up in the resistance movement on the island of Crete, Grace immerses herself in the war effort at home, held up by her faith and praying for his safe return. Though her prayers are eventually answered and she and Stephen are finally reunited, he is never able to speak of the things he saw in Greece. After his sudden death in 1967, however, Grace discovers among his effects the journal he kept during that dark time? a journal which allows her to, at long last, piece together the unimaginable story of the man she thought she knew.
Download or read book A Symphony of Dragons written by Lisa Shambrook and published by BHC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lose yourself in the enchanting worlds of fantasy, contemporary, steampunk, and post-apocalyptic, and let your imagination soar on a chorus of dragon wings. This lyrical collection of tales embracing change and desire, love and belonging, passion, sacrifice and triumph are composed with gossamer threads of dragon fire. Seven bewitching stories, including a Surviving Hope series finale and a prelude to the forthcoming Seren Stone Chronicles. Let the song of dragons lead you…
Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nova Patria written by Les Stone and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David, a man of the future from the planet Galaxias is time Warped to Earth in the Year 229CE as an investigative Geologist who falls out of favor for failure to comply with protocol and is left to die. He escapes to China and begins a reign of Piracy in the China Sea. He returns to Galaxias and takes vengeance only to return once more to China in the Song Dynasty and saw the armies of Genghis Khan Take control. He returns to Galaxias only to find discord so relocates to a new planet he called Nova Patria with his Elite Military forces.
Download or read book CONUNDRUM written by Ray J. Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small group of men and women meet in wartime to journey on a path that crosses time and space boundaries. John Devine, a writer of ghost stories gets employed by a government department run by the mysterious Colonel Draft who specialises in watching subversives. Both unwittingly become joined to an ancient order going back to Elizabethan times whose initiates include those at the very top of power. But it seems the order has a German branch, not to mention an American one, whose interests interweave across the next two centuries with an incredible synchronicity. Nazi plots to use occult secrets to win the war are just the beginning of a web that seem to have been previously spun by sinister forces that reach into the present day. From war-torn London to the Sussex coast to the American Midwest Conundrum is the first volume in the Other Bodies trilogy of novels, going beyond the physical limits of time and place into worlds forbidden, mysterious and far outside our understanding.
Download or read book Hot SEALs Volume 3 written by Cat Johnson and published by Cat Johnson. This book was released on with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot SEALs Series Volume 3 contains these 4 Hot SEALs Series Titles: Romanced by a SEAL “a pure ‘edge of my seat thrill’" Jon traveled to hell, danced with the devil and made it back to Ali but his biggest challenge is still ahead… convincing her to marry him. Rescued by a Hot SEAL "Exciting, breathless and sexy" Navy commander Grant Milton was well prepared to fight Somali kidnappers to save American aid worker Jennifer Anderson. What he wasn’t ready for were his feelings for her. Betting on a Hot SEAL "Another amazing SEAL romance by Cat Johnson!!" Navy SEAL Craig Dawson finds that some bets follow you home. . . . and sometimes all the way to the Middle East. But when they are as sexy as the antiquities professor he's ordered to escort, he doesn't mind. Escape with a Hot SEAL "couldn't put it down!" It’s a Hot SEALs wedding! But the path of true love never did run smooth for Navy SEAL Thom Grande, not even on the way to the altar, and he and his teammates will have to battle exes, in-laws and home grown terrorists, all to get him to the church on time.
Download or read book Belgravia written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea of Angels written by M. J. Manning and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the shadows of the Estorian seas, Crithians live a peaceful, utopian existence. When a poison they call the Blackness kills the sea creatures and destroys the waters, they are forced to unite and use immortal gifts. The sea kings daughter, XANADA, is thrust into a world of chaos when she uncovers the truth surrounding her birth. Her fate collides with NEMESIS, a realm walker fighting to gain her trust while covertly submitting to evil. Estoria plunges into chaos, with Crithians, mortals, the undead, and the gods all fighting for one ultimate power, a power that is XANADAS birthright and one she must learn to control before the Blackness turns both land and sea to ruin.
Download or read book Raven Boy written by Kateryna Kei and published by Kateryna Kei. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raven Boy: The Raven Boy Saga Book 1 by Kateryna Kei The Viking king is killed and his widow is called to suggest to the council a worthy successor, able to win the raging war. Torn between her feelings and her duty to choose the best for her people, she decides to seek the divine guidance and goes to see the rune caster. But the message of the Gods is weird beyond belief: it says that the only person who can win the war is but a boy, the youngest of her twin sons, Hrafn. The rune caster’s predictions have never failed yet, and suddenly the queen has another problem to worry about – the second part of the prophecy promises the boy something much more dreadful than death on the battle field...
Download or read book I ve Already Met the Devil written by R.K. Price and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A horde of battle hardened Nazi panzers charge over the frozen landscape of Bastogne in a last, desperate act to fulfill Hitler's maniacal dream. Calmly waiting in his machine gun nest is the teenager from Colorado. His eyes are focused on the tree line, and his frostbitten fingers touch the trigger. Archangelo, known as Johnny, is about to meet the devil, and hes about to spit in his eye. Johnny, the last of Nick and Angelinas seven children, stands his ground that Christmas night as he has throughout his service in the elite corps of the 101st Airborne Division. He returns home a humble, reluctant hero searching not for acclaim, but for peace, to shed his nightmares of death, to find comfort with his family, and make his way with Carlo, the brother he adores. But the devil returns, defiant and dangerous as ever. Johnnys own kind, people of his Sicilian heritage, present the ultimatum: Join us in our corrupt, diabolical world, or you will be destroyed and everything you fought for in your first war will be lost. In this second war against his neighbors, does he defy the devil once again?
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Download or read book The Darkening Wall written by Paul Monks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we build walls? The Empire: ancient as the mountains that it was built upon. For as long as anyone can remember it has stood, protected and enshrouded by the Darkening Wall: the ever present barrier that lets in light but keeps the people isolated from the world around them. Only now the Wall is failing and a terrible sickness envelopes the land. With the demise of the wall magic, and perhaps the Gods themselves, are returning. But is the Empire ready? Now, as her world stands on the brink of civil war, the First Daughter of the Emperor must journey to find the truth behind a secret that has long lain silent: a secret whose impact she may yet be unable to escape.
