Download or read book Reaper Leader written by Steve Ewing and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Known to his squadron mates at Guadalcanal as "Reaper Leader," Flatley - with Jimmie Thach and Butch O'Hare - was instrumental in communicating tactical advice throughout naval aviation and proving that, when used properly, the supposedly inferior F4F Wildcat fighter was actually superior to the Japanese Zero. His biographer, Steve Ewing, also explains how Flatley's combat experience established the credibility necessary for a middle-grade officer to initiate sweeping changes in naval aviation, both at the front and with the entrenched naval establishment.".
Download or read book The Mystery of Leadership written by Casey Bedgood and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is leadership a mystery? Do leaders really understand the value, risk, and reality of the leadership brand? Or is leadership an illusion where ignorance is bliss? The purpose of this book is to unveil the mystery of leadership. Leadership is a risky proposition and not as easy as it seems. In naivety, leaders or those aspiring often are misguided by the perception of the pot of gold at the end of the leadership rainbow. With time, they quickly realize that leadership is costly, has consequences for others, and is riddled with challenges. Thus, what leaders don't know them will harm them and others eventually. In The Mystery of Leadership (Unlocking the Code to Value, Risk, and Leadership Illusions), readers will learn: How to find and leverage the leadership voice. The importance of timing and the value of waiting. The cost of being a sage and choosing an authentic leadership brand. The illusion of leadership political capital. How to assemble the right leadership room, set goals, and identify effective leaders for the optimal team. The cost of being a leadership watchman. How to recover from leadership falls and weather leadership storms.
Download or read book Reaper written by Gary Hoenig and published by Bobbs-Merrill Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a New York City gang, the Reapers, and of the life of one of the gang leaders.
Download or read book Enterprise written by Barrett Tillman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a naval history of the entire Pacific Theater in World War II through the lens of its most famous ship, this is the epic and heroic story of the aircraft carrier USS "Enterprise," and of the men who fought and died on her from Pearl Harbor to the end of the conflict.
Download or read book Mortal Reaper Shadow Shifters 3 written by Tia Didmon and published by Bold Butterfly Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One click Mortal Reaper and continue your paranormal adventure today! A Betrayal. A Revelation. A Reaper. When Dannika is abducted by the reapers and her heritage revealed, she is forsaken by her clan and her intended mate. But the ultimate betrayal will come from Dannika, and her family will pay a catastrophic price. Despite her sacrifice, the shadow clans and reapers go to war, with the fate of humanity as their prize. Will Dannika embrace her dark heritage to save the shadow shifters, or will the reapers unleash a demonic force in their thirst for power? Find out what hides in the shadows by reading MORTAL REAPER, the Paranormal Romance Series readers are comparing to Christine Feehan and Patricia Briggs.
Download or read book The X Factor written by Alexander Amani and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The X Factor offers a refreshingly new perspective from both sides on a well-documented and highly criticized event in world history. In so doing, it encourages introspection into the human condition, and draws sobering conclusions while shedding light into the shadowy world of espionage and child exploitation. Xavier Knight, an orphaned teenager is recruited, and trained as a commando at a top secret base in the U.S. Along with other orphaned boys aged (10-13), he is then deployed to Vietnam one year after the fall of Saigon (April 1975) to operate as a drug courier. Under the code name Operation Childs Play, Xavier and his peers traffic heroin, utilizing the tunnels that are ubiquitously located throughout southern Vietnam. Unbeknownst to the children is a plot to assassinate key Vietnamese military and political leaders that the CIA has identified. The protagonist, Xavier Knight, quickly realizes that the stakes are high as he loses friends and his innocence for life forever, while becoming an accomplished assassin. As The X Factor reaches eleven years into the future, Xavier has become a member of the elite U.S. Navy SEALs. The plot shifts gears when a stolen atomic demolition munition device is reported to be heading to Cuba from Russia. A chase after the stolen atomic device ushers in the presence of a mysterious and beautiful Israeli agent named Assyria Zalloua-Saad. The plot becomes more dangerous when the Red Mafia joins forces with a Mexican drug cartel, as plans go forward to relocate Heroin operations from the east coast of the U.S. to California. The two crime syndicates become the focus for SEAL team missions, abductions and a final show-down on the Las Islas de Coronados islands off the coast of Southern California.
Download or read book Way of the Reaper written by Nicholas Irving and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling account of Nick "The Reaper" Irving's 10 greatest sniper kill missions that provide insight into the art of being a sniper
Download or read book Reaper s Gale written by Steven Erikson and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutal, harrowing chapter of the Malazan Book of the Fallen from best selling author Steven Erikson All is not well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his Machiavellian chancellor. Meanwhile, the Letherii secret police conduct a campaign of terror against their own people. The Errant, once a farseeing god, is suddenly blind to the future. Conspiracies seethe throughout the palace, as the empire - driven by the corrupt and self-interested - edges ever-closer to all-out war with the neighboring kingdoms. The great Edur fleet--its warriors selected from countless numbers of people--draws closer. Amongst the warriors are Karsa Orlong and Icarium Lifestealer--each destined to cross blades with the emperor himself. That yet more blood is to be spilled is inevitable... Against this backdrop, a band of fugitives seek a way out of the empire, but one of them, Fear Sengar, must find the soul of Scabandari Bloodeye. It is his hope that the soul might help halt the Tiste Edur, and so save his brother, the emperor. Yet, traveling with them is Scabandari's most ancient foe: Silchas Ruin, brother of Anomander Rake. And his motives are anything but certain - for the wounds he carries on his back, made by the blades of Scabandari, are still fresh. Fate decrees that there is to be a reckoning, for such bloodshed cannot go unanswered--and it will be a reckoning on an unimaginable scale. This is a brutal, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic; this is epic fantasy at its most imaginative, storytelling at its most thrilling. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Dark Alpha s Demand written by Donna Grant and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death. And when Death says your time is up, I am coming for you... My secret is an ancient one. I exist to exact vengeance on the Fae for their wrongs per Death's orders. When I’m sent as a spy to one of the most treacherous, deceitful places in any realm – the court of the Light Queen – things go awry. Neve captured my soul with just a look from her seductive gaze. She is who I want, who I crave...who I hunger for. But someone has set out to kill her – and expose me. I’ll destroy any man – human or Fae – who brings harm to her, for she is the light my soul can’t risk losing...in Dark Alpha’s Demand, the next Reapers novel from New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant.
Download or read book The Battle for Hell s Island written by Stephen L. Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Pacific Payback, the true story of how a patchwork band of aviators saved Guadalcanal during WWII. November 1942: Japanese and American forces fight for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in the South Pacific. The Japanese call it Jigoku no Shima—Hell's Island. Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive-bombers is called upon to help determine the island’s fate. When their carriers are lost, they are forced to operate from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal. They help form the Cactus Air Force, tasked with making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield while holding the line against Japanese air assaults, warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle. When the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—turning back an enemy warship armada, fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports. The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives. INCLUDES PHOTOS
Download or read book Mortal Mate Shadow Shifters 2 written by Tia Didmon and published by Bold Butterfly Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One click MORTAL MATE and continue your paranormal adventure today! A Murder. A Mystery. A Mate. As the death toll in the human world escalates, the leader of the shadow wolves proposes a union with another clan to unite them against the reapers, but Dannika’s betrothed is not the man she has chosen. When a connection between a clan leader and the reapers is revealed, Dannika and her two suitors must work together to save the shadow shifters. But a trap laid for the reapers reveals a secret from Dannika’s past and jeopardizes clan loyalties. Will Dannika sacrifice the man she loves or risk the destruction of the shadow world? Find out what hides in the shadows by reading MORTAL MATE, the Paranormal Romance Series readers are comparing to Christine Feehan and Patricia Briggs.
Download or read book Xetonian Trades Iii written by J. Wayne Stillwell and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2061 a United Galactic Treaty Organization (UGATO) science vessel, MSB-4, was two years into a five year survey mission in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Its last movement report was five months late. The arrival of the ships automated emergency distress probe at its home base squawking the code Gamma-two confirmed UGATO's worst fears. Gamma-two meant the ship had been forcibly ceased and boarded. UGATO prepared for the worst. Was this another Unitasian aggressor like Emperor Raygan, a new alien threat or space pirates? "Xetonian Trades, The Reapers", is the latest saga in a fast paced science fiction trilogy about love and war and how intelligent life, human and alien, deals with survival in a hostile universe.
Download or read book From POW to Blue Angel written by James Lowell Armstrong and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young naval aviator, Dusty Rhodes was shot down by the Japanese on his first combat mission in World War II. Toughing out the rest of the war in POW camps, he wondered if he would ever fly again. But Rhodes was destined to take flying to new heights. As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh E. "Dusty" Rhodes participated in developing the most famous aerobatics team ever formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his story - a fast-paced drama teeming with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a true American hero. Jim Armstrong has drawn on extensive interviews with Dusty and his closest colleagues, as well as Dusty's scrapbooks, flight logs, and prison journal, to produce a rare account of the Blue Angels in the late 1940s. Readers will experience the stress of practice and the exhilaration of air shows as Armstrong takes them inside Dusty's cockpit during the team's early years. This was the era when the Blues first found fame, perfecting their trademark diamond formation and barrel roll, as well as transitioning from prop planes to jet aircraft. This book is also a moving account of the brutality Rhodes suffered for three years as a prisoner of war - the beatings, the interrogations, the forced labor - and includes his rare, ground observer's view of the firebombings of Tokyo and Yokohama. Armstrong captures Dusty's exhilaration and uncertainty in returning to a changed postwar America, and also recounts how Rhodes followed his Blue Angels command with a tour as a fighter pilot in Korea.
Download or read book Pacific Crucible written by Ian W. Toll and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.
Download or read book Spartan Promise written by Jennifer Estep and published by Jennifer Estep. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunting for the bad guys has never been so dangerous . . . My name is Rory Forseti, and I attend the Colorado branch of Mythos Academy, a school of warrior kids, powerful artifacts, and mythological monsters. I’m a student, a fierce Spartan warrior, and a member of Team Midgard, a group of kids and adults tasked with stopping the evil Reapers of Chaos. There is one Reaper I’m determined to hunt down above all others: Covington, the man who murdered my parents. So when the Midgard gets a tip that Covington is going to try to steal a dangerous artifact, I’m ready to fight. But the situation is far more complicated than it seems, and the Reapers aren’t my only enemies. I’ll have to use all my Spartan strength and skills to survive this. And even then, it might be my blood that gets spilled . . .
Download or read book Mortal Demon Shadow Shifters 7 written by Tia Didmon and published by Bold Butterfly Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One click MORTAL DEMON and continue your paranormal adventure today! A Murder. A Decision. A Demon King. Riley and Colton’s bonding preparations turn into a hunt for a murderer when a clan member is found dead. Clues point to a traitor within their clan, causing dissension with the other shadow shifters. But further investigation leads them to a fertility clinic run by demons where the magnitude of horrific experiments is discovered. In an attempt to save the endangered shadow shifter world, Riley and Colton turn to a priestess for help. But after Riley is abducted by the person she trusts the most, she learns the true power of the demon king’s blood. Will Riley make the ultimate sacrifice to save her family or become the king’s lethal weapon against the human race? Find out what hides in the shadows by reading MORTAL DEMON, the Paranormal Romance Series readers are comparing to Nalini Singh and Patricia Briggs.
Download or read book The Jackal written by Maria Anderson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jackal By: Maria Anderson In a time of very little tolerance, a young boy is born who seems strange to those around him. He grows up in an atmosphere of whispers, snide remarks, and rumors about his sinister nature, but he marches forward and one day meets his true love. They marry and start their family. Then tragedy strikes, and The Jackal fully embraces all his neighbors’ dire predictions of his evil heart and wreaks havoc on the village that has shunned him. He isolates his young family and steps onto a path of seeking more power at any price, maybe the cost of his family, a family whose love may yet redeem him—if there’s time. Follow this family through joy, heartbreak, destruction, and rebirth.
