Seven Men at Daybreak
Author: Alan Burgess
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Story of the men who parachuted into Czechoslovakia to kill Nazi General Heydrich in 1942.
Author: Alan Burgess
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Story of the men who parachuted into Czechoslovakia to kill Nazi General Heydrich in 1942.
Author: John Barnes
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1101475897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A year has passed since the catastrophic event known as "Daybreak" began. Seven billion people have died. Washington, D.C., has been vaporized. The United States barely avoided a second civil war between two rival governments that rose from Washington's ashes. And "Daybreak" isn't over...
Author: Duff Cooper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-02-13
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1961341034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A perfectly told tale of defeat and glory—and a paean to gallantry in the face of the absurd—inspired by a real-life secret mission during World War II. Orphaned in the first months of World War One, when his father is killed in action, Willie Maryington dreams only of joining the same cavalry regiment and going to the front. The Armistice dashes seventeen-year-old Willie’s plans, but not his dreams of glory, and he makes the regiment the center of his adult existence. Yet, as the years go by, Willie falls increasingly out of step, not only with civilian life, but with the modern military, where horse charges are a thing of the past, and where a gulf yawns between those who saw action and those who did not. When hostilities break out again between Germany and England, Willie has become a relic. No one could guess that he will be chosen for a mission whose outcome might well decide the course of the Second World War. Inspired by a real-life triumph of British counterintelligence (codenamed “Operation Mincemeat”), and based on classified sources, Operation Heartbreak was suppressed by the British government until 1950. A work of “jewel-like brevity and intensity” (New York Herald Tribune), it is a study in nostalgia and bewildered idealism to place beside the novels of Joseph Roth and Ford Madox Ford.
Author: Will Henry
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780783811536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Martin
Publisher: Young Writers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780956174109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. Sidlow Baxter
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 1846
ISBN-13: 0310871395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.
Author: Roger Trinquier
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 142891689X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Fred Anderson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 902
ISBN-13: 0307425398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — permanently changing the political and cultural landscape of North America. Anderson skillfully reveals the clash of inherited perceptions the war created when it gave thousands of American colonists their first experience of real Englishmen and introduced them to the British cultural and class system. We see colonists who assumed that they were partners in the empire encountering British officers who regarded them as subordinates and who treated them accordingly. This laid the groundwork in shared experience for a common view of the world, of the empire, and of the men who had once been their masters. Thus, Anderson shows, the war taught George Washington and other provincials profound emotional lessons, as well as giving them practical instruction in how to be soldiers. Depicting the subsequent British efforts to reform the empire and American resistance — the riots of the Stamp Act crisis and the nearly simultaneous pan-Indian insurrection called Pontiac's Rebellion — as postwar developments rather than as an anticipation of the national independence that no one knew lay ahead (or even desired), Anderson re-creates the perspectives through which contemporaries saw events unfold while they tried to preserve imperial relationships. Interweaving stories of kings and imperial officers with those of Indians, traders, and the diverse colonial peoples, Anderson brings alive a chapter of our history that was shaped as much by individual choices and actions as by social, economic, and political forces.