The Train that Disappeared Into History
Author: Shirley Kathlyn Somerwil-Ayrton
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9789464246629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Shirley Kathlyn Somerwil-Ayrton
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9789464246629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kathie Somerwil-Ayrton
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steve Schlager
Publisher:
Published: 2017-11-21
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781973167747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the 1920's, A payroll train carrying cash for thousands of coal miners disappears into thin air. The next day, Charles Lindbergh successfully crossed the Atlantic, a popular local hotel burns down, and the train is lost into history. Until now.
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2024-01-02
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0593685377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Agatha Christie’s beloved detective Hercule Poirot solves the murder of an American heiress by restaging her final journey by night train—with all of the suspects aboard. When the fabled Blue Train, the luxury overnight passenger express to the Riviera, arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to awaken Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But the wealthy American socialite will never wake again, for a brutal blow has killed her, disfiguring her almost beyond recognition. What is more, her famously valuable rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, and so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey—with all of the suspected murderers aboard. A VINTAGE CLASSIC MYSTERY
Author: Seth Crossman
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780980192162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In late 1944, a train rumbled out of Konigsberg, Germany laden with gold, artifacts and priceless paintings in an attempt to escape the advancing Soviet army. It was never seen again. Seventy-two years later, Will Stattin, a former MP and the son of a famous archaeologist, gets a call for help from a prestigious art collector in Italy. For Will.
Author: Patrice Sherman
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1429676264
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Nonfiction history information is presented as mysteries for readers to solve. With the turn of a page, readers learn how to solve the true history mystery"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Marion Schreiber
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2005-02-11
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780802141859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the publisher. Marion Schreiber's gripping book about the only Nazi death train in World War II to be ambushed draws on private documents, photographs, archive material, and police reports, as well as original research, including interviews with the surviving escapees. One day in April, 1943, resistance fighter Youra Livchitz, a young doctor, discovered the departure date of the next transport train and recruited two school friends to pull off one of the most daring rescues of the entire war. Equipped with only three pairs of pliers, a hurricane lamp covered in red paper, and a single pistol, the men ambushed the train, which was transporting 1,618 Jews to Auschwitz. These three lone men freed seventeen men and women before the German guards opened fire. Miraculously, by the time the convoy had reached the German border another 225 prisoners had managed to escape unharmed and found shelter with the locals. In a testament to the solidarity of the Belgians, no one was betrayed. No one, that is, except the three young rescuers, who were turned in by a double agent, imprisoned, and killed. Like Schindler's List, The Twentieth Train creates a vivid, moving portrait of heroism under impossible circumstances.
Author: Dolores Mosser
Publisher: Adrian Street Books
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780615313177
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Train Story, a wonderful story about the joy of trains and the magic they can bring. The story captured a day in time spent watching trains when a little old circus train delivered a day of fun and excitement to their small town in West Texas. The beautiful watercolor illustrations provide an endless canvas for that journey. A Train Story is a timeless classic.
Author: Murat Özyüksel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1786731622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Railway expansion was the great industrial project of the late 19th century, and the Great Powers built railways at speed and reaped great commercial benefits. The greatest imperial dream of all was to connect the might of Europe to the potential riches of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. In 1903 Imperial Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, began to construct a railway which would connect Berlin to the Ottoman city of Baghdad, and project German power all the way to the Persian Gulf. The Ottoman Emperor, Abdul Hamid II, meanwhile, saw the railway as a means to bolster crumbling Ottoman control of Arabia. Using new Ottoman Turkish sources, Murat Ozyuksel shows how the Berlin-Baghdad railway became a symbol of both rising European power and declining Ottoman fortunes. It marks a new and important contribution to our understanding of the geopolitics of the Middle East before World War I, and will be essential reading for students of empire, Industrial History and Ottoman Studies.
Author: Peter Krassa
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781892138026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Did an Italian monk, out of a burning love of music, invent a time machine in this century -- a machine that would extend his senses Far back into time? According to Mr. Krassa, Father Alfredo Pellegrino Ernetti, born in 1926 and who died mysteriously in 1996, developed the apparatus over a period of 40 years. Ernetti, a professor of Archaic Music, was obsessed with the notion of finding out what an Old Roman opera, Thyestes, sounded like when played with musical instruments of that period. Driven by his passion, he developed a theoretical basis so brilliant he was able to gather a team of distinguished scientists who would bring life to his time machine, The Chronovisor.