Bloodland

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465032976

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Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder Pdf

From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War “the Good War.” But before it even began, America’s ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today.

Author : Dennis McAuliffe
Publisher : Council Oak Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571780831

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Bloodland by Dennis McAuliffe Pdf

Murder mystery, family memoir and spiritual journey combined, this story unearths family secrets and ultimately exposes a systematic murder plot.

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fascism
ISBN : 0786006293

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Blood Land by William W. Johnstone Pdf

Kay Lessard returns from Viet Nam to his Nebraska hometown and finds that a Neo-Nazi army has been formed by the embittered farmers of the region who were once his friends and neighbors.

Author : Alan Glynn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571275434

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Bloodland by Alan Glynn Pdf

A private security contractor loses it in the Congo, with deadly consequences, while in Ireland the ex-prime minister struggles to write his memoir. A tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash and three years later a young journalist is warned off the story. As a news story breaks in Paris, a US senator prepares his campaign to run for office. What links these things and who controls what we know? With echoes of John Le Carré, 24 and James Ellroy, Alan Glynn has written another crime novel of and for our times - a ferocious thriller that moves from Dublin to New York via West Africa, and thrillingly explores the legacy of corruption in big business, the West's fear of China, the fate of ex-military, the role of back room political players, and the quick fix of online news.

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101903469

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Black Earth by Timothy Snyder Pdf

A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying. The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so. By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was --and ourselves as we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.

Author : Christine Cody
Publisher : Ace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Dystopias
ISBN : 0441020623

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Bloodlands by Christine Cody Pdf

The author of the Vampire Babylon novels brings some new blood to the genre as she presents the first novel in a compelling post-apocalyptic trilogy. Original.

Author : R. S. Guthrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0983511268

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Blood Land by R. S. Guthrie Pdf

Blood Land is a gritty, emotional saga set in the Wyoming badlands with both greed and vengeance at its core. When billions of dollars in natural gas rights hang in the balance and the town's top law officer's wife is slain by her own blood, a reluctant hero is forced to battle his own demons and ultimately choose between justice, revenge, and duty.

Author : Lyda Favali,Roy Pateman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253109842

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Blood, Land, and Sex by Lyda Favali,Roy Pateman Pdf

In Eritrea, state, traditional, and religious laws equally prevail, but any of these legal systems may be put into play depending upon the individual or individuals involved in a legal dispute. Because of conflicting laws, it has been difficult for Eritreans to come to a consensus on what constitutes their legal system. In Blood, Land, and Sex, Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman examine the roles of the state, ethnic groups, religious groups, and the international community in several key areas of Eritrean law -- blood feud or murder, land tenure, gender relations (marriage, prostitution, rape), and female genital surgery. Favali and Pateman explore the intersections of the various laws and discuss how change can be brought to communities where legal ambiguity prevails, often to the grave harm of women and other powerless individuals. This significant book focuses on how Eritrea and other newly emerging democracies might build pluralist legal systems that will be acceptable to an ethnically and religiously diverse population.

Author : Alan Glynn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571316274

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Under the Night by Alan Glynn Pdf

'A masterpiece.' Stav Sherez, author of The Intrusions'A thrilling ride.' Irish Times1950s Manhattan: the CIA carries out a covert study of psychoactive drugs. Ad man Ned Sweeney is dosed with MDT-48, and finds his horizons dramatically expand. . . Sixty years later, all that Ray Sweeney knows of his grandfather's life is that he committed suicide. But then Ray meets a retired government official, who claims he can illuminate the truth behind Ned's death.Both a sequel and a prequel to The Dark Fields, which was adapted into the hit movie Limitless, Under the Night explores the seductive power and dangers of unlocking the human mind.

Author : Manuel Perez-Garcia
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786837127

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Blood, Land and Power by Manuel Perez-Garcia Pdf

The historical data and vast information in the historical sources is arranged in this book using software to make clusters of data and quantification. This serves as illustrative example for future research on how to apply such methods to historical research. The analysis of formation of new elites and powerful families, and the social networks they belonged to, serves to understand in the long run how groups and families in localities of southern Europe have consolidated their power and how political institutions (then and now) have served to the perpetuation of such families in the exercise of power. Disputes and rivalry between factions, elites and groups of power to control land (as main economic source of power) and political institutions have not ceased since the early modern period until today. Southern and Mediterranean Europe localities are a good example in which fierce struggles between elite groups have lasted across space and time.

Author : J.D. Ash
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781504340649

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Blood Land a Karmic Journey by J.D. Ash Pdf

Blood Land caught my interest and I couldnt put it down! I felt anger at him for being so nave and truly innocent. His story is very intriguing, heartfelt and very human. I normally wouldnt choose a book about Karma and the Supernatural, at the same time I would have missed out on an extraordinary thriller involving the most evil, greedy and deadly woman who slaughters her family for control of the land. J.D. Ash has lived more than one lifetime with her, and finally his karma with this woman has been paid in full! I literally couldnt wait to get into the next chapter! This will make a prenominal box office hit THRILLER! Marty Smith, Ca Commercial Artist Blood Land a Karmic Journey is a fascinating and thrilling metaphysical ride into one of author J.D. Ashs past lives with a woman who chose evil and hatred over love. It is a story involving both the natural and supernatural planes. It describes how they intertwine to weave a bizarre tale on the natural plane, at the same time bringing him closer to his essence as a spiritual being. The experience adds to his awareness of karma and past life phenomena on the supernatural level. Blood Land a Karmic Journey shows how everyone has his or her own destinya path to follow. The key to life is to discover and understand the quintessence of this destiny. To do so allows an individual to discern the whys for all that occurs to him or her in this life. Why certain behavior occurs. Why people do what they do. There are no accidents. There are no mistakes. There are no coincidences. Everything has purpose, which all leads everyone to his or her path in life. It was the application of the metaphysics to the daily events which unfolded over two years that prompted the telling of this story.

Author : S.M. Beiko
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781773052298

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Children of the Bloodlands by S.M. Beiko Pdf

The dazzling second book in S.M. Beiko’s Realms of Ancient series Three months after the battle of Zabor, the five friends that came together to defeat her have been separated. Burdened with the Calamity Stone she acquired in Scion of the Fox, Roan has gone to Scotland to retrace her grandmother’s steps in an attempt to stop further evil from entering the world. Meanwhile, a wicked monster called Seela has risen from the ashy Bloodlands and is wreaking havoc on the world while children in Edinburgh are afflicted by a strange plague; Eli travels to Seoul to face judgment and is nearly murdered; Natti endures a taxing journey with two polar bears; Phae tries desperately to obtain the key to the Underworld; and Barton joins a Family-wide coalition as the last defense against an enemy that will stop at nothing to undo Ancient’s influence on Earth — before there is no longer an Earth to fight for. Darkness, death, and the ancient powers that shape the world will collide as our heroes discover that some children collapse under their dark inheritance, and those who don’t are haunted by blood.

Author : John George Staack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Bench-marks
ISBN : UIUC:30112105069139

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Spirit Leveling in Missouri, 1896-1938 by John George Staack Pdf

Author : Alan Glynn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571275465

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Graveland by Alan Glynn Pdf

A Wall Street investment banker is shot dead while jogging in Central Park. Later that night, one of the savviest hedge-fund managers in the city is gunned down outside a fancy Upper West Side restaurant. Are these killings part of a coordinated terrorist attack, or just coincidence? Investigative journalist Ellen Dorsey has a hunch that it's neither. Days later, when an attempt is made on the life of another CEO, the story blows wide open... Racing to stay ahead of the curve, Ellen encounters Frank Bishop, a recession-hit architect, whose daughter has gone missing. The search for Lizzie and her boyfriend takes Frank and Ellen from a quiet campus to the blazing spotlight of a national media storm - and into the devastating crucible of a personal and a public tragedy. Meanwhile, lurking in the shadows once again is James Vaughn, legendary CEO of private equity firm the Oberon Capital Group. Despite his failing health, Vaughan is refusing to give up control easily, and we soon see just how far-reaching and pervasive his influence really is. Set deep in the place where corrupt global business and radical politics clash, Alan Glynn's Graveland is an explosive and hugely topical thriller.

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCR:31210001946357

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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf