Code Name Caesar

Author : Jerome Preisler,Kenneth Sewell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101568903

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Code Name Caesar by Jerome Preisler,Kenneth Sewell Pdf

In the waning days of World War II, a little-known battle took place under the frozen seas off the coast of Norway . . . and changed the course of the war. In February of 1944, Germany and Japan devised a desperate plan to escape defeat. The Germans would send Japan a submarine—boat U-864—packed with their most advanced rocket and jet aircraft technology. Japan could then reestablish air superiority in the Pacific, drawing the attention of Allied forces long enough for Germany to regroup. Meanwhile, British code breakers, working with the Norwegian underground, had discovered the plan. But even though they were unable to stop the submarine from embarking, the British submarine HMS Venturer was waiting for it at sea. In a cat-and-mouse battle beneath the waves, they hunted one another, each waiting to strike. The Venturer won the game, becoming the only submarine in history to sink another sub in underwater combat. This is the dramatic, action-packed account of one of the greatest unsung victories in military history, and of a historical moment in the annals of naval warfare.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : United States
ISBN : 0160876214

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Providing the Means of War by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary E. Weir
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585441143

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An Ocean in Common by Gary E. Weir Pdf

Through two victorious world conflicts and a Cold War, the U.S. Navy and American ocean scientists drew ever closer, converting an early marriage of necessity into a relationship of astonishing achievement. Beginning in 1919, Gary Weir's An Ocean in Common traces the first forty-two years of their joint quest to understand each other and the deep ocean. Early in the twentieth century, American naval officers questioned the tactical and strategic significance of applied ocean science, demonstrating the gap between this kind of knowledge and that deemed critical to naval warfare. At the same time, scientists studying the ocean labored in their inadequately funded, discreet disciplines, seemingly content to keep naval warfare at arm's length. German U-boat success in World War I changed these views fundamentally, bringing ocean science insights to an increasing number of naval objectives. Driven primarily by anti-submarine priorities, the physics, chemistry, and geology of the ocean, more than its biology, became the early focus of American ocean studies. The World War II experience solidified the Navy's relationship with ocean scientists, and the years after 1945 found the American military investing heavily in both applied and basic research. Today, oceanography is a permanent resident on the bridge of American fighting ships and the Navy continues to provide much of the impetus and funding for fundamental research, in both naval and civilian laboratories. In An Ocean in Common Gary Weir focuses on the compelling motives and carefully engineered course that brought scientists and naval officers together, across a considerable cultural divide, to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of one another and the world ocean. Weir details how this alliance laid the powerful multidisciplinary foundation for long-range ocean communication and surveillance, modern submarine warfare, deep submergence, and the emergence of oceanography and ocean engineering as independent and vital fields of study.

Author : Ella Schwartz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781681199894

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Can You Crack the Code? by Ella Schwartz Pdf

Codes can carry big secrets! Throughout history, lots of good guys and lots of bad guys have used codes to keep their messages under wraps. This fun and flippable nonfiction features stories of hidden treasures, war-time maneuverings, and contemporary hacking as well as explaining the mechanics behind the codes in accessible and kid friendly forms. Sidebars call out activities that invite the reader to try their own hand at cracking and crafting their own secret messages. This is the launch of an exciting new series that invites readers into a STEM topic through compelling historical anecdotes, scientific backup, and DIY projects.

Author : Tanay Bhadra
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649195913

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DEVILS by Tanay Bhadra Pdf

When the night settles, And the wolf howls at its moon, The murk shall devour the sky, The Lands shall cry, A forever midnight will besiege the ticking of time, For the Devils only come out at midnight. Angels will fall, And the Devils will rise. For every end shall have a new beginning. - Aeon, Ruler of the Great Beyond “Everyone believes that there are two kinds of devils – ones that come from above and the ones that come from below. The ones that come from below seek vengeance upon the mortal world. The ones that come from above seek redemption amongst the living. But I personally believe in the third kind of devils, who seek both – redemption and vengeance. These devils are us – the living creatures.”: SPAR 84 “You were brave to enact and try to bring things in order, but you messed up. Someone needed to clean up that mess of yours: Destiny chose me”: Yanat “Evil cannot be suppressed, it can only be delayed”: VEH 8462

Author : Robert C. Winkles
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465390332

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The Aladdin Project by Robert C. Winkles Pdf

Throughout time, people with special gifts were used to perform extraordinary tasks. Now, in modern times, these superhumans are part of a black-ops unit known as the Genie Squadron. Join Jillian Pfister, a young girl with immense power, on her journey of self- discovery and induction into The Aladdin Project. A part of the United States military responsible for the Genie Squad, The Aladdin Project covertly secures world peace while fighting factions similar to their own. When the Aladdin Project is attacked, it is up to Jillian and her new comrades to save the world.

Author : Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000523836

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Conflict Propaganda in Syria by Oliver Boyd-Barrett Pdf

This book investigates rival narratives about the conflict in Syria from 2011 onwards. It examines the starkly different narratives about the Syrian conflict told by mainly Western mainstream and alternative media, and contrasts these narratives with the equally polarized but more nuanced narratives of mainly Western scholars and long-form journalists. Differences of narrative concerning the conflict include: what is deemed relevant context in trying to explain the war; whether the war is best seen as a civil conflict or as a proxy war fought among external powers; the degree of emphasis given to the alleged crimes of the Syrian regime as opposed to the alleged violence of Salafist militia; the accuracy of the "origin" story of the conflict in Daraa; the extent to which the initial protestors were secular campaigners calling for democracy or whether they were Muslim extremists seeking a sectarian society governed by sharia law. Several case studies of propaganda institutions are examined here, including the journalism of Marie Colvin; the role of government-funded NGOs; the controversies surrounding each of three major instances of alleged regime use of chemical weapons, and the politicization of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This book will be of much interest to students of media and communication studies, propaganda studies, Middle Eastern politics, and International Relations in general.

Author : Robert Morstein-Marx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108837842

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Julius Caesar and the Roman People by Robert Morstein-Marx Pdf

Reinterprets Julius Caesar not as an autocrat seeking to overthrow the Roman Republic, but as an unusually successful political leader.

Author : Janine di Giovanni
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541756687

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The Vanishing by Janine di Giovanni Pdf

The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland. Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point, now tilted toward the end of Christianity in its historical homeland. Christians have fled the lands where their prophets wandered, where Jesus Christ preached, where the great Doctors and hierarchs of the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia. From Syria to Egypt, the cities of northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities, the birthplaces of prophets and saints, are losing any living connection to the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing, Janine di Giovanni has combined astonishing journalistic work to discover the last traces of small, hardy communities that have become wisely fearful of outsiders and where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid 360 degree threats. Di Giovanni's riveting personal stories and her conception of faith and hope are intertwined throughout the chapters. The book is a unique act of pre-archeology: the last chance to visit the living religion before all that will be left are the stones of the past.

Author : Olaf G. Klein
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1571133690

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Suddenly Everything was Different by Olaf G. Klein Pdf

It includes an introduction and extensive annotations to assist the reader in understanding the East German and unified German contexts."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard A. Billows
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134318339

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Julius Caesar by Richard A. Billows Pdf

This thoroughly up to date English biography provides an account of Caesar’s life it is both lively and engaging, offering an imaginative recounting of actions and events, while giving a thorough coverage and analysis.

Author : Gordon Stevens
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007484898

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Moscow USA by Gordon Stevens Pdf

A major international thriller now available as an ebook for the first time.

Author : Maj.-Gen J. F. C. Fuller
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121315

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Julius Caesar by Maj.-Gen J. F. C. Fuller Pdf

Since the Renaissance, Julius Caesar has been idolized as a superman. Classical sources, however, present a far less exalted being. As General Fuller writes, Caesar was "an unscrupulous demagogue whose one aim was power, and a general who could not only win brilliant victories but also commit dismal blunders....It is reasonable to suspect that, at times, Caesar was not responsible for his actions, and toward the end of his life, not altogether sane." There is no doubt that Caesar was an extraordinary man. But Fuller points out that he was extraordinary for his reckless ambition, matchless daring, and ruthless tyranny, rather than for his skills as a military commander. Caesar continually had to extricate himself from results of mistakes of judgement. His unnecessary Alexandrian War, his close call at Thapsus, and his seemingly unpremeditated Gallic conquest are just a few of Fuller's many examples. And in telling Caesar's history, Fuller illuminates a century of Roman history as well. Aided by maps of Caesar's principal battles and diagrams of many of his weapons, Fuller brings to life Caesar's wars, his armies, his equipment, and his methods. Brilliant in design and impressive in scope, Julius Caesar clarifies how the military, political, and economic aspects of the Roman Republic worked together to produce a man whose name has come down to us as a synonym for absolute authority.

Author : Sinclair McKay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781639364336

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The Hidden History of Code-Breaking by Sinclair McKay Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions and change the faces of nations. There have been secret codes since before the Old Testament, and there were secret codes in the Old Testament, too. Almost as soon as writing was invented, so too were the devious means to hide messages and keep them under the wraps of secrecy. In The Hidden History of Code Breaking, Sinclair McKay explores these uncrackable codes, secret ciphers, and hidden messages from across time to tell a new history of a secret world. From the temples of Ancient Greece to the court of Elizabeth I; from antique manuscripts whose codes might hold prophecies of doom to the modern realm of quantum mechanics, we will see how a few concealed words could help to win wars, spark revolutions and even change the faces of great nations. Here is the complete guide to the hidden world of codebreaking, with opportunities for you to see if you could have cracked some of the trickiest puzzles and lip-chewing codes ever created.

Author : Justine Saracen
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602826922

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Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen Pdf

Twelve years of terror end with a world in flames. Behind filmmaker Leni RiefenstahlÕs stirring footage of a million joyous patriots, the horror of Nazi Germany unfolds. It engulfs Katja Sommer, a Ògood GermanÓ who discovers honor in treason; Frederica Brandt, active in the highest circles of power; Rudi Lamm, homosexual camp survivor and forced SS killer; and Peter Arnhelm, a half- Jewish terrorist. Under the scrutiny of the familiar monsters of the Third Reich, these four struggle for life, decency, and each other. Love does not conquer all, but itÕs better than going to hell alone.