El Dorado Canyon

Author : Joseph T Stanik
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612515809

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El Dorado Canyon by Joseph T Stanik Pdf

Long before the overt war in Afghanistan and the covert war against al-Qaida, U.S. forces struck at one of the world’s hotbeds of terrorism. On 15 April 1986, in the dead of night, American strike aircraft roared into the heart of Muammar Qaddafi's Libya, attacking carefully selected targets and nearly killing the “brother leader” himself. Codenamed Operation El Dorado Canyon, the raid was in direct response to Qaddafi's support of a terrorist act against U.S. service personnel stationed in Europe and was a result of President Ronald Reagan's pledge to respond to terrorism with “swift and effective retribution.” Stanik, a retired naval officer and Middle East scholar, provides a detailed account of the raid as well as an in-depth analysis of its causes and effects. He also describes three other hostile encounters between U.S. and Libyan forces during Reagan's presidency and details U.S. covert operations. From a bombing in West Berlin, to terrorism in the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland, and from the halls of power in Washington to airbases in England and on the decks of American warships in the Mediterranean, Stanik weaves an international thriller that is relevant to current events.

Author : Robert E. Venkus
Publisher : Robert Venkus
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Libya
ISBN : 031207073X

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Raid on Qaddafi by Robert E. Venkus Pdf

Author : Steve Levin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1892540541

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Eldorado Canyon by Steve Levin Pdf

Rock climbs of Eldorado Canyon

Author : Jaime Rocha
Publisher : Doble Identidad
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781524315672

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Operation El Dorado Canyon by Jaime Rocha Pdf

Based on the true story written by the protagonist who has finally been able to reveal the facts, now that 30 years have passed since these events took place. "Imprescindible". (“A must-read”) - Carlos Herrera "Una novela en la que todo es verdad." (“ A novel in which everything is true”)- Gerardo Granada La Razón "Vibrante. Rocha bebe de sus experiencias reales, y las expone a los ojos del lector con un alto índice de verosimilitud." (“Vibrant. Rocha drinks from his true experiences and reveals them to the eyes of the reader with a high level of authenticity”) - Juan Bolea, El Periódico "Una historia muchísimo más grande de lo que el propio autor cree". (“ A story much larger than the author even realizes”) - Ángel Expósito, COPE On April 15, 1986, after a wave of attacks against Western interests backed by Muammar al-Gaddafi, President Ronald Reagan launched the execution of Operation El Dorado Canyon with the intention of putting an end to the Libyan dictator. Not one NATO country gave military support to this operation. Facing precarious means, the CIA requested the aid of Spain. Under complete secrecy, the CESID brought a Spanish agent to Libya in order to locate Gaddafi. He would end up becoming the only source of information on earth. This is his story.

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541672536

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Dreams of El Dorado by H. W. Brands Pdf

"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.

Author : Anna Nizzola,Luca Nizzola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8890501774

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Eldorado Ticino by Anna Nizzola,Luca Nizzola Pdf

Author : Tom Cooper,Albert Grandolini,Arnaud Delalande
Publisher : Africa@War
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1910294535

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Libyan Air Wars: 1985-1986 by Tom Cooper,Albert Grandolini,Arnaud Delalande Pdf

"Between 1973 and 1989, various Western powers and Libya were entangled in a seemingly never-ending exchanged of blows. Supposedly launched in retaliation for one action or the other, this confrontation resulted in a number of high-profile, even though low-scale, clashes between the Libyan Arab Air Force (LAAF), the US Navy and even the French. Meanwhile, almost as a slideshow, the LAAF - quantitatively one of the most potent air forces in North Africa and the Middle East - also saw intensive deployment in Chad. Initially, with sporadic fighting between different parties for control of N'Djamena, the Chadian capital, this conflict eventually turned into a major war when Libya invaded the country outright. The LAAF deployed not only French-made Mirage but also Soviet-made fighter-bombers of MiG and Sukhoi design, Mil-designed helicopters and even bombers of Tupolev design, to establish her dominance over the extensive battle field of the Sahara Desert. Because of the Cold War but also due to confrontation with Libya over a number of other issues, France - a one-time major arms supplier to Libya - and the USA gradually got dragged into the war. Deployments of their troops and intelligence services in Chad, Egypt and the Sudan never resulted in a full-scale aerial operations that proved crucial to developments on the ground , several of which are still a matter of extensive debate. Detailing not only the aerial operations but the ground war and the geo-political background of these conflicts, and illustrated with over 100 contemporary photographs, maps and all-new colour profiles, this volume provides a unique insight into a otherwise completely forgotten conflict that raged from the skies over the southern Mediterranean to southern Chad and northern Sudan, yet one that not only represented a formative period of the LAAF, but which also prompted a number of crucial modifications and developments in France and the USA." -- from back cover.

Author : Daniel Patrick Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 155380502X

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Claiming the Land by Daniel Patrick Marshall Pdf

Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Native American Studies. This trailblazing history focuses on a single year, 1858, the year of the Fraser River gold rush--the third great mass migration of gold seekers after the Californian and Australian rushes in search of a new El Dorado. Marshall's history becomes an adventure, prospecting the rich pay streaks of British Columbia's "founding" event and the gold fever that gripped populations all along the Pacific Slope. Marshall unsettles many of our most taken-for-granted assumptions: he shows how foreign miner-militias crossed the 49th parallel, taking the law into their own hands, and conducting extermination campaigns against Indigenous peoples while forcibly claiming the land. Drawing on new evidence, Marshall explores the three principal cultures of the goldfields--those of the fur trade (both Native and the Hudson's Bay Company), Californian, and British world views. The year 1858 was a year of chaos unlike any other in British Columbia and American Pacific Northwest history. It produced not only violence but the formal inauguration of colonialism, Native reserves and, ultimately, the expansion of Canada to the Pacific Slope. Among the haunting legacies of this rush are the cryptic place names that remain--such as American Creek, Texas Bar, Boston Bar, and New York Bar--while the unresolved question of Indigenous sovereignty continues to claim the land.

Author : Kathryn Anne Bridge
Publisher : Canadian Museum of History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 0660031418

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Gold Rush! by Kathryn Anne Bridge Pdf

Some say that Western Canada began with the railway. In fact, it began with a gold rush. Relive the tumultuous days of gold's discovery in British Columbia's Fraser Canyon. Travel back to 1858 and meet some of the tens of thousands of fortune-seeking prospectors who dreamed of astonishing finds ? like the huge Turnagain Nugget. Find out how the gold rush attracted thousands of miners and entrepreneurs of various social and ethnic origins and forever transformed this once-remote region of the Pacific North West. Through photographs, artwork and artifacts ? including miner's tools, a real stagecoach and an exquisite gold box carved by Bill Reid ? this souvenir catalogue tells the fascinating story of gold's timeless allure.

Author : Patrick A. Glancy,Lynn Harmsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Floods
ISBN : UCR:31210020769848

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A Hydrologic Assessment of the September 14, 1974, Flood in Eldorado Canyon, Nevada by Patrick A. Glancy,Lynn Harmsen Pdf

A presentation of hydrologic data and interpretations, and documentation of flooding.

Author : California State Mining Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Fossils
ISBN : UCAL:B4168381

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Catalogue of the State Museum of California by California State Mining Bureau Pdf

Author : Nathan Hale
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683356325

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Major Impossible (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #9) by Nathan Hale Pdf

The ninth book in the bestselling series tells the story of John Wesley Powell, the one-armed geologist who explored the Grand Canyon John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) always had the spirit of adventure in him. As a young man, he traveled all over the United States exploring. When the Civil War began, Powell went to fight for the Union, and even after he lost most of his right arm, he continued to fight until the war was over. In 1869 he embarked with the Colorado River Exploring Expedition, ten men in four boats, to float through Grand Canyon. Over the course of three months, the explorers lost their boats and supplies, nearly drowned, and were in peril on multiple occasions. Ten explorers went in, only six came out. Powell would come to be known as one of the most epic explorers in history! Equal parts gruesome and hilarious, this latest installment in the bestselling series takes readers on an action-packed adventure through American history.

Author : Brian D. Laslie
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813160856

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The Air Force Way of War by Brian D. Laslie Pdf

“Laslie chronicles how the Air Force worked its way from the catastrophe of Vietnam through the triumph of the Gulf War, and beyond.” —Robert M. Farley, author of Grounded The U.S. Air Force’s poor performance in Operation Linebacker II and other missions during Vietnam was partly due to the fact that they had trained their pilots according to methods devised during World War II and the Korean War, when strategic bombers attacking targets were expected to take heavy losses. Warfare had changed by the 1960s, but the USAF had not adapted. Between 1972 and 1991, however, the Air Force dramatically changed its doctrines and began to overhaul the way it trained pilots through the introduction of a groundbreaking new training program called “Red Flag.” In The Air Force Way of War, Brian D. Laslie examines the revolution in pilot instruction that Red Flag brought about after Vietnam. The program’s new instruction methods were dubbed “realistic” because they prepared pilots for real-life situations better than the simple cockpit simulations of the past, and students gained proficiency on primary and secondary missions instead of superficially training for numerous possible scenarios. In addition to discussing the program’s methods, Laslie analyzes the way its graduates actually functioned in combat during the 1980s and ’90s in places such as Grenada, Panama, Libya, and Iraq. Military historians have traditionally emphasized the primacy of technological developments during this period and have overlooked the vital importance of advances in training, but Laslie’s unprecedented study of Red Flag addresses this oversight through its examination of the seminal program. “A refreshing look at the people and operational practices whose import far exceeds technological advances.” —The Strategy Bridgei

Author : Laura Hamilton Waxman
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512440171

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Mysteries of Pompeii by Laura Hamilton Waxman Pdf

Two thousand years ago, a volcanic eruption buried a city in modern Italy. Centuries later, archaeologists discovered Pompeii. Learn what they discovered about life in ancient Rome, including food, homes, gladiator fights, and more!

Author : Meish Goldish
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781684027965

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Discovering Titanic’s Remains by Meish Goldish Pdf

After the Titanic sank in 1912, many schemes were proposed to lift the great ship from its watery grave. But there were problems—no one knew exactly where the Titanic had sunk, and, even if they had, the technology to reach the ship, which lay on the ocean floor almost two miles down, didn’t exist. By the 1970s, however, new technologies allowed explorers like Dr. Richard Ballard to search the deep ocean. Finally, in 1985, Dr. Ballard found something . . .Discovering Titanic’s Remains is the thrilling story of how the most famous shipwreck of all time was found. It’s a tale of unbelievable persistence and the amazing technology that revealed the once-grand ship disintegrating on the deep ocean floor. The fascinating content and large-format color images, maps, and fact boxes bring the Titanic’s amazing re-discovery to life. Discovering Titanic’s Remains is part of Bearport’s Titanica series.