Exile Air

Author : Andrea Baston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07
Category : Fighter pilots
ISBN : 0992090326

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Exile Air by Andrea Baston Pdf

"In 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Norway. The exiled Royal Norwegian Air Force established a training camp for its recruits in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, known as "Little Norway." The air training camp moved to Muskoka Airport near Gravenhurst, Ontario, in 1942, and remained there until near the war neared its end. Little Norway's graduates distinguished themselves in overseas battles, flying in Norwegian squadrons of Britain's Royal Air Force. Many married Canadian women and returned to Canada after the war. Canada can be proud of the assistance it provided to Norway during a dark hour. Canada enabled the Norwegians to establish the air training camp in the country and provided advanced flight training to air crews through the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Moreover, Canadians offered kindness and friendship to the young recruits, so far from their homes. This book tells the inspiring story of "Little Norway" and the young Norwegians who trained there."--

Author : Lamar Waldron
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781619022676

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Watergate: The Hidden History by Lamar Waldron Pdf

While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established—most recently by PBS in 2003—what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon's motive. Why was President Nixon willing to risk his reelection with so many repeated burglaries at the Watergate—and other Washington offices—in just a few weeks? What motivated Nixon to jeopardize his presidency by ordering the wide range of criminal operations that resulted in Watergate? What was Nixon so desperate to get at the Watergate, and how does it explain the deeper context surrounding his crimes? For the first time, the groundbreaking investigative research in Watergate: The Hidden History provides documented answers to all of those questions. It adds crucial missing pieces to the Watergate story—information that President Nixon wanted, but couldn't get, and that wasn't available to the Senate Watergate Committee or to Woodward and Bernstein. This new information not only reveals remarkable insights into Nixon's motivation for Watergate, but also answers the two most important remaining questions: What were the Watergate burglars after? And why was Nixon willing to risk his Presidency to get it? Watergate: The Hidden History reexamines the historical record, including new material only available in recent years. This includes thousands of recently declassified CIA and FBI files, newly released Nixon tapes, and exclusive interviews with those involved in the events surrounding Watergate—ranging from former Nixon officials to key aides for John and Robert Kennedy. This book also builds on decades of investigations by noted journalists and historians, as well as long–overlooked investigative articles from publications like Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times.

Author : Curtis L Peebles
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513621

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Twilight Warriors by Curtis L Peebles Pdf

From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the Congo to Tibet, from the Bay of Pigs to North Vietnam and Nicaragua, here is a comprehensive overview of U.S. air-supported covert operations against the Soviet bloc. Twilight Warriors brings a sense of continuity to the shifting, shadowy battlefronts of the Cold War, spanning the postwar decades with one fascinating account after another. The known and not-so well known are woven together to provide the big picture: failed early attempts to set up spy cells behind the Iron Curtain (confounded by the agent Kim Philby), the actual CIA plane that secretly appeared in the James Bond film "Thunderball," Operation Mongoose, clandestine "airlines," and the gutsy breed who took to the skies as airborne spies. This is a sweeping, globe-trotting account of covert ops in the post-war era that reads like an epic secret history.

Author : Charles Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600087326

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The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of the past half century, with memoirs of the poets, and specimens in English verse of modern Gaelic bards, by C. Rogers by Charles Rogers Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4470019

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Executive sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Alexander Laing (Poet.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Scottish poetry
ISBN : NLS:V000606936

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Wayside Flowers: Being Poems and Songs. [With a Plate.] by Alexander Laing (Poet.) Pdf

Author : Sophia A. McClennen
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1557533156

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The Dialectics of Exile by Sophia A. McClennen Pdf

The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself. Despite this vast and varied literary tradition, criticism of exile writing has tended to analyze these works according to a binary logic, where exile either produces creative freedom or it traps the writer in restrictive nostalgia. The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language and Space in Hispanic Literatures offers a theory of exile writing that accounts for the persistence of these dual impulses and for the ways that they often co-exist within the same literary works. Focusing on writers working in the latter part of the twentieth century who were exiled during a historical moment of increasing globalization, transnational economics, and the theoretical shifts of postmodernism, Sophia A. McClennen proposes that exile literature is best understood as a series of dialectic tensions about cultural identity. Through comparative analysis of Juan Goytisolo (Spain), Ariel Dorfman (Chile) and Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), this book explores how these writers represent exile identity. Each chapter addresses dilemmas central to debates over cultural identity such as nationalism versus globalization, time as historical or cyclical, language as representationally accurate or disconnected from reality, and social space as utopic or dystopic. McClennen demonstrates how the complex writing of these three authors functions as an alternative discourse of cultural identity that not only challenges official versions imposed by authoritarian regimes, but also tests the limits of much cultural criticism.

Author : Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319914152

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Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha Pdf

This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that exile, in the Palestinian case especially, is a political catastrophe; it is banishment by a colonial power. It suggests that, unlike expatriation (a choice of a foreign land over one’s own), exile is a political rather than an artistic concept and is forced rather than voluntary — while exile can be emancipatory, it is always an unwelcome loss. In addition to its historical dimension, exile also entails a different perception of return to expatriation. This book frames expatriates as quintessentially American, particularly intellectuals and artists seeking a space of creativity and social dissidence in the experience of living away from home. At the heart of both literary discourses, however, is a preoccupation with home, belonging, identity, language, mobility and homecoming.

Author : David M. Bethea
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400863747

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Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile by David M. Bethea Pdf

Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of his poetic world are still insufficiently understood by Western audiences. How did the Russian-born Brodsky arrive at his present status as an international man of letters and American poet laureate? Has he been created by his bilingual experience, or has he fashioned the bilingual self as a necessary precondition for writing poetry in the first place? Here David Bethea suggests that the key to Brodsky, perhaps the last of the great Russian poets in the "bardic" mode, is in his relation to others, or the Other. Brodsky's master trope turns out to be "triangular vision," the tendency to mediate a prior model (Dante) with a closer model (Mandelstam) in the creation of a palimpsest-like text in which the poet is implicated as a triangulated hybrid of these earlier incarnations. In pursuing this theme, Bethea compares and contrasts Brodsky to the poet's favorite models--Donne, Auden, Mandelstam, and Tsvetaeva--and analyzes his fundamental differences with Nabokov, the only Russian exile of Brodsky's stature to rival him as a bilingual phenomenon. Various critical paradigms are used throughout the study as foils to Brodsky's thinking. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : George Kennan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108048231

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Siberia and the Exile System by George Kennan Pdf

An American journalist's unflinching account, published in two volumes in 1891, of Russia's brutal penal system in Siberia.

Author : Geological Survey of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Paleontology
ISBN : OSU:32435068061878

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Contributions to Canadian Paleontology by Geological Survey of Canada Pdf

Author : Geological Survey of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Paleontology
ISBN : UOM:39015013769180

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Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology ...: pt. I. Report on Invertebrata of the Laramie and Cretaceous rocks in the North-west territory, by J.F. Whiteaves. 1885 by Geological Survey of Canada Pdf

Author : Geological Survey of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Paleontology
ISBN : IND:30000143621914

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Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology: pt. 1. Report on Invertabrata of the Laramie and Cretaceous rocks in the North-west Territory. pt. 3. Fossils of the Devonian rocks of the Mackenzie River basin. pt. 5. Additional or imperfectly understood fossils from the Hamilton formation of Ontario by Geological Survey of Canada Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Anthologies
ISBN : UCAL:$B223806

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The Bookworm by Anonim Pdf

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3980 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547672890

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The Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories in One Edition) by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

This unique edition of Algernon Blackwood's collected works has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Novels: Jimbo: A Fantasy The Education of Uncle Paul The Human Chord The Centaur A Prisoner in Fairyland The Extra Day Julius LeVallon The Wave The Promise of Air The Garden of Survival The Bright Messenger Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories: The Listener Max Hensing - Bacteriologist and Murderer The Willows The Insanity of Jones The Dance of Death May Day Eve Miss Slumbubble - and Claustrophobia John Silence: A Psychical Invasion Ancient Sorceries The Nemesis of Fire Secret Worship The Camp of the Dog A Victim of Higher Space The Lost Valley The Wendig Old Clothes Perspective The Terror of the Twins The Man from the 'Gods' The Man Who Played Upon The Leaf The Price of Wiggins's Orgy Carlton's Drive The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute Pan's Garden: a Volume of Nature Stories: The Man Whom The Trees Loved The South Wind The Sea Fit The Attic The Heath Fire The Messenger The Glamour of the Snow The Return Sand The Transfer Clairvoyance The Golden Fly Special Delivery The Destruction of Smith The Temptation of the Clay Incredible Adventures: The Regeneration of Lord Ernie The Sacrifice The Damned A Descent Into Egypt Wayfarers Day and Night Stories ... Play: Karma; a reincarnation play Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Good examples are the novels The Centaur, which climaxes with a traveler's sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon and its sequel The Bright Messenger, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution in human consciousness.