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Author : Terri Arthur
Publisher : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1595983546
Originally published: Beagle Books, 2011. British edition published with the title Fatal destiny: Edith Cavell, World War I nurse.
Author : Carlo D'Este
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061942471
Fatal Decision is a powerful, dramatic, moving, and ultimately definitive narrative of one of the most desperate campaigns of World War II. In the winter of 1943-44, Anzio, a small Mediterranean resort and port some thirty-five miles south of Rome, played a crucial role in the fortunes of World War II as the target of an amphibious Allied landing. The Allies planned to bypass the strong German defenses along the Gustav Line and at Monte Cassino sixty miles to the southeast, which were holding up the American and British armies and preventing the liberation of Rome. By taking advantage of Allied command of the sea and air to effect complete surprise, infantry and armored forces landing at Anzio on January 22 were expected to secure the beachhead and then push inland to cut off the two main highways and railroads supplying the German forces to the south, either trapping and annihilating the German armies or forcing them to withdraw to the north, thus opening the way to Rome. But the reality of one of the most desperate campaigns of World War II was bad management, external meddling, poorly relayed orders, and uncertain leadership. The Anzio beachhead became a death trap, with Allied troops forced to fight for their lives for four dreadful months. The eventual victory in May 1944 was muted, bitter, and overshadowed by the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6. Mixing flawless research, drama, and combat with a brilliant narrative voice, Fatal Decision is one of the best histories ever written of a World War II military campaign.
Author : Seymour Freidin,William Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Generals
ISBN : OCLC:638723233
Author : Seymour Freidin,William Richardson
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811713108
"A mix of exceptionally rare and discerning essays."—The Great War Magazine Six first-person accounts by German generals Covers the Battle of Britain, Moscow, El Alamein, Stalingrad, D-Day and the Normandy Campaign, and the Battle of the Bulge Drawn from extensive interviews conducted immediately after the war
Author : Tammy Euliano
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608094172
End-of-life care—or assisted death When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. "Old people die, that's what they do," is his response. When Kate presses, surgeon Charles Ricken places the blame squarely on her shoulders. Kate is currently on probation, and the chief of staff sides with the surgeon, leaving Kate to prove her innocence and save her own career. With her husband in a prolonged coma, it's all she has left. Aided by her eccentric Great Aunt Irm, a precocious medical student, and the lawyer son of a victim, Kate launches her own unorthodox investigation of these unexpected deaths. As she comes closer to exposing the culprit's identity, she faces professional intimidation, threats to her life, a home invasion, and, tragically, the suspicious death of someone close to her. The stakes escalate to the breaking point when Kate, under violent duress, is forced to choose which of her loved ones to save—and which must be sacrificed. Perfect for fans of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen
Author : Ken McGoogan
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781554689194
Not long after he began reading the handwritten, 820-page diary of Scottish explorer John Rae, Ken McGoogan realized that here was an astonishing story, hidden from the world for almost 150 years. McGoogan, who was originally conducting research for a novel, recognized the injustice committed against Rae. He was determined to restore the adventurer’s rightful place in history as the man who discovered not only the grisly truth about the lost Franklin expedition, but also the final link in the elusive Northwest Passage. Fatal Passage is McGoogan’s completely absorbing account of John Rae’s incredible accomplishments and his undeserved and wholesale discreditation at the hands of polite Victorian society. After sifting through thousands of pages of research, maps and charts, and traveling to England, Scotland and the Arctic to visit the places Rae knew, McGoogan has produced a book that reads like a fast-paced novel—a smooth synthesis of adventure story, travelogue and historical biography. Fatal Passage is a richly detailed portrait of a time when the ambitions of the Empire knew no bounds. John Rae was an adventurous young medical doctor from Orkney who signed on with the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1833. He lived in the Canadian wilds for more than two decades, becoming legendary as a hunter and snowshoer, before he turned to exploration. Famous for what was then a unique attitude—a willingness to learn from and use the knowledge and skills of aboriginal peoples—Rae became the first European to survive an Arctic winter while living solely off the land. One of dozens of explorers and naval men commissioned by the British Admiralty to find out what became of Sir John Franklin and his two ships, Rae returned from the Arctic to report that the most glorious expedition ever launched had ended with no survivors—and worse, that it had degenerated into cannibalism. Unwilling to accept that verdict, Victorian England not only ostracized Rae, but ignored his achievements, and credited Franklin with the discovery of the Passage. Fatal Passage is Ken McGoogan’s brilliant vindication of John Rae’s life and rightful place in history, a book for armchair adventurers, Arctic enthusiasts, lovers of Canadian history, and all those who revel in a story of physical courage and moral integrity.
Author : Ted Tayler
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798607062859
Gus Freeman is 61 years old. The retired Detective Inspector lives in a village on the outskirts of a West Country town that lies approximately ten miles from the Roman city of Bath. Freeman has spent the past three years tending his allotment. As he surveys his handiwork sitting outside his garden shed, he ponders his night-time reading. He's a fan of Kierkegaard, the existentialist philosopher. Freeman's wife, Tess, died from a brain aneurysm six months to the day after his retirement. He is still coming to terms with his enforced solitary existence. His old boss wants Gus to head up a Crime Review Team investigating cold cases. The trips to the allotment would get curtailed. Old witness statements and fresh clues would cloud his thoughts. The hunt would be on. Freeman wonders whether his superiors need his old-style methods. Is the request out of pity; to occupy his mind with fruitless digging into cases their best young brains failed to crack? Gus can't resist the chance to enter the fray for one last hurrah. In this first case, the team tackle the brutal murder of Daphne Tolliver in June 2008. The sixty-eight-year-old widow was walking her dog, Bobby in woodland close to her home. Despite the efforts of detectives at the time they never identified a single suspect. A reconstruction of Daphne's last known moments on TV five years later yielded nothing. Gus Freeman and his new team appear to have a tough nut to crack for their first case. "It's a mystery that will keep you wondering, with the usual wide array of characters to enjoy that give Tayler's novels their stamp."
Author : Donna Leon
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555849016
The Italian police detective’s latest case hits close to home, in this novel in the New York Times–bestselling series. For Commissario Brunetti, it began with an early morning phone call. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city. But Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is someone from his own family. Meanwhile, Brunetti is under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with a link to a suspicious accidental death. Does it all lead back to the Mafia? And how are his family’s actions connected to these crimes? The truth must be uncovered in this novel in the Silver Dagger Award–winning series by “one of the best of the international crime writers” (Rocky Mountain News). “Leon’s devoted readers love her books for their juicy mystery plots, and also for the rich and varied cast of recurring characters, among which is the city of Venice itself.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Kenneth D. Cooper-Stephenson,Iwan B. Saunders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Damages
ISBN : UCAL:B4591031
Author : Ruth Scurr
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466805781
"Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read." —Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians. Was he a bloodthirsty charlatan or the only true defender of revolutionary ideals? The first modern dictator or the earliest democrat? Was his extreme moralism a heroic virtue or a ruinous flaw? Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Ruth Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from provincial lawyer to devastatingly efficient revolutionary leader, righteous and paranoid in equal measure. She explores his reformist zeal, his role in the fall of the monarchy, his passionate attempts to design a modern republic, even his extraordinary effort to found a perfect religion. And she follows him into the Terror, as the former death- penalty opponent makes summary execution the order of the day, himself falling victim to the violence at the age of thirty-six. Written with epic sweep, full of nuance and insight, Fatal Purity is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.
Author : Terri Arthur
Publisher : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1595983422
"Based on the US edition, originally published by Beagle Books, LLC, under ISBN 978-09841813-2-2"--Title page verso.
Author : Paul G. Quinnett
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing Company
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0824513525
This is a frank, compassionate book written to those who contemplate suicide as a way out of their situations. The author issues an invitation to life, helping people accept the imperfections of their lives, and opening eyes to the possibilities of love.
Author : B. M. W. Grautoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:314941955
Author : Jack Gieck
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0786015780
The chilling true story of an Oregon trucker who brutally raped and murdered his 20-year-old secretary and the forensic investigation which led to his arrest. This case was featured on The Discovery Channel's "The New Detectives." of photos. Original.
Author : Robert Joseph Charles Butow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:1252071867