Hell Is So Green

Author : William Diebold
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762777143

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Hell Is So Green by William Diebold Pdf

Lt. William Diebold served in the Army's Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II and never fired a weapon in battle. Like many men who flew the Hump, he never saw on-the-ground combat, but he fought bravely by saving lives. Flyers who crossed the eastern Himalayas to keep the allied armies in China supplied with food, fuel, and weapons against Japan—preventing it from concentrating its power in the Pacific—often flew in zero-visibility, sometimes crashing into mountains or falling from the sky from Japanese Zero attacks. Those pilots who survived, Bill Diebold rescued. In Hell Is So Green, Diebold vividly describes the heat and stink of the jungle; the vermin, lice, and leeches; the towering mountains and roaring rivers. Rich with war slang, wisecracks, and old-fashioned phrases, his story reverberates with authenticity and represents the stories of many men that have never been told. After the author's early death, the manuscript was put away in an attic—until now. Here, from the shadows of that attic, comes a compelling story of courage under fire and heroism for the ages.

Author : Greig Beck
Publisher : Momentum
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743340578

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This Green Hell: Alex Hunter 3 by Greig Beck Pdf

In the jungles of Paraguay, Dr Aimee Weir and her team are in trouble. While drilling deep into the Earth a contagion strikes, their camp is quarantined, but workers start to vanish in the night. Is it fear of contamination – or has something far more lethal surfaced? Alex Hunter – code name Arcadian – and his Hotzone All-Forces Warfare Commandos are dropped in to the disaster area to do whatever it takes to stem the outbreak. But for the mission to be a success, the Arcadian must learn to master his violent inner demons long enough to confront the danger that not only threatens his own immediate survival, but that of mankind. 'top sci-fi horror ... page-turning thrills and spills' – Daily Telegraph

Author : Ken Bruen
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802191304

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Green Hell by Ken Bruen Pdf

“The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel . . . writes in machine gun fashion . . . reminiscent of the work of Raymond Chandler and Peter Cheyenne.” —The Irish Times In Green Hell, Bruen’s dark angel of a protagonist has hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and pills; and his firing from the Irish national police, the Guards, is ancient history. But Jack isn’t about to embark on a self-improvement plan. Instead, he has taken up a vigilante case against a respected professor of literature at the University of Galway who has a violent habit his friends in high places are only too happy to ignore. And when Jack rescues a preppy American student on a Rhodes Scholarship from a couple of kid thugs, he also unexpectedly gains a new sidekick, who abandons his thesis on Beckett to write a biography of Galway’s most magnetic rogue. Between pub crawls and violent outbursts, Jack’s vengeful plot against the professor soon spirals toward chaos. Enter Emerald, an edgy young Goth who could either be the answer to Jack’s problems, or the last ripped stitch in his undoing . . . “Taylor is a classic figure: an ex-cop turned seedy private eye . . . The book’s pleasure comes from listening to Taylor’s eloquent rants, studded with references to songs and books. His voice is wry and bittersweet, but somehow always hopeful.” —The Seattle Times

Author : David Bentley Hart
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300248739

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That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart Pdf

A stunning reexamination of one of the essential tenets of Christian belief from one of the most provocative and admired writers on religion today “A scathing, vigorous, eloquent attack on those who hold that that there is such a thing as eternal damnation.”—Karen Kilby, Commonweal The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Christians believed that hell was not everlasting, and that all would eventually attain salvation. But today, this view is no longer prevalent within Christian communities. In this momentous book, David Bentley Hart makes the case that nearly two millennia of dogmatic tradition have misled readers on the crucial matter of universal salvation. On the basis of the earliest Christian writings, theological tradition, scripture, and logic, Hart argues that if God is the good creator of all, he is the savior of all, without fail. And if he is not the savior of all, the Kingdom is only a dream, and creation something considerably worse than a nightmare. But it is not so. There is no such thing as eternal damnation; all will be saved. With great rhetorical power, wit, and emotional range, Hart offers a new perspective on one of Christianity’s most important themes.

Author : Simon R. Green
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625677006

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From Hell with Love by Simon R. Green Pdf

The next thrilling chapter in New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green’s Secret Histories fantasy adventure series featuring supernatural super-agent Eddie Drood. The name’s Drood. Eddie Drood. And believe me, I wish to hell it wasn’t. Being part of an enigmatic, fractious family who’ve been keeping humanity safe from the world’s more horrifying elements is hard enough. But when the Matriarch of the clan is murdered, it’s a none-for-all, all-for-themselves family feud. And as usual, yours truly is suspect numero uno. Yeah, blood is thinner than water around here, folks. Worse still, second in line for slaughter is my main lady, the magical Molly Metcalfe. So, there’s not much to it except to go on the run and hunt down the true killer. Or should I say killers? Because it turns out there’s another kind of family out there. Think of them as the anti-Droods. They’ve been meddling with mankind in the worst sort of way for thousands of years. Because they’re apparently immortal. They’re also atrociously strong. And now they’ve decided that it’s time for the Droods to go bye-bye. Maybe I should just go home and hug it out with the family...

Author : Steven Milloy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781596981072

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Green Hell by Steven Milloy Pdf

Everywhere you look, all you see is green. People are "living green," businesses are "going green," and consumers are "buying green." But soon, this trendy "green" lifestyle won't be voluntary-it will be mandatory.

Author : Marilyn Lazzari-Wing
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465349316

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Blue Skies, Green Hell by Marilyn Lazzari-Wing Pdf

Blue Skies, Green Hell, a thriller written by a bush pilot’s wife, is a riveting tale set in the 1950s when pioneers of the sky flew single-engine aircraft over unforgiving wilderness and impenetrable jungle in Venezuela. Marilyn and Frank live in a place called the last frontier on the Orinoco River where he establishes a multi-aircraft service that flies supplies and medicine to remote and inaccessible communities. Together they challenge the odds and take the exhilaration of flying to new heights. Their world is fierce weather with no weather reports, aircraft with limited range radios, and planes with six basic instruments. A search and rescue effort ends when they make a forced landing in no man’s land. A flight to Miami turns sour as their twin-engine C-46 conks out over the Caribbean. Best friends die in fiery crashes. A stone age Indian appears where he shouldn’t be. This is drama from the cockpit of vintage aircraft.

Author : Jeff Lemire
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781779523655

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Swamp Thing: Green Hell by Jeff Lemire Pdf

The Earth is all but done. The last remnants of humanity cling to a mountaintop island lost in endless floodwater. The parliaments of the Green, the Red, and the Rot have united their powers to summon an avatar-a horrific, humanity-killing monster who could only be stopped by Alec Holland. Shame he’s been dead for decades…Collects the complete miniseries Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1-3.

Author : Jared Joseph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734306548

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A Book about Myself Called Hell by Jared Joseph Pdf

In the middle of the journey of our life Dante finds himself lost in a dark wood but then he founds a whole lot of literary movements and arguably modernity itself with his Divine Comedy that, nonetheless, inexplicably, didn't make God laugh. This serious absence caused God's non-divine counterparts, humans, to wonder: "Why are we in hell?" "Why is it so funny?" "And why can't I laugh?"

Author : Jean Casella,James Ridgeway,Sarah Shourd
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620971383

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Hell Is a Very Small Place by Jean Casella,James Ridgeway,Sarah Shourd Pdf

“An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1559706104

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Hell and Back by Tim Parks Pdf

A brilliant new collection of essays on writers & writing by the man Joseph Brodsky has called "the best British author writing today."

Author : John W. Campbell Jr.
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479442386

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Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell Jr. Pdf

FROZEN HELL is the original version of John W. Campbell's classic novella, Who Goes There? (filmed as The Thing). Recently discovered among Campbell's papers, this version adds another 45 pages to the story. Includes a Preface by Alec Nevala-Lee and an Introduction by Robert Silverberg.

Author : Guguid, Julian
Publisher : London : J. Cape ; Toronto : T. Nelson
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:229418854

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Green Hell : a Chronicle of Travel in the Forests of Eastern Bolivia by Guguid, Julian Pdf

Author : William J. Owens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89073141533

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Green Hell by William J. Owens Pdf

This is the story of thousands of Melanesian, Australian, New Zealand, Japanese and American men who fought for a poor insignificant island in a faraway corner of the South Pacific Ocean. For the men who participated, the real battle was of man against jungle. This is the account of land, sea and air units covering the entire six-month battle-stories of ordinary privates and seamen, admirals and generals, who survived to claim the victory that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

Author : Simon R. Green
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441014607

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Hell to Pay by Simon R. Green Pdf

The name’s John Taylor. I’m a PI, though what I really do is find things that are lost. I work the Nightside, the city within the city of London, where the sun never rises and where the human and inhuman go to get their kicks, provided they’re willing to pay the price in whatever currency the seller demands. In the wake of the war that almost brought the Nightside to total ruin, there’s a power vacuum begging to be filled—and some think I should take charge. I don’t agree. Neither does the immortal known as the Griffin. Wealthy beyond reason, he has his own ideas about who should be running things. Still, when his granddaughter—and designated heir—is kidnapped, he calls on me to find her. But someone—or some Thing—is blocking my special gift. So this time, I’m going to have to do my job the hard way. And quickly, or the Griffin will have to choose a new heir…