Hell S March

Author : Taylor Anderson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593200766

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Hell's March by Taylor Anderson Pdf

Major Lewis Cayce will need to use every weapon in his arsenal to keep his stranded men alive on a deadly alternate Earth in this gripping new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. It is 1847, and almost a full year after being shipwrecked on another, far stranger and more dangerous Earth on their way to fight Santa Anna in the Mexican-American War, Lewis Cayce and his small group of artillerymen, infantrymen, and dragoons have made friends in the Yucatán, helped build an army, and repulsed the first efforts of the blood-drenched Holy Dominion to wipe their new friends out. As an even more radical cult of Blood Priests arises and begins to pursue its own path to power, the Dominion can’t let its defeat stand. It must crush the heretics and expel them from the land it has claimed. Fortunately, Lewis Cayce is a professional. He understands defense can only result in a stalemate at best, and a stalemate with the more populous Dominion will only lead to defeat in the end. The lucky few will be enslaved. The rest will be sacrificed in the most horrific way imaginable. The only hope his new allies have is to win—and to do that, his little army must attack the most powerful and diabolical enemy on the planet in its own territory. Achieving victory will take all Lewis’s imagination, the courage and trust of his soldiers—and all the round shot and canister his tiny band of artillerymen can slam out.

Author : Valerie Smart
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0738509108

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The Original Hell's Angels by Valerie Smart Pdf

Om U.S. army Air Force's 303rd Bombardment Group, som under den 2. verdenskrig fløj B-17. Under krigen fløj denne enhed 48 missioner uden at miste et eneste fly og uden at miste besætningsmedlemmer. Forfatteren beskriver i bogen om Hell's Angels operationer.

Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698186361

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The Battle for Hell's Island by Stephen L. Moore Pdf

“Stephen L. Moore offers what will soon be ranked a major military classic... A major, first-rate, authoritative contribution to the literature of WWII.”—Leatherneck From the author of Pacific Payback comes the gripping true story of the Cactus Air Force and how this rugged crew of Dive-Bombers helped save Guadalcanal and won the war. November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island. Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal. With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports. A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives.

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780345410085

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Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.” Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson’s vivid account of his experiences with California’s most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, “For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson’s book is a thoughtful piece of work.” As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell’s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.

Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742372709

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Hell's Battlefield by Phillip Bradley Pdf

"The first book to tell the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea during World War II. This is the war as the men described it in diaries, letters and memoirs. And in interviews with war correspondents, official historians and archivists, the author has reconstructed and bought to life the war from the perspective of the men who were there"--Inside front cover.

Author : Lester I. Tenney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640121126

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My Hitch in Hell by Lester I. Tenney Pdf

Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the rest of the war as a slave laborer in Japanese prison camps. My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor’s epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable suffering. This edition features a new introduction and epilogue by the author. Purchase the audio edition.

Author : Tom Evans
Publisher : Y Lolfa
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781800995116

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Where the Hell's the Time Gone? A Life in Farming by Tom Evans Pdf

Well-known shearing commentator Evans discusses his farming life, from a tough post-war childhood with no mother, tractor or car, to days on shearing gangs and in hedge-laying competitions, to his own sheep farming, commentating and his impact on policy through work with the National Farmers Union.

Author : Robert F. Dorr,Thomas Jones
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616739843

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Hell Hawks! by Robert F. Dorr,Thomas Jones Pdf

Hell Hawks sets a new standard for histories of the tactical anti-war in Europe. Veteran authors Bob Dorr and Tom Jones combine masterfully crafted veteran interviews with the broader picture of the air war fought by the Thunderbolt men. You gain a new appreciation of just how tough their deadly task was, and the courage needed to fly close air support against the Nazi fighters and flak. This outstanding book raises the bar on aviation history as it brings alive the true story of an aerial band of brothers." - Colonel Walter J. Boyne, National Aviation Hall of Famer, former director of the National Air & Space Museum, and best-selling author Hell Hawks!is the story of the band of young American fighter pilots, and their gritty, close-quarters fight against Hitlers vaunted military. The "Hell Hawks" were the men and machines of the 365th Fighter Group. Beginning just prior to D-Day, June 6, 1944, the groups young pilots (most were barely twenty years old and fresh from flight training in the United States) flew in close support of Eisenhowers ground forces as they advanced across France and into Germany. They flew the rugged, heavily armed P-47 Thunderbolt, aka the Jug. Living in tents amid the cold mud of their front-line airfields, the 365ths daily routine had much in common with that of the G.I.s they supported. Their war only stopped with the Nazi surrender on May 8, 1945. During their year in combat, the Hell Hawks paid a heavy price to win the victory. Sixty-nine pilots and airmen died in the fight across the continent. The Groups 1,241 combat missions -- the daily confrontation of sudden, violent death -- forged bonds between these men that remain strong sixty years later. This book will tell their story, the story of the Hell Hawks.

Author : Bill Wiese
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629994482

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23 Minutes in Hell by Bill Wiese Pdf

New York Times Best Seller and Over 1 million copies sold! Over 750 5-Star reviews Wiese’s visit to the devil’s lair lasted just twenty-three minutes, but he returned with vivid details etched in his memory, capturing the attention of national media, including the Christian Broadcasting Network, Daystar Television Network, Trinity Broadcasting Network, the Miracle Channel, Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural!, Sean Hannity’s America, Charisma News, and many others. Awaken to the realities of hell, the afterlife and the urgency to live for Christ in your short time here on earth.. Bill Wiese experienced something so horrifying it continues to captivate the world. He saw the searing flames of hell, felt total isolation, smelled the putrid and rotting stench, heard deafening screams of agony, and experienced terrorizing demons. Finally the strong hand of God lifted him out of the pit. This expanded anniversary edition includes more than 150 Bible verses referencing hell for further study. Also included is the new section, “Wrestling With the Big Questions” where Bill answers these and many others questions: Why do some people who have a near-death experience see a bright light? Will those who never heard about Jesus go to hell? Is hell eternal, or are those in hell simply annihilated?

Author : D. M. Giangreco
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682471661

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Hell to Pay by D. M. Giangreco Pdf

Two years before the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped bring a quick end to hostilities in the summer of 1945, U.S. planners began work on Operation Downfall, codename for the Allied invasions of Kyushu and Honshu, in the Japanese home islands. While other books have examined Operation Downfall, D. M. Giangreco offers the most complete and exhaustively researched consideration of the plans and their implications. He explores related issues of the first operational use of the atomic bomb and the Soviet Union’s entry into the war, including the controversy surrounding estimates of potential U.S. casualties. Following years of intense research at numerous archives, Giangreco now paints a convincing and horrific picture of the veritable hell that awaited invader and defender. In the process, he demolishes the myths that Japan was trying to surrender during the summer of 1945 and that U.S. officials later wildly exaggerated casualty figures to justify using the atomic bombs to influence the Soviet Union. As Giangreco writes, “Both sides were rushing headlong toward a disastrous confrontation in the Home Islands in which poison gas and atomic weapons were to be employed as MacArthur’s intelligence chief, Charles Willoughby, succinctly put it, ‘a hard and bitter struggle with no quarter asked or given.’ Hell to Pay examines the invasion of Japan in light of the large body of Japanese and American operational and tactical planning documents the author unearthed in familiar and obscure archives. It includes postwar interrogations and reports that senior Japanese commanders and their staffs were ordered to produce for General MacArthur’s headquarters. This groundbreaking history counters the revisionist interpretations questioning the rationale for the use of the atomic bomb and shows that President Truman’s decision was based on real estimates of the enormous human cost of a conventional invasion. This revised edition of Hell to Pay expands on several areas covered in the previous book and deals with three new topics: U.S.-Soviet cooperation in the war against Imperial Japan; U.S., Soviet, and Japanese plans for the invasion and defense of the northernmost Home Island of Hokkaido; and Operation Blacklist, the three-phase insertion of American occupation forces into Japan. It also contains additional text, relevant archival material, supplemental photos, and new maps, making this the definitive edition of an important historical work.

Author : Keven McQueen
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1589808983

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Axman Came from Hell and Other Southern by Keven McQueen Pdf

In the 1880s, a serial killer terrorized Austin, Texas, setting a pattern for the many who followed him. In the 1890s, an Atlanta boardinghouse resident shot several of his fellow boarders. These and other true crime stories, spanning from Texas to West Virginia, are interesting and historically significant as opposed to depressing or lurid.

Author : William T. Harper
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574411805

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Eleven Days in Hell by William T. Harper Pdf

Annotation "The 1974 Fred Gomez Carrasco prison siege at Huntsville, TX.".

Author : William Clark Latham
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603440738

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Cold Days in Hell by William Clark Latham Pdf

Prisoners suffer in every conflict, but American servicemen captured during the Korean War faced a unique ordeal. Like prisoners in other wars, these men endured harsh conditions and brutal mistreatment at the hands of their captors. In Korea, however, they faced something new: a deliberate enemy program of indoctrination and coercion designed to manipulate them for propaganda purposes. Most Americans rejected their captors’ promise of a Marxist paradise, yet after the cease fire in 1953, American prisoners came home to face a second wave of attacks. Exploiting popular American fears of communist infiltration, critics portrayed the returning prisoners as weak-willed pawns who had been “brainwashed” into betraying their country. The truth was far more complicated. Following the North Korean assault on the Republic of Korea in June of 1950, the invaders captured more than a thousand American soldiers and brutally executed hundreds more. American prisoners who survived their initial moments of captivity faced months of neglect, starvation, and brutal treatment as their captors marched them north toward prison camps in the Yalu River Valley. Counterattacks by United Nations forces soon drove the North Koreans back across the 38th Parallel, but the unexpected intervention of Communist Chinese forces in November of 1950 led to the capture of several thousand more American prisoners. Neither the North Koreans nor their Chinese allies were prepared to house or feed the thousands of prisoners in their custody, and half of the Americans captured that winter perished for lack of food, shelter, and medicine. Subsequent communist efforts to indoctrinate and coerce propaganda statements from their prisoners sowed suspicion and doubt among those who survived. Relying on memoirs, trial transcripts, debriefings, declassified government reports, published analysis, and media coverage, plus conversations, interviews, and correspondence with several dozen former prisoners, William Clark Latham Jr. seeks to correct misperceptions that still linger, six decades after the prisoners came home. Through careful research and solid historical narrative, Cold Days in Hell provides a detailed account of their captivity and offers valuable insights into an ongoing issue: the conduct of prisoners in the hands of enemy captors and the rules that should govern their treatment.

Author : March Hastings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0725203439

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Her Private Hell by March Hastings Pdf

Author : Don Darrin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984543912

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Postcards from Hell by Don Darrin Pdf

Postcards From Hell is a collection of ten short horror stories from Don Darrin, the author of Harmonyville. The stories visit the towns surrounding Harmonyville, and each has a unique aspect of horror. In the title story, Postcards From Hell, a man unknowingly makes a deal with a demon and the price might be too high. In Inheritance, a man inherits a house he was frightened of as a child. Was it all in his head or is something else at work there? In Lot Lizard, a new truck driver learns the ways of a truck stop and its local prostitute. Saving Time is about a loving husband who was known for always being late as a child. Now as an adult can he make it on time? In Rabid a family’s annual cabin trip becomes deadly, thanks to a research raccoon. In Gulls, a lonely simpleton spends his lunch with increasingly daring seagulls. In Bargain Buy, a man invites his friends to help him paint his new house that he got a great deal on. There may be a reason it was so cheap though. In The Red, a rural town has a secret lurking in the local forest. Nobody goes in The Red. In Nimbus, a small town starts to have strange happenings after a suspicious rain cloud arrives. In Seed, a man believes he’s been cursed after he wrongs a supposed witch. Postcards From Hell has something for everyone. Which story will haunt you?