Hellfire

Author : Cameron Forbes
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459622104

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For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone to make way for a railway. Among these men were some of the 22,000 Australian soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. In camps across Asia and the Pacific, they struggled, died, and survived with a little help from their mates. 'Hellfire' was researched in Australia, Japan and across South-East Asia. It draws on 50 first-person interviews, ranging from former prisoners to an old Mon villager deep in the Burmese jungle, and from Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew to veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army. The result is a tour de force, a powerful and searing history of the prisoners of the Japanese.

Author : Cameron Forbes
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742623863

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For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone to make way for a railway. Among these men were some of the 22,000 Australian soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. In camps across Asia and the Pacific they struggled, died, survived with a little help from their mates. Their experiences became a defining feature of the war, just as Hellfire Pass was to become a defining symbol of what every prisoner experienced. Hellfire tells the epic stories of these men. It charts the long history of racial tension between Australia and Japan, and the forces that shaped each country before the descent into war. Beyond the clash of nations it intimately explores both bravery in battle and the different courage required to survive years of harshness and hard labour. Hellfire details the individual stories of those caught up in history: the Hudson bomber pilot attacking the Japanese invasion force on Day One; the prisoner of war who refused to be blindfolded for his execution; the interpreter for the Japanese military police who turned the torturers' questions into English; the nurse surviving Sumatran prison camps; the man the atom bomb didn't kill in Nagasaki and whose home-coming helped change Australia. Hellfire was researched in Australia, Japan and across South-East Asia. It draws on 50 first-person interviews, ranging from former prisoners to an old Mon villager deep in the Burmese jungle, and from Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew to veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army. The result is a tour de force, a powerful and searing history of the prisoners of the Japanese.

Author : John Gilstrap
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786045532

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“A great hero, a really exciting series.” —Joseph Finder For hostage rescue specialist Jonathan Grave, every mission is a matter of life or death. But he faces his most personal challenge yet when two boys are abducted while being driven to Resurrection House, the school Jonathan founded as a sanctuary for children of incarcerated parents. The boys were entrusted to Jonathan’s care. Now they’re missing. It’s time to fight fire with fire . . . The boys’ mom, Connie Kendall, is awaiting trial on drug smuggling charges. Prosecutors want her to testify against the brutal Cortez Cartel to help bring down their ruthless operations. If she cooperates, she’ll get an easier sentence. But with her kids in the grip of the cartel, her lips are sealed. As Jonathan and his team of skilled operatives close in on the kidnappers, they realize that their enemies aren’t just hell-bent on selling drugs. Rival factions have even deadlier agendas. The clock is ticking on an attack that could kill thousands in a single breath. And it’s almost zero hour . . .

Author : Nick Tosches
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802135668

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A portrait of singer Jerry Lee Lewis details his early life, music, controversial marriage, problems and decline, endurance, and revival in popularity.

Author : Mia Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141905068

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HellFire by Mia Gallagher Pdf

On a midsummer’s evening a young Dublin woman, Lucy Dolan, prepares for a showdown that will help make sense of a heart-breaking and brutal atrocity that happened thirteen years earlier, changing her life forever. As she waits for the arrival of the charismatic figure who is the key to the mystery, she recounts her life story – a rich and extraordinary tale spanning two generations of storytellers and deal-makers, fortune-tellers and gamblers, businessmen and warlords, and the people that feared, served and betrayed them. With each twist of this tumultuous story Lucy revisits her childhood and early adolescence – trying to get her head around the things people do in the name of love and hate, greed and desire – and she pieces together afresh the events that led to the night that still haunts her.

Author : John Saul
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307767943

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Hellfire by John Saul Pdf

The old mill has been silent for a hundred years, its dread secrets locked from view. Still, the people of Westover, Massachusetts, remember . . . and whisper of that terrible day when horrifying flames claimed eleven innocent young lives. The day the mill's doors slammed shut--forever. But now, the last of the once-powerful Sturgess family is about to unlock those doors again . . . and unleash an elemental fury. For behind the padlocks, deep within the dark, abandoned building, a terrible vengeance waits. A vengeance conceived in HELLFIRE.

Author : Rodney Green Sr.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491778937

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Hellfire by Rodney Green Sr. Pdf

Although they say God is everywhere, he is nowhere to be found in these stories. Instead, Satan takes the driver’s seat in the lives of five individuals, taking on various forms, titles, and names as he carefully seduces each of them. In “The Griffin,” he transforms a promising young man into a killer. He becomes a pimp for a young woman in “The Harlot.” In the guise of a prison warden, he recruits a prisoner in jail for the rest of his life. He comes to a young man in juvenile detention and molds him into something he can use, and he finds a politician on the campaign trail who will serve his purposes. As the tales of these five people intertwine and Satan prepares positions for them in hell, they soon learn that when you make a deal with the devil, you are bound—bound to lose, bound to suffer, and, most importantly, bound to eternal torture. In these five interconnected short stories, Satan recruits five troubled souls with the goal of preparing them for positions in hell’s hierarchy.

Author : Gregory William Mank,Charles Heard,Bill Nelson
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781932595246

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Hollywood's Hellfire Club by Gregory William Mank,Charles Heard,Bill Nelson Pdf

They were the Bundy Drive Boys: hard-drinking, brilliantly talented, world-famous men of golden-age Hollywood - John Barrymore, Errol Flynn and W.C. Fields. Heroes with Hangovers tells the uncensored and ultimately moving story of these lost-soul geniuses. The partying and antics of the Rat Pack seem tame in comparison, but beneath the boozy bravado was a devoted mutual affection. Illustrated with dozens of never-before-seen photos and illustrations, this is the sozzled side of Hollywood's great era.

Author : Simon Goodson
Publisher : Dark Soul Publishing Ltd
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910586259

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Hellfire - Treachery by Simon Goodson Pdf

Don't. Get. Caught. The only thing worse than fighting a Hellship, powerful starships controlled by entities of pure evil, is being captured by one! Drake’s sister was taken by the hellship Azimuth, dooming her to a life of pain followed by an agonising death. Unless Drake can save her. Tales of his quest are told across hundreds of systems, but Drake doesn’t care. All he wants is to stop the Azimuth continuing with its reign of evil and keep his promise to his sister. No matter the cost. Will he succeed? Grab Hellfire – Treachery today and find out for yourself!

Author : Peter Straub
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345480484

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The Hellfire Club by Peter Straub Pdf

They are dying, one by one: wealthy middle-aged women in an exclusive Connecticut suburb. Their murderer remains at large. Nora Chancel, wife of publishing scion Davey Chancel, fears she may be next. After all, her past has branded her a victim. . . . Then Davey tells Nora a surreal story about the Hellfire Club, where, years before, he met an obsessed fan of Chancel House’s most successful book, Night Journey—a book that has a strange history of its own. . . . Suddenly terror engulfs Nora: She must defend herself against fantastic accusations even as a madman lies in wait. And when he springs, Nora will embark on a night journey that will put her fears to rest forever, dead or alive. . . .

Author : Jake Tapper
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316472333

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The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper Pdf

A young Congressman stumbles on the powerful political underworld of 1950's D.C. in this "potent thriller" (David Baldacci) and New York Times bestseller from CNN correspondent Jake Tapper. Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor died mysteriously, Charlie is struggling to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, DC, alongside his young wife Margaret, a zoologist with ambitions of her own. Amid the swirl of glamorous and powerful political leaders and deal makers, a mysterious fatal car accident thrusts Charlie and Margaret into an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a plot that could change the course of history. When Charlie discovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of governance, he has to fight not only for his principles and his newfound political career...but for his life.

Author : Paul Marston
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666784800

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Hellfire and Destruction by Paul Marston Pdf

To those of us who believe in the inspiration and authority of the Bible, it must surely be a concern to know what it says will happen to the millions around us, some of whom we love dearly, who die without repentance or faith. Does Scripture teach that at the last judgment those who remain unrepentant will be consigned to an unending existence of torment without hope? Is that truly what Jesus and his apostles believed and taught? This book presents basic evidence that what they really taught was that the final judgmental end for such people will be “destruction,” taking its obvious meaning that they will cease to exist as conscious individuals. The arguments are not complex, because most of the New Testament writers make plain statements to this effect. The book also looks at those parables and Revelation passages sometimes taken to indicate unending torment. It links with academic works that in increasing numbers are making the same points, but the book is not a contribution to academic scholarship. Rather, it is a careful, readable, and accessible account to challenge pastors, church leaders, and Christians generally to consider what the Bible actually says rather than rely on tradition.

Author : Suzanne Robinson
Publisher : Fanfare
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307785534

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Lady Hellfire by Suzanne Robinson Pdf

In this passionate love story, a beauty from the American frontier confronts a devilishly attractive nobleman. “An author with star quality . . . spectacularly talented.”—Romantic Times After she braved the perils of the wild frontier, there wasn’t a man alive that Kate couldn’t handle—or so the reckless spitfire thought—until she found herself on British soil and in the presence of the devilishly disturbing Marquess of Richfield. Dangerously attractive, mysteriously tormented, he ignored her, disarmed her, enticed her. But Alexis had too many women in his life, and Kate vowed she’d never be just one more. . . . To Lord Alexis de Granville, women were for solace, to be used as they had always used him. Yet the lovely Katherine Grey refused to play the game. One moment she scandalized him with her brash American manners, the next she seduced him with her lush lips and flame-colored hair. Worst of all, the tempestuous wench touched his faithless heart. Now, in a castle beset by treachery, Alexis will do anything, fight anyone, to make her want him as much as he needs her. . . .

Author : Max McCoy
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786038459

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Hellfire Canyon by Max McCoy Pdf

2007 Spur Award for Best Paperback Novel by the Western Writers of America Heading For A Showdown. . . Towering, flame-haired Alf Bolin is a ruthless young outlaw with a passion for quoting fine literature, slaughtering anyone who gets in his way and keeping the body parts as souvenirs. Already with forty murders under his belt--and counting--the locals of Branson, Missouri, live in a state of constant terror. . . .In Hellfire Canyon Zach Thomas is a federal trooper with a personal vendetta strong enough to send him deep undercover--into the dark heart of Bolin's vicious gang. Fueled by hatred and justice, he soon wins Bolin's confidence and waits for the killer to turn his back... Max McCoy's westerns have been called "powerful" by USA Today. Now comes a gripping new novel inspired by the true story of one of America's first serial killers--and the lone federal trooper who took on the most daring mission of all.

Author : J.D.R. Hawkins
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387357932

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A Beckoning Hellfire by J.D.R. Hawkins Pdf