Hostages To Freedom

Author : Peter Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015022886223

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Hostages to Freedom by Peter Stone Pdf

Author : Betsy DeVos
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781546002031

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Hostages No More by Betsy DeVos Pdf

Now a National Bestseller! From coronavirus lockdowns to critical race theory in the classroom, it has become crystal clear that America’s schools aren’t working for America’s students and parents. No one knows this better than Betsy DeVos. Long before she was tapped by President Trump to serve as secretary of education, DeVos established herself as one of the country’s most influential advocates for education reform, from school choice and charter schools to protecting free speech on campus. She’s unflinching in standing up to the powerful interests who control and benefit from the status quo in education – which is why the unions, the media, and the radical left made her public enemy number one. Now, DeVos is ready to tell her side of the story after years of being vilified by the radical left for championing common-sense, conservative reforms in America’s schools. In Hostages No More, DeVos unleashes her candid thoughts about working in the Trump administration, recounts her battles over the decades to put students first, hits back at “woke” curricula in our schools, and details the reforms America must pursue to fix its long and badly broken education system. And she has stories to tell: DeVos offers blunt insights on the people and politics that stand in the way of fixing our schools. For students, families and concerned citizens, DeVos shares a roadmap for reclaiming education and securing the futures of our kids – and America.

Author : Stephen Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 998089203X

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Captives for Freedom: Hostages, Negotiations and the Future of West Papua by Stephen Hill Pdf

Author : Luis Giampietri,Bill Salisbury,Lorena Ausejo
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173021940870

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41 Seconds to Freedom by Luis Giampietri,Bill Salisbury,Lorena Ausejo Pdf

Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of its dramatic conclusion, the true story of the 126-day terrorist standoff in Lima, Peru, is for the first time told by a former hostage: newly elected vice president of Peru Luis Giampietri. 16-page black-and-white photo insert.

Author : Thomas R. Hargrove,Tom Hargrove
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603444576

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Long March to Freedom by Thomas R. Hargrove,Tom Hargrove Pdf

Running late for work one morning in September 1994, Tom Hargrove, communications director for an international agricultural aid organization in Cali, Colombia, was mildly annoyed when he spotted a roadblock, or reten, manned by soldiers in fatigues. He chafed at the delay, but told himself that guerrillas and kidnappers didn't operate on a main highway in broad daylight. But Hargrove had been dreadfully mistaken. Despite his assertions that he worked for a non-profit agricultural agency, he was forced at gunpoint into a vehicle and driven into the mountains by communist narco-terrorists who believed he was a valuable hostage. For almost a year, Hargrove was held by the guerillas and moved from one remote location to another. To maintain his grip on sanity, he recorded his daily experiences in makeshift journals: in a checkbook; on children's notebooks; and on scraps of paper scrounged during his ordeal. Hargrove's story, originally published in 1995, was the basis for the major motion picture Proof of Life, starring Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan. Now available again in paperback, Long March to Freedom chronicles one man's spirited determination to hang onto life and faith amid nearly impossible circumstances.

Author : William D. Andrews
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781426951282

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Children by William D. Andrews Pdf

Children: Hostages of the State is based upon thirty-four years of working with children both inside and outside the non-juvenile system in several states. Including an inside look at foster care, adoptions, and out-of-home placement of children, it shows a pattern of a county, state, and local government control of children-a system that seems to be out of control, operating outside constitutional law. This message speaks to every parent with a child in foster care or in county, city, state, or government custody. The removals of many children from their homes are in violation of the constitutional and civil rights of both the children and parents. Civil rights violations carry a mandatory investigation. Author William D. Andrews lists a few of the most often violated areas he has seen, pointing to the adoption practice, which often appears to be open fraud. The adopting families, social workers, and judges often appear to be in a tailor-made adoption partnership. Andrews vows that the practice of removing children from homes without proper application of the law will be stopped. The total rejection of both child and parental rights granted by the US Constitution is a tragedy.

Author : Gordon Kerr,Phil Clarke
Publisher : Canary Press eBooks
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781907795800

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Hostages by Gordon Kerr,Phil Clarke Pdf

On 1 September 2004, a group of terrorists disguised as repairmen infiltrated a school in Beslan, Russia. Using concealed weapons they took 1100 children and adults hostage. The world looked on aghast as the siege played out on live TV. Hostages tells the incredible and often harrowing stories surrounding real-life events such as the Munich massacre of 1972, the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 and the bloody siege of the Davidian Ranch, Waco, Texas in 1993. Packed full of drama, action and heartbreak Hostages promises to be utterly captivating. Contents: Political Pawns including Aldo Moro, The Iranian Embassy Siege, Terry Waite, Alan Johnston A Question of Insanity including Gary Heidnik, Elizabeth Fritzl, Stephanie Slater, David Kouresh, Mark Dutroux Financial Gain including The Lindbergh Baby, Frank Sinatra Junior, Barbara Mackle, Shannon Matthews

Author : Enver Altayli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849049153

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A Dark Path to Freedom by Enver Altayli Pdf

Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Ruzi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberation of Central Asia from Russian rule, his life was a series of adventures and narrow escapes. He was successively a Soviet student, a Red Army officer, an officer in the German Turkestan Legion during World War II, a fugitive living in postwar Germany's underworld, and finally an immigrant to the United States who rose high in the CIA. Here he mixed with the powerful and famous, represented the US as a diplomat in Ankara and Bonn, and became an undercover agent in Iran after the hostage crisis of 1979-81. Nazar's foresight was formidable. He predicted that communism would collapse from within, briefing Reagan on the weakness of the Soviet system before the Reagan-Gorbachev talks. A Muslim who rejected Islamism, his warnings to the US government about the dangers of Islamic radicalism fell on deaf ears. This remarkable biography casts unique light on the lives of people caught up in the turmoil of the Soviet Union, World War II, the Cold War, and the struggle of nationalities deprived of their freedom by communism to regain independence.

Author : Tom Hargrove
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1585446327

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Long March to Freedom by Tom Hargrove Pdf

Running late for work one morning in September 1994, Tom Hargrove, communications director for an international agricultural aid organization in Cali, Colombia, was mildly annoyed when he spotted a roadblock, or retén, manned by soldiers in fatigues. He chafed at the delay, but told himself that guerrillas and kidnappers didn’t operate on a main highway in broad daylight. But Hargrove had been dreadfully mistaken. Despite his assertions that he worked for a non-profit agricultural agency, he was forced at gunpoint into a vehicle and driven into the mountains by communist narco-terrorists who believed he was a valuable hostage. For almost a year, Hargrove was held by the guerillas and moved from one remote location to another. To maintain his grip on sanity, he recorded his daily experiences in makeshift journals: in a checkbook; on children’s notebooks; and on scraps of paper scrounged during his ordeal. Hargrove’s story, originally published in 1995, was the basis for the major motion picture Proof of Life, starring Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan. Now available again in paperback, Long March to Freedom chronicles one man’s spirited determination to hang onto life and faith amid nearly impossible circumstances.

Author : James P. Rife,Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher : Department of the Navy
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067638364

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The Sound of Freedom by James P. Rife,Rodney P. Carlisle Pdf

Tells the story of the evolution of the Dahlgren Laboratory from a proof and test facility into a modern research and development center crucial to the technological evolution of the United States Navy.

Author : Brett Harper
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612308548

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Reagan by Brett Harper Pdf

A New York Times bestseller. He was the unlikeliest of presidential candidates - dismissed by opponents as a movie actor, a right-winger trying to undo the work of liberals stretching back to Franklin Roosevelt. Yet Ronald Reagan made it to the White House, taking office in a time of economic turmoil, waning prestige abroad, and a general damping of the American spirit. Reagan's patriotism, wit, and optimism lifted the nation and brought it through a number of crises. An effective leader who understood the power of words, stagecraft, and symbolism, Reagan was a paradoxical blend of ideology and pragmatism. Even as he increased the tension underlying the Cold War with the Soviet Union, he embarked on a series of summits with Mikhail Gorbachev that helped defuse the arms race. When he left office, prosperity had returned and the Soviet state had collapsed. People around the world still revere him for the dawning of what he called "morning in America." Here is his story.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : IND:30000129685412

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State by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victoria Bruce,Karin Hayes,Jorge Enrique Botero
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307593580

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Hostage Nation by Victoria Bruce,Karin Hayes,Jorge Enrique Botero Pdf

A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle. On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their personal narratives. But between the headlines a major story was lost: Who exactly are the FARC? How had a drug-funded revolutionary army managed to hold so many hostages for so long? Had our costly War on Drugs failed completely? Hostage Nation answers these questions by exploring the complex and corrupt political and socioeconomic situations that enabled the FARC to gain unprecedented strength, influence, and impunity. It takes us behind the news stories to profile a young revolutionary in the making, an elite Colombian banker-turned-guerrilla and the hard-driven American federal prosecutor determined to convict him on American soil, and a former FBI boss who worked tirelessly to end the hostage crisis while the U.S. government disregarded his most important tool—negotiation. With unprecedented access to the FARC’s hidden camps, exceptional research, and lucid and keen insight, the authors have produced a revelatory work of current history.

Author : Arlyn Dela Cruz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Hostages
ISBN : LCCN:2010338623

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A Lifetime of Freedom by Arlyn Dela Cruz Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Crime
ISBN : MINN:30000010771610

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FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin by Anonim Pdf