L A Under Fire

Author : Tierney S. Hamilton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477105122

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L. A. Under Fire by Tierney S. Hamilton Pdf

Kristen Johnson is normally a strong, independent, thirty year old woman. However, when faced with divorce from a man she has been with since high school her strength and independence becomes harder to keep a hold on. His prolonged affairs with numerous women have finally taken its tollon him. With two small children, she is faced with the decision to grow stronger or fall to pieces. After winning a contest to be part of a televised program that would give her the body of her dreams, she chooses to face life head on. Leaving her children in Colorado Springs, Colorado with her ex-husband, she heads to Los Angeles for the 8-week process that will change her life. Through the process, she meets an extremely well known actor whom she has admired for years. Her relationship with Jake Hendricks grows stronger each day that they spend together. On the night before her flight back to reality, terror strikes Los Angeles and Kristen and Jake are caught in the middle. Through the terror of the situation that she has found herself in, she has to choose whether to fight or hide while finding love within a man she never dreamed she would even meet. Together they face an evil that few people have faced before. Evil that comes from one mans passion for revenge.

Author : Mike Davis,Jon Wiener
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839761225

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Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis,Jon Wiener Pdf

Los Angeles Times Bestseller This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). “Authoritative and impressive.” —Los Angeles Times “Monumental.” —Guardian Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis’s award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.

Author : Henri Barbusse
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547402350

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Under Fire by Henri Barbusse Pdf

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad is novel was based on Henri Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front. The novel takes the form of journal-like anecdotes which the unnamed narrator claims to be writing to record his time in the war. It follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers on the Western front in France after the German invasion. The book relates broad visions shared by multiple characters but beyond these the action of the novel takes place in occupied France. Under Fire describes war in gritty and brutal realism. It is noted for its realistic descriptions of death in war and the squalid trench conditions.

Author : Alex Dowdall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198856115

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Communities Under Fire by Alex Dowdall Pdf

Between 1914 and 1918, the Western Front passed through some of Europe's most populated and industrialised regions. Large towns including Nancy, Reims, Arras, and Lens lay at the heart of the battlefield. Their civilian inhabitants endured artillery bombardment, military occupation, and material hardship. Many fled for the safety of the French interior, but others lived under fire for much of the war, ensuring the Western Front remained a joint civil-military space. Communities under Fire explores the wartime experiences of civilians on both sides of the Western Front, and uncovers how urban communities responded to the dramatic impact of industrialized war. It discusses how war shaped civilians' personal and collective identities, and explores how the experiences of military violence, occupation, and forced displacement structured the attitudes of civilians at the front towards the rest of the nation. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources, letters, diaries, and newspapers in English, French, and German, it reveals the history of the Western Front from the perspective of its civilian inhabitants. From Leningrad to Warsaw, Hamburg, and, more recently, Sarajevo and Donetsk, urban violence has remained a feature of warfare in Europe, turning cities into battlefields. On each occasion, civilian populations were at the heart of military operations, and forced to adapt to life in a warzone. This was also the case between 1914 and 1918, despite the myth that the First World War was predominantly a soldiers' war. The civilian inhabitants of the Western Front were among the first to suffer the full impact of modern, industrialized war in an urban setting. Communities under Fire explains the multiple ways by which these urban residents responded to, were changed by, succumbed to, or survived the enormous pressures of life in a warzone.

Author : David A. Horowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135398286

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America's Political Class Under Fire by David A. Horowitz Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Peter M. Sánchez
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813055640

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Priest Under Fire by Peter M. Sánchez Pdf

David Rodriguez, or Padre David as he is known throughout El Salvador, is a diocesan priest who followed the Second Vatican Council's doctrinal mandate to advocate for the poor and oppressed. Along with other progressive clergy committed to liberation theology, Padre David helped drive forward the country’s popular movement. In the 1970s, Padre David joined the largest guerilla organization in El Salvador, the FPL (Popular Liberation Forces). At first, he supported the FPL clandestinely, helping to organize Christian Base Communities, autonomous religious groups dedicated to spreading liberationist ideas and to giving the Salvadoran poor a clear understanding of why their lives were so difficult. By the end of the twelve-year civil war, he was head of the FPL's finance committee. He traveled to the United States, Europe, and across Latin America raising funds for the movement and its resulting political party, the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front). In Priest Under Fire, Peter Sánchez tells the story of how one priest joined a movement to help his people and his country. He provides much-needed insight into both the Salvadoran civil war and the Catholic Church-influenced grassroots political movements, showing that they continue to inform Latin America today.

Author : Paul A. LaViolette
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1591430526

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Earth Under Fire by Paul A. LaViolette Pdf

In "Earth Under Fire, " Paul LaViolette investigates the connection between ancient world catastrophe myths and modern scientific evidence of a galactic destruction cycle, demonstrating how past civilizations accurately recorded the causes of these cataclysmic events, knowledge of which may be crucial for the human race to survive the next catastrophic superwave cycle.

Author : bart Sir George Floyd Duckett,George-Floyd Baronet Duckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : German language
ISBN : ONB:+Z156536308

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Technological Military Dictionary, German-English-French by bart Sir George Floyd Duckett,George-Floyd Baronet Duckett Pdf

Author : Fred Burton,Samuel M. Katz
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466837256

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Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi by Fred Burton,Samuel M. Katz Pdf

The New York Times bestselling inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, Libya On the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by a heavily armed group of Islamic terrorists. The prolonged firefight, and the attack hours later on a nearby CIA outpost, resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the American ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, the Information Officer, Sean Smith, and two former Navy SEALs, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, working for the Central Intelligence Agency. After the fall of Qaddafi, Benghazi was transformed into a hotbed of fundamentalist fervor and a den of spies for the northern half of the African continent. Moreover, it became the center of gravity for terrorist groups strategically situated in the violent whirlwinds of the Arab Spring. On the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks against the United States, a group of heavily armed Islamic terrorists had their sights set on the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence presence in the city. Based on the exclusive cooperation of eyewitnesses and confidential sources within the intelligence, diplomatic, and military communities, Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz reveal for the first time the terrifying twelve-hour ordeal confronted by Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, his Diplomatic Security (DS) contingent, and the CIA security specialists who raced to rescue them. More than just the minute-by-minute narrative of a desperate last stand in the midst of an anarchic rebellion, Under Fire is an inspiring testament to the bravery and selflessness of the men and women who put their country first while serving in one of the most dangerous regions in the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Page : 1059 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English language
ISBN : 9788447533183

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Diccionari UB by Anonim Pdf

El diccionari UB anglès-català és el resultat d’una activitat conjunta de diferents agents que, de manera complementària, han sumat coneixements, continguts i tecnologia per fer una obra de referència rigorosa, posada al dia, útil a un ampli sector de la ciutadania i que contribueixi a eixamplar els horitzons culturals i lingüístics no solament de la comunitat universitària, sinó de la societat catalana...Pel seu contingut, constitueix una obra idònia tant per als usuaris comuns de la llengua com per a especialistes d’un ampli ventall de sectors professionals, així com per al professorat i estudiants universitaris i de cursos avançats de secundària. La mobilitat estudiantil a nivell internacional el converteix en un company de viatge imprescindible per als estudiants catalans que viatgen a l’estranger i en una eina bàsica per al coneixement de la llengua i la cultura catalanes per als qui vénen a completar els seus estudis al nostre país.

Author : Robin Kirk,Human Rights Watch/Americas
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564321444

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Generation Under Fire by Robin Kirk,Human Rights Watch/Americas Pdf

Author : United States. Military Information Division. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127306475

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French-English Military Technical Directory, by Cornelius De Witt Willcox by United States. Military Information Division. War Department Pdf

Author : J. E. Kaufmann,H. W. Kaufmann
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0811733955

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Fortress France by J. E. Kaufmann,H. W. Kaufmann Pdf

Discusses the gun-bearing fortifications and coastal defenses of France created between the world wars and challenges the premise that the defeat of France in World War II was the result of a misplaced reliance on the Maginot Line for its defense.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKMUD

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Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : MSU:31293107510327

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United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919 by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History Pdf