Lifeline Across The Sea

Author : David L. Williams
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780750965514

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Lifeline Across the Sea by David L. Williams Pdf

The safe exchange of wounded or gravely ill prisoners of war, 'protected personnel' – medical staff and clergy – and diplomats, civilians and alien internees is a little known dimension of the Second World War, yet it was highly dangerous work. Here, David L. Williams tells the gripping story of some fifty mercy ships engaged in these repatriation voyages, each of the exchanges arranged individually between Allied nations and the Axis belligerents, through neutral intermediaries, and often conducted under the supervision of the International Red Cross. Sailing alone and undefended through hostile waters, and conspicuously illuminated at night, the ships were constantly in danger from submarine and aircraft, their safety depending totally on the transmission and receipt of 'safe passage' commands to the armed units in their paths. However, despite the risk of attack and severe loss of life, these exchange operations were essential for providing a lifeline to thousands of people caught up in a cruel and brutal war.

Author : D. F. Cameron
Publisher : Todd & Honeywell
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0899626882

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Lifeline by D. F. Cameron Pdf

Author : James Davidson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780577685

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Scots And The Sea by James Davidson Pdf

With over six thousand miles of rugged coastline, nowhere in Scotland is more than forty-five miles from tidal waters, and seven of the biggest towns and cities are seaports. No wonder then that the sea has shaped Scotland, and in turn the Scots have helped to shape maritime history, trade and communications. Scots and the Sea is a unique and compelling account of a small, sparsely populated country's relationship with the most powerful force on earth. It is a celebration of the courage and endurance of fishermen and their families, the selfless bravery of lifeboat volunteers and the individual brilliance of leaders like Admiral Cochrane, who helped establish free nations across the globe. The illicit activities of scoundrels like Captain Kidd also provide a taste of the darker side of the story. Scotland's proud maritime tradition is traced through this volume, which examines the development of trade, the founding of a Scottish merchant navy and the pressures towards Union with England. It explores ports, harbours and shipyards, and outlines the vital role Scotland has played in shipbuilding and marine engineering - from the galleys and longships of early history to clippers, steamships, ocean liners, hovercraft and oil rigs. Also recounted are the exploits and achievements of Scots in all these fields, including those of James Watt, William Symington, Henry Bell and Robert Stevenson. Finally, it takes a look into the future, where Scottish research into wave and tidal power could become vital in providing a source of sustainable energy. Over the years, many Scots have made their living and their fortune from the sea, others have lost their lives to it – Scots and the Sea is a tribute to all of them.

Author : Margalit Fox
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780399589478

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Conan Doyle for the Defense by Margalit Fox Pdf

“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story. After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp. Though he was known to be innocent, Slater was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor. Outraged by this injustice, Arthur Conan Doyle, already world renowned as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, used the methods of his most famous character to reinvestigate the case, ultimately winning Slater’s freedom. With “an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research” (The Wall Street Journal), Margalit Fox immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in its history, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method. Praise for Conan Doyle for the Defense “Artful and compelling . . . [Fox’s] narrative momentum never flags. . . . Conan Doyle for the Defense will captivate almost any reader while being pure catnip for the devotee of true-crime writing.”—The Washington Post “Developed with brio . . . [Fox] is excellent in linking the 19th-century creation of policing and detection with the development of both detective fiction and the science of forensics—ballistics, fingerprints, toxicology and serology—as well as the quasi science of ‘criminal anthropology.’”—The New York Times Book Review “[Fox] has an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research.”—The Wall Street Journal “Gripping . . . The book works on two levels, much like a good Holmes case. First, it is a fluid story of a crime. . . . Second, and more pertinently, it is a deeper story of how prejudice against a class of people, the covering up of sloppy police work and a poisonous political atmosphere can doom an innocent. We should all heed Holmes’s salutary lesson: rationally follow the facts to find the truth.”—Time

Author : Keith Heyer Meldahl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226519623

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Hard Road West by Keith Heyer Meldahl Pdf

Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Gold Trail, Meldahl uses the diaries and letters of the 1849 settlers to reveal how geology and topography directly affected our nations westward expansion.

Author : Tran Truong Thuy,John B. Welfield,Le Thuy Trang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786437532

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Building a Normative Order in the South China Sea by Tran Truong Thuy,John B. Welfield,Le Thuy Trang Pdf

The South China Sea, where a number of great powers and regional players contend for influence, has emerged as one of the most potentially explosive regions in the world today. What can be done to reduce the possibility of conflict, solve the outstanding territorial problems, and harness the potential of the sea to promote regional development, environmental sustainability and security? This book, with contributions from leading authorities in China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Australia, Singapore and the United States, seeks to illuminate these questions.

Author : W B Bartlett
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752468075

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Downfall of the Crusader Kingdom by W B Bartlett Pdf

The Third Crusade of Richard the Lionheart is well known but the build-up to it less so. Downfall of the Crusader Kingdom is a story of intrigue, plot and counter-plot, and the abuse of power culminating in the most decisive battle of the medieval epoch, the Battle of Hattin in 1187. Hattin is one of the few battles in history that can truly be called decisive, and it was a catastrophe for the Crusaders. The leading men of the kingdom of Jerusalem, including the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers, were trapped in an arid wasteland, without water and surrounded by hostile forces. The battle ended with thousands of them being taken prisoner. It was the culmination of a series of events that had been progressively leading the kingdom of Jerusalem down the road to oblivion. It was partly the resurgence of the Muslim Middle East and the rise of Saladin that led to the loss of Jerusalem, but there was another equally dangerous element at work - the enemy within. W B Bartlett brings to life the bitter infighting and political battles which ultimately led to the disaster at Hattin and the downfall of the Crusader kingdom.

Author : John Ringo,Gary Poole
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625799524

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United We Stand by John Ringo,Gary Poole Pdf

STORIES SET IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE BEST-SELLING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE SERIES, BLACK TIDE RISING, CREATED BY JOHN RINGO. The world was brought to its knees by the zombie virus. But humanity has risen from the ashes and has begun to rebuild. Courageous men and women have kindled a fire of hope in the darkness. But mere survival is not enough. The real challenge is how to keep that future alive. How to not just survive, not just rebuild, but actually thrive. To tell the universe that mankind can take whatever nature throws against us and not back down. To stand united. Stories by John Birmingham, Jody Lynn Nye, Jamie Ibson, Sarah A. Hoyt, Brian Trent, Dave Freer, Griffin Barber, Lydia Sherrer, Mel Todd, Christopher L. Smith, Mike Massa

Author : John M. MacFarlane,Lynn J. Salmon
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550178807

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Around the World in a Dugout Canoe by John M. MacFarlane,Lynn J. Salmon Pdf

Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage—and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment—is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy.

Author : American Legion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89066032970

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The American Legion Magazine by American Legion Pdf

Author : Ryan Tucker Jones,Matt K. Matsuda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108334068

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The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean: Volume 1, The Pacific Ocean to 1800 by Ryan Tucker Jones,Matt K. Matsuda Pdf

Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a wide-ranging survey of Pacific history to 1800. It focuses on varied concepts of the Pacific environment and its impact on human history, as well as tracing the early exploration and colonization of the Pacific, the evolution of Indigenous maritime cultures after colonization, and the disruptive arrival of Europeans. Bringing together a diversity of subjects and viewpoints, this volume introduces a broad variety of topics, engaging fully with emerging environmental and political conflicts over Pacific Ocean spaces. These essays emphasize the impact of the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific to the present day.

Author : Great Britain. Ministry of Food
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Food supply
ISBN : UCAL:$B239771

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Miscellaneous Publications by Great Britain. Ministry of Food Pdf

Author : Lindsay Terry
Publisher : Sword of the Lord Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 0873984498

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Heart-Warming Hymn Stories by Lindsay Terry Pdf

I have gleaned these stories from conversations with these wonderful songwriters, from friends who knew them and from periodicals and books of hymnology. Although this book is primarily a devotional volume, the contents can be used as sermon illustrations, Sunday school lesson illustrations or story backgrounds for youth or children's gatherings. Schoolteachers have often found them to be exciting to their students. - Preface.

Author : Max Adams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780691212739

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Trees of Life by Max Adams Pdf

An informative, richly illustrated book about eighty of the world's most important and remarkable trees.

Author : United States Naval Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : UCAL:B3506904

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United States Naval Institute Proceedings by United States Naval Institute Pdf