Memories At Low Altitude

Author : Jacinto Veloso
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770224162

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Memories at Low Altitude by Jacinto Veloso Pdf

A story of war and peace in Mozambique and beyond, Memories at Low Altitude spans four decades of southern African history, from the point of view of one of its main protagonists. Jacinto Veloso fought in the Mozambican liberation struggle and served as a Minister in Samora Machel’s cabinet after independence, when the region was dominated by civil war and the conflict between East and West. Veloso’s story covers many fascinating issues of this period, among them: * the conflict between FRELIMO and the South African–backed RENAMO; * the negotiations that resulted in the Nkomati Accord, in which he was a key participant; * the processes that contributed to the withdrawal of Cuban and South African troops from Angola and the independence of Namibia; * the impact of post-independence Mozambique’s strictly socialist economy and its subsequent shift to a more market-orientated approach; and * the aeroplane crash in which Samora Machel was killed. Velosa’s insights are particularly interesting given his role in the commission of inquiry into the crash.

Author : Michael A. Yassa,Thomas Wolbers,Hiroyuki Okuno,Ashok Hegde,Peter K. Giese,Oliver Stork
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889718047

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Learning and Memory by Michael A. Yassa,Thomas Wolbers,Hiroyuki Okuno,Ashok Hegde,Peter K. Giese,Oliver Stork Pdf

Author : David Fogg
Publisher : Memoirs Foundation
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Automobile racing drivers
ISBN : 9780987060013

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Foggy Memories by David Fogg Pdf

Author : Ross Smyth
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 189426343X

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Aviation Memories by Ross Smyth Pdf

Author : Ryan Shaffer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538159989

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The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures by Ryan Shaffer Pdf

Bringing together a group of international scholars, The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures provides the first review of intelligence cultures in every African country. It explores how intelligence cultures are influenced by a range of factors, including past and present societal, governmental and international dynamics. In doing so, the book examines the state’s role, civil society and foreign relations in shaping African countries’ intelligence norms, activities and oversight. It also explores the role intelligence services and cultures play in government and civil society.

Author : Yuriy Sobeshchakov
Publisher : Litres
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040354900

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The Memories of Dead Pilot by Yuriy Sobeshchakov Pdf

While day-dreaming about his sexual exploits, a young pilot of a strategic bomber crashed into the icy waters of the Pacific and killed his entire crew. Fate was kind enough to give him a second chance, but nobody can change that much in a few years. Later, while flying in Vietnam, working for what was supposed to be easy money, he crashed his plane again. This time he did not survive and killed his six crew members as well three dozen local residents of the jungle. The main character once said: “I always compared human life with a back of zebra, but just recently I suddenly reached up to the deeper meaning of this banal comparison. Everyone knows about the alternation of bands on the sides of the animal, but not all extend their view the rest of zebra’s body. And if someone dares to do so, he or she was surprised to find that all these stripes on zebra ended under the tail in a big ass. And no matter what bands in life were more – white or black, in the end, we all find us there”. Despite the fact that the story is set in the late eighties, it is as relevant today as it was then and will continue to be pertinent because human essence does not change. A man, like any living being, will always need food and sex, and to meet these needs money. Because of this, the story is filled with sex, greed, malice and treachery, and is not recommended for readers under the age of eighteen.

Author : Nicki von der Heyde
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781920545758

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Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa by Nicki von der Heyde Pdf

Expert battlefields guide Nicki von der Heyde presents 71 battles covering three wars and a series of conflicts that shaped the course of South Africa’s history – from the colonial clashes that characterised the 18th and 19th centuries through to the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the 2nd Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902. Informative and lively accounts of the engagements are provided, with special attention given to the context, action, outcomes and principal combatants involved. Arranged in provincial and regional order, the Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa includes an array of special features that allow for an enthralling and multi-layered account of the battles: • 580 images • 80 illustrated timelines • 60 fact and feature boxes • 16 annotated battle maps • 10 regional locator maps • Detailed directions to each site • GPS co-ordinates for inaccessible locations. Comprehensive, compelling and vividly illustrated, the Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa is an indispensable tool for professional and amateur military historians as well as anyone interested in exploring South Africa’s fascinating history.

Author : Colin Darch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538111352

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Historical Dictionary of Mozambique by Colin Darch Pdf

The new edition of Historical Dictionary of Mozambique covers the Bantu expansion; the arrival of the Portuguese navigators and their str competition with local African power centers and coastal Arab-Swahili trading towns; the trade cycles of gold, ivory, and slaves; the establishment of the semi-Africanized prazos along the Zambezi Valley; “pacification” campaigns; and the period of Portuguese weakness in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when vast tracts of land were rented to concessionary companies. In the late colonial period the Salazar dictatorship tried to reassert Portuguese power, but after ten years of armed struggle for national liberation, Mozambique gained its independence in 1975. The book contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mozambique.

Author : Todd Cleveland
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896804999

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Following the Ball by Todd Cleveland Pdf

With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal’s increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies. Cleveland zeroes in on the ways that players, such as the great Eusébio, creatively exploited opportunities generated by shifts in the political and occupational landscapes in the waning decades of Portugal’s empire. Drawing on interviews with the players themselves, he shows how they often assumed roles as social and cultural intermediaries and counters reductive histories that have depicted footballers as mere colonial pawns. To reconstruct these players’ transnational histories, the narrative traces their lives from the informal soccer spaces in colonial Africa to the manicured pitches of Europe, while simultaneously focusing on their off-the-field challenges and successes. By examining this multi-continental space in a single analytical field, the book unearths structural and experiential consistencies and contrasts, and illuminates the components and processes of empire.

Author : Gi-Wook Shin,Daniel Sneider
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804799720

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Divergent Memories by Gi-Wook Shin,Daniel Sneider Pdf

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past events—it is often contested, negotiated, and reshaped over time. Debate over the history of World War II in Asia remains surprisingly intense, and Divergent Memories examines the opinions of powerful individuals to pinpoint the sources of conflict: from Japanese colonialism in Korea and atrocities in China to the American decision to use atomic weapons against Japan. Rather than labeling others' views as "distorted" or ignoring dissenting voices to create a monolithic historical account, Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider pursue a more fruitful approach: analyzing how historical memory has developed, been formulated, and even been challenged in each country. By identifying key factors responsible for these differences, Divergent Memories provides the tools for readers to both approach their own national histories with reflection and to be more understanding of others.

Author : Gillian Cohen,Martin A. Conway
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135419875

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Memory in the Real World by Gillian Cohen,Martin A. Conway Pdf

This fully revised and updated third edition of the highly acclaimed Memory in the Real World includes recent research in all areas of everyday memory. Distinguished researchers have contributed new and updated material in their own areas of expertise. The controversy about the value of naturalistic research, as opposed to traditional laboratory methods, is outlined, and the two approaches are seen to have converged and become complementary rather than antagonistic. The editors bring together studies on many different topics, such as memory for plans and actions, for names and faces, for routes and maps, life experiences and flashbulb memory, and eyewitness memory. Emphasis is also given to the role of memory in consciousness and metacognition. New topics covered in this edition include life span development of memory, collaborative remembering, deja-vu and memory dysfunction in the real world. Memory in the Real World will be of continuing appeal to students and researchers in the area.

Author : T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson, Ed.S.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496911346

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B-17 MEMORIES by T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson, Ed.S. Pdf

The Memphis Belle, completed 25 missions and became the symbol of Eighth Air Force success in the air war over Europe. Its national tour rallied support and encouraged citizens enduring rationing and sacrifices for victory. Heavy bomber aircrews proved their value with precision bombing. My writing is based on memories, diaries and interviews of other veterans and my teenage experiences as an Eighth Air Force B-17 radio/gunner on twenty combat missions with the 490th Bomb Group (H). This fourth book presents short stories of boys on B-17 Flying Fortress crews flying deadly missions to destroy German and Italian military targets. Twenty-six thousand airmen died and thousands more were wounded. The sky was our arena and we paved the way for Infantry and Armored Divisions slogging through heat, rain or snow to preserve our freedom. Many B-17 gunners were teenagers who enlisted or were drafted, trained and sent into combat before they could legally vote or buy a drink. They saved our freedom and came home to build the USA into the most powerful nation in the world. I self-publish because I am 89 and my time is limited. I thank God that I have been able to record more than 350 stories of my generation. "WW II veterans are fading into History — less than two million of the sixteen million who served are left to tell their stories" See my interview online at "Wings over Europe my Smithville"

Author : Jill Rutan Hoffman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595006021

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Oshkosh Memories by Jill Rutan Hoffman Pdf

There is a common passion for aviation that bonds EAA members and aviation buffs and draws them to the annual gathering in Oshkosh Wisconsin, known as AirVenture Oshkosh. In Oshkosh Memories, the reader shares in the experiences of celebrities and devoted attendees of the "World''s Greatest Fly-In". From the first-timer to the old-timer, airshow performer to homebuilder the thoroughly entertaining stories will touch all of your emotions as you become a part of the Experimental Aircraft Association''s "annual family reunion".

Author : Alan L. Mintz
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1584652004

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Reading Hebrew Literature by Alan L. Mintz Pdf

Six classic texts of modern Hebrew literature viewed from a variety of critical perspectives.

Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : MINN:31951D00118674L

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Technical Publications Announcements with Indexes by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pdf