Miranda S War

Author : Eric S. Brown
Publisher : Theogony Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948485826

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Miranda's War by Eric S. Brown Pdf

An axe, a ship, and a crew of her own¿Like many others before her, Miranda Leighman wanted nothing more than to leave the fringe planet of Harold's Colony that she grew up on. Miranda dreamed of soaring among the stars, but she never had a way of making her dream come true.Until a monster descended on her tiny colony world, and the owner of Harold's Colony hired a mercenary kill crew of monster hunters. When Miranda kills the monster plaguing her colony after most of the monster hunters are killed, though, she sees her opportunity.And she takes it.Now, ten years later, she is the leader of her own team, but the life of a monster hunter is hard. There are bills to pay, a ship to keep running, monsters to eliminate- without getting killed-and a budding civil war to stay out of. And, if that weren't bad enough, there is also now something stalking her, killing the members of her crew.Where do you go when the government wants you dead, and you can't find out what is killing your crew? What do you do when the hunter becomes the hunted?

Author : Justo Miranda
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Enemy at the Gates by Justo Miranda Pdf

When the Nazis started to threaten the world with their efficient machine of propaganda, the main concern of European governments was the overwhelming reaction of panic that the expected bombing of the Luftwaffe might cause within the civil population. During the Munich Agreement in 1938, the democracies were defended by old biplanes and a bunch of modern fighters: 50 Hurricanes, 20 Morane-405 and 5 Fokker D.XXI. France and Great Britain took up the production of USA airplanes and cancelled exports to small countries, which were forced to design and build their own PANIC FIGHTERS with the intelligence and skill that desperation provides. When nothing seemed able to contain the German advance, France, Great Britain and the USSR developed several programs of emergency fighters, as did Australia, to face the Japanese expansion. At the time the course of events switched, it was the Axis powers that had to create their own PANIC FIGHTERS, some of them suicidal. The present book includes several last resource designs of fighters that are practically unknown and that were developed in times of tribulation by Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Netherland, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland.

Author : Miranda Carter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400079124

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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter Pdf

In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world. Through brilliant and often darkly comic portraits of these men and their lives, their foibles and obsessions, Miranda Carter delivers the tragicomic story of Europe’s early twentieth-century aristocracy, a solipsistic world preposterously out of kilter with its times.

Author : Justo Miranda
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ultimate Allied Fighters of the Second World War by Justo Miranda Pdf

During the five years of the Second World War, the power of engines and speed of aircraft increased as much as it did during twenty years of peacetime. Conventional aircraft and engines reached the limits marked in the original design and surpassed them, very fast. The basis for this huge achievement was exotic fuels, short-lived artificially overpowered engines, propellers with four, five, and even six blades, and thinner wings with special sections of laminar flow. Then the faster Allied fighters began to be attacked by a demon that lived in the air: scientists called it compressibility buffeting and different type of aircraft suffered it at different speeds and manifested itself in different ways. The American and British designers never understood the true causes behind the aerodynamic phenomenon. They were forced to adopt brute force solutions by increasing engine power on the turbojet powered fighters, leaving in the background the research on the last projects of fighters, driven by monster piston engines. The purpose of this book is to present them to the public, for its notable interest.

Author : Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804140652

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A Fifty-Year Silence by Miranda Richmond Mouillot Pdf

A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences In 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, Miranda's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of France. Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking the typewriter and their children. Aside from one brief encounter, the two never saw or spoke to each other again, never remarried, and never revealed what had divided them forever. A Fifty-Year Silence is the deeply involving account of Miranda Richmond Mouillot's journey to find out what happened between her grandmother, a physician, and her grandfather, an interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, who refused to utter his wife's name aloud after she left him. To discover the roots of their embittered and entrenched silence, Miranda abandons her plans for the future and moves to their stone house, now a crumbling ruin; immerses herself in letters, archival materials, and secondary sources; and teases stories out of her reticent, and declining, grandparents. As she reconstructs how Anna and Armand braved overwhelming odds and how the knowledge her grandfather acquired at Nuremberg destroyed their relationship, Miranda wrestles with the legacy of trauma, the burden of history, and the complexities of memory. She also finds herself learning how not only to survive but to thrive--making a home in the village and falling in love. With warmth, humor, and rich, evocative details that bring her grandparents' outsize characters and their daily struggles vividly to life, A Fifty-Year Silence is a heartbreaking, uplifting love story spanning two continents and three generations.

Author : Justo Miranda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Kamikaze airplanes
ISBN : 1781555656

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Axis Suicide Squads by Justo Miranda Pdf

During the Second World War both Germany and Japan developed several types of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles. Unfortunately for them, the Allies were technologically superior in electronic warfare by mid-1944, just in time to interfere the guidance systems of first generation. The Japanese thought to have found the tactic to stop the invasion fleets, with the ritual of the terminal dive bombing. The Germans adapted their Sturmj�ger squadrons to the Taran tactics learnt from the Soviets. Once the radio frequency war was lost, the Axis scientists tried to develop other control techniques. But the acoustic, electrostatic and infrared sensors, together with the TV guidance system, were not ready on time and broken cables made the wire guided bombs frequently fail. Both countries began to design ramming fighters and suicide bombers when the futile devastation of their cities by the Allies bombers ensured that, when the time comes, there would not be lack of volunteer pilots. But this book is just about machines, depicting all known designs of all Axis suicide airplanes and panic fighters.

Author : Kelli Stanley
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250018052

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City of Ghosts by Kelli Stanley Pdf

Miranda Corbie's back. Noir will never be the same. And Kelli Stanley will once again mesmerize readers with the most thrilling novel yet in her award-winning series. June, 1940. For the United States, war is on the horizon. For Miranda Corbie, private investigator and erstwhile escort, there are debts to be paid and memories—long-suppressed and willfully forgotten—to be resurrected. Enter the U.S. State Department and the man who helped Miranda get her PI license. A man she owes. A man who asks her to track a chemistry professor here in San Francisco whom he suspects is a spy for the Nazis. Playing along may get Miranda a ticket to Blitz-bombed England and answers about her past...if she survives. Through sordid back alleys and art gallery halls, from drag dress nightclubs to a Nazi costume ball, Miranda's journey into fear takes her on the famed City of San Francisco streamliner and to Reno, Nevada, the Biggest Little City in the World...where she finds herself framed for a murder she never anticipated. Forced to go underground, Miranda soldiers on alone, determined to find the truth about a murder, a Nazi spy, and her own troubling past. But Miranda will have to learn the difference between reality and illusion, from despair to deceit and factual to fake, as she tries to get her life back...and navigates a City of Ghosts.

Author : James Biggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Venezuela
ISBN : PRNC:32101066153311

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The History of Don Francisco de Miranda's Attempt to Effect a Revolution in South America by James Biggs Pdf

Author : Miranda Carter
Publisher : ePenguin
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0141019980

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The Three Emperors by Miranda Carter Pdf

In the years before the First World War, the great European powers, Britain, Germany and Russia, were ruled by three cousins: George V, King-Emperor of England, the British Empire and India; Wilhelm II, the last Kaiser; and Nicholas II, the last Tsar. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war which set twentieth century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world. Miranda Carter uses the cousins� correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell the tragicomic story of a tiny, glittering, solipsistic world that was often preposterously out of kilter with its times, struggling to stay in command of politics and world events as history overtook it. The Three Emperors is a brilliant and sometimes hilarious portrait of three men � damaged, egotistical Wilhelm, quiet, stubborn Nicholas and anxious, dutiful George � and their lives, foibles and obsessions, from tantrums to uniforms to stamp collecting. It is also alive with fresh, subtle portraits of other familiar figures: Queen Victoria � grandmother to two of them, grandmother-in-law to the third � whose conservatism and bullying obsession with family left a dangerous legacy; and of Edward VII, the playboy �arch-vulgarian� who turned out to have a remarkable gift for international relations and the theatrics of mass politics. At the same time it weaves through their stories a riveting account of the events that led to World War One, showing how the personal and the political interacted, sometimes to devastating effect. For all three men the war would be a disaster which destroyed for ever the illusion of their close family relationships, with any sense of peace and harmony shattered in a final coda of murder, betrayal and abdication.

Author : Dave Scheidt,Miranda Harmon
Publisher : Random House Graphic
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593124888

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Mayor Good Boy by Dave Scheidt,Miranda Harmon Pdf

There's a new dog in town! Finally Greenwood gets the mayor they've been waiting for--Mayor Good Boy! In this graphic novel, a very good dog is going to save his town, one hilarious try at a time. The votes are in and the new mayor is...A DOG?! This dog will do more than shake paws. Mayor Good Boy is here to help Greenwood become a town filled with kindness, starting with fetching help for the local zoo. With foes around every corner trying to put a stop to Mayor Good Boy's campaign of fun, are there cheese snacks and belly rubs in his future? Or will the whole town suddenly have a flea problem? In the hilarious Mayor Good Boy graphic novel series, everyone can make the world a better place, whether you’re a human or a dog.

Author : Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826521149

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Creating Carmen Miranda by Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez Pdf

Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the "ambassadress of samba" suddenly took a knee during a dance number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments to continue with what she did best: performing. By the next morning, she was dead from heart failure at age 46. This final performance in many ways exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda. The actress, singer, and dancer pursued a relentless mission to demonstrate the provocative theatrical force of her cultural roots in Brazil. Armed with bare-midriff dresses, platform shoes, and her iconic fruit-basket headdresses, Miranda stole the show in films like That Night in Rio and The Gang's All Here. For American film audiences, her life was an example of the exoticism of a mysterious, sensual South America. For Brazilian and Latin American audiences, she was an icon. For the gay community, she became a work of art personified and a symbol of courage and charisma. In Creating Carmen Miranda, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through the myriad methods Miranda consciously used to shape her performance of race, gender, and camp culture, all to further her journey down the road to becoming a legend.

Author : Howard Foster
Publisher : Liberty Island
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682615584

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Miranda's War by Howard Foster Pdf

Author : Rachel Aaron
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316192927

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The Spirit War by Rachel Aaron Pdf

Eli Monpress is vain. He's cocky. And he's a thief. But he's a thief who has just seen his bounty topped and he's not happy about it. The bounty topper, as it turns out, is his best friend, bodyguard, and master swordsman, Josef. Who has been keeping secrets from Eli. Apparently, he's the only prince of a rather feisty country and his mother (a formidable queen who's every bit as driven and stubborn as he is) wants him to come home and do his duty, which means throwing over personal ambitions like proving he's the greatest swordsman who ever lived. Family drama aside, Eli and Josef have their hands full. The Spirit Court has been usurped by the Council of Thrones and someone calling herself the Immortal Empress is staging a massive invasion. But it's not just politics --- the Immortal Empress has a specific target in mind: Eli Monpress, the greatest thief in the world.

Author : Francisco de Miranda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019588919

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The History of Don Francisco de Miranda's Attempt to Effect a Revolution in South America, in a Series of Letters. By a Gentleman [James Biggs] who was an Officer Under that General, to His Friend in the United States. To which are Annexed, Sketches of the Life of Miranda, and Geographical Notices of Caraccas by Francisco de Miranda Pdf

Author : Karen Racine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742580558

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Francisco de Miranda by Karen Racine Pdf

Before there was Sim-n Bol'var, there was Francisco de Miranda. He was among the most infamous men of his generation, loved or hated by all who knew him. Venezuelan General Francisco Gabriel de Miranda (1750-1816) participated in the major political events of the Atlantic World for more than three decades. Before his tragic last days he would be Spanish soldier, friend of U.S. presidents, paramour of Catherine the Great, French Revolutionary general in the Belgian campaigns, perennial thorn in the side of British Prime Minister William Pitt, and fomenter of revolution in Spanish America. He used his personal relationships with leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to advance his dream of a liberated Spanish America. Author Karen Racine brings the man into focus in a careful, thorough analysis, showing how his savvy, firm political beliefs and courageous actions saved him from being the simple scoundrel that his dalliances suggested. Shedding light on one of history's most charismatic and cosmopolitan world citizens, Francisco de Miranda will appeal to all those interested in biography and Latin American history.