My Life During Wartime

Author : Stephen W. Killam
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450084697

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My Life During Wartime by Stephen W. Killam Pdf

The Guardians of the Timeline hail from the Hundred Worlds universe, a series of colonized worlds at the far reaches of the galaxy. Empowered with information about future events, their mission is to protect the people of Earth from malevolent criminals from the Hundred Worlds and ensure that the timeline is not disrupted by the actions of any interdimensional travelers. After thirty years of a covert war only a handful of Hundred Worlds criminals remain on Earth. The last surviving Guardians have teamed up with a top secret government organization assigned to investigate extraterrestrial visitors and interdimensional threats. When a pair of spacecraft land on Earth in late 2004 and make demands to take over part of the United States the team faces its greatest challenge. After their base is attacked by the interdimensional terrorists the Guardians are forced to ally with their lifelong enemies to defend the Earth and protect the timeline from destruction. A fast paced, riveting adventure unfolds as the unlikely allies battle their mutual enemies in My Life During Wartime, the sequel to A Flight of Onesimus which introduced the team of Hundred Worlds heroes.

Author : Kristian Williams,Lara Messersmith,William Munger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849351309

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Life During Wartime by Kristian Williams,Lara Messersmith,William Munger Pdf

Counterinsurgency has existed as the state's implicit strategy for a generation, and increasingly this strategy is becoming explicit. In this chilling collection of sociological and political essays, 15 writers examine the application of domestic counterinsurgency tactics within the United States and seek to equip the left with a more nuanced understanding of state repression - and how to fight back.

Author : Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101637807

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The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Pdf

* Newbery Honor Book * #1 New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award * Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of the Year * New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War II, from the acclaimed author of Fighting Words, and for fans of Fish in a Tree and Number the Stars. Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother? This masterful work of historical fiction is equal parts adventure and a moving tale of family and identity—a classic in the making. "Achingly lovely...Nuanced and emotionally acute."—The Wall Street Journal "Unforgettable...unflinching."—Common Sense Media ★ “Brisk and honest...Cause for celebration.” —Kirkus, starred review ★ "Poignant."—Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ "Powerful."—The Horn Book, starred review "Affecting."—Booklist "Emotionally satisfying...[A] page-turner."—BCCB “Exquisitely written...Heart-lifting.” —SLJ "Astounding...This book is remarkable."—Karen Cushman, author The Midwife's Apprentice "Beautifully told."—Patricia MacLachlan, author of Sarah, Plain and Tall "I read this novel in two big gulps."—Gary D. Schmidt, author of Okay for Now "I love Ada's bold heart...Her story's riveting."—Sheila Turnage, author of Three Times Lucky

Author : Si Spencer
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1401204880

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Books of Magick by Si Spencer Pdf

"Tim Hunter returns in this first collection of his new title, collecting the initial story arc from issues #1-5 as co-plotted by Neil Gaiman. This new take on the Hunter is loaded with dystopian undercurrents and psychological horror."--Publisher's website.

Author : Cosmic Darren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1456890727

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Life During Wartime by Cosmic Darren Pdf

Author : Thura Al-Windawi
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Iraq War, 2003-
ISBN : 0670058866

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Thura's Diary by Thura Al-Windawi Pdf

Nineteen-year-old Thura al-Windawi traces the days leading up to the bombings in Iraq, the war, and the chaos that followed, describing her life and the reality of war for Iraqi families.

Author : Cosmic Darren
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781456890742

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Life During Wartime by Cosmic Darren Pdf

Author : Cosmic Darren
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781479751525

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Arresting Music: Life During Wartime- a Music Guide by Cosmic Darren Pdf

BIO BY COSMIC DARREN: THIS HISTORY REPEATING MUSIC IS THE GREATEST MUSIC EVER CREATED. AS DESCRIBED BY THE GRATEFUL DEAD QUOTE FROM 1972: DEAD THE POWER OF PSYCHEDELIAS PARTICULARLY LSD (REFERENCE HAWKWIND) THE FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTER OF THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCETHE MUSIC THAT EMANATED FROM THE DEAD ON THAT DAY; IS ARGUABLY SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC EVER CREATED AND, IN TURN, IS ALSO SOME OF THE MOST VISIONARY MUSIC THIS PLANET HAS YET WITNESSED (REFERENCE OZRIC TENTACLES). COSMIC DARREN BELIEVES THE GRATEFUL DEADS MUSIC WOULD REFERENCE EYES OF THE WORLD, BIRD SONG, CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER/I KNOW YOU RIDER, I NEED A MIRACLE, THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED, HELP ON THE WAY/SLIPKNOT/FRANKLINS TOWER TO NAME A FEW, QUITE POSSIBLY THE MOST POWER MUSIC I HAVE EVER WITNESSED AT A GRATEFUL DEAD CONCERT WHILE SHARING THE EXPERIENCE WITH THE GRATEFUL DEAD, HAWKWIND, BLUE OYSTER CULT, JERRY GARCIA, GRAND FUNK, AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS. EXPERIENCING MUSIC IN THIS FASION IS A FORGOTTEN ART. THIS WORLD DOES NOT RESPECT CLASSIC ROCK SUCH AS THE GRATEFUL DEAD, HAWKING, CAPTAIN BEYOND, THE JAMES GANG, GRAND FUNK, AND OTHERS IN ARRESTING MUSIC, AS WELL AS LIFE DURING WARTIME. PLEASE HANDLE WITH CARE THE MUSIC YOU ARE ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE. LISTEN WITH CAUTION. PARENTS DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE KIDS ARE LISTENING TO? TAKE HOME TIME AND LISTEN (CTA).

Author : Lawrence Ahuruonye
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781514406571

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Drama of My Life – Through Youth and War by Lawrence Ahuruonye Pdf

The story in this book is an account of my life encounters. It is a story of an individual, myself, who was born into a polygamous family and had to struggle to overcome life obstacles and human hardship. In 1947, when I was born, basic public amenities were lacking in my village. I drank my first near-clean water at the age of seven. Illnesses were treated with herbs and plant roots, which medicine men and herbalists provided. Beliefs in ancestral spirits and the worship of deities controlled lives. The vanity of those beliefs came to light as I got older and I debunked them all. The greatest challenge my life faced was the Biafra/Nigeria war, which tested human desire to survive, especially, for those from Eastern Nigeria at the time. The atrocities of that war and human suffering they generated, are testimonies to how the human spirit could absorb the most penetrating shocks. That tough human spirit found ways to preserve me, as well as chart a course for the realization of my life dream. That dream turned out to be the American dream, which I believe I have achieved. Thanks to some unseen hands that made everything possible.

Author : Thomas Pluck
Publisher : Down & Out Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Life During Wartime: Stories by Thomas Pluck Pdf

A blackjack 21 of stories of people caught up in crime, facing bleak horrors, or spun in the whirlpool of human absurdity, this collects the best stories of Thomas Pluck. Take a ride on the neuter scooter in “The Big Snip”, selected as one of the best crime stories of 2016. Follow a mountain man who’s not what he seems into a snowbound frontier town where evil has sunk its claws. Dine at the most exclusive restaurant in New York, where “Eat the Rich” takes on a whole new meaning. And meet Denny the Dent, a hulking 350 pounds of muscle who wouldn’t harm a fly…but who’ll glad crush a bully’s skull. And read the Jay Desmarteaux yarn that takes off where Bad Boy Boogie ends. Read the stories readers call “hard-hitting bombs” full of “gut punches and belly laughs”…and be ready to get Plucked. Praise for Thomas Pluck: “Thomas Pluck is a crime writer to watch. Steeped in the genre’s grand tradition but with heart and bravado all his own, his writing is lean, smart and irresistibly compelling.” —Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me and Queenpin “He writes those quick, hard-hitting bombs as well or better than anybody on the scene today. Keep ’em coming.” —Wayne Dundee, author of the Joe Hannibal PI series and creator of Hardboiled Magazine “If you don’t know who Thomas Pluck is, you will soon enough. His short fiction is all over the internet and he combines jabs of clever humor with full-impact gut shots.” —Johnny Shaw, author of Dove Season and Big Maria

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385348720

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The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis “One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Vogue • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • The Globe & Mail • Fortune • Bloomberg • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally—and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports—some released only recently—Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today’s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill’s eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.

Author : Annelex Hofstra Layson,Herman J. Viola
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1426303211

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Lost Childhood by Annelex Hofstra Layson,Herman J. Viola Pdf

The author recounts her childhood experiences as a Japanese prisoner during World War II.

Author : Pat Mills
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781845763237

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Charley's War (Vol. 4): Blue's Story by Pat Mills Pdf

Renowned UK comics writer Pat Mills (Marshal Law, Sláine) and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun (Johnny Red) continue the thrilling, humorous and horrifying story of World War One soldier Charley Bourne. Home from the war thanks to an injury, Charley escapes from a terrifying air-raid, only to run into a deserter from the Foreign Legion — who tells him of the awful siege of Fort Vaux, even as both men run for their lives from the Military Police! Rich in the detailed minutiae of the terror-punctuated existence of a “Tommy”, this fourth volume of Charley’s War features an introduction and director’s commentary by Pat Mills, plus bonus content on the historical background to the story.

Author : Edward Butts
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459410992

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Wartime by Edward Butts Pdf

The First World War was the cause of dramatic changes in every Canadian community. What it meant to daily life becomes clear in this book about the war years in Guelph, Ontario. The first months were the easiest, as young men rushed to enlist. Once news of casualties and deaths started arriving, the atmosphere changed drastically. Mothers dreaded the arrival of the telegraph boy. Newspapers published fulsome obituaries which could not obscure the tragedy of their deaths. Tensions emerged — one compelling example being a secret military and police night-time raid on a Catholic seminary just outside the town, looking for young men hiding from conscription. With these stories, Edward Butts offers a compelling portrait of people trying to make sense of a war with little evident logic. His account helps explain why the cause of the League of Nations and efforts to ensure peace in the 1920s and 1930s were so powerful amongst Canadians who had learned about the real impact of wartime on ordinary people. Through the use of primary resources including articles from the local press, letters from overseas, and newsreels in the cinema, Butts captures the reality of the First World War for Canadians at home.

Author : J. G. Ballard,Lucius Shepard
Publisher : Orion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Guatemala
ISBN : 147321193X

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Life During Wartime by J. G. Ballard,Lucius Shepard Pdf

In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive amongst the rotting vegetation and his despairing fellow foot soldiers. He knows he is nothing but an expendable pawn in an endless war. On R & R a few miles away from the warzone he meets Debora - an enigmatic young woman who may be working for the enemy - and stumbles into a deadly psychic conflict where the mind is the greatest weapon.