On The Wings Of War And Peace

Author : Randall Wakelam,William March,Peter Rayls
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487526788

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On the Wings of War and Peace by Randall Wakelam,William March,Peter Rayls Pdf

Bringing together leading researchers on Canadian air power, On the Wings of War and Peace captures the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) during the first decades of the Cold War – a period which marked the zenith of air force accomplishments in peacetime Canada. The volume covers topics that go beyond straightforward flying operations, examining policies that drove operational needs and capabilities and the personnel, technical, and logistical functions that made those operations possible. With contributions written by former RCAF members who have both expert and personal knowledge of their topics, On the Wings of War and Peace brings new perspectives to the RCAF’s role in shaping the modern Canadian nation.

Author : Anthony Rene Brent
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936400393

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Cicadas, Wings of War and Peace: The Seventeen-Year Reign by Anthony Rene Brent Pdf

Olivia does not surrender to the fears that paralyse her mother and other adults when they encounter the cicadas. She approaches lifes challenges with a positive attitude.

Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300240559

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Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard Pdf

The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard “Why I Write” may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of our lives. Knausgaard writes to “erode [his] own notions about the world. . . . It is one thing to know something, another to write about it.” The key to enhanced living is the ability to hit upon something inadvertently, to regard it from a position of defenselessness and unknowing. A deeply personal meditation, Inadvertent is a cogent and accessible guide to the creative process of one of our most prolific and ingenious artists.

Author : Leo Tolstoi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732632831

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi Pdf

Reproduction of the original: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi

Author : A. Walter Dorn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317183402

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Air Power in UN Operations by A. Walter Dorn Pdf

Air power for warfighting is a story that's been told many times. Air power for peacekeeping and UN enforcement is a story that desperately needs to be told. For the first-time, this volume covers the fascinating range of aerial peace functions. In rich detail it describes: aircraft transporting vital supplies to UN peacekeepers and massive amounts of humanitarian aid to war-affected populations; aircraft serving as the 'eyes in sky' to keep watch for the world organization; and combat aircraft enforcing the peace. Rich poignant case studies illuminate the past and present use of UN air power, pointing the way for the future. This book impressively fills the large gap in the current literature on peace operations, on the United Nations and on air power generally.

Author : Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798688055351

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War and Peace Annotated by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Pdf

Contain Author Biography and overview.Featured content includes commentary on major characters,25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like The Meaning of Christ in Christianity and Vengeance and Mercy.War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels.War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.

Author : Ron Dick,Dan Patterson
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000059255819

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War & Peace in the Air by Ron Dick,Dan Patterson Pdf

Measures how the world has been changed by the first human flight, examining military aviation after World War II, the safety of flight, the future of aviation, and centenary attempts to recreate the Wright brothers' first flights.

Author : Tui T. Sutherland
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545443173

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The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire #1) by Tui T. Sutherland Pdf

A thrilling new series soars above the competition and redefines middle-grade fantasy fiction for a new generation!The seven dragon tribes have been at war for generations, locked in an endless battle over an ancient, lost treasure. A secret movement called the Talons of Peace is determined to bring an end to the fighting, with the help of a prophecy -- a foretelling that calls for great sacrifice.Five dragonets are collected to fulfill the prophecy, raised in a hidden cave and enlisted, against their will, to end the terrible war.But not every dragonet wants a destiny. And when the select five escape their underground captors to look for their original homes, what has been unleashed on the dragon world may be far more than the revolutionary planners intended . . .

Author : Annette LeBox
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698408845

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Peace is an Offering by Annette LeBox Pdf

A warm, comforting poem about finding peace in a community of neighbors Peace is an offering. A muffin or a peach. A birthday invitation. A trip to the beach. Join this group of neighborhood children as they find love in everyday things—in sunlight shining through the leaves and cookies shared with friends—and learn that peace is all around, if you just look for it. With rhyming verse and soft illustrations, this book will help families and teachers look for the light moments when tragedy strikes and remind readers of the calm and happiness they find in their own community every day.

Author : Panja Jurgens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015055470754

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Wings of Peace by Panja Jurgens Pdf

Despite poverty, violence, and despair, there are angels among us, walking the streets of New York City. For Panja Jurgens's thought-provoking photo essay, New Yorkers of every stripe strapped on a pair of pure white wings and, if only for a moment, transcended their own realities to imagine the possibilities of world peace. Some put their hopes into poetic words; others revealed their feelings through gestures and poses. Photographed in a wide variety of locations long before September 11, the images portray firefighters, nurses, artists, veterans, bikers, clerics, children, immigrants: a cross section of the peoples and cultures that make the city unique. Jurgens could not have picked a more appropriate, promise-filled place. A meditation by popular German rock star Udo Lindenberg introduces the 105 duotone photographs.

Author : Peter Turchin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0452288193

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War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin Pdf

Argues that the key to the formation of an empire lies in a society's capacity for collective action, resulting from people banding together to confront a common enemy, and describing how the growth of empires leads to a growing dichotomy between rich and poor, increasing conflict instead of cooperation, and inevitable dissolution. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Reina Pennington
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700615544

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Wings, Women, and War by Reina Pennington Pdf

The Soviet Union was the first nation to allow women pilots to fly combat missions. During World War II the Red Air Force formed three all-female units-grouped into separate fighter, dive bomber, and night bomber regiments-while also recruiting other women to fly with mostly male units. Their amazing story, fully recounted for the first time by Reina Pennington, honors a group of fearless and determined women whose exploits have not yet received the recognition they deserve. Pennington chronicles the creation, organization, and leadership of these regiments, as well as the experiences of the pilots, navigators, bomb loaders, mechanics, and others who made up their ranks, all within the context of the Soviet air war on the Eastern Front. These regiments flew a combined total of more than 30,000 combat sorties, produced at least thirty Heroes of the Soviet Union, and included at least two fighter aces. Among their ranks were women like Marina Raskova ("the Soviet Amelia Earhart"), a renowned aviator who persuaded Stalin in 1941 to establish the all-women regiments; the daredevil "night witches" who flew ramshackle biplanes on nocturnal bombing missions over German frontlines; and fighter aces like Liliia Litviak, whose twelve "kills" are largely unknown in the West. She also tells the story of Alexander Gridnev, a fighter pilot twice arrested by the Soviet secret police before he was chosen to command the women's fighter regiment. Pennington draws upon personal interviews and the Soviet archives to detail the recruitment, training, and combat lives of these women. Deftly mixing anecdote with analysis, her work should find a wide readership among scholars and buffs interested in the history of aviation, World War II, or the Russian military, as well as anyone concerned with the contentious debates surrounding military and combat service for women.

Author : Michael Jan Friedman
Publisher : Bantam Books for Young Readers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0553487728

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Wings of War by Michael Jan Friedman Pdf

Batman prefers to work alone–but the Justice League needs him to be a team player if they’re going to keep the World Assembly meeting peaceful. With tensions simmering between two European countries, Batman follows his own instincts instead of working with the group. Hawkgirl demands to go with him, determined to help. But with two clashing styles of fighting, they’re going to have to learn to deal with each other before they can save the world. And that might take more time than the World Assembly can spare.

Author : Adrian Phoenix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451645361

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On Midnight Wings by Adrian Phoenix Pdf

The fifth thrilling urban fantasy in the “engrossingly fun” (Entertainment Weekly) Maker's Song series following the adventures of FBI agent Heather Wallace and the mysterious, seductive vampire Dante. TORN BETWEEN THREE WORLDS—A DANGER TO THEM ALL. Even as Dante Baptiste’s identity as both True Blood and Fallen ripples throughout New Orleans, his powers are expanding in surprising, devastating directions. Kidnapped, drugged, and lost to his brutal past, the vampire wavers between sanity and breakdown at the hands of his torturers. Forsaking the FBI she once loved, Heather Wallace has likewise fallen into malevolent hands. As she struggles to reunite with Dante, men of hate and government evil will try to keep them apart. Even as their teammates frantically search for the pair, dark forces continue to gather against the young vampire—and the fates of mortals, nightkind, and the Fallen rest on him regaining control of his shattered psyche before he becomes the terrible, omnipotent Great Destroyer.

Author : Sanjay Dutt
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120805135

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War And Peace In Kargil Sector by Sanjay Dutt Pdf