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A Pride of Eagles

Author : Beryl Salt
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908916266

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This is the story of military aviation in Rhodesia from the romantic days of 'bush' flying in the 1920s and '30s-when aircraft were refueled from jerrycans and landing grounds were often the local golf course-to the disbandment of the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) on Zimbabwean independence in 1980. In 1939 the tiny Royal Rhodesian Air Force (RRAF) became the first to take up battle stations even before the outbreak of the Second World War. The three Rhodesian squadrons served with distinction in East Africa, the Western Desert, Italy and Western Europe. At home Rhodesia became a vast training ground for airmen from across the Empire-from Britain, the Commonwealth and even Greece. After the war, Rhodesia, on a negligible budget, rebuilt its air force, equipping it with Ansons, Spitfires, Vampires, Canberras, Hunters and Alouettes. Following UDI, the unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965, international sanctions were imposed, resulting in many remarkable and groundbreaking innovations, particularly in the way of ordnance. The bitter 'bush war' followed in the late 1960s and '70s, with the RhAF in the vanguard of local counterinsurgency operations and audacious preemptive strikes against vast guerrilla bases in neighboring Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana and as far afield as Angola and Tanzania. With its aging fleet, including C-47 'Dakotas' that had been at Arnhem, the RhAF was able to wreak untold havoc on the enemy, Mugabe's ZANLA and Nkomo's ZIPRA. The late author took over 30 years in writing this book; the result is a comprehensive record that reflects the pride, professionalism and dedication of what were some of the world's finest airmen of their time. The late Beryl Salt was born in London in 1931. She emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1952 to get married in Salisbury, where her two sons were born. In 1953 she joined the Southern Rhodesian Broadcasting Services (later the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation, the RBC). With a love of history she wanted to find out as much as she could about her new country. This interest led to radio dramas and feature programmes, followed by several books: School History Text Book, The Encyclopaedia of Rhodesia and The Valiant Years, a history of the country as seen through the newspapers. She also produced a dramatized radio series about the Rhodesian Air Force. In 1965 she left the RBC and spent three years with the Ministry of Information, following which she was a freelance writer/broadcaster involved in a wide variety of projects until 1980 when she moved to Cape Town. She died in England in November 2001.

Pride of Eagles

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:630830490

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Pride of Eagles

Author : William W. Johnstone,J. A. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786017368

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Falcon MacCallister sets out from San Francisco for the town of Laramie and rides into a storm of treachery and murder. Already stalked by a vengeance-crazed Yuma prison escapee, Falcon is distracted by two beautiful women while another outlaw lays down a villainous trap. No doubt about it: blood will be shed. When and how is only a matter of one man's swift revenge. Original

War of the Eagles

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781551430997

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The journey into adulthood for a young Tsimshian boy.

Eyes of Eagles

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786037513

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JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. TEXAS STYLE. Return to classic Johnstone country for this repackage of this classic western for a new generation of readers ready to rumble out in the Wild West. Orphaned at the age of seven and adopted by the Indians, Jamie Ian MacCallister grew into a man more at ease in the wilderness than among men. But when the westward strike drove him across the Arkansas Territory into Texas, he finally found himself a home—in the middle of a bloody war. Texans like Jim Bowie and Sam Houston were waging a fierce struggle against Santa Anna’s Mexican army, and Jamie MacCallister made the perfect scout for the fledgling volunteer force. What lay ahead of them was a place called the Alamo, thirteen days of blood, dust and courage, and a battle that would become an undying legend of the American West . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

Song of Eagles

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786037568

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New York Times bestselling author: When war breaks out in New Mexico Territory, one gunfighter must face down the notorious Billy the Kid . . . The American West—bright with hope and possibility, ravaged by war and greed, and forged by the men and myths that defined the frontier. Men like renowned gunfighter Falcon MacCallister, who risked his life to defend it . . . The Ballad of Billy The Kid In Pecos Valley, New Mexico, a cattle war has erupted, pitting rancher against rancher across a once-peaceful land. It has thrust MacCallister into the dead center of one of the most violent battles on record—and barrel to barrel with the greatest challenge he has ever faced. His name is William Bonney. His victims called him Billy the Kid. MacCallister calls him a bad risk. But in the deadly gamble of the Lincoln County War, placing your bet on an outlaw like the Kid is the only game in town. MacCallister's Law: Never turn your back on a man . . . unless he's already dead.

Destiny of Eagles

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786037582

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Falcon MacCallister comes to the aid of Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt in this rip-roaring Western adventure from the bestselling author of Blood of Eagles. Falcon MacCallister’s father was a legend in the West, while Falcon’s quest for justice has driven him onto the wild side of the law. Famed as a gunslinger, feared for his lethal speed and accuracy, Falcon decides to make it a fair fight when he comes upon a man being attacked by a bandit gang in the Dakota Territory. The man is Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Rider, himself. Roosevelt knows a brave man when he sees one. And he calls on Falcon when a judge’s daughter is taken by an outlaw trying to pry his brother free. With no trust in—or from—the law, Falcon has only one way to do this job: alone and ready to kill. But the outlaws know he’s coming, the woman he’s trying to rescue knows some tricks of her own, and winning a bloody battle in the Dakotas will take more than courage—it will take a man’s will to live like a legend . . . or die like one. Praise for the Eagles series “[A] rousing, two-fisted saga of the growing American frontier.”—Publishers Weekly “Solid, page-turning entertainment featuring a larger-than-life, old-fashioned hero in MacCallister.”—Booklist

Crusade of Eagles

Author : William W. Johnstone,J. A. Johnstone
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Actors
ISBN : 1410445666

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A New York Times Bestselling Author, A USA Today Bestselling Author -- The MacCallister clan was raised on a harsh, unforgiving frontier, where courage and blood bonds mattered the most. While Falcon MacCallister followed his father's mountain man legacy, his brother and sister made their fame and fortune on the stages of New York and Europe. Now they're planning a family reunion. Andrew and Rosanna MacCallister are headed to Colorado to visit their kin -- until they step into the crosshairs of a murderer's plan.

Talons of Eagles

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786037537

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“Solid, page-turning entertainment featuring a larger-than-life hero in MacCallister” from the greatest Western writer of the 21st century (Booklist). Divided they fall . . . Raised by the Shawnee, Jamie Ian MacCallister fought his way to manhood on an odyssey that took him from the Alamo to Colorado to the goldfields of California. Now, the United States is divided against itself—North against South, brother against brother, father against son. With his own sons fighting on opposing sides, MacCallister leads his Confederate Marauders into battle from Georgia to Tennessee, from Bull Run to Shiloh. When the guns of war finally fall silent, a vengeful enemy vows to add another chapter to the bloodstained pages of history . . . by hunting down the soldier named Jamie Ian MacCallister. Praise for the Eagles series “[A] rousing, two-fisted saga of the growing American frontier.”—Publishers Weekly

Revenge of Eagles

Author : William W. Johnstone,Fred Austin
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786029075

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USA Today bestselling Author: For the MacCallisters, frontier justice runs in the family . . . Falcon MacCallister couldn't duck his father's legacy as a shootist in the Wild West—and he's never tried to. A man who lives between two worlds, Falcon has a reputation of his own—and it's about to plunge him into a different kind of war. On a stagecoach in southern Arizona, Falcon is ambushed. But the only people who die are the shotgun guard and a beautiful young Indian woman returning from school in the East. While Falcon has a choice to walk away, a violent conflict is erupting among the natives. The dead woman was the daughter of a powerful chief with links to Geronimo and Cochise—and a tinderbox has been ignited. Falcon knows that the innocent will die with the guilty if the murderers aren't caught soon. And Falcon MacCallister is the one man who has the courage, the gun, and the bloodline to bring justice to a wounded and violent land . . .

The Eagles of Heart Mountain

Author : Bradford Pearson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982107055

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“One of Ten Best History Books of 2021.” —Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told “tale that ultimately stands as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit” (Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author) about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team. In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, they established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators—yet there was little hope. That is, until the fall of 1943, when the camp’s high school football team, the Eagles, started its first season and finished it undefeated, crushing the competition from nearby, predominantly white high schools. Amid all this excitement, American politics continued to disrupt their lives as the federal government drafted men from the camps for the front lines—including some of the Eagles. As the team’s second season kicked off, the young men faced a choice to either join the Army or resist the draft. Teammates were divided, and some were jailed for their decisions. The Eagles of Heart Mountain honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in a “timely and utterly absorbing account of a country losing its moral way, and a group of its young citizens who never did” (Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind).

Eagles and Empire

Author : David A. Clary
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553906769

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A war that started under questionable pretexts. A president who is convinced of his country’s might and right. A military and political stalemate with United States troops occupying a foreign land against a stubborn and deadly insurgency. The time is the 1840s. The enemy is Mexico. And the war is one of the least known and most important in both Mexican and United States history—a war that really began much earlier and whose consequences still echo today. Acclaimed historian David A. Clary presents this epic struggle for a continent for the first time from both sides, using original Mexican and North American sources. To Mexico, the yanqui illegals pouring into her territories of Texas and California threatened Mexican sovereignty and security. To North Americans, they manifested their destiny to rule the continent. Two nations, each raising an eagle as her standard, blustered and blundered into a war because no one on either side was brave enough to resist the march into it. In Eagles and Empire, Clary draws vivid portraits of the period’s most fascinating characters, from the cold-eyed, stubborn United States president James K. Polk to Mexico’s flamboyant and corrupt general-president-dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna; from the legendary and ruthless explorer John Charles Frémont and his guide Kit Carson to the “Angel of Monterey” and the “Boy Heroes” of Chapultepec; from future presidents such as Benito Juárez and Zachary Taylor to soldiers who became famous in both the Mexican and North American civil wars that soon followed. Here also are the Irish Soldiers of Mexico and the Yankee sailors of two squadrons, hero-bandits and fighting Indians of both nations, guerrilleros and Texas Rangers, and some amazing women soldiers. From the fall of the Alamo and harrowing marches of thousands of miles in the wilderness to the bloody, dramatic conquest of Mexico City and the insurgency that continued to resist, this is a riveting narrative history that weaves together events on the front lines—where Indian raids, guerrilla attacks, and atrocities were matched by stunning acts of heroism and sacrifice—with battles on two home fronts—political backstabbing, civil uprisings, and battle lines between Union and Confederacy and Mexican Federalists and Centralists already being drawn. The definitive account of a defining war, Eagles and Empire is page-turning history—a book not to be missed.

Pride of Eagles

Author : William W. Johnstone,J. A. Johnstone
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Laramie (Wyo.)
ISBN : 141043480X

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A USA Today Bestselling Author -- Hired by a wealthy cattle baron, Falcon MacCallister sets out from San Francisco for the town of Laramie with a magnificent Arabian horse in tow -- and rides into a storm of treachery and murder. Stalked by a vengeance-crazed Yuma prison escapee, Falcon is distracted by two beautiful women -- a seductress and a lovely widow -- while another outlaw lays down a villainous trap. No doubt about it: blood will be shed.

Victory of Eagles

Author : Naomi Novik
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345512253

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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the fifth volume of the Temeraire series, as Will Laurence and Temeraire struggle to reunite and face the Napoleonic army on London's doorstep. “A story about friendship that transcends not only time and class, but species.”—NPR For Britain, conditions are grim: Napoleon’s resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleon’s prime objective is the occupation of London. Unfortunately, the dragon Temeraire has been removed from military service—and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. Separated by their own government and threatened at every turn by Napoleon’s forces, Laurence and Temeraire must struggle to find each other amid the turmoil of war. If only they can be reunited, master and dragon might rally Britain’s scattered resistance forces and take the fight to the enemy as never before, for king and country—and for their own liberty. Don’t miss any of Naomi Novik’s magical Temeraire series HIS MAJESTY’S DRAGON • THRONE OF JADE • BLACK POWDER WAR • EMPIRE OF IVORY • VICTORY OF EAGLES • TONGUES OF SERPENTS • CRUCIBLE OF GOLD • BLOOD OF TYRANTS • LEAGUE OF DRAGONS

Return of the Eagles

Author : James Follett
Publisher : Severn House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0727874675

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It is 1945 and the end of war spells new problems for Otto Kruger and his fellow officers, now being held at Grizedale Hall in the Lake District. What the British have in store for them and why they were not sent to Canada like all the other prisoners of war is a mystery.