Seafire

Author : Natalie C. Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780451478818

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Seafire by Natalie C. Parker Pdf

A warlord killed Caledonia's parents and kidnapped her brother. Now, on the deadly Bullet seas, Captain Caledonia Styx and her all-female crew are ready for revenge. "This is Mad Max by way of Davy Jones, a high-energy, breathless adventure [about] a group of damaged girls who find home in one another." --Booklist "The pace of the book is fast and relentless, and the action sequences tense and believable, but the best moments are the ones in which the female relationships shine." --NPR "One of the most spell-binding adventures of the year. This is female piracy at its best." --The San Francisco Chronicle "The best kind of fantasy. . . . impossible to put down." --Paste After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, who have lost their families and homes because of Aric and his men. The crew has one mission: stay alive, and take down Aric's armed and armored fleet. But when Caledonia's best friend and second-in-command barely survives an attack thanks to help from a Bullet looking to defect, Caledonia finds herself questioning whether to let him join their crew. Is this boy the key to taking down Aric Athair once and for all...or will he threaten everything the women of the Mors Navis have worked for? The first in a heart-stopping trilogy that recalls the undeniable feminine power of Wonder Woman and the powder-keg action of Mad Max: Fury Road, Seafire reminds us of the importance of sisterhood and unity in the face of oppression and tyranny.

Author : Natalie C. Parker
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781474971270

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Seafire by Natalie C. Parker Pdf

Caledonia Styx let down her guard once – and her family were murdered by ruthless warlord Aric Athair and his blood-thirsty Bullets. Now captain of a crew of girls who have lost everything to the Bullets, she has sworn never to show mercy again. But when a rogue Bullet saves the life of Caledonia's best friend, she faces an impossible choice. If she lets the boy live, could he help them bring down Athair – or will he destroy them all? High seas, high stakes...and high time for revenge.

Author : Natalie C. Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780451478825

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Seafire by Natalie C. Parker Pdf

"One of the year's most anticipated new fantasies." --Entertainment Weekly "A fast-paced, thrilling tale." --BuzzFeed "The best kind of fantasy. . . . impossible to put down." --Paste "[Seafire] will leave readers craving more." --School Library Connection, starred review After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, who have lost their families and homes because of Aric and his men. The crew has one mission: stay alive, and take down Aric's armed and armored fleet. But when Caledonia's best friend and second-in-command barely survives an attack thanks to help from a Bullet looking to defect, Caledonia finds herself questioning whether to let him join their crew. Is this boy the key to taking down Aric Athair once and for all...or will he threaten everything the women of the Mors Navis have worked for? The first in a heart-stopping trilogy that recalls the undeniable feminine power of Wonder Woman and the powder-keg action of Mad Max: Fury Road, Seafire reminds us of the importance of sisterhood and unity in the face of oppression and tyranny.

Author : Matthew Willis
Publisher : Tempest
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911658825

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Fleet Air Arm Legends: Supermarine Seafire by Matthew Willis Pdf

Renowned naval aviation author Matthew Willis tells the story of the Supermarine Seafire – a navalized version of the famous Spitfire adapted for use on aircraft carriers. Some 2646 examples were built and saw action with the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm from November 1942 until after the Korean War in the early 1950s. It was involved in combat during the Allied landings in North Africa (Operation Torch), the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy, the D-Day landings, and Operation Dragoon in southern France. With the Pacific fleet, the Seafire proved capable of intercepting and destroying the feared Japanese kamikaze attack aircraft.

Author : kev darling
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781445701042

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Supermarine Seafire F.XV,F.XVII,F.45,F.46,F.47 and Seafang by kev darling Pdf

Author : R. "Mike" Crosley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473838574

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They Gave Me a Seafire by R. "Mike" Crosley Pdf

“Superb . . . one of the most honest, candid, and truly delightful memoirs . . . the perfect memorial to one of the Fleet Air Arm’s greats.”—Aircrew Book Review A classic in every sense of the word, this book charts Commander R. “Mike” Crosley’s service career in the Fleet Air Arm during the entire period of the Second World War. Part of his service saw him in action aboard HMS Eagle, flying Sea Hurricanes on the Harpoon and Pedestal Malta convoys of June and August 1942. It was during this time that he shot down his first enemy aircraft and survived the dramatic sinking of HMS Eagle. From there he graduated on to Seafires, (the Naval equivalent of the Spitfire), and flew this type in Combat Air Patrols over Norway and ramrod strikes from Operation Torch (the invasion of French North Africa in November 1942), through to D-Day in June 1944 in the European Theatre of Operations, and then in the Pacific abroad HMS Implacable as part of the British Pacific Fleet in 1945 until the end of the Pacific War, by which time he had command of his own combined squadron, 801 and 880. They Gave Me a Seafire sets to bring the endeavors of Crosley to a whole new generation of enthusiasts, and it should appeal across the board to fans of aviation, naval history and families and friends of Armed Forces, past and present. “The fascinating publication details Mike’s incredible capacity for survival, and sheer skill as a pilot, which were remarked on at the time, securing him a number of decorations.”—Island Life Magazine

Author : Natalie C. Parker
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781474991308

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Steel Tide by Natalie C. Parker Pdf

Caledonia Styx is a captain without a ship, after a battle that nearly killed her. Pulled from the sea half-dead, she is saved by the Blades – renegade fighters who have escaped the clutches of Caledonia’s vicious enemy Aric Athair. She has one desire: to find her beloved ship and sisters so she can continue fighting Aric's fleet. But first she must persuade the Blades to join her on a rescue mission that will take them into the very heart of Aric’s stronghold and even beneath the waves they sail...

Author : Natalie C. Parker
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780451478863

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Stormbreak by Natalie C. Parker Pdf

In this epic conclusion to the Seafire trilogy, which Booklist called "Mad Max by way of Davy Jones," Caledonia Styx will risk everything--her heart, her crew, and even her life--to defeat Lir and take back the Bullet Seas once and for all. Aric Athair is dead. But the fight for the Bullet Seas is far from over. Caledonia's nemesis, Lir--the one responsible for destroying her family--has seized control of the warlord's army. Caledonia and her crew have fled to Cloudbreak to prepare for an all-out war. And they are not the only ones. Rogue ships and even a few defecting Bullets show up to join their fight. But Lir always seems to be one step ahead of Caledonia, anticipating her every more as he secures the seas for himself. With the fight growing desperate, Caledonia is forced to make an unlikely and unsteady alliance with a new enemy. It's a gamble that could cost her everything, but with the fate of the seas in her hands, Caledonia will do whatever it takes to win the war.

Author : Karen Robards
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451649796

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Sea Fire by Karen Robards Pdf

Lady Catherine Aldley and her husband, pirate Jonathan Hale, flee England to make a home on a Carolina plantation, but when her father falls ill, Catherine returns home, where her cousin convinces her that her marriage is a sham, causing Jonathan to try to reclaim the woman he loves.

Author : Donald Nijboer
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1846034337

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Seafire vs A6M Zero by Donald Nijboer Pdf

Products of vastly different design philosophies, the Seafire F III and the A6M Zero were never intended to meet in combat, and never should have. Yet the harsh necessities of war intervened and these two planes were pitted against each other in the last dogfight of World War II, high above the Japanese home lands. The Zero, with its clean design, low weight and high lift, was extremely nimble at low speeds and ideally suited to the job it was intended to do. In contrast, the Spitfire was not designed as a shipboard fighter; it was a short-range interceptor, intended for operations from established airfields and supported by a well stocked infrastructure of spares and qualified maintenance personal. With a different twist on the Duel concept, this book examines these two iconic fighters and their two very different histories; one was 'adapted' for a role it was never intended to carry out, the other was purpose built and proved to be one of the finest fighters of World War II. Using fantastic artwork and intimate first-hand accounts, the author discusses the decline of the Japanese Naval Air Force and its principal fighter, the Zero, in contrast to the British Seafire, as it overcame its critics to become the best pure carrier interceptor of the war and emerge victorious in the last aerial duel of World War II.

Author : Mary Ellis, As Told To Melody Foreman
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473895362

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A Spitfire Girl by Mary Ellis, As Told To Melody Foreman Pdf

We visualize dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft Ð and that person was Mary Wilkins. Her story is one of the most remarkable and endearing of the war, as this young woman, serving as a ferry pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary, transported aircraft for the RAF, including fast fighter planes and huge four-engine bombers. On one occasion Mary delivered a Wellington bomber to an airfield, and as she climbed out of the aircraft the RAF ground crew ran over to her and demanded to know where the pilot was! Mary said simply: ÔI am the pilot!Õ Unconvinced the men searched the aircraft before they realized a young woman had indeed flown the bomber all by herself. After the war she accepted a secondment to the RAF, being chosen as one of the first pilots, and one of only three women, to take the controls of the new Meteor fast jet. By 1950 the farmer's daughter from Oxfordshire with a natural instinct to fly became Europe's first female air commandant. In this authorized biography the woman who says she kept in the background during her ATA years and left all the glamour of publicity to her colleagues, finally reveals all about her action-packed career which spans almost a century of aviation, and her love for the skies which, even in her nineties, never falters. She says: ÔI am passionate for anything fast and furious. I always have been since the age of three and I always knew I would fly. The day I stepped into a Spitfire was a complete joy and it was the most natural thing in the world for me.Õ

Author : Christopher Shores,Giovanni Massimello,Russell Guest,Frank Olynyk,Winfried Bock,Andy Thomas
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911621782

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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945 by Christopher Shores,Giovanni Massimello,Russell Guest,Frank Olynyk,Winfried Bock,Andy Thomas Pdf

This fourth volume in the comprehensive series “fills a gap in the existing narrative” of WWII’s Mediterranean air war (Journal of Military History). The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria, which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily and southern Italy as burgeoning Allied air power, now with full US involvement, increasingly dominated the skies overhead. The successive occupations of Sardinia and Corsica are also covered in detail. This is essentially the story of the tactical air forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same time as the Normandy landings were occurring in northwest France. With regards to the long-range tactical role of the Allied heavy bombers, only the period from May to October is examined, while they remained based in North Africa, with the narrative continuing in a future volume. This volume also delves into the story of “the soldiers’ air force.” Frequently overshadowed by more immediate newsworthy events elsewhere, the soldiers’ struggle was often of an equally Homeric nature. “No future publication on the Mediterranean air war will be credible without use of this series.” —Air Power History

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:AA0000253526

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without special title by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002892513K

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Department of Defense appropriations for fiscal year 1983 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense Pdf

Author : Henry –Hank” Adlam
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473821132

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The Disastrous Fall and `Triumphant Rise of the Fleet Air Arm from 1912 to 1945 by Henry –Hank” Adlam Pdf

In this riveting critique of the Fleet Air Arm's policy across two world wars, former FAA Fighter Pilot Henry Adlam charts the course of its history from 1912 to 1945, logging the various milestones, mistakes and successes that characterised the service history of the Fleet Air Arm. Offering criticism on the service hierarchies that made up the Fleet, backed up by his having served in six Carriers and flown from them in all five theatres of sea warfare during five years of the Second World War, Adlam presents a highly entertaining and potentially controversial study which is sure to appeal to a wide array of aviation enthusiasts.??Adlam charts the catalogue of errors that blighted the history of the Naval Air Service, which followed the disastrous decision in April 1918 to transfer the whole of the Air Service of the Royal Navy to form the new RAF. The main and over-riding criticism that the author finds with the Fleet Air Arm lies in the manner in which it was led. Adapting the oft-quoted "Lions led by Donkeys" description of the British Army, Adlam describes the activities of the Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War as the result of "Sea Eagles led by Penguins" practices, when experienced pilots were led into battle by senior members of the Navy who possessed little or no flying experience. This led to a whole host of disasters costing many lives amongst flight personnel. Adlam charts the errors that blighted the history of the Fleet Air Arm and shows how its recovery and the triumphant turnaround of its fortunes were all the more remarkable. Taking the reader on a journey from inception during First World War service, throughout all the many disasters and successes that followed between the Wars and on into the Second World War and beyond, this book offers engaging new insights and a degree of critical candour that set it apart from other Fleet Air Arm histories currently available on the market.