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Sent by the Iron Sky

Author : Ian Gardner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472837363

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Following on from the success of Ian Gardner's critically acclaimed trilogy on the exploits of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in World War II, Sent by the Iron Sky tells their exhilarating story for a new readership. From the moment they entered the war in June, 1944, the men of 3rd Battalion were faced with brutal fighting against horrendous odds. Later in the year, nearly five months in combat with no relief lead to heavy losses that reduced them to the size of a company. Their heroic defence of Bastogne saw their division awarded a Unit Citation, a first in the history of the US armed forces, and they subsequently fought on across Europe, finishing the war occupying Hitler's mountain retreat of Berchtesgaden. Drawing on years of research and interviews with veterans of some of the toughest battles of World War II, together with maps and over 200 vintage images, Ian Gardner brings to life some of the most bitter fighting of the war in Europe, laying bare the horrors of war, the deprivations of day-to-day living and the chaos of the front line. Additional material includes a chapter on the fate of the men captured in Normandy and a foreword by Lee Wolverton, the grandson of the commander of 3rd Battalion, Col Robert Wolverton.

Sent by the Iron Sky

Author : Ian Gardner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472837394

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Following on from the success of Ian Gardner's critically acclaimed trilogy on the exploits of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in World War II, Sent by the Iron Sky tells their exhilarating story for a new readership. From the moment they entered the war in June, 1944, the men of 3rd Battalion were faced with brutal fighting against horrendous odds. Later in the year, nearly five months in combat with no relief lead to heavy losses that reduced them to the size of a company. Their heroic defence of Bastogne saw their division awarded a Unit Citation, a first in the history of the US armed forces, and they subsequently fought on across Europe, finishing the war occupying Hitler's mountain retreat of Berchtesgaden. Drawing on years of research and interviews with veterans of some of the toughest battles of World War II, together with maps and over 200 vintage images, Ian Gardner brings to life some of the most bitter fighting of the war in Europe, laying bare the horrors of war, the deprivations of day-to-day living and the chaos of the front line. Additional material includes a chapter on the fate of the men captured in Normandy and a foreword by Lee Wolverton, the grandson of the commander of 3rd Battalion, Col Robert Wolverton.

Hang Tough

Author : Erik Dorr,Jared Frederick
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682619186

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Major Dick Winters of the 101st Airborne gained international acclaim when the tale of he and his men were depicted in the celebrated book and miniseries Band of Brothers. Hoisted as a modest hero who spurned adulation, Winters epitomized the notion of dignified leadership. His iconic World War II exploits have since been depicted in art and commemorated with monuments. Beneath this marble image of a reserved officer is the story of a common Pennsylvanian tested by the daily trials and tribulations of military duty. His wartime correspondence with pen pal and naval reservist, DeEtta Almon, paints an endearing portrait of life on both the home front and battlefront—capturing the humor, horror, and humility that defined a generation. Interwoven with previously unpublished diary entries, military reports, postwar reminiscences, private photos, personal artifacts, and rich historical context, Winters’s letters offer compelling insights on the individual costs and motivations of World War II service members. Winters’s heartfelt prose reveals his mindset of the moment. From stateside training to the hedgerows of Normandy, his correspondence immerses readers in the dramatic experiences of the 1940s. Via the lost art of letter writing, the immediacy and honesty of Winters’s observations takes us beyond the traditional accounts of the fabled 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment’s Easy Company. This engaging narrative offers a unique blend of personal wit, leadership ethics, and broader observations of a world at war. Hang Tough is a deeply intimate, timely reflection on a rising officer and the philosophies that molded him into a hero among heroes. Hang Tough “will help people better understand the man I knew and respected so much. Folks should know what we all went through during the war.” —Bradford Freeman, Foreword

BENEATH AN IRON SKY

Author : Nancy Morse
Publisher : Nancy Morse
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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In 1880, eleven-year-old Philadelphia (Del) Stratton meets fifteen-year-old Crow Eagle, a rebellious Lakota boy, at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania where her father is an instructor. Wrenched from his people on the reservation and brought to Carlisle to become Americanized, the reluctant but deep bond the belligerent boy forms with the idealistic young girl is severed when he returns to his people. Nine years later they are reunited when Del’s fight for women’s suffrage takes her to Dakota Territory on the verge of statehood. There, Crow Eagle, now a strong warrior, is waging battle to retain his people’s way of life and keep their hope alive through the Ghost Dance. And the friendship that began years earlier blossoms into a forbidden love that will not be denied.

Fierce Valor

Author : Jared Frederick,Erik Dorr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684512843

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Fierce Valor by Jared Frederick,Erik Dorr Pdf

Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courage in three foreign conflicts was matched by his devotion to duty and the bittersweet passions of wartime romance. His comrades called him “Killer.” Of the elite paratroopers who served in the venerated “Band of Brothers” during World War II, none were more enigmatic than Ronald Speirs. Rumored to have gunned down enemy prisoners and even one of his own disobedient sergeants, Speirs’ became a foxhole legend amongst his troops. But who was the real Lieutenant Speirs? In Fierce Valor, historians Jared Frederick and Erik Dorr unveil the full story of Easy Company’s longest-serving commander for the first time. Tested by trials of extreme training, military rivalry, and lost love, Speirs’s international odyssey begins as an immigrant child in Prohibition-era Boston, continues through the bloody campaigns in France, Holland, and Germany, and sheds light on his lesser known exploits in Korea, the Cold War, and embattled Laos. Packed with groundbreaking research, Fierce Valor unveils a compelling portrait of an officer defined by boldness on the battlefield and a telling reminder that few soldiers escape the power of their own pasts.

Iron Sky - The book based on the movie

Author : Ilsa von Braunfels
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783945620328

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Iron Sky - The book based on the movie by Ilsa von Braunfels Pdf

Just before the end of World War II, the Nazis managed to reach the moon aboard huge flying disks, the so-called Reichsflugscheiben, and settled on the dark side of the moon. When they are discovered by an American moon landing in 2018, the Nazis decide that the time has come to reach out for world domination once more. The destiny of human kind rests on the shoulders of Renate Richter, a teacher who is deeply committed to Nazi ideology. However, after she arrives on Earth, Renate soon realizes that her entire life has been blinded by a lie. How is she supposed to stop her power hungry fiancé Klaus Adler and his gigantic space ship, the Götterdämmerung?

Deliver Us From Darkness

Author : Ian Gardner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780963983

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This follow-up to Tonight We Die As Men continues the story of the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division as they dropped into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden. The following 72-day campaign saw the 506PIR constantly on the move, defending various transport hubs around Eindhoven, desperately trying to keep open 'Hell's Highway'. From there, the airborne troopers moved north to near Arnhem where they took a new position around Betuwe. For two months, the Americans battled against German tanks, constant artillery barrages and driving rain and they grimly held their ground, until the Germans finally abandoned the effort. Written with the help and input from numerous veterans, this book tells the complete story of many of America's best soldiers as they fought and died in Holland.

Singularity Sky

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441011799

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Singularity Sky by Charles Stross Pdf

In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross. In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years of time and a thousand parsecs of space—are beginning to rediscover their origins. The New Republic is one such colony. It has existed for centuries in self-imposed isolation, rejecting all but the most basic technology. Now, under attack by a devastating information plague, the colony must reach out to Earth for help. A battle fleet is dispatched, streaking across the stars to the rescue. But things are not what they seem—secret agendas and ulterior motives abound, both aboard the ship and on the ground. And watching over it all is the Eschaton, which has its own very definite ideas about the outcome...

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Volume 1)

Author : Kwame Mbalia
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368054416

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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Volume 1) by Kwame Mbalia Pdf

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods. Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm in Alabama, where he's being sent to heal from the tragedy. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it--is that a doll?--and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Bottle Tree. In a last attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature's hands, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world. Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. In order to get back home, Tristan and these new allies will need to entice the god Anansi, the Weaver, to come out of hiding and seal the hole in the sky. But bartering with the trickster Anansi always comes at a price. Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves?

Making Monsters: A Speculative and Classical Anthology

Author : Djibril al-Ayad,Emma Bridges
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Monsters
ISBN : 9780995726505

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Making Monsters: A Speculative and Classical Anthology by Djibril al-Ayad,Emma Bridges Pdf

We have always made monsters: in art, in myth, in religion; out of clay or bronze, pixels or hybrid flesh; from the stuff of human nightmares; by cursing women with bestial traits. This anthology brings together fiction and accessible academic writing in conversation about monsters and their roles in our lives-and ours in theirs.

Skyward

Author : Brandon Sanderson
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780399555770

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future. Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father's--a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa's chances of attending flight school at slim to none. No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, yet fate works in mysterious ways. Flight school might be a long shot, but she is determined to fly. And an accidental discovery in a long-forgotten cavern might just provide her with a way to claim the stars. Praise for Skyward: A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "Startling revelations and stakes-raising implications...Sanderson plainly had a ball with this nonstop, highflying opener, and readers will too."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "With this action-packed trilogy opener, Sanderson offers up a resourceful, fearless heroine and a memorable cast...[and] as the pulse-pounding story intensifies and reveals its secrets, a cliffhanger ending sets things up for the next installment."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "It is impossible to turn the pages fast enough."--Booklist "Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores the defining aspects of the individual versus the society...[and] fans of [his] will not be disappointed."--SLJ Praise for Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners series: #1 New York Times Bestselling Series "Another win for Sanderson . . . he's simply a brilliant writer. Period."--Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind "Action-packed."--EW "Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store."--AV Club

Iron Sunrise

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441012965

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Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross Pdf

“[Stross] has the ability to superimpose an intriguing take on contemporary events over an imaginative story peopled by bizarre characters.” – The Kansas City Star A G2 star doesn’t just explode—not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn’t responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was. Opposing her is an unknown—and unimaginable—enemy. At stake is not only the fate of New Dresden but also the very order of the universe. And the one person who knows the identity of that enemy is a disaffected teenager who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist. But Wednesday has no idea what she knows…

Every New Beginning

Author : Kris Ripper
Publisher : Kris Ripper
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Every New Beginning by Kris Ripper Pdf

The more things change, the more they stay the same. And that goes double for New Year's at the beach house. Molly's at the beach house for the first time in years and she's got a lot on her mind. She wants a more stable career than the one she has, but that might involve going back to school (which she swore she'd never do). It also might involve imposing more regularly on her...friends in London. Which might be fine? But what if seeing each other more often means they lose the thing that makes their relationship special? Of course, she could spill all this to her family and let them reassure her, but that's a can of worms she's not so sure she wants to open. Plus, she has plenty of distractions. Some folks are contemplating parenthood, some are contemplating the nature of love, others are dealing with loss, everyone's favorite triad has finally admitted their feelings for each other, and then there's Lucy. (Mmm, thank goodness for Lucy.) Hugs, gossip, cuddling, speeches, long walks on the beach, new friends, and loads of laughter. Sure, decisions must be made. But for now all she has to do is eat some good food and love on her family. Happy New Year's at the beach house to Molly!

No Victory in Valhalla

Author : Ian Gardner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472809230

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No Victory in Valhalla by Ian Gardner Pdf

The final volume of Gardner's critically acclaimed biography of the Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment – the sister company to the famed Band of Brothers – this book traces the battalion's actions in the frantic final days of the war in Europe. Exhausted and battered following the disastrous Market-Garden campaign, the 506th were due three months of R&R, but were rushed back in to halt the desperate German attack during the Battle of the Bulge. When the offensive was finally halted after months of fighting the 506th pushed on into Germany where Ed Shames was the first Allied soldier to enter Dachau before the unit were sent to occupy Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgarden. Based on extensive interviews and first-hand accounts, this volume relives the struggles of the paratroopers of the renowned 'Screaming Eagles' in some of the toughest fighting of World War II, bringing the story of their defiant unit to its conclusion.

Shifters of Caerton Complete Series Omnibus

Author : H.B. Lyne
Publisher : Weaver of Words Press
Page : 1555 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Shifters of Caerton Complete Series Omnibus by H.B. Lyne Pdf

Against Rising Shadows, Courage Echoes Loudest. Dive into the thrilling, dark world of the "Shifters of Caerton" series by H.B. Lyne. Unearth a world teeming with supernatural conflict, cloaked in secrecy, and fraught with lethal challenges. This gripping urban fantasy saga delves into the struggles and triumphs of an extraordinary shapeshifter named Stalker, and her tumultuous journey through a reality riddled with danger, deception, and demonic adversaries. Beginning with the awakening of her shapeshifting abilities in "Fate of the Blue Moon," Stalker’s life is upended as she’s thrust into a supernatural conflict far beyond her comprehension. Torn between her humanity and the beast within, she must navigate a world seething with bitter rivalries, ancient grudges, and looming threats. As the series evolves, witness the young pack's perseverance against near insurmountable odds in "Ghosts of Winter," where they confront chaos, rise to challenges, and strive for unity amidst a looming demonic menace. "Demons of the Past" further tests their mettle as secrets buried deep within their history resurface, threatening to splinter their unity and throw their future into peril. The climax awaits in "Rise of the Furies," where Stalker and her pack face their greatest challenge yet. With impending war, threatened alliances, and a city in chaos, the heroes must forge unity in the face of mounting terror. Will they quell the storm of the Furies or crumble under the weight of secrets and betrayals? Each page of this dark urban fantasy series will captivate you with rich, complex characters, high-stakes suspense, and a sprawling supernatural world. Embrace the extraordinary and discover the thrilling saga of survival, identity, and the power of unity. Buy the complete "Shifters of Caerton" series today and embark on a heart-stopping, unforgettable journey! This set contains: - Fate of the Blue Moon - Ghosts of Winter - Demons of the Past - Rise of the Furies Plus the short stories: - From the Ashes - The Storm Riders' Vigil - Dark Echoes This series was previously published under the titles Echoes of the Past: Seeds of Autumn, Ghosts of Winter, Tides of Spring; and Reaping of Summer.