Splinter Fleet

Author : Theodore R Treadwell
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513645

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Splinter Fleet by Theodore R Treadwell Pdf

Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy, yet they saw as much action as ships ten times their size. In every theater of war these “expendable” workhorses of the fleet escorted countless convoys of slow-moving ships through submarine-infested waters, conducted endless mind-numbing antisubmarine patrols, and were used in hundreds of amphibious operations. Some subchasers worked as gunboats to search for and destroy enemy barges. Others rescued downed airmen and retrieved drowning soldiers under heavy enemy fire. During the German occupation of Norway, three American-built subchasers and their Norwegian crews came to be known as “The Shetlands Bus” for their clandestine work as ferries—the only link between Norway and the free world. This book, written by the commander of one of the subchasers, defines their place in naval history and gives readers a taste of life on board the wooden warships. Ringing with authenticity, it describes the cramped quarters and unforgiving seas as well as the tenacious courage and close bonds formed by the men as they sought out the enemy and confronted nature. Long overshadowed by the larger, faster warships and more glamorous PT boats of World War II, subchasers have been mostly forgotten. This work restores the plucky little ships to their hard-earned status as significant members of the fleet.

Author : Sarah Gleeson-White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190274191

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William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox by Sarah Gleeson-White Pdf

William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays presents for the first time and in one volume the five screenplays Faulkner wrote while under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox in the mid 1930s and a sixth he wrote in 1952. An informative introduction describes Faulkner's screenwriting practices, such as adaptation and collaboration, and contextualizes these within a broader genealogy of Hollywood screenwriting and within one of the most important moments in the history of American cinema. Each of the six screenplays appears in full with scholarly annotations, and brief prefatory essays elucidate their evolution over various drafts and with various co-writers. The edition makes available for the first time and in one volume Faulkner's Fox screen writings, and, with its scholarly apparatus, thus makes a valuable contribution to recent scholarship across a number of fields: Faulkner and film; literature and film/adaptation studies; cinematic modernism; and screenplay studies. It also foregrounds Faulkner's many significant collaborators, such as Zanuck and Howard Hawks, and therefore makes an important contribution to the history of Twentieth Century-Fox under Zanuck.

Author : Howard Maxwell Harvey
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0921692773

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Newfoundland and Labrador Days by Howard Maxwell Harvey Pdf

Author : Michael Chatfield
Publisher : MICHAEL CHATFIELD PUBLICATIONS INC.
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781989377284

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From Furies Forged by Michael Chatfield Pdf

The Kalu are not a long lost nightmare anymore. They came from the black. They destroyed Rosho. They ravaged Heija. That was just the scouting force. They are coming back. Power those reactors, charge those rail cannons and ready the fighters. The Free Fleet is going to war.

Author : Philip Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : CORNELL:31924082768338

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Multiple-industry Unionism in Hawaii by Philip Brooks Pdf

Author : Anne Cipriano Venzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135684532

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The United States in the First World War by Anne Cipriano Venzon Pdf

First Published in 1999. Includes six maps.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000090252580

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All Hands by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Stem
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848320383

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Fire From the Sky by Robert Stem Pdf

By late 1944 the war in the Pacific had turned decisively against the Japanese, and overwhelming Allied forces began to close in on the home islands. At this point Japan unveiled a terrifying new tactic: the suicide attack, or Kamikaze, named after the ‘Divine Wind’ which had once before, in medieval times, saved Japan from invasion. Intentionally crashing bomb-laden aircraft into Allied warships, these piloted guided missiles at first seemed unstoppable, calling into question the naval strategy on which the whole war effort was based. This book looks at the origins of the campaign, at its strategic goals, the organization of the Japanese special attack forces, and the culture that made suicide not just acceptable, but honourable. Inevitably, much mythology has grown up around the subject, and the book attempts to sort the wheat from the chaff. One story that does stand up is the reported massive stock-piling of kamikaze aircraft for use against any Allied invasion of the home islands, if the atomic bombs had not forced Japan’s surrender. However, its principal focus is on the experience of those in the Allied fleets on the receiving end of this peculiarly alien and unnerving weapon – how they learnt to endure and eventually counter a threat whose potential was over-estimated, by both sides. In this respect, it has a very modern resonance.

Author : Jack Whitehouse
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781614233848

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Fire Island by Jack Whitehouse Pdf

Fire Island, or Great South Beach as it is also known, is a 32-mile long sliver of a barrier beach located just off the South Shore of Long Island. Always a wild, lonely and untamed wilderness, its shores, waterways and the lands surrounding it have given us innumerable stories -- some inspirational, some frightening, but all of them intriguing. The stories in this book portray people and events from the island's earliest days, when it served Native Americans as a rich hunting, fishing and whaling site until the present day and its use as a U.S. National Seashore and National Wilderness Area.

Author : W.J. Kirwin,G. M. Story,J.D.A. Widdowson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990-11-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781442690653

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Dictionary of Newfoundland English by W.J. Kirwin,G. M. Story,J.D.A. Widdowson Pdf

The Dictionary of Newfoundland English, first published in 1982 to regional, national, and international acclaim, is a historical dictionary that gives the pronunciations and definitions for words that the editors have called "Newfoundland English." The varieties of English spoken in Newfoundland date back four centuries, mainly to the early seventeenth-century migratory English fishermen of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, and to the seventeenth- to the nineteenth-century immigrants chiefly from southeastern Ireland. Culled from a vast reading of books, newspapers, and magazines, this book is the most sustained reading ever undertaken of the written words of this province. The dictionary gives not only the meaning of words, but also presents each word with its variant spellings. Moreover, each definition is succeeded by an all-important quotation of usage which illustrates the typical context in which word is used. This well-researched, impressive work of scholarship illustrates how words and phrases have evolved and are used in everyday speech and writing in a specific geographical area. The Dictionary of Newfoundland English is one of the most important, comprehensive, and thorough works dealing with Newfoundland. Its publication, a great addition to Newfoundlandia, Canadiana, and lexicography, provides more than a regional lexicon. In fact, this entertaining and delightful book presents a panoramic view of the social, cultural, and natural history, as well as the geography and economics, of the quintessential lifestyle of one of Canada's oldest European-settled areas. This second edition contains a supplement offering approximately 1500 new or expanded entries, an increase of more than 30 per cent over the first edition. Besides new words, the supplement includes modified and additional senses of old words and fresh derivations and usages.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045199705

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Hawaii Public Interest Protection Act of 1971, Hearings Before the Merchant Marine Subcommittee..., 92-2, January 18, 19, and 20, 1972 by United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1854 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3564648

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Commerce by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Special Freight Car Shortage Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1674 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Freight cars
ISBN : UCAL:B5163166

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Freight Car Shortages by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Special Freight Car Shortage Subcommittee Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1406 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015026249550

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : Stefan Solomon
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780820351148

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William Faulkner in Hollywood by Stefan Solomon Pdf

A scholarly examination of the scripts and fiction Faulkner created during his foray as a Hollywood screenwriter. During more than two decades (1932-1954), William Faulkner worked on approximately fifty screenplays for major Hollywood studios and was credited on such classics as The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not. Faulkner’s film scripts—and later television scripts—constitute an extensive and, until now, thoroughly underexplored archival source. Stefan Solomon analyzes the majority of these scripts and also compares them to the fiction Faulkner was writing concurrently. His aim: to reconcile two aspects of a career that were not as distinct as they first might seem: Faulkner the screenwriter and Faulkner the modernist, Nobel Prize–winning author. As Solomon shows Faulkner adjusting to the idiosyncrasies of the screen­writing process (a craft he never favored or admired), he offers insights into Faulkner’s compositional practice, thematic preoccupations, and understanding of both cinema and television. In the midst of this complex exchange of media and genres, much of Faulkner’s fiction of the 1930s and 1940s was directly influenced by his protracted engagement with the film industry. Solomon helps us to see a corpus integrating two vastly different modes of writing and a restless author. Faulkner was never only the southern novelist or the West Coast “hack writer” but always both at once. Solomon’s study shows that Faulkner’s screenplays are crucial in any consideration of his far more esteemed fiction—and that the two forms of writing are more porous and intertwined than the author himself would have us believe. Here is a major American writer seen in a remarkably new way.