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Author : Edward Jablonski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
ISBN : OCLC:300892637
Traces the airwar in World War II from the rise of the Luftwaffe to the crucial battle for supremacy in the skies over Britain.
Author : Igor Primoratz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845458447
In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II. The contributors address the decision to embark on the bombing campaign, the moral issues raised by the bombing, and the main stages of the campaign and its effects on German civilians as well as on Germany's war effort. The book places the bombing campaign within the context of the history of air warfare, presenting the bombing as the first stage of the particular type of state terrorism that led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and brought about the Cold War era "balance of terror." In doing so, it makes an important contribution to current debates about terrorism. It also analyzes the public debate in Germany about the historical, moral, and political significance of the deliberate killing of up to 600,000 German civilians by the British and American air forces. This pioneering collaboration provides a platform for a wide range of views-some of which are controversial-on a highly topical, painful, and morally challenging subject.
Author : Igor Primoratz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bombing, Aerial
ISBN : 1845456874
In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II. The contributors address the decision to embark on the bombing campaign, the moral issues raised by the bombing, and the main stages of the campaign and its effects on German civilians as well as on Germany's war effort. The book places the bombing campaign within the context of the history of air warfare, presenting the bombing as the first stage of the particular type of state terrorism that led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and brought about the Cold War era "balance of terror." In doing so, it makes an important contribution to current debates about terrorism. It also analyzes the public debate in Germany about the historical, moral, and political significance of the deliberate killing of up to 600,000 German civilians by the British and American air forces. This pioneering collaboration provides a platform for a wide range of views--some of which are controversial--on a highly topical, painful, and morally challenging subject.
Author : Edwy Searles Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:223013828
Author : James V. Lolatte
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539808491
In this modern day of technology it was inevitable for an airliner to be made to fly itself; thus making it less vulnerable to human error and taken over by terrorists. Although in theory this is a good concept, it may prove to be that man places too much trust in what he can accomplish and not the overall picture of consequences that can occur. Things can always come into play that have not been realized or thought about like in this story where simple oversight and diabolical planning could mean tragedy for thousands of people.
Author : Brian Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798704745914
Something haunts the sleepy seaside town of Black Water Cove. It came from the sky, dropping into the dark cold sea, emerging with its brood to hunt for blood. A sinister man shows up shortly after the first deaths, placing the town sheriff and deputy in-between something they weren't prepared for. It rises from the sea, it stalks the woods, nobody is safe from the Terror From the Sky!
Author : Garrett M. Graff
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501182204
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” —Jon Meacham “Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken.” —The Wall Street Journal “Visceral...I repeatedly cried…This book captures the emotions and unspooling horror of the day.” —NPR “Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat…There’s been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it.” —Katie Couric The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001—a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma. Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which traced the rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government’s definitive factual retrospective of the attacks. But one perspective has been missing up to this point—a 360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people who experienced it. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, award-winning journalist and bestselling historian Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived—in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, recently declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, Graff paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet. Beginning in the predawn hours of airports in the Northeast, we meet the ticket agents who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights, and the flight attendants inside the hijacked planes. In New York City, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable horror at the Twin Towers. From a secret bunker underneath the White House, officials watch for incoming planes on radar. Aboard the small number of unarmed fighter jets in the air, pilots make a pact to fly into a hijacked airliner if necessary to bring it down. In the skies above Pennsylvania, civilians aboard United Flight 93 make the ultimate sacrifice in their place. Then, as the day moves forward and flights are grounded nationwide, Air Force One circles the country alone, its passengers isolated and afraid. More than simply a collection of eyewitness testimonies, The Only Plane in the Sky is the historic narrative of how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary events in real time: the father and son working in the North Tower, caught on different ends of the impact zone; the firefighter searching for his wife who works at the World Trade Center; the operator of in-flight telephone calls who promises to share a passenger’s last words with his family; the beloved FDNY chaplain who bravely performs last rites for the dying, losing his own life when the Towers collapse; and the generals at the Pentagon who break down and weep when they are barred from rushing into the burning building to try to rescue their colleagues. At once a powerful tribute to the courage of everyday Americans and an essential addition to the literature of 9/11, The Only Plane in the Sky weaves together the unforgettable personal experiences of the men and women who found themselves caught at the center of an unprecedented human drama. The result is a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives.
Author : Graham A. Thomas
Publisher : Pen & Sword
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1844156842
In the summer of 1944 the Germans launched more than 10,000 flying bombs at Britain most of them towards London. Thousands of people were killed many more injured. RAF fighter pilots flew round the clock patrols desperately trying to shoot the robot rockets down and stop them from reaching their targets. the introductory chapter of Buzz Bomb brings the reader right into the cockpits of the Tempests, Mosquitoes, Spitfires and Mustangs while setting the stage for the battle. From the launching pads in Northern France to panic in Whitehall as the menace grows, this book takes the reader through the day by day battle, not just with the pilots but also the Anti-Aircraft gunners who were blasting away at the flying bombs. Recollections from people who survived the buzz bomb attacks bring the battle into life as people tell about their fears and experiences. Was it a success? Was it worth the cost? Did it achieve it's objectives? Were all the efforts of the fighter pilots and gun crews trying to stop the dreaded flying bombs, worth it? Did they make a difference? Did they save lives? These questions will be answered in Terror from the Sky.
Author : L Leighton Decore
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039121010
Five years after Arrow Air flight 1285 crashed in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 248 American soldiers and crew who were returning from a lengthy peacekeeping tour in Sinai, Egypt, a new investigation is made into the crash. Was it pilot error or something else? Was the investigation bungled, or was there a cover-up? If so, why? RCMP Inspector John Korchinsky’s antiterrorist unit is assigned to head up the investigation. Plagued by nightmares about his wife and son’s deaths due to a previous terrorist attack, his efforts are further stymied by a beautiful American investigator, Terese Lloyd, who has been assigned to shadow him and to prevent any “inconvenient” information about the crash from leaking to the public. Meanwhile, the man responsible for the crash is still at large, and through his investigation, Korchinsky realizes he’s planning something big. What follows is a high-stakes game of cat and mouse as the bomber taunts Korchinsky while plotting a spectacular terrorist attack that is sure to grant him the immortality he so desires.
Author : Caroline Adderson
Publisher : Dundurn.com
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780887628214
From the winner of the 2006 Marian Engel Award comes a funny, absorbing and timely novel about fear in our time. On a spring day in 2004, Jane Z. a physician’s wife and mother of a teenage son, opens her morning newspaper and is shocked to see a familiar face on the front page. Sonia, a lost friend accused of terrorism, has just been released after twenty years in prison. It all comes flooding back to Jane, how twenty years before her life took a very different course. At nineteen, Jane rents a room in a shared student house with a mismatched trio of idealists: Sonia, who yearns to save the world’s children from nuclear war; the Marxist-leaning Dieter; and the anarcho-feminist-pacifist Pete. A bookish misfit, her radical housemates quickly draw Jane into NAG!, a non-violent, anti-nuclear direct action group. To Jane, who is studying Russian and Russian literature, her compatriots, with their utopian dreams and youthful pathos, soon seem Chekhovian to her. Meanwhile, NAG! plans its most ambitious action, crossing the border into the United States to chain themselves to the Boeing factory fence. Tension increases as the group mounts each successive protest, until a bomb explodes and changes everything. The Sky Is Falling deftly intertwines themes of first love, sexual confusion, and the dread of nuclear disaster with the comical infighting of a cast of well-meaning political activists, and the timelessness of the great Russian classics. A story for our own age of paranoia and terror, Caroline Adderson’s witty, accomplished novel returns the reader to another fearful era, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear annihilation and the end of world seemed inevitable.
Author : Lee Roddy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1556610963
Struggling with school and a lack of money during the Depression, seventh grader Hildy is overwhelmed when the little girl she cares for after school is kidnapped, but God steps in in a remarkable manner.
Author : Blair Kamin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226423128
Collects the best of Kamin's writings for the Chicago Tribune from the past decade.
Author : Elizabeth L. Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1938888154
In November, 1944, the Japanese began launching 9,300 unmanned bomb-carrying balloons (Fugo) that were carried east over the Pacific Ocean by the jet stream. The bombs were intended to drop over America and explode, causing forest fires, general panic and deaths. However, without a reliable guidance system, most of the balloons did not reach North America. The US Government suppressed information about the project, and fortunately most of the bombs fell into the ocean or exploded harmlessly. Only six deaths occurred. Japan stopped the launches in 1945. Now, almost 70 years later, a group of terrorists using modern computer technology and the latest GPS guidance systems will try and succeed where the Japanese failed. It will be up to an unlikely group, including the President, the National Security Advisor, the Secretaries of Defense for both the United States and Russia, and the sister of the terrorist mastermind, herself a recent recruit for the CIA, to find a way to stop one of the deadliest terrorist attacks on US soil.
Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316003889
The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
Author : Barbara Reid
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 9781443163026
In this companion to the bestselling Picture a Tree, Barbara Reid has us look up . . . way up Wherever we may be, we share the same sky. But every hour, every day, every season, whether in the city or the forest, it is different. The sky tells many stories: in the weather, in the clouds, in the stars, in the imagination. Renowned artist Barbara Reid brings her unique vision to a new topic - the sky around us. In brilliant Plasticine illustrations, she envisions the sky above and around us in all its moods. Picture the sky. How do you feel?