The Lost Years Of Billy Battles

Author : Ronald E. Yates
Publisher : Ronald E. Yates
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Lost Years of Billy Battles by Ronald E. Yates Pdf

Where in the world is Billy Battles? As Book Three of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy begins we know where Billy is. He is in Chicago with his wife, the former Baroness Katharina von Schreiber living a sedate and comfortable life after years of adventure and tragedy. That changes with a single telephone call that yanks Billy and Katharina back into a life of turmoil and peril. Persuaded by a powerful old friend to go undercover for the U.S. government the two find themselves in Mexico during the height of the violent 1910-1920 revolution. There they grapple with assorted German spies, Mexican revolutionaries, devious political operatives, and other miscreants. Caught in the middle of the 1914 American invasion of Veracruz, they must find a way out while keeping their real identities secret. After managing to extract themselves from danger, disaster strikes. It’s an ordeal Billy is all too familiar with and one that will send him plummeting into a painful abyss of despair and agony. Consequently, Billy vanishes leaving family and friends to wonder what happened to him. Where is he? Is he dead or alive? What provoked his disappearance? In Book Three of the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy, those questions are answered, and the mystery behind Billy’s disappearance is finally revealed.

Author : Ronald E. Yates
Publisher : Ronald E. Yates
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781545632826

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The Lost Years of Billy Battles by Ronald E. Yates Pdf

The year is 1914 and the world is in turmoil. In Europe, the Great War is raging. In Asia, fierce insurgencies are in progress against the colonial powers of Europe. In Mexico, a bloody revolution is ripping that nation to shreds and threatening to spill over into Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Billy Battles and his wife, the former Baroness Katharina von Schreiber, have managed to live an uncommonly sedate life for almost ten years. But, with one telephone call their tranquil world is shattered. Katharina and Billy set off on a succession of wild adventures that will alter their lives for all time. Their new and violent world is one brimming with miscreants, secret agents, treachery, and tragedy. But most importantly, it triggers Billy's mysterious decades-long disappearance. Where is he? What happened? The answers are in The Lost Years of Billy Battles, Book 3of the award-winning Finding Billy Battles trilogy

Author : Ronald Yates
Publisher : Ronald E. Yates
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781535189538

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The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles (Book 2 in the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy) by Ronald Yates Pdf

Billy Battles is not in Kansas anymore! As Book 2 of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy opens, Billy is far from his Kansas roots—and his improbable journeys are just beginning. He is aboard an ocean liner sailing to the Mysterious East (Hong Kong, French Indochina, and the Philippines), among other places. The year is 1894 and aboard the S S China Billy meets a mysterious, dazzling, and possibly dangerous German Baroness, locked horns with malevolent agents of the German government, and battled ferocious Chinese and Malay pirates in the South China Sea. Later, he is inadvertently embroiled in the bloody anti-French insurgency in Indochina–which quite possibly makes him the first American combatant in a country that eventually will become Vietnam. Later, in the Philippines, he is thrust into the Spanish-American War and the anti-American insurgency that follows. But Billy’s troubles are just beginning. As the 19th century ends and the 20th century begins, he finds himself entangled with political opportunists, spies, revolutionaries and an assortment of malevolent and dubious characters of both sexes. How will Billy handle those people and the challenges they present?

Author : Ronald Yates
Publisher : Ronald E. Yates
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493130320

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Finding Billy Battles by Ronald Yates Pdf

A link to the past no one could ever imagine. When a great-grandson inherits two aging trunks and a stack of meticulously detailed journals penned by his great-grandfather, he sets out to fulfill his great-grandfather's last request: to tell the story of an incredible life replete with adventure, violence, and tragedy. The great-grandfather's name is Billy Battles--a man often trapped and overwhelmed by circumstances beyond his control. For much of his 100-year-long life, Billy is a man missing and largely unknown to his descendants. His great-grandson is about to change that. As he works his way through the aging journals and the other possessions he finds in the battered trunks he uncovers the truth about his mysterious great-grandfather--a man whose deeds and misdeeds propelled him on an extraordinary and perilous journey from the untamed American West to the inscrutable Far East, Latin America, and Europe. But most of all he learns that in finding Billy Battles he has also found a long lost and astonishing link to the past.

Author : Bill Cosgrave
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459746626

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Love Her Madly by Bill Cosgrave Pdf

A riveting memoir that works its magic like a slow-acting drug, revealing the story of Jim Morrison’s first love, a long-lost friendship, and the man who existed before the Doors. In the spring of 1965, Bill Cosgrave was smuggled across the border into the United States after receiving an irresistible invitation from his captivating friend Mary Werbelow. When he made it to her apartment in Los Angeles, Mary introduced Bill to her boyfriend, Jim Morrison. The two young men quickly bonded. When Jim and Mary’s relationship faltered, Jim headed for Venice beach with his notebook. Bill and Jim spent endless days together, enjoying the aimlessness of their youth and the freedom of the times, fuelled by Jim's unlimited supply of dope. Jim’s writing would morph into iconic hit songs, rocketing him to international fame as the hypnotic lead singer of the Doors. Beautiful Mary would set off on her own journey. After years of futile searching, Bill finally tracks down the woman he had secretly loved. He’s dying to know where her life has taken her and stunned by what he discovers.

Author : Bill Muir,Alex Kendrick
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781433682070

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The Lost Medallion by Bill Muir,Alex Kendrick Pdf

Archaeologist Dr. Michael Stone looked for the lost medallion his entire life, and now his son Billy has taken up the search. Amazingly, the medallion ends up in Billy's hands and a spontaneous wish in a precarious situation takes Billy and his best friend Allie, back 200 years to what they realize is a very different Aumakua Island. When Billy and his friends are not jumping off waterfalls, avoiding animal traps, crossing the ocean, sneaking through caves or escaping a prison they're facing their nemesis Cobra, who wants nothing more than for them all to disappear. With no other way to get home, and the well being of the entire island resting on his shoulders, Billy must discover the key to reclaiming the medallion and its tremendous power. One way or another, this adventure will change Billy, and life on the island, forever. Best-selling author and film director Alex Kendrick (The Love Dare, Courageous) and Youth for Christ veteran Bill Muir bring us this exciting novelization of The Lost Medallion movie.

Author : Robert H. Ferrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067708365

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America's Deadliest Battle by Robert H. Ferrell Pdf

Preparation -- The plan -- First days -- The 35th Division -- Ending the enfilade -- The Kriemhilde Stellung -- Reorganization -- Breakout -- Victory.

Author : Thomas Stora Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Boxing
ISBN : MINN:31951T00076074A

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Ring Battles of Centuries by Thomas Stora Andrews Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1330345549

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The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald E. Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 131152732X

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Finding Billy Battles by Ronald E. Yates Pdf

Western Kansas 1860. Billy Battles is born on a remote homestead just off the storied Santa Fe Trail. More than one hundred years later a great-grandson inherits two trunks filled with Billy's personal effects. Also in those trunks are several startling journals that chronicle an astonishing life that until now was obscured by the murky haze of time and Billy's deep-rooted desire for secrecy.The journals tell of a man both haunted and hunted who, in a desperate search for peace and redemption, journeys far from the untamed American West to the Far East, South America, and Europe. They meticulously describe Billy's interaction with a wide assortment of men and women0́4some legendary, a few iniquitous, and many lost to history. They also recount his participation in such cataclysmic events as the Spanish-American War, turmoil in French Indochina, and violent revolutions in Mexico and South America.Complying with Billy's last request the great-grandson assembles the journals into a compelling trilogy that reveals a man often trapped and overwhelmed by circumstances beyond his control, but who nevertheless manages to persevere for ten decades.

Author : Joe Giorello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1947076108

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Great Battles for Boys by Joe Giorello Pdf

Filled with historic photographs, maps, and short, powerful chapters, "Great Battles for Boys" captures the attention of even reluctant readers. History leaps off the page through the blood, sweat, and sacrifice of soldiers fighting America's earliest battles, from Bunker Hill and San Juan Hill to The Alamo and The Lost Battalion of WWI.

Author : William Tucci
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 0857680099

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Sgt. Rock by William Tucci Pdf

From the bloody beaches of Normandy, to the muddy forests of the Vosges Mountains, a cut-off company led by Sgt. Rock is joined by Johnny Cloud and the Haunted Tank as they battle for their lives behind enemy lines against a force ten times their size.

Author : Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Temperance
ISBN : UIUC:30112062683245

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On the Firing Line in the Battle for Sobriety by Jenkin Lloyd Jones Pdf

Author : Robert Stiles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : United States
ISBN : PRNC:32101067878965

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Four Years Under Marse Robert by Robert Stiles Pdf

Author : Ronald E. Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCLA:L0077947604

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The Kikkoman Chronicles by Ronald E. Yates Pdf

Combining ancient craftsmanship with modern technology and marketing innovations, Japan's Kikkoman Corporation has quietly become a $2 billion market leader. This book tells the fascinating story of how Kikkoman changed the course of international marketing, shrewdly adapting to 20th-century realities while never turning its back on centuries of tradition.