Through The Maelstrom

Author : Boris Gorbachevsky
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780700621071

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Through the Maelstrom by Boris Gorbachevsky Pdf

The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern Front--Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk--are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored in official accounts. Boris Gorbachevsky was a junior officer in the 31st Army who first saw front-line duty as a rifleman in the 30th Army. Through the Maelstrom recounts his three harrowing years on some of the war's grimmest but forgotten battlefields: the campaign for Rzhev, the bloody struggle to retake Belorussia, and the bitter final fighting in East Prussia. As he traces his experiences from his initial training, through the maelstrom, to final victory, he provides one of the richest and most detailed memoirs of life and warfare on the Eastern Front. Gorbachevsky's panoramic account takes us from infantry specialist school to the front lines to rear services areas and his whirlwind romances in wartime Moscow. He recalls the shriek of Katiusha rockets flying overhead toward the enemy and the unforgettable howl of Stukas divebombing Soviet tanks. And he conveys horrors of brutal fighting not recorded previously in English, including his own participation in a human wave assault that decimated his regiment at Rzhev, with piles of corpses growing the closer they got to the German trenches. Gorbachevsky also records the sufferings of the starving citizens of Leningrad, the savage execution of a Russian scout who turned in false information, the killing of an innocent German trying to welcome the Soviet troops, and a chilling campfire discussion by four Russian soldiers as they compared notes about the women they'd raped. His memoir brims with rich descriptions of daily army life, the challenges of maintaining morale, and relationships between soldiers. It also includes candid exposs of the many problems the Red Army faced: the influence of political officers, the stubbornness of senior commanders, the attrition through desertions, and the initial months of occupation in postwar Germany. Through the Maelstrom features the swiftly moving narrative and rich dialogue associated with the grand style of great Russian literature. Ultimately, it provides a fitting and final testament to soldiers who fought and died in anonymity.

Author : Marc Gascoigne,Andy Jones
Publisher : Games Workshop(uk)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : 0671783866

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Into the Maelstrom by Marc Gascoigne,Andy Jones Pdf

Set in the future of Warhammer 40,000, this collection features dark tales of war and adventure in a world where mankind teeters on the brink of extinction.

Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429982214

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Maelstrom by Peter Watts Pdf

Second in the Rifters Trilogy, Hugo Award-winning author Peter Watts' Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir. This is the way the world ends: A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient microbe—voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction—and a handful of amphibious humans called rifters who'd inadvertently released it from three billion years of solitary confinement. The resulting tsunami killed millions. It's not as through there was a choice: saving the world excuses almost any degree of collateral damage. Unless, of course, you miss the target. Now North America's west coast lies in ruins. Millions of refugees rally around a mythical figure mysteriously risen from the deep sea. A world already wobbling towards collapse barely notices the spread of one more blight along its shores. And buried in the seething fast-forward jungle that use to be called Internet, something vast and inhuman reaches out to a woman with empty white eyes and machinery in her chest. A woman driven by rage, and incubating Armageddon. Her name is Lenie Clarke. She's a rifter. She's not nearly as dead as everyone thinks. And the whole damn world is collateral damage as far as she's concerned. . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Henry H. Neff
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375871481

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The Maelstrom by Henry H. Neff Pdf

The world is at the brink of ruin . . . or is it salvation? Astaroth has been weakened, and the demon Prusias is taking full advantage of the situation to create an empire of his own. His formidable armies are on the move, and Rowan is in their sights. Rowan must rely on Max McDaniels and David Menlo and hope that their combined powers can stop Prusias's war machine before it's too late. But even as perils loom, danger stalks their every move. Someone has marked Max for death and no one is above suspicion. Should the assassins succeed, Rowan's fate may depend on little Mina whose abilities are prodigious but largely untested. And where is Astaroth? Has he fled this world or is he biding his time, awaiting his next opportunity? In the Tapestry's fourth book, author-illustrator Henry H. Neff boldly raises the stakes in an epic tale of mankind's struggle to survive in a world now populated by demons and demigods and everything in between!

Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher : HMH
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547526737

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William James by Robert D. Richardson Pdf

The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself. Often cited as the “father of American psychology,” William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant contributions to at least five fields: psychology, philosophy, religious studies, teaching, and literature. A member of one of the most unusual and notable of American families, James struggled to achieve greatness amid the brilliance of his theologian father; his brother, the novelist Henry James; and his sister, Alice James. After studying medicine, he ultimately realized that his true interests lay in philosophy and psychology, a choice that guided his storied career at Harvard, where he taught some of America’s greatest minds. But it is James’s contributions to intellectual study that reveal the true complexity of man. In this biography that seeks to understand James’s life through his work—including Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and Pragmatism—Robert D. Richardson has crafted an exceptionally insightful work that explores the mind of a genius, resulting in “a gripping and often inspiring story of intellectual and spiritual adventure” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “A magnificent biography.” —The Washington Post

Author : David Toop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781441183705

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Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom by David Toop Pdf

Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017. In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II era. Neither strictly chronological, or exclusively a history, Into the Maelstrom investigates a wide range of improvisational tendencies: from surrealist automatism to stream-of-consciousness in literature and vocalization; from the free music of Percy Grainger to the free improvising groups emerging out of the early 1960s (Group Ongaku, Nuova Consonanza, MEV, AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble); and from free jazz to the strands of free improvisation that sought to distance itself from jazz. In exploring the diverse ways in which spontaneity became a core value in the early twentieth century as well as free improvisation's connection to both 1960s rock (The Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd) and the era of post-Cagean indeterminacy in composition, Toop provides a definitive and all-encompassing exploration of free improvisation up to 1970, ending with the late 1960s international developments of free music from Roscoe Mitchell in Chicago, Peter Brötzmann in Berlin and Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg in Amsterdam.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Military history
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU16707150

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Army History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clint Crowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1611213363

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Caught in the Maelstrom by Clint Crowe Pdf

The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole during America s Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861-1865, the Indians fought their own bloody civil war on lands surrounded by the Kansas Territory, Arkansas, and Texas. Clint Crowe s magisterial Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War reveals the complexity and the importance of this war within a war, and explains how it affected the surrounding states in the Trans-Mississippi West and the course of the broader war engulfing the country. The onset of the Civil War exacerbated the divergent politics of the five tribes and resulted in the Choctaw and Chickasaw contributing men for the Confederacy and the Seminoles contributing men for the Union. The Creeks were divided between the Union and the Confederacy, while the internal war split apart the Cherokee nation mostly between those who followed Stand Watie, a brigadier general in the Confederate Army, and John Ross, who threw his majority support behind the Union cause. Throughout, Union and Confederate authorities played on divisions within the tribes to further their own strategic goals by enlisting men, signing treaties, encouraging bloodshed, and even using the hard hand of war to turn a profit. Crowe s well-written study is grounded upon a plethora of archival resources, newspapers, diaries, letter collections, and other accounts. Caught in the Maelstrom examines every facet of this complex and fascinating story in a manner sure to please the most demanding reader."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89119929446

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The Wisconsin Farmer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen M Fjellman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000010879

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Vinyl Leaves by Stephen M Fjellman Pdf

Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. It’s a pedestrian’s world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone, with rides, shows, r

Author : Kristian Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781107000513

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Revolution and the Antiquarian Book by Kristian Jensen Pdf

Examines the late eighteenth-century preoccupation with the acquisition of old books, and the new historical discipline created by traders.

Author : Walter J. Kastner
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771432115

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A Certain Ms. Ball by Walter J. Kastner Pdf

A Certain Ms. Ball is a historical romance adventure for all those eggheads, children, and grownups who want to know how high-tech and the space age were started, who the nerds really were who advanced the arts and the sciences we take for granted today. The interfaces for DVDs, the Internet, lasers, and fiber optics to collect light from a laser source and focus it to a point for readout or for coupling to another fiber optic for communications are tiny glass spheres, some as small as 1/100 of an inch in diameter. Our two-millimeter heroine, Crystal, is born in A.D. 523 on the Arabian shore during a lightning storm. A shepherd boy finds her and keeps her until he dies as sultan. Shahrazad is his destiny, but he will have to wait. Crystal has many adventures with well-known historical figures. Our hero is reborn in 1636 and starts his search for Crystal, from her legend. As Captain Nemo he finds Crystal and his destiny. Their son remains to seek his destiny.

Author : Anne McCaffrey,Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345497369

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Maelstrom by Anne McCaffrey,Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Pdf

In Changelings, bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough returned to the sentient planet Petaybee with a story of growth and transformation in the face of deadly new threats. The telepathic, shapeshifting twins Murel and Ronan found that Petaybee had plans for them as well. Now those plans begin to bear fruit with fresh possibilities . . . and dangers. Now that Petaybee is forming a new equatorial island, the planet has agreed to harbor a group of new refugees, workers indentured to the powerful InterGal Corporation. But the mission to collect the immigrants becomes a rescue operation when it is revealed that InterGal is doing nothing to help these survivors of a world devastated by a meteor shower. Murel and Ronan set out to persuade the frightened refugees to come out of hiding, leave their world, and bring along their sacred totem animals, the gifted sea turtles called the Honus. But the twins discover that they’ve taken on more than they expected: The Honus are not the only animals sacred to the refugees. There are also the Manos, intelligent sharks who have lost none of their predatory habits–and who cannot be left behind to die. When the Manos are released into Petaybee’s waters, a tragic misunderstanding endangers the whole resettlement operation. At the same time, the mysterious sea otters who once rescued the twins’ father are suddenly revealed to be much more than they appear to be. Now it is up to Ronan and Murel, with the intrepid assistance of their river otter friend Sky, to smooth the waters before a maelstrom of revenge destroys Petaybee’s harmonious way of life. But even as the twins uncover startling new facts about Petaybee’s past that will change everything they thought they knew about the planet, the forces of InterGal are gathering, preparing to strike. . . .

Author : Matthew Costello
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 143915855X

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Doom 3: Maelstrom by Matthew Costello Pdf

In the year 2145...after disobeying a direct order, former special ops Marine Lieutenant John Kane found himself stripped of his rank and reassigned to the "U.S. Space Marines" -- the private army of the Union Aerospace Corporation. Now little more than a glorified security guard, Kane reluctantly accepts his fate on Mars City, the environmental community/lab center on the legendary red planet. But Kane could never have imagined the unspeakable horrors that awaited him there -- nightmarish aberrations of nature and unholy unions of flesh and machine awakened by unsuspecting researchers attempting to divulge the arcane secrets of this planet's extraordinary past. As the terrifying violence grows, Kane and a ragtag band of survivors must call on all of their skills if they can ever hope to make it out of Mars City alive -- even as those at the highest echelons of power continue their own covert and deadly machinations in a relentless bid to seize the ultimate source of power....

Author : Bobbie R. Byrd
Publisher : Dragoncrest Publishing, LLC
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781737579786

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Lady Silver by Bobbie R. Byrd Pdf

A warlock’s bond to the Flow, the source of all magic, is both a gift and a curse. For Bryanna D’Isaac, it is the only thing that keeps her alive in a galaxy ruled by a tyrant who hates her kind. But her bond becomes a deadly weapon when she accidentally destroys an Imperial drone and crosses paths with Admiral Devon Bastion, the most feared man in the empire. Bastion is on a mission to expose the emperor’s corruption and end his reign of terror. He needs Bryanna’s magic to do it, but he doesn’t trust her or her android companion, T’Laan. The Admiral has his secrets and his enemies, and he has no idea that Bryanna is connected to a mysterious presence in the Flow, a warlock who cries out for help from a dark and hidden place. As Bryanna and Bastion are drawn into a web of intrigue and danger, they discover they are not the only ones seeking the truth behind the emperor’s madness. A rogue warlock, a rebel leader, and a sinister slaver are all after the same thing: Lady Silver, the key to the ultimate power in the galaxy. But Lady Silver is not what they think she is, and her fate will change everything.