FCC Record
Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
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Page : 774 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Telecommunication
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Red Rag Blues
Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1623653304
Book Description
It's 1953, and Luis Cabrillo has burned through the small fortune he earned from both British and German Intelligence in WW2. Now he has only his wits, his confidence, and his dazzling skills at lying and cheating. Teaming up again with Julie Conroy (a corker of a New Yorker), he follows his wartime instincts and goes where arrogance breeds wealth: to Washington D.C. and Senator Joe McCarthy, high priest of America's holy war on Red treachery. Joe's problem is a sudden shortage of treachery. Luis can help him out, but for dollars. Big dollars. And when the C.I.A. gets into the act, followed by the K.G.B., F.B.I., M.I.6. and the Mafia, it makes for an explosive mixture ripe for a spark. In Red Rag Blues Derek Robinson lends his signature wit to the hysteria and paranoia of the McCarthy years, toying with the notion that the world's most powerful nation is sometimes the world's most stupid.
Artillery of Lies
Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1623653193
Book Description
1943. British Intelligence has finally got to grips with the Eldorado Network, Germany's most successful spy ring. It turns out to be one man in a small room in Lisbon, inventing phony (but convincing) reports. For two years he pulled the wool over German Intelligence's eyes, and made a killing. The British soon find that Eldorado's a real handful. They bring him to England, so they can manage his dispatches, and discover that living with a genius can be a headache. Eldorado rapidly creates a team of top sub-agents around him. None of them exists. But power--even imaginary power--is intoxicating, and he begins to treat his fake sub-agents as if real. Big trouble ahead. Artillery of Lies is the hair-raising sequel to The Eldorado Network, all the more funny for being soundly based on the true story of a real Second World War spy.
Why 1914?
Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681440598
Book Description
In Why 1914?, Derek Robinson--trained as a historian, shortlisted for the Booker Prize--applies his novelist's skills to asking how and why Europe hurried into such a massive disaster. He captures a world of kings and Kaisers, generals and infantrymen. None of them knew what a big European war meant. All the combatant nations assumed it would be short, and each expected to win. The roots of such folly began in the nineteenth century. Robinson traces the earliest warning signs, leading to a sudden crisis and an impulsive war that went massively wrong from the start. This book is the ideal introduction to the key question of the Great War: why did Europe explode?
Operation Bamboozle
Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1623653282
Book Description
From 1941 to 1943 it was the Germans. Then it was the turn of the British. Come the Cold War, he's conning McCarthy. Now he's going head to head with the L.A. mob. For high stakes con artist Luis Cabrillo, once known as Eldorado, the million-dollar spy, trouble is never far away. And when he and his corker-of-a-New-Yorker squeeze, Julie Conroy, run into the cream of Los Angele's shady side, the result is a heady brew of disorganized crime, hot dollars, triple virgins and dead bodies in the begonias. The fourth and final Luis Cabrillo novel is yet another fiendishly plotted rollercoaster ride of wit and wisecracking, as the Second World War's most daring and audacious spy finds that old habits die hard, even in peacetime.
Damned Good Show
Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857385607
Book Description
They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour? One in three. At best. Robinson's crooked salute to the dogged heroes of the R.A.F.'s early bombing campaign is a wickedly humourous portrait of men doing their duty in flying death traps, fully aware, in those dark days of war, there was nothing else to do but dig in and hang on.
Hornet's Sting
Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1623653274
Book Description
It's 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for years. A pilot's life is usually short, so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously. Distractions from the brutality of the air war include British nurses; eccentric Russian pilots; bureaucratic battles over the plum-jam ration; rat-hunting with Very pistols; and the C.O.'s patent, potent cocktail, known as "Hornet's Sting." But as the summer offensives boil up, none of these can offer any lasting comfort.
California Forest Highway 137, Wentworth Springs Road, El Dorado County
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Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 1999
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ISBN :
Book Description
Eldorado National Forest (N.F.), Airport Forest Health Project, Pacific Ranger District, El Dorado and Placer Counties
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Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Goshawk Squadron
Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857388576
Book Description
World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes. At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry in the clouds and is determined to obliterate the decent, gentlemanly outlook of his young, public school-educated pilots - for their own good. But as the war goes on he is forced to throw greener and greener pilots into the meat grinder. Goshawk Squadron finds its gallows humour and black camaraderie no defence against a Spandau bullet to the back of the head.
