Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780803731882
Louis Nolette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Based on the author's great-grandfather; includes author's note.
Author : Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher : West 26th Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2012-10-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780786753642
In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Abenaki Indians
ISBN : 0545234263
Louis Nollette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Based on the author's great-grandfather; includes author's note.
Author : John Peel
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780738706146
Score, Pixel, and Helaine return to Dondar to help their unicorn friends find the former leader of their herd and to fend off a dangerous wizard.
Author : Daniel L. Schafer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813060545
"This ... narrative explores the impact of the Civil War on Florida's St. John's River region. Moving chronologically through the war years, Thunder on the river brings to light the story of the city of Jacksonville, including the surrounding countryside and its residents, be they white or black, supporters of the Confederacy or of the Union ... Based on a thorough review of a broad selection of primary sources, Thunder on the river touches on such important themes as secession, contested places, occupation, emancipation, invasions, hard war, and reconstruction. It presents local history in a national context and offers a comprehensive telling of the story of Florida's Civil War experiences from the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction -- of Confederates and Unionists, of soldiers and civilians, of enlisted men and officers, of die-hards and deserters, of slaves and plantation owners, of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary events"--Jacket.
Author : Mary Stewart
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060747463
Artist Jennifer Silver has come to the picturesque, secluded Valley of the Storms in the French Pyrenees to meet with a young cousin who is about to enter the convent there -- only to discover that the young woman has died in a dreadful car accident. Or did she? Lies abound in this strange and frightening place, but seeking the truth could lead Jennifer to her own violent death.
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780803731882
Louis Nolette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Based on the author's great-grandfather; includes author's note.
Author : Ronald E. Powaski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0195044118
There have been scientific studies of the nuclear arms race, and there have been political exposés -- yet no book until now has given the general reader a complete and accessible history of the events, forces and factors that have brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust. In this revealing account, Ronald Powaski examines two basic questions: What keeps the nuclear arms race going and why is it so difficult to end? Starting with the opening days of World War II, when Roosevelt gave the go-ahead for the secret development of the atom bomb, the famous Manhattan Project, Powaski traces the unfolding arms race up to the current day. He takes us through Truman's decision to use the bomb against Japan in 1945, the Cold War era and the missile crisis of Kennedy's administration, to the detente years of the seventies and the defense and arms control policies of Ronald Reagan, including "Star Wars" and START (the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks). As Powaski explains, both the United States and the Soviet Union now have a combined total of almost 50,000 nuclear weapons. Nuclear arms treaties and agreements are threatening to collapse, he argues, while the proliferation of nuclear materials and weapons throughout the world has given many countries the capability to produce nuclear weapons. Emphasizing the role of the United States, Powaski shows how one president after another has promised to do his utmost to end the nuclear weapons competition, yet each one has actually increased the quantity or quality of these weapons in the American arsenal. March to Armageddon reveals this startling discrepancy between presidential words and actions.--Publisher description.
Author : Jonathan Moeller
Publisher : Azure Flame Media
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2023-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
An insane artificial intelligence. A deadly ambush. Jack March must defeat both. Jack March is on the most important mission of his life - to find and destroy the Pulse superweapon before it can kill billions. But to find the Pulse, he must first survive the traps his enemies have set...
Author : Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1472848780
This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train Vietnamese pilots, and with conflict in Laos, and finally ended in 1972 with the B-52 bombing of Hanoi, though there were Air Force pilots unofficially flying combat in Laos up to the end in 1975. The missions flown by USAF aircrews during those years in Southeast Asia differed widely, from attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail at night with modified T-28 trainers, to missions “Downtown,” the name aircrew gave Hanoi, the central target of the war. This aerial war was dominated by the major air operations against the north: Rolling Thunder from 1965 to 1968, and then Linebacker I and II in 1972, with the latter seeing the deployment of America's fearsome B-52 bombers against the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi. These operations were carried out in the face of a formidable Soviet-inspired air defence system bristling with anti-aircraft guns and SAM missile sites. Beyond this, the US Air Force was intimately involved in secret air wars against Laos and Cambodia – one cannot speak of a war only in Vietnam regarding US Air Force operations. The war the Air Force fought was a war in Southeast Asia. Following on from the same author's The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club, which told the story of the US Navy's involvement in the Vietnam War, Downtown completes the picture. Featuring a wide range of personal accounts and previously untold stories, this fascinating history brings together the full story of the US Air Force's struggle in the skies over Southeast Asia.
