Author : R. V. Jones
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781635610796
R.V. Jones' personal account of his key role in what Churchill called "The Wizard War" with British Scientific Intelligence from 1939 to 1945. Projects he worked on sought to combat Germany's applications of science during World War II, including navigational beams, chaff, and radar. Their efforts helped the Allies achieve ultimate victory.
Author : Marc Seifer
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806540982
In this revelatory new book, the author of the award-winning international bestseller Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla delves deeper into the groundbreaking ideas and astonishing mind of one of the greatest geniuses of modern times . . . “In a few years hence, it will be possible for nations to fight without armies, ships or guns, by weapons far more terrible to the destructive action and range of which there is virtually no limit. Any city at any distance whatsoever from the enemy can be destroyed by him and no power on Earth can stop him from doing so.” —Nikola Tesla, circa 1925 Drawing on forty years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla’s discoveries, which continue to influence today’s military technology and diplomatic strategies. One of the world’s leading Tesla experts, Marc J. Seifer offers new insight into the brilliant scientist’s particle beam weapon (aka the “Death Ray”) and explores his military negotiations with pivotal historical figures—including his links to Joseph Stalin, Vannevar Bush, General Andrew McNaughton, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From Tesla’s role in the origins of Star Wars technology and his dynamic theory of gravity, to the real purpose behind the iconic tower at Wardenclyffe, this is an eye-opening account of Tesla’s projects, passions, and ambitions—and an illuminating, important study of one of history’s most intriguing figures.
Author : R.V. Jones
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0141957670
Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War. In Most Secret War he details how Britain stealthily stole the war from under the Germans' noses by outsmarting their intelligence at every turn. He tells of the 'battle of the beams'; detecting and defeating flying bombs; using chaff to confuse radar; and many other ingenious ideas and devices. Jones was the man with the plan to save Britain and his story makes for riveting reading.
Author : Charles Clemans
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Basketball
ISBN : 1604942274
He spoke not a word of English when he entered the first grade. He was beaten and whipped as a young boy and abandoned by his mother before age twelve. He survived one of the most horrific experiences a man could endure with the sinking of the "USS Indianapolis," and then led a band of six small Mexican Americans on a rampage through the Arizona state high school basketball championship tournament in 1947. With so many hardships early in life, how is it that he could achieve so much before the age of twenty? This is an inspirational story of determination, character, and grace under fire. It is the story of a young man who simply would not accept defeat ... by ANYTHING or ANYONE.
Author : Christina Clarry
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 183859955X
A power-mad High Born witch forms a new army of wacky wizards and witches who lost the last war. It’s a tough job. This brainless bunch prefers to guzzle gibber juice and clobber each other rather than follow orders.
Author : Carol Gaskin
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780816703180
The reader, as apprentice to the wizard Caladrius, becomes involved in a war of the wizards, during the course of which the reader's choices determine the development of the plot.
Author : Lawrence Watt-Evans
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473214270
At the end of The Cyborg and the Sorcerers, Sam Turner was making a life for himself on the planet Dest. He thought he had left the long-lost interstellar war between Earth and its rebellious colonies behind him forever. "Forever" turned out to be eleven years. That was how long it took for another Independent Reconaissance Unit to respond to the distress call his ship had sent before it was destroyed. And this one made his own berserk killer computer look sane.
Author : Hugh Cook
Publisher : Warner Books (NY)
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1987
Category :
ISBN : 9780445207004
Author : Terry Goodkind
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2001-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765300270
An unearthly adversary descends on an idyllic fantasy world, corrupting magic against good and slaughtering innocents, and only a single man can stop him.
Author : J.K. Rowling
Publisher : Pottermore Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1781100500
'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.' Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true. Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.
