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Hill went to sea with the British Navy at age 17 retired as rear admiral working in the Ministry of Defense pursued naval law for a few years and has been writing naval books since Here he explores what happened after a British warship captured an enemy warship a neutral suspected of running contraband or a privateer on the high seas There were plenty of legal procedures to go through he shows before the captors saw their prize money Annotation c Book News Inc Portland OR booknewscom
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Hill went to sea with the British Navy at age 17 retired as rear admiral working in the Ministry of Defense pursued naval law for a few years and has been writing naval books since Here he explores what happened after a British warship captured an enemy warship a neutral suspected of running contraband or a privateer on the high seas There were plenty of legal procedures to go through he shows before the captors saw their prize money Annotation c Book News Inc Portland OR booknewscom
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First published in 1994 and in print virtually ever since War Prizes was an illustrated history of the German Italian and Japanese aircraft brought to Allied countries after World War II for testing and evaluation Wide ranges of airplanes were covered in the book including civil aircraft and sailplanes as well as military types The only drawback with War Prizes was that because it was providing a detailed narrative of the testing and evaluation programs the space that could be devoted to the photographs was limited War Prizes The Album illustrates in much greater depth the aircraft types featured in the original volume It has photographs of each type in the markings of the Allied countries that operated them One aspect of the subject that will have notably better coverage in this book is that of Axis aircraft which found their way into Russian hands Since the collapse of the Soviet Union a lot more material has become available The majority of the photos that appear in this book were not published in the earlier book
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Aircraft flown by the USAAF at Wright Field and Freeman Field Includes Watsons Whizzers at the US Navyled TAIC at Anacostia A meticulously researched study of the numerous German Italian and Japanese aircraft taken to Allied countries or flown by the Allied countries during and after WWII Extensive new information and many photos previously unpublished
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Aircraft flown by the USAAF at Wright Field and Freeman Field Includes Watsons Whizzers at the US Navyled TAIC at Anacostia A meticulously researched study of the numerous German Italian and Japanese aircraft taken to Allied countries or flown by the Allied countries during and after WWII Extensive new information and many photos previously unpublished
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The author Saigon bureau chief for Newsweek in the early 1960s is currently Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Bonn The subtitle accurately summarizes the contents of this entertaining memoir Tuohy relates various adventures and misadventures in Asia the Middle East Europe and elsewhere poking fun at himself occasionally profiling colorful colleagues describing the methods he uses to get his stories Though he believes that war remains the most gripping subject of all the peacetime passages of his book are of equal interest He discusses such disparate matters as Lyndon Johnsons social and diplomatic coarseness the gulf between correspondents in the field and editors at home the Mafia in Sicily and Billy Wilders theories on the making of movies Despite the abundance of incidents what most readers will remember is the authors romantic attachment to journalism that however misguided I have never lost Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information Inc
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The diary of Kitty Anderson daughter of Charles Anderson during the Civil War in Texas in 1861 includes commentary by authorProvided by publisher
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The diary of Kitty Anderson daughter of Charles Anderson during the Civil War in Texas in 1861 includes commentary by authorProvided by publisher
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Found in Iraq and older than the Bible the Koran or the Torah this stirring epic the worlds oldest written story now becomes available to a general readership for the very first timeLugalbanda woke with a jolt He opened his eyes and what did he see but the terrible Anzu bird beating its wings in its nest high above Did he quake Did he quail No Lugalbanda the Brave sat and stared and into his head came a brilliant idea Before the Bible and the Koran before even the Greek and Roman myths there came a story from the land we now call Iraq Speaking across five thousand years in a voice so fresh and timeless it could have been written yesterday this tale tells of an extraordinary journey of a magical bird of a battle that wouldnt end and of wisdom gained It is the story of Lugalbanda a boy in a time of war Etched on clay tablets in cuneiform lost underground for thousands of years and rediscovered just 150 years ago this account of the epic adventures of a loyal resourceful boy is renarrated in lyrical prose by Kathy Henderson and set against Jane Rays glorious images glinting with gold
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Just twonbspmonths after the magical baseball season of 1941 the United States entered World War II and baseball like other American institutions was called upon to sacrifice and serve in the war effort Utilizing personal accounts military documents and newspaper sources Playing for Their Nation provides the first indepth analysis of the development of military baseball during the Second World War Steven R Bullock describes how virtually every significant American military installation around the world boasted formal baseball teams and leagues designed to soothe the anxieties of combatants and prepare them physically for battle Officials also sponsored hundreds of exhibition contests involving military and civilian teams and tours by major league stars to entertain servicemen and elevate their spiritsFundraising by the Major Leagues proved remarkably successful in the encouragement of war bond sales and in donations of equipment for military teams By the end of the war more than ninety percent of the players on prewar Major League rosters served in the armed forces and Bullock relates the wartime experiences of the players such as Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams Also provided is the statistical analysis of the negative impact of the war on the careers of Major League players in terms of their reduced productivity and shortened careersProving itself to be much more than a game baseball offered comfort and pride to a military and a nation gripped by war
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WARRING DESIRES It started so innocently when rugged sensual Gage Fletcher challenged Rani Cameron to a war game But Rani soon felt his desire to dominate her to make her leave the charm of New Mexico and to take her back to Dallas to confront a difficult relationship from her past And Gages demands didnt stop with business he wanted Rani to fall in love with him too Rani tried to win their battle of wills But she longed to feel that fire of excitement in his arms Would her desire for victory succumb to the delicious thrill of surrender
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As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany the NAACP and AfricanAmerican leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in the United States The prize they sought was not civil rights but human rights Only the human rights lexicon shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations contained the language and the moral power to address not only the political and legal inequality but also the education health care housing and employment needs that haunted the black community The NAACP understood this and wielded its influence and resources to take its human rights agenda before the United Nations But the onset of the Cold War and rising anticommunism allowed powerful southerners to cast those rights as Sovietinspired and a threat to the American ways of life Enemies and friends excoriated the movement and the NAACP retreated to a narrow civil rights agenda that was easier to maintain politically Thus the Civil Rights Movement was launched with neither the language nor the mission it needed to truly achieve black equality Carol Anderson is the recipient of major grants from the Ford Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies and numerous awards for excellence in teaching Her scholarly interests are 20th century American AfricanAmerican and diplomatic history and the impact of the Cold War and US foreign policy on the struggle for black equality in particular Her publications include From Hope to Disillusion published in Diplomatic History and reprinted in The AfricanAmerican Voice in US Foreign Policy
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The neverbeforetold account of the intersection ofnbspsome of the most insightful minds of the 20th century and a fascinating look at how war resistance and friendship can catalyze geniusnbspIn the spring of 1940 the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary separate lives in Paris After the German invasion and occupation of France each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis and ascended to prominent dangerous roles After the war and through twists of circumstance they became friends and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields nbspDrawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished and unknown material gathered over several years of research Brave Genius tells the story of how each man endured the most terrible episode of the twentieth century and then blossomed into extraordinarily creative and engaged individuals It is a story of the transformation of ordinary lives into exceptional lives by extraordinary eventsof courage in the face of overwhelming adversity the flowering of creative genius deep friendship and of profound concern for and insight into the human condition
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In 1740 the first year of the war with Spain Commodore George Anson set sail with a squadron of six British warships His secret mission to seize the legendary Spanish galleon on her yearly voyage from Acapulco to Manila laden with Peruvian silver the prize of all the oceans It was to be four years of hardship disaster mutiny and finally heroism Historian Glyn Williamss The Prize of All the Oceans shapes Ansons dramatic voyage into a powerful narrative threaded with incisive analysis and commentary giving readers a vivid portrait of an intrepid commander who never wavered in his resolve to capture the prize and return home triumphant Glyn Williams tells the full story for the first time in a book that will rivet history buffs and armchair survivalists alike
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The third in Susan Howatchs Church of England novels ULTIMATE PRIZES begins in 1942 with the world at war as narrator and archdeacon Nevill Aysgarth finds himself falling into a hopeless obsession over Dido Tallent beautiful celebrity and finds himself pursuing her through a swamp of guilt and the destruction of his valued moral compassFrom the Paperback edition
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Captured by the lenses of the worlds photojournalists these Pulitzer Prizewinning photographs paint a dramatic and memorable montage of each year from World War II to the first years of the twentyfirst century Here are the moments on which history turned five Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima Babe Ruths final salute at Yankee Stadium Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald the fallen students at Kent State the destruction of the World Trade Center the invasion of Iraq and most recently the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina Etched with emotion fury and passion each photograph transports the reader back in time to experience the moment in person This collection is a testament to the power of photography to compel provoke inspire and above all preserve
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The fascinating autobiographical reflections of Nobel Prize winner George Olah How did a young man who grew up in Hungary between the two World Wars go from cleaning rubble and moving pianos at the end of World War II in the Budapest Opera House to winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry George Olah takes us on a remarkable journey from Budapest to Cleveland to Los Angeleswith a stopover in Stockholm of course An innovative scientist George Olah is truly one of a kind whose amazing research into extremely strong acids and their new chemistry yielded what is now commonly known as superacidic magic acid chemistry A Life of Magic Chemistry is an intimate look at the many journeys that George Olah has traveledfrom his early research and teaching in Hungary to his move to North America where during his years in industry he continued his study of the elusive cations of carbon to his return to academia in Cleveland and finally his move to Los Angeles where he built the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute to find new solutions to the grave problem of the worlds diminishing natural oil and gas resources and to mitigate global warming by recycling carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels and products Professor Olah invites the reader to enjoy the story of his remarkable pathmarked by hard work imagination and neverending quests for discoverywhich eventually led to the Nobel Prize Intertwining his research and teaching with a unique personal writing style truly makes A Life of Magic Chemistry an engaging read His autobiography not only touches on his exhilarating life and pursuit for new chemistry but also reflects on the broader meaning of science in our perpetual search for understanding and knowledge
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In December 1994 on the acceptance of only the second Nobel Prize awarded to a Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe gave a speech that was a message for mankind one that pledged his own faith in tolerance and human decency in the renunciation of war and in the healing power of art the power to calm and purifyOther key addresses he has given elsewhere join the Nobel lecture in this volume giving a wider view of the work of a literary activist who sees himself as one of a dying breed in the intellectual life of his own country
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Selected by William Eggleston as WinnerThe Center for Documentary Studies Honickman First Book Prize in PhotographyBenjamin Lowys powerful and arresting color photographs taken over a sixyear period through Humvee windows and militaryissue night vision goggles capture the desolation of a warravaged Iraq as well as the tension and anxiety of both US soldiers and Iraqi civilians To photograph on the streets unprotected was impossible for Lowy so he made images that illuminate this difficulty by shooting photographs through the windows and goggles meant to help him and soldiers to see In doing so he provides us with a new way of looking at the waran entirely different framework for regarding and thinking about the everyday activities of Iraqis in a devastated landscape and the movements of soldiers on patrol as well as the alarm and apprehension of nighttime raidsIraq was a land of blast walls and barbed wire fences I made my first image of a concrete blast wall through the window of my armored car These pictures show a fragment of Iraqi daily life taken by a transient passenger in a Humvee yet they are a window to a world where work play tension grief survival and everything in between are as familiar as the events of our own lives In the Nightvision images as soldiers weave through the houses and bedrooms of civilians during nighttime military raids they encounter the faces of their suspects as well as bystanders many of whom are parents protecting their children I hope that these images provide the viewer with momentary illumination of the fear and desperation that is warBenjamin Lowy
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