Author: Genell Dellin
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380775262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Refusing to enter into a marriage arranged by her scheming businessman father, Maggie Harrington proposes to convicted outlaw Cade Chisk-Ko, promising to rescue him from being hanged if he will marry her for one year only. Original.
Author: Tom Young
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496732952
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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From the author of Silver Wings, Iron Cross comes a suspenseful and thrilling saga based on the true story of one of World War II’s most daring and successful rescue missions. Summer 1944: Yugoslavia is locked in a war within a war. In addition to fighting the German occupation, warring factions battle each other. Hundreds of Allied airmen have been shot down over this volatile region, among them American lieutenant Bill Bogdonavich. Though grateful to the locals who are risking their lives to shelter and protect him from German troops, Bogdonavich dreams of the impossible: escape. With three failed air missions behind him, Lieutenant Drew Carlton is desperate for redemption. From a Texas airbase he volunteers for a secretive and dangerous assignment, codenamed Operation Halyard, that will bring together American special operations officers, airmen, and local guerilla fighters in Yugoslavia’s green hills. This daring plan—to evacuate hundreds of stranded airmen while avoiding detection by the Germans—faces overwhelming odds. What follows is one of the greatest stories of World War II heroism, an elaborate rescue that required astonishing courage, sacrifice, and resilience. Red Burning Sky is a riveting and ultimately triumphant military thriller based on true events, all the more remarkable for being so little known—until now.
Author: Christopher Ailsby
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1473886708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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During the Second World War, the German Fallschirmjger (paratroopers) carried out many successful and daring operations, such as the capture of the Belgian fortress at Eben Emael in 1940 and the invasion of Crete in 1941. Hitler's Sky Warriors is a detailed examination of all the battles and campaigns of the Third Reich's airborne forces, illustrated throughout by many previously unpublished photographs. Hitler's Sky Warriors includes detailed accounts of all the ground campaigns of the parachute divisions, especially in Italy, where their epic defenses of Monte Cassino entered military legend. As well as being a comprehensive account of Fallschirmjger battles and campaigns, Hitler's Sky Warriors includes information on the specialist weapons and equipment developed for Germany's airborne forces. These include the paratrooper helmet, the FG 42 automatic rifle, the so-called 'gravity knife', the different jump smocks, parachutes and harnesses, transport aircraft and gliders. Hitler's Sky Warriors also contains biographical details on all the main parachute commanders, such as Kurt Student, Bernhard Herman Ramcke and Richard Heidrich, and includes appendices that contain information about divisional orders of battle and Knight's Cross winners. In this way Hitler's Sky Warriors builds into an extensive and exciting account of one of the elite formations of military history.
Author: Jessie Hollis Beebe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Badlands (S.D. and Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: Renee Alexis
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9781585712861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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When a photojournalist is sent to Gallup, New Mexico, to do a story on the Intertribal Ceremonial Powwow, she unexpectedly finds love with a Native American jeweler. Original.
Author: Tanaz Bhathena
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374313105
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Exploring identity, class struggles, and high-stakes romance, Tanaz Bhathena's Hunted by the Sky is a gripping adventure set in a world inspired by medieval India. Gul has spent her life running. She has a star-shaped birthmark on her arm, and in the kingdom of Ambar, girls with such birthmarks have been disappearing for years. Gul’s mark is what caused her parents’ murder at the hand of King Lohar’s ruthless soldiers and forced her into hiding to protect her own life. So when a group of rebel women called the Sisters of the Golden Lotus rescue her, take her in, and train her in warrior magic, Gul wants only one thing: revenge. Cavas lives in the tenements, and he’s just about ready to sign his life over to the king’s army. His father is terminally ill, and Cavas will do anything to save him. But sparks fly when he meets a mysterious girl—Gul—in the capital’s bazaar, and as the chemistry between them undeniably grows, he becomes entangled in a mission of vengeance—and discovers a magic he never expected to find. Dangerous circumstances have brought Gul and Cavas together at the king’s domain in Ambar Fort...a world with secrets deadlier than their own.
Author: Genell Dellin
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 146030456X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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The cost of avenging the death of his sister was ten years in prison, but Blue Bowman willingly paid the price. Now he has one more score to settle: destroying the wealthy Montana rancher who abandoned his mother and shattered his family—his father, Gordon Campbell. Strange luck lands him a job at the massive Campbell spread—and Blue finds himself back in the saddle gentling horses, especially one wild, magnificent roan whose tortured soul mirrors his own. And the quiet strength and beauty of veterinarian Andie Lee Hart, a single mother with a troubled teenaged son, almost lets him forget the past. Soon Blue will have to make a choice…but will it be to satisfy the demons inside him, or trust his life to the power of love?
Author: John R. Bruning
Publisher: Potomac Books
ISBN: 9781574888416
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Exciting accounts of a key crossroads in military aviation history
Author: Warren G. Macdonald
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 141167894X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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This is a memoir account of the author's journey from a seventeen-year-old school boy, to a combat soldier during the Korean War. Reflecting back to the summer of 1950, utilizing his notes, U. S. Army records, and his memory, he has drawn a picture in words of his movement from the easy-going classroom life of high school, to an infantry-armor trained combat soldier. He takes you into his family background, and the why of his enlistment, and carries the reader through basic, advanced training and cadre duties of a 1950's army life. An assignment to a combat infantry regiment in a very hostile environment, with an enemy and weather that causes heavy casualties, is described in blunt detail. The combat described is real, and from the point of view of the "grunt" soldier, and not from the high command. Paper back issue.
Author: Christopher Chant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780681411111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The air arms of the United States Military form the most potent combined air force in the world, capable of defending the skies of the free world, engaging and destroying any hostile threat. The USAF has bases in every part of the globe, and these are supplemented by the Navy's fleet of floating airfields, the aircraft carriers. The Army and Marine Corps play a vital role in support of any troops they have in action in ground operations, as witnessed by the world in 1991 in the Gulf. This superbly illustrated volume describes each aircraft in current service and their specific operational roles with the four services: how the crews of these high-technology systems train for their respective missions, such as air defense, strike, or reconnaissance, what weapons and equipment they use, and how these already advanced systems are updated with the introduction of even newer technology to counter ever-changing threats. This book provides a running commentary on the modern military aircraft of the United States. Data panels provide aircraft specifications for the most important types, and full color photographs illustrate each aircraft.
