Author: Robert Surtees
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
History of the Cauld Lad of Hilton: a Legend of the Hilton Family; with an Account of the Hiltons from the Remotest Times, Chiefly from Surtees' History of Durham. Also the Cauld Lad in Verse
Author: Robert Surtees
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Vanished
Author: Wil S. Hylton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101616253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn’t there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith—of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101616253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn’t there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith—of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II.
Evil Hour in Colombia
Author: Forrest Hylton
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789602610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this urgent new work Forrest Hylton, who has extensive first-hand experience of living and working in Colombia, explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression. Evil Hour in Colombia shows how patterns of political conflict, from the mid-nineteenth century to today's guerilla narco-traffickers and paramilitaries, explain the wear currently destroying Colombian lives, property, communities and territory. In doing so, it traces how Colombia's "coffee capitalism" gave way to the cattle and cocaine republic of the 1980s, and how land, wealth and power have been steadily accumulated by the light-skinned top of the social pyramid through a brutal combination of terror, expropriation and economic depression.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789602610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this urgent new work Forrest Hylton, who has extensive first-hand experience of living and working in Colombia, explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression. Evil Hour in Colombia shows how patterns of political conflict, from the mid-nineteenth century to today's guerilla narco-traffickers and paramilitaries, explain the wear currently destroying Colombian lives, property, communities and territory. In doing so, it traces how Colombia's "coffee capitalism" gave way to the cattle and cocaine republic of the 1980s, and how land, wealth and power have been steadily accumulated by the light-skinned top of the social pyramid through a brutal combination of terror, expropriation and economic depression.
Great British Family Names and Their History
Author: John Moss
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 152672281X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
A reference guide to hundreds of surnames that reveal the story of the United Kingdom across generations and centuries. To some extent, we are all products of our family history, the many generations before us. So it is with nations. The history of Great Britain has been largely defined by powerful and influential families, many of whose names came down from Celtic, Danish, Saxon or Norman ancestors. Their family names fill the pages of history books, indelibly written into events we learn about at school. Family names like Wellington, Nelson, Shakespeare, Cromwell, Constable, De Montfort, and Montgomery reflect the long, checkered history of Britain, and demonstrate the assimilation of the many cultures and languages that have migrated to the British isles over the centuries. This book is a snapshot of several hundred such family names and delves into their beginnings and derivations, making extensive use of old sources, including translations of The Domesday Book and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, as well as tracing many through the centuries to the present day.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 152672281X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
A reference guide to hundreds of surnames that reveal the story of the United Kingdom across generations and centuries. To some extent, we are all products of our family history, the many generations before us. So it is with nations. The history of Great Britain has been largely defined by powerful and influential families, many of whose names came down from Celtic, Danish, Saxon or Norman ancestors. Their family names fill the pages of history books, indelibly written into events we learn about at school. Family names like Wellington, Nelson, Shakespeare, Cromwell, Constable, De Montfort, and Montgomery reflect the long, checkered history of Britain, and demonstrate the assimilation of the many cultures and languages that have migrated to the British isles over the centuries. This book is a snapshot of several hundred such family names and delves into their beginnings and derivations, making extensive use of old sources, including translations of The Domesday Book and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, as well as tracing many through the centuries to the present day.
History of the Cauld Lad of Hilton
Author: Frank Graham
Publisher: Frank Graham
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher: Frank Graham
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Darlington, in the Bishoprick
Author: William Hylton Longstaffe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Darlington (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Darlington (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester
Author:
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Category : Cheshire
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 3144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 3144
Book Description
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
Author:
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Category : Durham (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Durham (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Willis and Inventories Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, &c., of the Northern Counties of England
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
List of publications, v. 1-132, in v. 132.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
List of publications, v. 1-132, in v. 132.