Author: Deborah Tadema
Publisher: Deborah Tadema
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Eve Webber doesn’t believe her boyfriend died in the car accident. Lance held her as they watched the car burn. He talked to her. Yet everyone tells her he died on impact. Eve also didn’t see Samael, the angel of death. She only saw bright angels, the ones who help people. Which means no one died in the accident. Samael visits her whenever someone close to her dies or when she witnesses a death. When Arthur Tinsley’s daughter ends up in a coma, he moves into Lydia’s house to look after her sixteen-year-old daughter. Eve is in denial about Lance’s death and claims he still visits her. Arthur protects Eve from her father, who is affiliated with a drug cartel. Plus, Arthur doesn’t trust Eve’s best friend Becca, a self-proclaimed witch. Arthur suspects Becca of putting a spell on Eve that gives her nightmares.
Silent Wings
Author: Deborah Tadema
Publisher: Deborah Tadema
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Eve Webber doesn’t believe her boyfriend died in the car accident. Lance held her as they watched the car burn. He talked to her. Yet everyone tells her he died on impact. Eve also didn’t see Samael, the angel of death. She only saw bright angels, the ones who help people. Which means no one died in the accident. Samael visits her whenever someone close to her dies or when she witnesses a death. When Arthur Tinsley’s daughter ends up in a coma, he moves into Lydia’s house to look after her sixteen-year-old daughter. Eve is in denial about Lance’s death and claims he still visits her. Arthur protects Eve from her father, who is affiliated with a drug cartel. Plus, Arthur doesn’t trust Eve’s best friend Becca, a self-proclaimed witch. Arthur suspects Becca of putting a spell on Eve that gives her nightmares.
Publisher: Deborah Tadema
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Eve Webber doesn’t believe her boyfriend died in the car accident. Lance held her as they watched the car burn. He talked to her. Yet everyone tells her he died on impact. Eve also didn’t see Samael, the angel of death. She only saw bright angels, the ones who help people. Which means no one died in the accident. Samael visits her whenever someone close to her dies or when she witnesses a death. When Arthur Tinsley’s daughter ends up in a coma, he moves into Lydia’s house to look after her sixteen-year-old daughter. Eve is in denial about Lance’s death and claims he still visits her. Arthur protects Eve from her father, who is affiliated with a drug cartel. Plus, Arthur doesn’t trust Eve’s best friend Becca, a self-proclaimed witch. Arthur suspects Becca of putting a spell on Eve that gives her nightmares.
Silent Wings, Savage Death
Author: Alfred J. Nigl
Publisher: Silent Wings Savage Death
ISBN: 9781882824311
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: Silent Wings Savage Death
ISBN: 9781882824311
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Silent Wings at War
Author: John L. Lowden
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The pilots were known as "suicide jockeys" and the aircraft they flew were called "flak bait." Towed behind modified bombers or transport aircraft, Allied combat gliders were used in some of the riskiest missions of World War II, landing miles behind enemy lines with specially trained assault forces. In "Silent Wings at War," John L. Lowden combines his own recollections with those of fellow veterans to create a vivid, gritty, jocose memoir of war as he and other glider pilots and their passengers knew it. These true tales of courage, as well as command blunders, make a substantial contribution to WWII literature.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The pilots were known as "suicide jockeys" and the aircraft they flew were called "flak bait." Towed behind modified bombers or transport aircraft, Allied combat gliders were used in some of the riskiest missions of World War II, landing miles behind enemy lines with specially trained assault forces. In "Silent Wings at War," John L. Lowden combines his own recollections with those of fellow veterans to create a vivid, gritty, jocose memoir of war as he and other glider pilots and their passengers knew it. These true tales of courage, as well as command blunders, make a substantial contribution to WWII literature.
On Silent Wings
Author: Tyler S Gaston
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
On a summer evening, a Tokyo-bound airliner departs Los Angeles, but never reaches its destination. Vanishing without a trace off of coastal Alaska, the world is left to wonder the fate of 239 passengers and crew. Countless theories abound, but for lack of any obvious explanation, the event soon becomes the most confounding aviation mystery since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. For Kevin Bailey, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, the loss of the aircraft is deeply personal, and he vows to stop at nothing to find out what happened.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
On a summer evening, a Tokyo-bound airliner departs Los Angeles, but never reaches its destination. Vanishing without a trace off of coastal Alaska, the world is left to wonder the fate of 239 passengers and crew. Countless theories abound, but for lack of any obvious explanation, the event soon becomes the most confounding aviation mystery since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. For Kevin Bailey, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, the loss of the aircraft is deeply personal, and he vows to stop at nothing to find out what happened.
A Study Guide for Jose Raul Bernardo's "Silent Wing"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410357953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A Study Guide for Jose Raul Bernardo's "Silent Wing," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literature of Developing Nations For Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410357953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A Study Guide for Jose Raul Bernardo's "Silent Wing," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literature of Developing Nations For Students for all of your research needs.
Silent Wing
Author: Jose Raul Bernardo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786217571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The author of "The Secret of the Bulls"--named one of the best works of firstfiction for 1997 by the "Los Angeles Times"--presents the passionate story ofa charismatic Cuban poet caught between the woman he loves and the one he haspromised to wed.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786217571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The author of "The Secret of the Bulls"--named one of the best works of firstfiction for 1997 by the "Los Angeles Times"--presents the passionate story ofa charismatic Cuban poet caught between the woman he loves and the one he haspromised to wed.
Gliders of World War II: ‘The Bastards No One Wanted’
Author: Major Michael H. Manion
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786250683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This study examines the role of combat gliders in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States during World War II (WWII). This thesis compares and contrasts each country with respect to pre-WWII glider experience, glider and airborne doctrine, glider pilot training, and glider production while outlining each country’s major glider operations. The author then compares the glider operations in the China-Burma-India Theater to the operations in Europe to describe the unique challenges based on the terrain and mission. Next, this thesis presents an analysis of the glider’s precipitous decline following WWII. The study concludes with recommendations for glider operations in the future based on the experiences of the past.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786250683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This study examines the role of combat gliders in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States during World War II (WWII). This thesis compares and contrasts each country with respect to pre-WWII glider experience, glider and airborne doctrine, glider pilot training, and glider production while outlining each country’s major glider operations. The author then compares the glider operations in the China-Burma-India Theater to the operations in Europe to describe the unique challenges based on the terrain and mission. Next, this thesis presents an analysis of the glider’s precipitous decline following WWII. The study concludes with recommendations for glider operations in the future based on the experiences of the past.
Silent Skies
Author: Tim Lynch
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844157369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
On 10 May 1940 warfare changed forever when gliders swooped down to seize the fortress of Eben Emael in Belgium ahead of the German advance. In the following five years of war, the glider evolved into a war-winning weapon capable of landing men, guns and even tanks with pinpoint precision. Across the world it became a vital element in military planning, yet no full history of glider operations has been written. Tim Lynch, in this graphic and highly readable study, gives vivid accounts of glider operations - some famous, some less well known - in every theatre of the war, in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Far East and the Pacific. He quotes extensively from the memoirs and eyewitness accounts of the glider pilots and the troops they carried, and he traces the evolution glider tactics over the course of the war.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844157369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
On 10 May 1940 warfare changed forever when gliders swooped down to seize the fortress of Eben Emael in Belgium ahead of the German advance. In the following five years of war, the glider evolved into a war-winning weapon capable of landing men, guns and even tanks with pinpoint precision. Across the world it became a vital element in military planning, yet no full history of glider operations has been written. Tim Lynch, in this graphic and highly readable study, gives vivid accounts of glider operations - some famous, some less well known - in every theatre of the war, in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Far East and the Pacific. He quotes extensively from the memoirs and eyewitness accounts of the glider pilots and the troops they carried, and he traces the evolution glider tactics over the course of the war.
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin
Author: Scott McGaugh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472852966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by a cable wrapped with telephone wire. Based on their after-action reports, journals, oral histories, and letters home, this book reveals every terrifying minute of their missions. They were all volunteers, for a specialized duty that their own government projected would have a 50 percent casualty rate. None faltered. In every major European invasion of the war they led the way. They landed their gliders ahead of the troops who stormed Omaha Beach, and sometimes miles ahead of the paratroopers bound for the far side of the Rhine River in Germany itself. From there, they had to hold their positions. They delivered medical teams, supplies and gasoline to troops surrounded in the Battle of the Bulge, ahead even of Patton's famous supply truck convoy. These all-volunteer glider pilots played a pivotal role in liberating the West from tyranny, from the day the Allies invaded Occupied Europe to the day Germany finally surrendered. Yet the story of these anonymous heroes is virtually unknown. Here it is told in full – a story which epitomizes courage and sacrifice.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472852966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by a cable wrapped with telephone wire. Based on their after-action reports, journals, oral histories, and letters home, this book reveals every terrifying minute of their missions. They were all volunteers, for a specialized duty that their own government projected would have a 50 percent casualty rate. None faltered. In every major European invasion of the war they led the way. They landed their gliders ahead of the troops who stormed Omaha Beach, and sometimes miles ahead of the paratroopers bound for the far side of the Rhine River in Germany itself. From there, they had to hold their positions. They delivered medical teams, supplies and gasoline to troops surrounded in the Battle of the Bulge, ahead even of Patton's famous supply truck convoy. These all-volunteer glider pilots played a pivotal role in liberating the West from tyranny, from the day the Allies invaded Occupied Europe to the day Germany finally surrendered. Yet the story of these anonymous heroes is virtually unknown. Here it is told in full – a story which epitomizes courage and sacrifice.
Project 9
Author: Dennis R. Okerstrom
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082627322X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II is a thoroughly researched narrative of the Allied joint project to invade Burma by air. Beginning with its inception at the Quebec Conference of 1943 and continuing through Operation Thursday until the death of the brilliant British General Orde Wingate in March 1944, less than a month after the successful invasion of Burma, Project 9 details all aspects of this covert mission, including the selection of the American airmen, the procurement of the aircraft, the joint training with British troops, and the dangerous night-time assault behind Japanese lines by glider. Based on review of hundreds of documents as well as interviews with surviving Air Commandos, this is the history of a colorful, autonomous, and highly effective military unit that included some of the most recognizable names of the era. Tasked by the General of the Army Air Forces, H. H. “Hap” Arnold, to provide air support for British troops under the eccentric Major General Wingate as they operated behind Japanese lines in Burma, the Air Commandos were breaking entirely new ground in operational theory, tactics, and inter-Allied cooperation. Okerstrom’s in-depth research and analysis in Project 9 shed light on the operations of America’s first foray into special military operations, when these heroes led the way for the formation of modern special operations teams such as Delta Force and Seal Team Six.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082627322X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II is a thoroughly researched narrative of the Allied joint project to invade Burma by air. Beginning with its inception at the Quebec Conference of 1943 and continuing through Operation Thursday until the death of the brilliant British General Orde Wingate in March 1944, less than a month after the successful invasion of Burma, Project 9 details all aspects of this covert mission, including the selection of the American airmen, the procurement of the aircraft, the joint training with British troops, and the dangerous night-time assault behind Japanese lines by glider. Based on review of hundreds of documents as well as interviews with surviving Air Commandos, this is the history of a colorful, autonomous, and highly effective military unit that included some of the most recognizable names of the era. Tasked by the General of the Army Air Forces, H. H. “Hap” Arnold, to provide air support for British troops under the eccentric Major General Wingate as they operated behind Japanese lines in Burma, the Air Commandos were breaking entirely new ground in operational theory, tactics, and inter-Allied cooperation. Okerstrom’s in-depth research and analysis in Project 9 shed light on the operations of America’s first foray into special military operations, when these heroes led the way for the formation of modern special operations teams such as Delta Force and Seal Team Six.