Author: Elsbeth Hardie
Publisher: Arden
ISBN: 9781925984378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1797, Britain rashly pressed French prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps and armed them as guards on a ship carrying 66 female and 2 male convicts to New South Wales. The result was a mutiny, with the captain killed and ship high jacked to South America. The true story of those on board is told in detail for the first time.
The Passage of the Damned
Author: Elsbeth Hardie
Publisher: Arden
ISBN: 9781925984378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1797, Britain rashly pressed French prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps and armed them as guards on a ship carrying 66 female and 2 male convicts to New South Wales. The result was a mutiny, with the captain killed and ship high jacked to South America. The true story of those on board is told in detail for the first time.
Publisher: Arden
ISBN: 9781925984378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1797, Britain rashly pressed French prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps and armed them as guards on a ship carrying 66 female and 2 male convicts to New South Wales. The result was a mutiny, with the captain killed and ship high jacked to South America. The true story of those on board is told in detail for the first time.
Voyage of the Damned
Author: Gordon Thomas
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497658950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The “extraordinary” true story of the St. Louis, a German ship that, in 1939, carried Jews away from Hamburg—and into an unimaginable ordeal (The New York Times). On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War II erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews—some had already been in concentration camps—who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. The voyage of the damned had begun. Before the St. Louis was halfway across the Atlantic, a power struggle ensued between the corrupt Cuban immigration minister who issued the visas and his superior, President Bru. The outcome: The refugees would not be allowed to land in Cuba. In America, the Brown Shirts were holding Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden; anti-Semitic Father Coughlin had an audience of fifteen million. Back in Germany, plans were being laid to implement the final solution. And aboard the St. Louis, 937 refugees awaited the decision that would determine their fate. Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have re-created history in this meticulous reconstruction of the voyage of the St. Louis. Every word of their account is true: the German High Command’s ulterior motive in granting permission for the “mission of mercy;” the confrontations between the refugees and the German crewmen; the suicide attempts among the passengers; and the attitudes of those who might have averted the catastrophe, but didn’t. In reviewing the work, the New York Times was unequivocal: “An extraordinary human document and a suspense story that is hard to put down. But it is more than that. It is a modern allegory, in which the SS St. Louis becomes a symbol of the SS Planet Earth. In this larger sense the book serves a greater purpose than mere drama.”
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497658950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The “extraordinary” true story of the St. Louis, a German ship that, in 1939, carried Jews away from Hamburg—and into an unimaginable ordeal (The New York Times). On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War II erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews—some had already been in concentration camps—who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. The voyage of the damned had begun. Before the St. Louis was halfway across the Atlantic, a power struggle ensued between the corrupt Cuban immigration minister who issued the visas and his superior, President Bru. The outcome: The refugees would not be allowed to land in Cuba. In America, the Brown Shirts were holding Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden; anti-Semitic Father Coughlin had an audience of fifteen million. Back in Germany, plans were being laid to implement the final solution. And aboard the St. Louis, 937 refugees awaited the decision that would determine their fate. Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have re-created history in this meticulous reconstruction of the voyage of the St. Louis. Every word of their account is true: the German High Command’s ulterior motive in granting permission for the “mission of mercy;” the confrontations between the refugees and the German crewmen; the suicide attempts among the passengers; and the attitudes of those who might have averted the catastrophe, but didn’t. In reviewing the work, the New York Times was unequivocal: “An extraordinary human document and a suspense story that is hard to put down. But it is more than that. It is a modern allegory, in which the SS St. Louis becomes a symbol of the SS Planet Earth. In this larger sense the book serves a greater purpose than mere drama.”
Dilvish, the Damned
Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 9780345901750
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 9780345901750
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Book of the Damned
Author: Charles Fort
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.
City of the Damned
Author: David Guymer
Publisher: Black Library
ISBN: 9781849705288
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
"Gotrek and Felix: unsung heroes of the Empire, or nothing more than common thieves and murderers? The truth perhaps lies somewhere in between, and depends entirely upon whom you ask ... Legend tells of the City of the Damned ? a dark and forbidding place destroyed in a previous age by the wrath of Sigmar. Long have its fallen towers remained undisturbed by the people of Ostermark, but now an ancient evil stirs in the depths, gathering its strength once more. Gotrek and Felix are swept up in the crusade of Baron G?tz von Kiel to cleanse the city, and as the ruins are torn from the passage of time itself, the Slayer?s doom appears to be approaching more quickly than either of them would like" --Amazon.com.
Publisher: Black Library
ISBN: 9781849705288
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
"Gotrek and Felix: unsung heroes of the Empire, or nothing more than common thieves and murderers? The truth perhaps lies somewhere in between, and depends entirely upon whom you ask ... Legend tells of the City of the Damned ? a dark and forbidding place destroyed in a previous age by the wrath of Sigmar. Long have its fallen towers remained undisturbed by the people of Ostermark, but now an ancient evil stirs in the depths, gathering its strength once more. Gotrek and Felix are swept up in the crusade of Baron G?tz von Kiel to cleanse the city, and as the ruins are torn from the passage of time itself, the Slayer?s doom appears to be approaching more quickly than either of them would like" --Amazon.com.
The Second Coming of Christ, and the Resurrection
Author: Ephraim Currier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Resurrection
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Resurrection
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Damned
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0385671113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker. "Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison's sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life, but also the truth about her death. For Madison, though, a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer, Babette, Leonard, and Patterson, she learns to navigate Hell--and discovers that she'd rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0385671113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker. "Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison's sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life, but also the truth about her death. For Madison, though, a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer, Babette, Leonard, and Patterson, she learns to navigate Hell--and discovers that she'd rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.
Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade and the Warrior's Code
Author: Brad Anthony
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 0761553258
Category : Computer games
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
What Dark Beast Lurks Within You? -Crucial weapon and equipment charts -Complete combat strategies and walkthroughs -Learn to leverage dynamic attacks of opportunity -Master new combat moves and special abilities -Character morphing system revealed -2 guides in one! Full guide included for Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 0761553258
Category : Computer games
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
What Dark Beast Lurks Within You? -Crucial weapon and equipment charts -Complete combat strategies and walkthroughs -Learn to leverage dynamic attacks of opportunity -Master new combat moves and special abilities -Character morphing system revealed -2 guides in one! Full guide included for Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
Passages from the diary of a late physician (by S. Warner). (Orig. publ. in Blackwood's magazine).
Author: Samuel Warren
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Second Coming of Christ, and the Resurrection: Showing by an Appeal to the Bible as It Reads
Author: Ephraim Currier
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368885545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368885545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.