Author: Lou Martin
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1412001072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The experiences of a captain flying, from 1976 to 1979, for a charter company indirectly owned by the Shah of Iran.
Wings over Persia
Author: Lou Martin
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1412001072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The experiences of a captain flying, from 1976 to 1979, for a charter company indirectly owned by the Shah of Iran.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1412001072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The experiences of a captain flying, from 1976 to 1979, for a charter company indirectly owned by the Shah of Iran.
Wings Over Persia
Author: Griff Hosker
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781790262014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Wing Commander Bill Harsker is sent by the Air Ministry to the British Protectorate of Iraq. Ordered by the League of Nations to keep the peace, he has just a handful of aeroplanes to control the skies over Mesopotamia. Attacked by rebellious Kurds and then an invading Turkish army, the Royal Air Force is hard pressed to keep the peace. When an old nemesis from Bill's past emerges, he finds himself fighting for not only peace but his life. Based on true events this is a fast-moving novel about the early days of the Royal Air Force.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781790262014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Wing Commander Bill Harsker is sent by the Air Ministry to the British Protectorate of Iraq. Ordered by the League of Nations to keep the peace, he has just a handful of aeroplanes to control the skies over Mesopotamia. Attacked by rebellious Kurds and then an invading Turkish army, the Royal Air Force is hard pressed to keep the peace. When an old nemesis from Bill's past emerges, he finds himself fighting for not only peace but his life. Based on true events this is a fast-moving novel about the early days of the Royal Air Force.
On Wings of Eagles
Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451213092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
#1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his countrymen. . . . When two of his employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, handpicked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true heroes would have dared. . . .
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451213092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
#1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his countrymen. . . . When two of his employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, handpicked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true heroes would have dared. . . .
On Wings of a Lion
Author: Susan Wakeford Angard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733898409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
ON WINGS OF A LION is a whirlwind of international intrigue and passion set in the last days of the Shah of Iran's reign. In September 1978, daredevil film director Kathryn Whitney, having lost everything meaningful in her life, comes to Iran to shoot a Boeing Super Bowl commercial. Her goal-to save her damaged Hollywood career. She arrives in a country exploding with revolution, where survival demands courage.At the Bank of Teheran, arranging for film financing, Kathryn is drawn to a display case housing the Persian Glories, a priceless collection of canary diamond jewelry with a powerful legacy, owned by Sir Anthony Evans. A woman in black, Rena Ajani, stares into the case then rushes past Kathryn who has no idea how this woman or her son Mirdad and these legendary jewels will endanger her life.In Shiraz Kathryn meets Anthony Evans, world-renowned photographer and world-class playboy. He is hired to shoot the Boeing commercial stills. Talent aside, he is the type of man she can't stand. While working closely together, however, an attraction bonds Kathryn and Anthony. Anthony is not what he seems. He is torn between his Persian and British heritage. Anthony's own parents' unsolved murder haunts him. With the encroaching power of Iranian terrorism, Anthony risks his life saving innocent Persian families from brutal Black Glove terrorists, a covert splinter group of SAVAK, Iran's secret police. When a frightening encounter with the Black Glove endangers Kathryn's loyal film crew, she goes from terror to fury. She makes a courageous decision that threatens her shoot, her livelihood, and her life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733898409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
ON WINGS OF A LION is a whirlwind of international intrigue and passion set in the last days of the Shah of Iran's reign. In September 1978, daredevil film director Kathryn Whitney, having lost everything meaningful in her life, comes to Iran to shoot a Boeing Super Bowl commercial. Her goal-to save her damaged Hollywood career. She arrives in a country exploding with revolution, where survival demands courage.At the Bank of Teheran, arranging for film financing, Kathryn is drawn to a display case housing the Persian Glories, a priceless collection of canary diamond jewelry with a powerful legacy, owned by Sir Anthony Evans. A woman in black, Rena Ajani, stares into the case then rushes past Kathryn who has no idea how this woman or her son Mirdad and these legendary jewels will endanger her life.In Shiraz Kathryn meets Anthony Evans, world-renowned photographer and world-class playboy. He is hired to shoot the Boeing commercial stills. Talent aside, he is the type of man she can't stand. While working closely together, however, an attraction bonds Kathryn and Anthony. Anthony is not what he seems. He is torn between his Persian and British heritage. Anthony's own parents' unsolved murder haunts him. With the encroaching power of Iranian terrorism, Anthony risks his life saving innocent Persian families from brutal Black Glove terrorists, a covert splinter group of SAVAK, Iran's secret police. When a frightening encounter with the Black Glove endangers Kathryn's loyal film crew, she goes from terror to fury. She makes a courageous decision that threatens her shoot, her livelihood, and her life.
Lectures on the Apocalypse. By William Jones. [With the Text.]
Author: William Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Persia as it is
Author: Charles James Wills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Appleton's Instructive Reading-books
Author: James Johonnot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Ten Great Events
Author: James Johnnot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - The Astronomer Poet of Persia
Author: Edward Fitzgerald
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528760328
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528760328
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Dynasty of the Kajars, Translated from the Original Persian Manuscript [of Abd Al-Razzak Ibn Najaf Kulí], by Sir H. J. Brydges [assisted by D. Shea]. To which is Prefixed a Succinct Account of the History of Persia Previous to that Period. Illustrated with Plates and a Map of Western Persia by Colonel J. Sutherland
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description