A Secret of the Sea. (Vol. 2 of 3)

A Secret of the Sea. (Vol. 2 of 3)
Author: T. W. Speight
Publisher: Outlook Verlag
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752432780

Reproduction of the original: A Secret of the Sea. (Vol. 2 of 3) by T. W. Speight

Children of the Sea, Vol. 1

Children of the Sea, Vol. 1
Author: Daisuke Igarashi
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-07-14
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1421547554

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does. Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish. -- VIZ Media

Gradual failure : the air war over North Vietnam 1965-1966

Gradual failure : the air war over North Vietnam 1965-1966
Author: Jacob Van Staaveren
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2002
Genre:
ISBN: 1428990186

Of the many facets of the American war in Southeast Asia debated by U.S. authorities in Washington, by the military services and the public, none has proved more controversial than the air war against North Vietnam. The air war s inauguration with the nickname Rolling Thunder followed an eleven-year American effort to induce communist North Vietnam to sign a peace treaty without openly attacking its territory. Thus, Rolling Thunder was a new military program in what had been a relatively low-key attempt by the United States to win the war within South Vietnam against insurgent communist Viet Cong forces, aided and abetted by the north. The present volume covers the first phase of the Rolling Thunder campaign from March 1965 to late 1966. It begins with a description of the planning and execution of two initial limited air strikes, nicknamed Flaming Dart I and II. The Flaming Dart strikes were carried out against North Vietnam in February 1965 as the precursors to a regular, albeit limited, Rolling Thunder air program launched the following month. Before proceeding with an account of Rolling Thunder, its roots are traced in the events that compelled the United States to adopt an anti-communist containment policy in Southeast Asia after the defeat of French forces by the communist Vietnamese in May 1954.

Churchill's American Arsenal

Churchill's American Arsenal
Author: Larrie D. Ferreiro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2022-10-03
Genre:
ISBN: 0197554016

Churchill's American Arsenal reveals how the technology, know-how, and production power behind the victorious Allied partnership during World War II extended beyond the battlefront and onto the home-front. Many weapons and inventions were credited with winning World War II, most famously in the assertion that the atomic bomb "ended the war, but radar won the war." What is less well known is that both airborne radar and the atomic bomb were invented in British laboratories, but built by Americans. The same holds true for many other American weapons credited with the Allied victory: the P-51 Mustang fighter, the Liberty ship, the proximity fuze, the Sherman tank, and even penicillin all began with British scientists and planners, but were designed and mass-produced by American engineers and factory workers. Churchill's American Arsenal chronicles this vital but often fraught relationship between British inventiveness and American technical might. At first, leaders in each nation were deeply skeptical that such a relationship could ever be successful. But despite initial misunderstandings, petty jealousies, and continuing differences over priorities, scientists and engineers on both sides of the Atlantic found new and often ingenious ways to work together, jointly creating the weapons that often became the decisive factor in the strategy for victory that Churchill had laid out during the earliest days of the conflict. While no single invention won the war, without any one of them, the war could have been lost.