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| Author | : John Prados |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2013-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0451414829 |
The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted. Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and when the Pacific tide turned in the Allies’ favor. Using archives of WWII intelligence reports from both sides, Prados offers up a compelling reassessment of the true turning in the Pacific: not Midway, but the fight for the Solomon Islands. Combat in the Solomons saw a series of surface naval battles, including one of the key battleship-versus-battleship actions of the war; two major carrier actions; daily air duels, including the aerial ambush in which perished the famous Japanese naval commander Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku; and many other hair-raising exploits. Commencing with the Allied invasion of Guadalcanal, Prados shows how and why the Allies beat Japan on the sea, in the air, and in the jungles.
| Author | : Robert F. Rogers |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2011-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0824860977 |
This revised edition of the standard history of Guam is intended for general readers and students of the history, politics, and government of the Pacific region. Its narrative spans more than 450 years, beginning with the initial written records of Guam by members of Magellan 1521 expedition and concluding with the impact of the recent global recession on Guam’s fragile economy.
| Author | : Richard Le Tissier |
| Publisher | : Seaflower Books |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2006-05-01 |
| Genre | : Channel Islands |
| ISBN | : 9781903341360 |
| Author | : Robert E. May |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 447 |
| Release | : 2003-04-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807860409 |
This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots, as well. May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions, how they were financed, and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. Surveying antebellum popular media, he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in newspapers, theater, music, advertising, and literature. Condemned abroad as pirates, frequently in language strikingly similar to modern American denunciations of foreign terrorists, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny. May concludes by exploring the national consequences of filibustering, arguing that the practice inflicted lasting damage on U.S. relations with foreign countries and contributed to the North-South division over slavery that culminated in the Civil War.
| Author | : Bob Love |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2006-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1425930395 |
They say fact is stranger than fiction. This is a book of just such an event. History chronicles only one "RMS Titanic" but in reality there were two. The one we all know that struck the iceberg on her maiden voyage on April 14, 1912. A mighty luxurious steamship intended to be the White Star Line's new Queen of the Atlantic Ocean trade between England and America. The other was actually the first of the White Star Line's evolution into the luxury liners with the "SS Atlantic". Almost to the day 29 years earlier on April Fools Day 1873 she ran hard aground on the Nova Scotia coast causing the loss of a higher percentage of her souls than her descendent. The unique factor being only the fittest survived leaving the souls of all the women and but one child buried with her at the bottom of the sea. The book will take you on a voyage that will cause you to reflect upon your own mortality and how the events in your life play a roll in your own destiny. Events that can be playing out by persons you do not even know work their way along a path until circumstances throw you together at a common place and time as though preordained, culminating in a tragedy such as the two sister ships of the White Star Line. Like father, like son, both made decisions based on mirrored motivations, both with tragic results. You will witness the actual words of the cast including their testimony at the Inquiries at Halifax and Liverpool. You will be the jury in forming your own opinions as to the real cause and who carries the primary guilt of responsibility. It's a voyage you should book passage on for enhancing your sensitivity to predestination.
| Author | : Grace Roberts |
| Publisher | : Grace Roberts |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The complete Destiny's Cove series in one sweet box set. Come to the town where soul mates find each other. This sweet romance collection includes: a lighthearted Christmas romance, a sweet friends-to-lovers romance, and a secret identity romance. Take a small town in the southwest of Florida with white beaches and crystal clear waters. Add legends of pirates and hidden treasures. Bring an alleged matchmaking ghost into the mix. Stir well, and you'll have the perfect recipe for a sweet series that will show you that sometimes the biggest treasure is hidden inside the heart. Book 1: A Trip With Destiny Giorgia Di Maggio has left Italy on a sabbatical to reinvent herself. An adventurous one-week vacation in a small Florida town wasn't exactly what she had in mind, but when she meets the handsome Irish owner of the local pub and a series of odds coincidences keep bringing them together, she finds herself reconsidering her plans. Book 2: A Brush With Love Kyla Callaghan left Destiny's Cove to chase a dream in New York, but she never stopped thinking about the guy who saved her life and secretly captured her heart in high school. When she returns to her hometown for a short visit nine years later, and he saves her once again, she can't help but wonder whether the town legend of the matchmaking ghost might be real after all. Book 3: A Cruise With Romance At twenty-four, Cara McGill is tired of living her mother's dream on her behalf as a famous musician, and she finds herself longing for an escape. Making a spur-of-the-moment decision, she runs to a small town in Florida where she hopes to reinvent her life. Stumbling across the town playboy could mess up all her plans, especially as she realizes there's more behind that façade of his, something that might very well be all she's been looking for in a man.
| Author | : Patrice Yehuda |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 109 |
| Release | : 2012-09-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1477254730 |
What would you do when the only path to your destiny is the path you never wished for? Each destiny has a price that we must pay. The path of the cross is that which leads to the crown. Life triumphs over death. Death only brings out life. Death helps to reveal the power of life. The path which is common to all men is the path which leads to nowhere. God had determined the seasons long before time began. He had also determined their appointed times and duration. In the eternal order the unfavorable must come before the favorable, darkness must precede light and evil happens before good. The blessing cancels the curse and sin shall abound that grace may thereafter much more abound. The script is the eternal master plan. There is nothing that can ever be added to or taken away from the script. It is eternally perfect and complete in its design and concept. There must be a time when evil is allowed to hold sway but good holds the trump card of finality.
| Author | : Louis J. Wortham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : Texas |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Olu Gans |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2015-12-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1329770153 |
Desy was part Organic, part Genetic. She had been created in a lab, and looked nothing like her family. She hated the fact that she looked different from her brothers. She grew up listening to her brothers tell a family legend that had been handed down through many generations. The legend promised that someday a brilliant orb of light would appear. And, on that day a mystical transformation would take place. A selected ancestor of days long forgotten would find a special person, and together they would travel to a place beyond tomorrow. Now, Desy's world was about to come to an end. It had been abused for too many generations, and there was no longer any hope for a future. As Desy sat and cried under a scraggly tree, she unknowingly wrapped her fingers around a shiny stone fragment. Suddenly, her world spun and disappeared, leaving her swirling inside a purple mist. When she stopped spinning, she found herself just beyond tomorrow.
| Author | : Richard K. Thompson |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2010-08-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1452063230 |
At a time when Neal Thomas is preoccupied with the possibility that his newly published book could be made into a movie, he is contacted by close friends in Virginia who want to make him the Project Manager for construction of their newly conceived condominium complex near Virginia Beach. The dilemma that follows is eventually resolved by a phone call that forces him to accept the job in Virginia, and paves the way for a brand new adventure.
