Author: Robert Kershaw Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1681779315 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
Early in 1944, German commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took a look at the sloping sands and announced "They will come here!” He was referring to "Omaha Beach”. The beach was then transformed into three miles of lethal, bunker-protected arcs of fire, with seaside chalets converted into concrete strongpoints, with layers of barbed wire and mines. When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day’s first wave on 6th June 1944, it lost 96% of its effective strength. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour—midnight to midnight—tracking German and American soldiers fighting across the beachhead. The Wehrmacht thought they had bludgeoned the Americans into submission yet by mid-afternoon, the American troops were ashore. Why were the casualties so grim, and how could the Germans have failed? Juxtaposing the American experience—pinned down, swamped by a rising tide, facing young Wehrmacht soldiers fighting desperately for their lives, Kershaw draws on eyewitness accounts, memories, letters, and post-combat reports to expose the true horrors of Omaha Beach. Landing on the Edge of Eternity is a dramatic historical ride through an amphibious landing that looked as though it might never succeed.
Author: John Glasby Publisher: Gateway ISBN: 1473210623 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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These were the last weeks and days before the end of the world, before total destruction overwhelmed Earth and every living thing on the surface of the planet. No one knew exactly how long they had before the sun turned nova and destroyed not only Earth but all of the other planets in the Solar System. For mankind, the only excape lay in flight to the stars, to Alpha Centauri, more than four light years distant. The hyperdrive, capable of carrying them there at close to the speed of light had been developed, but as yet had not been perfected. In a world without a future, the starships were the only salvation of mankind and they could save only a minute fraction of the population of Earth. Panic is there, but temporarily forgotten by most, as the plans for a mass exodus are speeded up, as the long hours of mounting tension draw to a close and Judgement Day, when the world shall be destroyed by fire, is mo longer a hazy time in the far future, but something very close and very terrible. For those who remained behind, there could be no escape; death would come suddenly, eight minutes after the nova explosion. For those who fled the Solar System in the starships, untried and working on principles only partially understood, there was only the long, terrible journey through the endless night, not knowing what lay at the end of it.
Author: Amelia McNutt Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1685624316 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 333
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On June 6, 1944, tens of thousands of American soldiers, sailors, and airmen assaulted the German held coast of France at Normandy. Some were killed, some wounded, and all of them were changed as the battles raged against Rommel and his defenders. They fell for yards of sandy beaches, for critical roads, bridges, villages, towns, and cities. Together, we will travel to those places, and we will relive all the bravery and horror, all the mistakes and honor, as we learn their stories - Chasing Rommel.
Author: Ken Follett Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0451474023 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1138
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Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.
Author: Ken Follett Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698196902 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1122
Book Description
Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.
Author: S.B. Alexander Publisher: S.B. Alexander ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 533
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Enjoy this paranormal military romance by bestselling author S.B. Alexander My first kiss could be my last. I once dreamed of high school dances and my first date. Now, as a newly formed vampire, I’m navigating a new world with an animalistic hunger I must learn to control. A human boy wants to date me. Another wants to kill me. And a Navy SEAL vampire keeps sending me mixed messages. Yet as I adjust to my novel powers and battle to restrain my vampiric urges, an enemy is closing in. I thought I had my bloodlust in check. Until I’m kidnapped and left in the middle of a storm-tossed ocean with the human who has a crush on me. Can I get us both to safety before the sea swallows us whole? Or will I lose myself to the dark pull of my ravenous thirst? On the Edge of Eternity is the second book in The Vampire Navy SEAL series. Jo and Webb’s story continues as Jo fights alongside Webb in this action-packed installment full of intrigue, suspense, and an emerging vampire romance. This is an upper young adult/new adult supernatural romance series. Series reading order: 1. On the Edge of Humanity 2. On the Edge of Eternity 3. On the Edge of Destiny 4. On the Edge of Misery 5. On the Edge of Infinity Praise for the series: "A FANTASTIC series that I was sucked into and binge read the five-book collection!!! The characters are really well written, with a lot of growth as the series progresses. Characters are fleshed out and you begin to understand their motivations and thinking. Friends, Family and Romance among these Vampire Navy Seals!" BookDragonGirl “Although character driven, the action and suspense keep you turning the pages wanting to see what will happen. I was so pulled in that I was completely oblivious to what was going on around me. There are shocks and surprises that really shake things up and my jaw would practically hit the floor!” Goodreads Reviewer “If you enjoy paranormal romance, military romance, suspense, action, surprises, plot twists and lots of amazing characters…then this is a FANTASTIC series that I’d highly recommend you check out!!” Goodreads Reviewer “These books are for anyone who likes Vampire paranormal stories. They are well written you can lose yourself in these books. You can imagine what each character looks like. They are well worth a read. I am disappointed I have finished them. Ten out of Ten.” Goodreads Reviewer "I am a huge fan of both YA and Supernatural reads, especially ones that are able to set themselves apart from the rest, and this one takes the cake." Goodreads Reviewer Topics: vampire love story, vampire romance, paranormal romance novels, paranormal romance vampires, supernatural, supernatural romance books, supernatural romance, urban fantasy, alpha vampire hero, military romance, navy seal romance, vampire romance series, coming of age, teen vampire romance, young adult vampire romance
Author: Ken Follett Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101543558 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1010
Book Description
Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .
Author: Scott Arnold Arminas Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1450069266 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 394
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About the Book This book, Sojourn on Eternity’s Edge, is an inspirational trilogy which presents a literary portrait of the author’s mind, depicting a personal struggle with mental illness, and how, by humble faith, the author sets out to conquer the impossible as set by society’s unforgiving standards. Through poetry and prose, intelligence beams through its pages revealing to the reader the power that God has over all things when left in His hands to deal with. Indeed a lesson to be re-evaluated in this twenty-first century. A time when we, as people, and the world, as a whole, so desperately need His help.
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