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Author: Mike McKinney
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2003-07-13
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780312989804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first authorized account of the U.S. Air Force's elite Special Operations Group by a serving officer describes incredible missions from the early days of helicopter rescue in Vietnam to the ill-fated attempt to rescue hostages in Iran to successful rescue missions in Serbia and Kosovo. photos. Martin's Press.
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Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780806520414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor anyone who has ever been tantalized by mainstream media coverage of conspiracy theories but has always suspected there's much more, the editors of "Paranoia" magazine provide the real lowdown on today's headlines.
Author: Mike McKinney
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2002-07-19
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780312291181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady was shot down over Bosnia, a rescue mission was launched immediately. It involved nearly 100 aircraft, but succeeded in plucking him to safety in broad daylight. The pilot of the only F-117 Stealth bomber to have ever been shot down was spirited away with equal success. The USAF's elite special Operations Group is the product of many years of hard experience, but only now is it possible to reveal how many of its most famous missions were conducted. Major Mike McKinney and Mike Ryan investigate the origins of the Special Operations Group and the experience of early rescue missions in Vietnam. The grisly fate awaiting captured American fliers spurred the USAF to develop new weapons and tactics to fight their way through intense enemy anti-aircraft fire. Sometimes the rescue of a single man would escalate into a major military operation - one was later filmed as BAT-21 starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover. If the ultimate Vietnam rescue mission, the Son Tay raid, was a failure, it did demonstrate how far techniques and equipment had evolved. From disaster at Desert 1 to the Gulf War, Bosnia and the tragedy in Somalia, Chariots of the Damned takes you on an edge of the seat ride into some of the most incredible battles of recent times.
Author: George Galdorisi
Publisher: Zenith Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780760323922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of a near-century of combat search and rescue, with an account of how the discipline was created and how it is administered—or neglected—today.
Author: Steven Siebert
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: 2000-12-15
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1466807571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDan Rawlins, a world-famous archaeologist working out of New York's Metropolitan Museum, asks his assistant to find half of an Egyptian ankh in the museum's collection. But she disappears, only to turn up murdered. The relic is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Jacinda El-Bahri, a Mossad agent, is on the run in Cairo after stealing the other half of the ankh from a powerful terrorist. Known as Salameh, he plans to use the relic's incredible energy to unleash a power of biblical proportions. Across three continents and three thousand years, the struggle to reunite the ancient artifacts rages. And Dan and Jacinda, caught in the throes of an ancient evil, may be the only hope for the modern world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: David Clarke
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-03-30
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1408194821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?' Winston Churchill, prime minister's personal minute, 28th July 1952 The UFO Files tells the story of over 100 years of UFO sightings, drawing on formerly secret government documents at the National Archives in London. Alongside extraordinary reports by ordinary people, it reveals details of official interest and investigations stretching back more than 80 years. In this remarkable book, fully updated for this second edition, David Clarke reveals an array of startling stories from possible UFO reports hidden among Met Office investigations of aerial phenomena in the 1920s to the conclusions of Project Condign, the secret British Intelligence UFO study completed in 2000. As well as covering Roswell and Britain's own Rendlesham Forest mystery, Clarke raids the records for dramatic stories of abductions and close encounters, ghost aircraft and crop circles, and UFO reports by both civilian aircrew and military personnel. Dramatic witness statements and interviews combine with rarely seen photographs, drawings and newly available documents to offer a unique guide to one of our most intriguing mysteries.
Author: Wendy Alec
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Published: 2018-05-29
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0310096154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe saga continues… Banished from heaven, Lucifer, King of Perdition, presides over hell. Fired by hatred, he has a single goal: to lure unwitting mankind into damnation. And little by little, he is succeeding. But the omens point to a shift in the balance of power. A star burns brightly over planet Earth, heralding the arrival of a child king. The Nazarene. Humiliated, Lucifer is returned to Perdition, mutinous and defiant. Summoning the councils of hell, Lucifer conspires again against the race of men. The fallen will visit the Earth. A new Messiah will be cloned – an earthly emissary to carry out his twisted plans… “There could be no bigger canvas for film-making.” – Mark Ordesky (Executive Producer – Lord of the Rings) “Alec not only re-frames pre-history; she also imaginatively illustrates how the realm of spirit impacts the contemporary material world.” Ileen Maisel (Executive Producer for the Golden Compass) “This is the best work of fiction I have read since the last installment of Dean Koontz’ Frankenstein series” Jim McDonald – 1340Mag – Online Entertainment Magazine.
Author: Charles Fort
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1613106424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Kelly Allers
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2021-05-27
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1525582887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Battle for Arisha’s Mountain: Book I of The Damned Goddess Trilogy is the first book in the Final Age of Magic Series. This fantasy epic introduces readers to the Final Age of Magic universe by taking them to the Avian Kingdom, one of many Kingdoms of Earth in this enchanted period. Here, readers meet the young alchemist Kaden, returning home to the small city of Splendour after time away studying his craft. The young alchemist Kaden returns home for the harvest festival. He is plagued with the heavy burden of nightmares of a future in which Earth is destroyed by a vile army created by the damned goddess, Arisha. A mysterious Aurian seemingly locked away inside Arisha’s Mountain. In response, Kaden and his friend Tandom undertake vigorous efforts to defend Arisha's Mountain from a massive army of avian soldiers. Kaden seeks a magical relic he believes will aid him in the coming fight. Arisha's Mountain is protected by a militaristic race called the Seraph, powerful, human-like creatures with angelic wings, fierce loyalty and cunning strength. Along his journey, Kaden meets Tzak, a powerful dragon slayer known throughout the lands as a Dragoon. Along with the traditional gold armour, and his massive buster sword, Tzak has been given the legacy of Dragoon and it will be his decision how this legacy will unfold.
Author: Bruce Babington
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0231169655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter covering the genre's early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports films, such as the biopic, the sports history film, the documentary, the fan film, the boxing film, and explores issues such as gender, race, spectacle and silent comedy. Four major films are then closely analysed – Chariots of Fire, Field of Dreams, the Indian cricket epic Lagaan, and Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday. While recording American film's importance to the genre, the book resists the conventional over-concentration on American cinema and sports by its attention to other cinemas, for example the British, Indian, Australian, South Korean, Thai, German, New Zealand, Spanish, and so on, with the many different sports they depict.
