Rescue Mission Report

Rescue Mission Report

Author: United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Special Operations Review Group

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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In May 1980, the Joint Chiefs of Staff commissioned a Special Operations Review Group to conduct a broad examination of the planning, organization, coordination, direction, and control of the Iranian hostage rescue mission, as a basis for recommending improvement in these areas for the future. The Review Group consisted of six senior military officers three who had retired after distinguished careers, and three still on active duty. The broad military experience of the group gave it an appropriate perspective from which to conduct an appraisal. Details on the participants, the Terms of Reference they operated under, and their approach to the subject are contained in this document. The Review Group has made its final report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Copies have been forwarded to the Secretary of Defense, as have the related, early recommendations of the Joint Chiefs. A highly classified report also has been transmitted to appropriate committees in the Congress. Because it is important that as much detail as possible be made available to the American public, the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has conducted a declassification review to produce this version. The issues and findings have been retained in as close a form as possible to the original, classified version. In particular, the Executive Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations remain virtually the same as in the original.


Barely Maps

Barely Maps

Author: Peter Gorman

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781733364614

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A collection of 100 Minimalist Maps by Peter Gorman


Sky High

Sky High

Author: Alisa Huntsman

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1452134014

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Find a “richly varied collection” of triple-layer recipes in this cookbook that takes cake to a whole new level(Flo Braker, author of The Simple Art of Perfect Baking). Sky High celebrates the triple-layer cake in all its glorious incarnations with more than 40 decadent and delicious recipes. The wide range of flavors will appeal to anyone with a sweet tooth. The book features such delights as Boston Cream Pie, Mile-High Devil’s Food Cake, and Key West Cake—and there are even three astonishingly beautiful (and totally doable) wedding cakes! From luscious chocolate creations to drizzled caramel confections, take simple layer cakes to new heights with Sky High. “Elevates the classic layer cake . . . And best of all, the recipes are clear and easy to follow.” —Nick Malgieri, James Beard Award–winning author of A Baker’s Tour


Eight Hours in Freeport

Eight Hours in Freeport

Author: Josh Pesin

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-04-22

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781092984317

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The town of Freeport, Long Island - a lazy seaside community where nothing ever happens. When family man Finley Stanton decides to sit down at the Cocoa Grinder Cafe to begin writing the novel that was on his bucket list, gears are set in motion that bring his world into a downward spiral. Sucked into a world of prostitution, torture, and murder, Finley fights not only to save his own life, but the life of his beloved daughter. Will he make it out alive or become another victim of a notorious crime ring secretly working within the shadows of Freeport? Inspired by true events.


A War Apart

A War Apart

Author: Barbara Whitaker

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc

Published: 2020-11-11

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1509233164

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Anger at her cheating husband spurs grieving war widow Rosemary Hopkins to spend an impromptu night with an overseas-bound soldier. Fearing her small hometown will discover her secret, she makes him promise to not write her. Yet she can't forget him. Eager to talk to a pretty girl before shipping out to fight the Germans, Guy Nolan impulsively implies they're married and buys her ticket. The encounter transforms into the most memorable night of his life when he falls for a woman he will never see again. While Guy tries to stay alive in combat, Rosemary finds work in a secret defense plant and a possible future with another soldier. Will she choose security or passion? Can she survive another loss?


Roosevelt Island

Roosevelt Island

Author: Judith Berdy

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738512389

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Roosevelt Island captures the fascinating and sometimes curious history of an island located halfway between Manhattan and Queens in the East River. In 1824, the city of New York purchased Blackwell's Island, later Welfare Island, as a site for its lunatic asylum, penitentiary, workhouses, and almshouses. In the years that followed, the island was a temporary home for several of New York City's famous and infamous. William Marcy Tweed, better known as "Boss Tweed," was imprisoned at the penitentiary in the 1870s. Mae West was incarcerated in 1927 at the Workhouse for Women after her appearance in a play called Sex. After many institutions were closed or relocated, Welfare Island was virtually ignored until 1973, when it was reborn as Roosevelt Island, which is now a model planned community and thriving home to almost ten thousand people.


The Annals of the World

The Annals of the World

Author: James Ussher

Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13: 0890513600

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CD-ROM contains timelines, photographs, articles, maps, music.


The Republican Right since 1945

The Republican Right since 1945

Author: David W. Reinhard

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0813164400

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In 1981, a Right Wing Republican at long last resided in the White House, presiding over what may prove to be the most fundamental restructuring of American political life since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fortunately, The Republican Right since 1945 now provides us with the necessary historical understanding of conservative Republicans. David Reinhard's dispassionate yet lively book recounts the Republican Right's political struggles from the death of FDR in 1945 to the inauguration of Ronald Reagan. Younger readers will discover that Right Wing Republicans are older than Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater and that some conservative Republicans once feared the overextension of American power abroad and the rise of the "garrison state" at home. Those old enough to remember when the Republican Right was called the "Old Guard" will rediscover the events and personalities of those earlier years, thanks to Reinhard's use of more than thirty five manuscript collections and the most recent historical writing. Not content to let this history end where traditional manuscript sources run thin, Reinhard has brought the story of the Republican Right Wing forward to President Ronald Reagan's inauguration, placing Right Wing Republican reaction to the Johnson and the Nixon-Ford years within the context of the earlier period and chronicling the electoral triumph of Ronald Reagan and the Republican Right. Students of the past and observers of the present will appreciate Reinhard's treatment of the always-troubled Nixon-Republican Right association; challenger Ronald Reagan's battle against President Gerald Ford in 1976; the decline of GOP moderation; and the rise of the New Right-Moral Majority forces and their relationship to the now ascendant Republican Right. Reinhard illuminates the conservative Republican past and thereby makes the current political scene more understandable. Thoroughly researched and brilliantly written, The Republican Right since 1945 will fascinate scholars and general readers alike.