Captain Of Death

Author : Alejandro Morales
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Captain of All These Men of Death written by Alejandro Morales and published by Bilingual Review Press (AZ). This book was released on 2008 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert Contreras attempts to enlist in World War II, his medical exam reveals he has tuberculosis and he is committed to a frightful sanatorium. Amid his relapses and recoveries he meets a series of women who have an effect on his life: a mysterious French doctor, another patient, a sinister acquaintance from a Los Angeles barrio. Meanwhile, the hospital newsletter describes how tuberculosis patients have been treated throughout history, often alienated and administered bizarre treatments. The author equates these to modern medical experimentation and the superstitious pagan practices of witchcraft and satanism of the California barrios. Based on a true story of the author's uncle.

Author : Greta Jones
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042010413
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Captain of All These Men of Death" written by Greta Jones and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuberculosis mortality in the United States and in Britain was declining in the late nineteenth century but rising in Ireland. Why Ireland's pattern of tuberculosis mortality was different is the subject of this book.

Author : Thomas M. Daniel
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781580460705
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain of Death written by Thomas M. Daniel and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuberculosis was once the feared "White Plague." Today, with sanatoria closed and a battery of drugs available to fight it, TB may seem to be on the way out. The grim facts tell a different story. Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis recounts the early evidence of the disease, the stories of some noteable people who suffered from it, the work of those who cared for afflicted patients, and the struggle of researchers to understand it and develop effective treatments for it. The book brings to the reader a clear understanding of the past, present, and future of the disease John Bunyon called "Captain among these Men of Death" in 1660.

Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674031944
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Captain Cook written by Glyndwr Williams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a style that is more detective story than conventional biography, Williams explores the multiple narratives of Cook's death. In short, Williams examines the story of Cook's progress from obscurity to fame and, eventually, to infamy--a story that, until now, has never been fully told.

Author : David Samwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Captain Cook and Other Writings written by David Samwell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No aspect of the voyages of Captain Cook have been more controversial than Cook's death. This book reprints one of the classic accounts of this episode, the vivid and lively narrative by one of the voyage surgeons, David Samwell. Introductory essays contextualize Samwell's contribution within this period of Pacific maritime history.

Author : John Parker
Publisher : Metro Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781900512527
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of a Hero written by John Parker and published by Metro Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Robert Nairac was a brilliantly successful undercover operative in the British Army, with a string of intelligence coups in the war against the IRA. But, until this book, the nature of his operations and the story of his betrayal and murder have remained shrouded in mystery. John Parker - author of a bestselling official history of the Special Boat Section - has obtained unprecedented co-operation from very senior Army sources, and from Nairac's friends and family, to reveal the truth behind the secret war in Northern Ireland - and the ferocious rivalry between MI5 and MI6 that contributed to Nairac's death. This book is a tribute to the heroism of Nairac and all those in Northern Ireland who gave their lives in the battle against terrorism.

Author : Nikos Kazantzakes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Death written by Nikos Kazantzakes and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald L. Hafner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537168234
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Smith, Captain written by Donald L. Hafner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1786, Abigail Adams wrote this about her brother, William Smith: "Let all remembrance of his connection with this family cease, by a total silence upon the subject. ... My friends will do me a kindness by strictly adhering to this request." William Smith and his older sister Abigail were born into a minister's family in a Massachusetts town south of Boston. When the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775, Abigail was married to John Adams, whose statesmanship during the American Revolution would eventually win him election as the second President of the United States. In April 1775, William Smith and his family occupied one of the largest farms in Lincoln, Massachusetts, west of Boston. Even though he had no military experience and had moved to Lincoln only a year or so earlier, William was elected Captain of the town's minute men. On April 19th, Captain William Smith and his soldiers joined the day-long battle with British troops that began at the North Bridge in Concord. As the Patriot army stood overlooking the North Bridge, wracked with indecision, William Smith's offer to have his minute men attack the British galvanized the resolve of those around him, and the Patriot army marched toward the Bridge. William Smith then joined the Siege of Boston as a Captain in the new Continental Army. Yet within two months, he would be absent from the battlefield as his soldiers fought at Bunker Hill. Within thirty months, he would be a British prisoner of war, having been captured during an ill-fated venture as a privateer. Within a dozen years, William would be dead, far from family and fame. The manner in which William Smith became Captain of a minute man company at the age of 28 and a participant in the most important day in American history, only to die in poverty, disgrace, and estrangement from his wife and family at the age of 40, is a tangled tale. The tale is told here in an engaging style, tracing the lives of William Smith, his wife and six children, his slave Cato, and their relationships with William's famous sister, Abigail Adams. While telling William's tale, this book also explores the life of American soldier's in camp during the Siege of Boston, the rewards and hazards of privateering during the Revolutionary War, the treatment of American prisoners of war by the British, and the social and economic challenges faced by New England families during and after the War.

Author : Ed Brubaker
Publisher : Marvel Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9780785128502
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Captain America written by Ed Brubaker and published by Marvel Enterprises. This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War ends, the Winter Soldier finally chooses a side--his own--but the Red Skull and his minions are up to something behind the scenes.

Author : David Buttery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messenger of Death written by David Buttery and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Captain Louis Nolan delivered the order that started one of the most famous blunders in all military history -- the charge of the Light Brigade. Nolan's conduct and the charge itself have been the subject of intense, sometimes bitter debate ever since ... Yet there has been no recent biography of Nolan. He remains an ambiguous, controversial figure to this day. In this ... study, David Buttery reassesses Nolan the man and looks at his entire career. There was much more to Louis Nolan than his fatal role in the charge ... It offers the reader an inside view of the most notorious episode of that war, the charge at Balaklava on 25 October 1854"--Jacket.