First Wave

Author : Alex Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451490061
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Wave written by Alex Kershaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Against All Odds, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. “Meet the assaulters: pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers scaling sheer rock . . . Fast-paced and up close, this is history’s greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can.”—Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling author of Spearhead and A Higher Call Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day’s most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; as well as a French commando, returning to his native land, who fought to destroy German strongholds on Sword Beach and beyond. Readers will experience the sheer grit of the Rangers who scaled Pointe du Hoc and the astonishing courage of the airborne soldiers who captured the Merville Gun Battery in the face of devastating enemy counterattacks. The first to fight when the stakes were highest and the odds longest, these men would determine the fate of the invasion of Hitler’s fortress Europe—and the very history of the twentieth century. The result is an epic of close combat and extraordinary heroism. It is the capstone Alex Kershaw’s remarkable career, built on his close friendships with D-Day survivors and his intimate understanding of the Normandy battlefield. For the seventy-fifth anniversary, here is a fresh take on World War II's longest day. Praise for The First Wave: “Masterful... readers will feel the sting of the cold surf, smell the acrid cordite that hung in the air, and duck the zing of machine-gun bullets whizzing overhead. The First Wave is an absolute triumph.”—James M. Scott, bestselling author of Target Tokyo “These pages ooze with the unforgettable human drama of history's most consequential invasion.”—John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die

Author : Greg Sadowski
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1560979712
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supermen! written by Greg Sadowski and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring cultural phenomenon of comic book heroes was invented in the late 1930s by a talented and hungry group of artists and writers barely out of their teens, flying by the seat of their pants to create something new, exciting, and above all profitable. The iconography and mythology they created flourishes to this day in comic books, video, movies, fine art, advertising, and practically all other media. Supermen! collects the best and the brightest of this first generation, including Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Fletcher Hanks, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Basil Wolverton.

Author : Lisa Marie Meadows
Publisher : Waves
ISBN 13 : 9781098373481
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A First Wave written by Lisa Marie Meadows and published by Waves. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romance novel of two infectious disease physicians that travel the world fighting the pandemic. They suffer trauma and experience around the world while trying to have a romantic relationship that is plagued by their past experiences and the trial and tribulations of life during a pandemic.

Author : Brian Azzarello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781401231361
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Wave written by Brian Azzarello and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the world distracted by war, the secret organization the Golden Tree plans on taking over and Doc Savage joins forces with the Spirit, Batman, and others in trying to stop it.

Author : Peter Baldwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316518337
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting the First Wave written by Peter Baldwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the world's nations fight the Covid-19 pandemic in such different ways and with such varying results?

Author : James R. Benn
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569475172
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Wave written by James R. Benn and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second Billy Boyle investigation Billy Boyle is dispatched to help arrange the surrender of Vichy French forces in Algeria. But dissension among the regular army, the militia, and De Gaulle’s Free French forces allows black marketers in league with the Germans to divert medical supplies, leading to multiple murders. Billy must find the killers and rescue the woman he loves, a British spy.

Author : Lisa Phillips
Publisher : Two Dogs Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Wave written by Lisa Phillips and published by Two Dogs Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeland Security Agent Dakota Pierce is determined to solve every case, no matter what. When it becomes clear a backwoods militia is involved in the murder of a young woman, she can't ignore her past any longer. But going back there is the last thing she wants. Duty and history collide, and the explosion could destroy the life she forged out of the fire. Rookie DEA Agent Josh Weber is looking for his neighbor's missing granddaughter when he and his K-9 Neema meet Dakota and the Northwest Counter Terrorism Taskforce. To a guy looking for the place he fits, this team is everything he's been looking for. If he can get them to ask him to stay. Each NWCTTF book is a stand alone Christian romantic suspense.

Author : Nancy Forestell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442666617
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Documenting First Wave Feminisms written by Nancy Forestell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second of a two-volume anthology of primary source documents on feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in its extensive treatment of the first-wave feminist movement in Canada, it highlights distinct elements of its origins and evolution. The book is organized into thematic rubrics that address key issues, debates, and struggles within the first wave in Canada, as well as international influences and Canadian engagement in transnational networks and initiatives. Documents by Indigenous, Anglophone, Francophone, and immigrant female activists demonstrate the richness and complexity of Canadian feminism during this period. Together with its first volume, Documenting First Wave Feminisms reveals a more nuanced picture, attentive to nationalism and transnationalism, of the first wave than has previously been understood.

Author : Nina Blackwood
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 1451678134
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VJ written by Nina Blackwood and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “highly entertaining snapshot of a wild-frontier moment in pop culture” (Rolling Stone), discover the wild and explosive true story of the early years of MTV directly from the original VJs. Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn (along with the late J. J. Jackson) had front-row seats to a cultural revolution—and the hijinks of pop music icons like Adam Ant, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, and Duran Duran—as the first VJs on the fledgling network MTV. From partying with David Lee Roth to flying on Bob Dylan’s private jet, they were on a breakneck journey through a music revolution. Boing beyond the compelling behind the scenes tales of this unforgettable era, VJ is also a coming-of-age story about the 1980s, its excesses, controversies, and everything in between. “At last—the real inside story of the MTV explosion that rocked the world, in all its giddy excess, from the video pioneers who saw all the hair, drugs and guitars up close. VJ is the wild, hilarious, addictive tale of how one crazy moment changed pop culture forever” (Rob Sheffield, New York Times bestselling author).

Author : Gillian Dooley
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 174305615X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Wave written by Gillian Dooley and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or non-existent knowledge, contemporary theories like the idea of the noble savage, and an automatic belief in the superiority of European civilisation. Mutual misunderstanding was almost universal, whether it resulted in violence or apparently friendly transactions. Written for a general audience, The First Wave brings together a variety of contributions from thought-provoking writers, including both original research and creative work. Our contributors explore the dynamics of these early encounters, from Indigenous cosmological perspectives and European history of ideas, from representations in art and literature to the role of animals, food and fire in mediating first contact encounters, and Indigenous agency in exploration and shipwrecks. The First Wave includes poetry by Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, fiction by Miles Franklin award-winning Noongar author Kim Scott and Danielle Clode, and an account of the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Torres Strait Islands by Torres Strait political leader George Mye.