Fist From The Sky

Author : Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 1461750989
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fist From the Sky written by Peter C. Smith and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating look from the Japanese side at Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway Fully authorized account including contemporary interviews with those that flew with Lt. Cdr. Egusa Lieutenant Commander Takashige Egusa was one of the Imperial Japanese Navy's most skillful and influential dive-bomber pilots. He led an attack force against Pearl Harbor, calmly circling his special flame-red Aichi dive bomber before selecting his target. Assaults on the deadly gun batteries of Wake Island followed, as well as air support for the invasion of Ambon. Badly burned at Midway, Egusa returned to duty, only to be killed on his final mission. As one Japanese officer said, "He was the 'God of Dive-Bombing.'" Fully placed in historical context and backed by a wealth of detail from archives, family records, photographs, and memories of contemporaries, the full story of Egusa's bravery, leadership qualities, and illustrious career comes to life.

Author : Nobu Horie
Publisher : Raijin Comics Collection
ISBN 13 : 9781932454222
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fist of the Blue Sky written by Nobu Horie and published by Raijin Comics Collection. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is just before World War II and Kasumi Kenshiro hides as a quiet, absent-minded professor teaching literature at a small women's college in Tokyo. Once the 62nd Grand Master of Kohuto Shinken, "God Fist of the North Star," and known as Yan Wang, or "the king of Death" who preserved the peace in the City of Devils, a fighter of thugs and drug dealers, Kasumi now seeks anonymity and a quiet life until the death of his lover, and former brothers, forces him to return to Shanghai to fulfill his destiny and avenge the deaths of his associates.

Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783609990
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky written by Basil Davidson and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Though perhaps less well known than the struggles in Angola and Mozambique, the liberation war waged by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) easily ranks alongside those conflicts as an example of an African independence movement triumphing against overwhelming odds. Basil Davidson, a leading authority on Portuguese Africa who witnessed many of these events first hand, draws on his own extensive experience in the country as well as the PAIGC archives to provide a detailed and rigorous analysis of the conflict. The book also provides one of the earliest accounts of the assassination of the PAIGC’s founder, Amilcar Cabral, and documents the movement’s remarkable success in recovering from the death of its leader and in eventually attaining independence. Featuring a preface by Cape Verde’s first president, Aristides Pereira, and a foreword by Cabral himself, No Fist is Big Enough to Hide the Sky remains an invaluable resource for the study both of the region and of African liberation struggles as a whole.

Author : Margaret Wander Bonanno
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743455622
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strangers From The Sky written by Margaret Wander Bonanno and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planets Earth and Vulcan experience a mysterious first contact in this fascinating Star Trek novel featuring the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Years before the formal first contact between Earth and another planet’s inhabitants, a Vulcan space vessel crash landed in the South Pacific, forcing humanity to decide whether to offer the hand of friendship, or the fist of war. Complicating matters is a second visitation: a group of people from two hundred years in the future, who serve on a starship called Enterprise. Discover the astonishing truth about this heretofore unknown first contact and the nightmares that plague Admiral James T. Kirk. Dreams of his dead comrades, of his earliest days aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, and of a forgotten past in which he somehow changed the course of history and destroyed the Federation before it began.

Author : Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101208228
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful Of Sky written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. She’d already watched her two older siblings experience the transition—the sudden, debilitating process that turned them from ordinary children into mages, gifted spellcasters like their beautiful mother. Perhaps she was a late bloomer, she thought until her younger siblings came into their powers as well. Now, at twenty, Gypsum fears that she must accept her fate: a mundane life without magic. She can live with being ordinary, an outsider. After all, someone in the family had to take after her father…But one day, alone at home wither family away, Gypsum falls terribly ill. And when the symptoms pass, something has changed. Something she’s dreamed of for such a long time—and suddenly, isn’t ready for at all. “One of the most original and important writers of fantasy working in America today.”—The New York Review of Science Fiction

Author : Peter Charles Smith
Publisher : Crecy Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780859791175
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fist from the Sky written by Peter Charles Smith and published by Crecy Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Commander Takashige Egusa was one of the Imperial Japanese Navy's most skillful and influential dive-bomber pilots. He led an attack force against Pearl Harbor, calmly circling his special flame-red Aichi dive bomber before selecting his target. Assaults on the deadly gun batteries of Wake Island followed, as well as air support for the invasion of Ambon. Badly burned at Midway, Egusa return to duty, only to be killed on his final mission. As one Japanese officer said, "He was the 'God of Dive-Bombing.'" Fully placed in historical context and backed by a wealth of detail from archives, family records, photographs, and memories of contemporaries, the full story of Egusa's bravery, leadership qualities and illustrious career come to life.

Author : Marion Jopson
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 : 9780709112624
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fist in the Sky written by Marion Jopson and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547572549
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eye in the Sky written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wry look at how different people see the world, told in the caustically fun style of award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.

Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307429725
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things that Fall from the Sky written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In “Apples,” a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach. “The Jesus Stories” examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way. And in the O. Henry Award winning “The Ceiling,” a man’s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending. Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, Things That Fall from the Sky defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.

Author : T. Thorn Coyle
Publisher : PF Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1946476013
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Raise a Clenched Fist to the Sky written by T. Thorn Coyle and published by PF Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cops and FBI are out to get them. One girl’s magic may be the key to the revolution. This free book is only the beginning... Oakland, 1969. Eighteen-year-old student and secret sorcerer Jasmine Jones didn’t come to town to join a rebellion. But from the moment she sees the Black Panthers in action, she knows there’s more she should be doing with her magic. However, not everyone sees the activist group as a force for positive change… The local cops and the FBI are coming for the Black Panthers, and the Feds have sorcery of their own. If Jasmine and her new friends hope to survive the forces gathering against them, they’re going to have to learn how to fight magic with magic. Can Jasmine teach her fellow activists how to unleash their own power, or will the Man crush the uprising before it begins? To Raise a Clenched Fist to the Sky is the first book in The Panther Chronicles saga, an exciting urban fantasy series. If you like far out magic, shapeshifters, sorcerers, alternative history, and strong characters who take a stand, then you’ll love this bold novel. Join the revolution today!