Maximum Boy Starring In Hijacked

Author : Dan Greenburg
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ISBN 13 : 9780439323635
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maximum Boy Starring in Hijacked! written by Dan Greenburg and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just an ordinary kid, Max Silver touched some radioactive space rocks in a museum and now can do things other kids can't--like fly. Max finds it's not easy being a superhero, especially when his father is determined to beat him at armwrestling, his mother wants him in bed on time--and the president wants him to save Manhattan.

Author : Dan Greenburg
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ISBN 13 : 9780439372817
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maximum Boy, Starring in The Day Everything Tasted Like Broccoli written by Dan Greenburg and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superhero, eleven-year-old Max Silver, must stop the evil Tastemaker from giving the world indigestion.

Author : Dan Greenburg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book MAXimum Boy Starring in Superhero ... Or Super Thief? written by Dan Greenburg and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Cheng Chang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503605876
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hijacked War written by David Cheng Chang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the experiences of Chinese prisoners of war during the Korean War and the struggle over their repatriation. The Korean War lasted for three years, one month, and two days, but armistice talks occupied more than two of those years, as more than 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war refused to return to Communist China and demanded to go to Nationalist Taiwan, effectively hijacking the negotiations and thwarting the designs of world leaders at a pivotal moment in Cold War history. In The Hijacked War, David Cheng Chang vividly portrays the experiences of Chinese prisoners in the dark, cold, and damp tents of Koje and Cheju Islands in Korea and how their decisions derailed the high politics being conducted in the corridors of power in Washington, Moscow, and Beijing. Chang demonstrates how the Truman-Acheson administration’s policies of voluntary repatriation and prisoner reindoctrination for psychological warfare purposes—the first overt and the second covert—had unintended consequences. The “success” of the reindoctrination program backfired when anti-Communist Chinese prisoners persuaded and coerced fellow POWs to renounce their homeland. Drawing on newly declassified archival materials from China, Taiwan, and the United States, and interviews with more than 80 surviving Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war, Chang depicts the struggle over prisoner repatriation that dominated the second half of the Korean War, from early 1952 to July 1953, in the prisoners’ own words. Praise for The Hijacked War “This book represents a giant step forward in our understanding of the prisoner-of-war issue in the Korean War. The research on the Chinese prisoners is extraordinary, the stories of individuals compelling, and the analysis of the context in which they made choices balanced and persuasive.” —William Stueck, author of The Korean War: An International History “David Cheng Chang’s superlative research reveals the use of Chinese POWs as pawns in the larger Cold War standoff between the US and China during the Korean War. His cogent analysis encourages us to think about the aftermath of the war and the lives of those who made the ‘voluntary choice’ to join or who faced ‘forced conformity.’” —Barak Kushner, author of Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice “Chang’s exceptionally vivid prisoner’s-eye account, based on camp archives and interviews with ex-POWS, leads him to condemn the key U.S. policymakers, including President Harry Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson, for their “arrogance, ignorance, and negligence.” —Foreign Affairs

Author : Mandla Mathebula
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776140893
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Backroom Boy written by Mandla Mathebula and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Backroom Boy opens dramatically in China, 1962. Andrew Mlangeni is one of a small select group undergoing military training there. The unannounced visitor is Mao Tse-Tung or Chairman Mao as he was known, Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Mlangeni was selected as one of the first-ever six members who received military training in China before the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. He seems to have been chosen because he was a dedicated, intelligent and dependable operative, rather than a leader. Even after his release after 25 years on Robben Island, Mlangeni was not given a senior position in the post-apartheid democratic government. ‘I was always the backroom boy,’ says Andrew Mlangeni about himself. Andrew Mlangeni, is a struggle stalwart, Rivonia Trialist, and Robben Island prisoner 467/64 who was next door inmate to Nelson Mandela’s acclaimed 466/64 prison number. Released after 26 years of incarceration, he served as Member of Parliament, and is Chairman of the ANC’s Integrity Commission and Founder of the June and Andrew Mlangeni Foundation. With the passing of Ahmed Kathrada (March 2017), Mlangeni (91) is one of only two Rivonia Trialist still alive with Denis Goldberg. While still at school, Andrew Mlangeni joined the Communist Party of South Africa and also the ANC Youth League. These were the organisations that shaped his values. Decades of resourceful activism were to lead to his arrest and life sentence in the Rivonia trial. Mlangeni’s lifelong commitment to the struggle for liberation reverberates with other biographies and memoirs of leading figures, such as Rusty Bernstein’s Memory Against Forgetting and Albie Sachs’ We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge. This story of an ANC elder is a well-researched historical record overlaid with intensely personal refl ections which intersect with the political narrative. Above all, it is one man’s story, set in the maelstrom of the liberation struggle. This biographical project has been developed for, and published in conjunction with, the June and Andrew Mlangeni Foundation.

Author : Peter H. L. Lim
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9814217751
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicle of Singapore, 1959-2009 written by Peter H. L. Lim and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2009 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated volume captures the entire dramatic sweep of Singapore¿s modern history ¿ from its declaration of independence in 1959 to today. Organised in chronological order, with each year¿s coverage starting with a succinct summary of its key events, Chronicle of Singapore covers not only the nation¿s defining political and economic events, but also the more human side of Singapore ¿ sports, fashion, music, the arts, architecture, and culture ¿ giving readers the broadest possible coverage. Anyone who has visited or lived in this most unique of modern city nations will be enthralled by this pictorial and narrative history.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1790 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Author : May Archer
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hijacked written by May Archer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned cardiologist Carter Rogers is used to having things under control. His life, his prestigious reputation, his career, his future. Things he can't control this time around: - His meddling grandfather - His annoying gamer cousin - Buggy South American jungles - Being the meat in a feuding cartel sandwich - Getting kidnapped by a monologuing drug lord -Falling for his very hot, very mouthy ex-Special Forces bodyguard In short, Carter's peaceful, well-planned life has been... hijacked.

Author : Brendan I. Koerner
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307886115
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skies Belong to Us written by Brendan I. Koerner and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom—a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history. More than just an enthralling story about a spectacular crime and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath, The Skies Belong to Us is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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