The Bikini Siege

Author : J.G. Farrell
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0307957845
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles written by J.G. Farrell and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two stunning, Booker Prize-winning historical novels that vividly chronicle the crumbling edges of the British Empire in India and Ireland--in one Contemporary Classics hardcover. Inspired by historical events, The Siege of Krishnapur is the mesmerizing tale of a British outpost, under siege during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, whose residents find their smug assumptions of moral and military superiority and their rigid class barriers under fire—literally and figuratively. The hero of Troubles, having survived the battles of World War I, makes his way to Ireland in 1919, in search of his once-wealthy fiancée. What he finds is her family's enormous seaside hotel in a spectacular state of decline, overgrown and overrun by herds of cats and pigs and the few remaining guests. From this strange perch, moving from room to room as the hotel falls down around him, he witnesses the distant tottering of the Empire in the East and the rise of the violent "Troubles" in Ireland.

Author : Wilson Ohwedor
Publisher : Wilson Ohwedor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Siege of Fate written by Wilson Ohwedor and published by Wilson Ohwedor. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever seen someone facing a slow death and yet you can do nothing? Or the trade-off is so high its better to die? Enitan and Ikudoro face this plight in Wilson's terrifying novel 'Siege of Fate: A Sci-Fi Dystopia'. In a near-future Africa, superstitions have become medical facts. Ikudoro is dying and even the best doctors cannot salvage her. Dr. Jason Crane comes up with a bizarre solution. The doctor claims he can upload a dying person’s mind into a durable, healthy robotic body thus keeping her alive. Catch is the doctor won't explain how the process works. Additionally, Ikudoro must die a horrible death for the transformation to occur. That is, she must be mutilated and devoured by a series of automated spinning blades and interlocking teeth before her consciousness can be uploaded into the robot! What will Enitan and Ikudoro eventually do? Siege of Fate is playfully serious, dancing naked with thick darkness while relentlessly satirizing pseudoscience and faith-based medicine. It will make you laugh at its absurdity, and leave you wondering about the location of your own consciousness. "In Siege of fate, Wilson writes intelligently and beautifully of post apocalypse, love, hermaphrodites, and robots. It is thought-provoking, perfectly paced, uniformly delightful, compassionate. Wilson has remarkable gifts." -Helon Habila ( Award winner of Caine prize for African writing) "This is one of the quirkiest and engaging stories that I have ever read in a long time." -Lily Lamb, Amazon best-seller of Nameless.

Author : Martin Schram
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429928794
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vets Under Siege written by Martin Schram and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After members of our armed forces bravely serve their nation, they sometimes come home to find themselves battling another enemy—within their own government. Using decades of case histories, statistics, and firsthand accounts, award-winning Washington journalist Martin Schram exposes a shocking culture of antagonism toward veterans by the very agency—the Department of Veterans Affairs—that was formed to serve them. Vets Under Siege reveals the shameless lack of care shown to our young servicemen and -women, from recruiters' deceptions and a lack of armor in battle to shoddy, disgusting conditions at Walter Reed and other medical facilities, and looks back to examine the innumerable postwar battles our veterans have had to wage for proper treatment, from World War II to today. Martin Schram's bold bugle call, sounded on behalf of our nation's beleaguered servicemen and -women, lays bare a chilling pattern of institutional negligence, delay, and denial, and points the way forward with definitive solutions to a national disgrace.

Author : Kevin C. Kearns
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717151964
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland's Arctic Siege of 1947 written by Kevin C. Kearns and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 January 1947 Ireland was invaded by a freakish anticyclonic weather phenomenon unleashed from the depths of Siberia. Its prolonged two-month grip entombed the country in snow and ice. This arctic siege brought freezing temperatures of 7° Fahrenheit -14°C, a piercing east wind reaching 60-70 m.p.h., five major blizzards, and snowdrifts of 12 to 20 feet-some topping 50. Cars, buses, houses and entire villages were buried, leaving scores of passengers and inhabitants marooned. Roads were blocked, telephone and electricity lines felled and towns and farms isolated as food and fuel dwindled. Tragically this happened amidst the worst fuel crisis in Ireland's history. People were forced to strip wood from their homes, and nearly half of all Dubliners were burning furniture to survive. Severe food shortages and a virulent influenza epidemic weakened people. By 19 February 1947 Dublin's death rate had more than doubled as the poor and elderly succumbed to hunger, cold and illness. Kevin C. Kearns presents a graphic account of what was regarded as a near-biblical calamity of blizzards, freezing, hunger, floods, and threatened famine-so imperilling, wrote one newspaper, that it seemed almost as if the wrath of God was directed against Ireland. It is a vivid tale of suffering and courage, death and survival, of human resilience and real heroism, poignantly authenticated by the oral testimony of those who lived through the arctic siege.

Author : Scarlett Cole
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1250128463
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Final Siege written by Scarlett Cole and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former SEAL Malachai "Mac" MacCarrick is all about the future he's created with his Navy brothers in Eagle Securities. But when an urgent phone call brings his troubled past--and the woman he once loved--into the present, it's a chance to redeem himself that he can't refuse. Original. Original.

Author : Graeme Donald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472803728
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sticklers, Sideburns and Bikinis written by Graeme Donald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to everyday words with military origins. Did you know they started 'hearing through the grapevine' during the American Civil War, that 'ghettos' originated in Venice or that 'deadline' has a very sinister origin? Jam-packed with many amazing facts, Sticklers, Sideburns and Bikinis is a fascinating trip through the words and phrases that came to us from the military but nowadays are used by soldier and civilian alike. The sources of many are surprising and their original use is often far removed from that of today. From 'duds' to 'freelancers' and 'morris dancing' to 'bikini' this enthralling book describes the military origins of words and phrases that we use on a daily basis.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1466 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 0195093542
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Dictionary of Eponyms written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1460 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: