The Black Scorpions

Author : James A. Lynch
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 163624307X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Scorpions written by James A. Lynch and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book richly details life in a fighter squadron. Readers will learn new details and gain a better understanding of the daily experience outside of the intense combat environment. It is well worth reading this contribution to World War II oral history." —The Journal of America's Military Past On December 6, 1941, despite his objections, James Lynch was discharged from the Army for being over age in grade. After the terrible events at Pearl Harbor, James Lynch was recalled to duty. Within a month he was part of the Air Corps, involved in a secret project to send air support to help General Montgomery and the Eighth Army. He joined the nucleus of officers in charge of the 64th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group. For the next 33 months, he fought across the top of Africa and then up through Italy. The 57th Fighter Group arrived in Egypt just in time for the battle at El Alamein. How the United States was able to get the pink-winged P-40s to the battlefield baffled the Germans for many years. The Black Scorpions chased the Afrika Corps across the top of Africa, culminating in the Palm Sunday massacre where the Squadron helped shoot down 74 planes in a single engagement. For the Italian campaign, the Black Scorpions switched from P-40s to P-47s, changing from fighters to bombers and disrupting the German and Italian lines up the Italian Peninsula. Through all the battles, including a battle with an erupting Mount Vesuvius, James Lynch kept an unauthorized diary. He also collected daily intelligence reports, newspaper stories, souvenirs, pictures, and letters from home. After the war he reminisced with fellow soldiers about their experiences, and eventually felt it was time to write the story of the Black Scorpions—this book is the result.

Author : Jon Land
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765337231
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Scorpion written by Jon Land and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the maniacal leader of a worldwide human trafficking cabal called Black Scorpion kidnaps the woman he loves, Michael Tiranno must embrace his true destiny and become "The Tyrant" once again.

Author : Caitie McAneney
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1482427958
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scorpion vs. Black Widow written by Caitie McAneney and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scorpions and black widows are both feared arachnids. They carry venom that can be deadly. Black widow venom can turn their prey's insides into mush! Scorpions have their deadly stinger to inject their poison, while black widows use fangs. These two bad beasts occasionally meet in a battle to the death. Through enlightening text and vibrant photographs, readers will discover the weapons each uses to best its opponent and the adaptations that make them both predators you wouldn't want to mess with.

Author : Whit Gibbons
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817309195
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecoviews written by Whit Gibbons and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1998-03-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book celebrates the intrinsic worth of all plants and animals in order to motivate people in a unified effort to preserve the Earth's rich array of life forms."--Cover.

Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471120384
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium

Author : Noah Feldman
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0446575143
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scorpions written by Noah Feldman and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international trial ever. A self-invented, tall-tale Westerner who narrowly missed the presidency but expanded individual freedom beyond what anyone before had dreamed. Four more different men could hardly be imagined. Yet they had certain things in common. Each was a self-made man who came from humble beginnings on the edge of poverty. Each had driving ambition and a will to succeed. Each was, in his own way, a genius. They began as close allies and friends of FDR, but the quest to shape a new Constitution led them to competition and sometimes outright warfare. Scorpians tells the story of these four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself.

Author : Hugh L. Keegan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780952408314
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scorpions of Medical Importance written by Hugh L. Keegan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Oakes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393239934
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War written by James Oakes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more peaceful alternative to the war.

Author : Roland Stockmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782913688117
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scorpions of the World written by Roland Stockmann and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061975060
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scorpions written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scorpions are a gun-toting Harlem gang, and Jamal Hicks is about to become tragically involved with them in this authentic tale of the sacrifice of innocence and the struggle to steer clear of violence. This Newbery Honor Book will challenge young men to consider their own decisions as they come of age in a complex and often frustrating society. Pushed by a bully to fight and nagged by his principal, Jamal is having a difficult time staying in school. His home life is not much better, with his mother working her fingers to the bone to try to earn the money for an appeal for Jamal's jailed older brother, Randy. Jamal wants to do the right thing and help earn the money to free his brother by working, but he's afraid to go against the Scorpions. Jamal eventually pulls free of the gang's bad influence, but only through the narrowest of escapes. Walter Dean Myers, five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, sensitively explores the loyalty and love between friends faced with hard choices. Scorpions is 25 years old, but the issues of poverty and violence make it a timeless powerful read—sadly as relevant as ever.