The Darkest Summer

Author : Bill Sloan
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416571759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darkest Summer written by Bill Sloan and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed, dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War, when outnumbered and outgunned Marines and GIs executed two of the greatest military operations in history and saved South Korea—and the Marine Corps—from extinction. The Darkest Summer is the dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War as it has never been told before. A narrative studded with gripping eyewitness accounts, it focuses on the fateful days when the Korean War’s most decisive battles were fought and the Americans who fought them went—however briefly—from the depths of despair to the exultation of total conquest. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of surviving U.S. veterans, it reveals how one ninety-day period changed the course of modern history and opens a unique and revealing window on an all-but-forgotten war.

Author : Iris Johansen
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429961198
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Summer written by Iris Johansen and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a lightning-fast pace, unforgettable characters, and gut-wrenching action, Iris Johansen's Dark Summer is compelling terrain for this master storyteller. It begins with a single shot. Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital on a remote search and rescue mission. When a man arrives with his wounded black Lab, Ned, she has no idea that she is about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror and destruction. Jude Marrock is out for revenge and has no choice but to involve Devon in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with an escalating body count. She doesn't trust him one bit, but when the shots start flying and friends start falling, she finds herself with nowhere else to run. And there are innocent lives, both human and animal, at stake, including Ned and his mysterious pack. Is Jude her salvation or her damnation? Are the secrets he's protecting worth killing for . . . or dying for?

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307777677
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Summer Before the Dark written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness: on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with self that lets her, finally, come truly of age.

Author : Bill Sloan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416575936
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darkest Summer written by Bill Sloan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-23 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed, dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War, when outnumbered and outgunned Marines and GIs executed two of the greatest military operations in history and saved South Korea—and the Marine Corps—from extinction. The Darkest Summer is the dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War as it has never been told before. A narrative studded with gripping eyewitness accounts, it focuses on the fateful days when the Korean War’s most decisive battles were fought and the Americans who fought them went—however briefly—from the depths of despair to the exultation of total conquest. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of surviving U.S. veterans, it reveals how one ninety-day period changed the course of modern history and opens a unique and revealing window on an all-but-forgotten war.

Author : Jon Cleary
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620647990
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Summer written by Jon Cleary and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heat of an Australian summer, Inspector Scobie Malone of the New South Wales police finds the body of a promising informer, Scungy Grime, floating face down in his family's backyard swimming pool. Scobie is investigating Sydney's major drug-dealing operation, and Grime's murder is a clear warning. Malone's family is put under police protection-a nightmare for Scobie, who had always been able to separate his professional obligations from his home life. But Scobie is determined not to be frightened off the job and leads the search for the murderer. Scungy Grime turns out to be only the first victim of an innovative killer who injects his victims with curare. The trail leads in many directions: to Grime's former boss, retired big-time criminal Jack Aldwych; to Aldwych's son, Junior, who is using his father's ill-gotten fortune to build a legitimate business empire; to Junior's unlikely girlfriend, Janis, a tough-nut social worker who counsels drug addicts; and to the original target, Sydney's drug king, Danny Pelong, who is annoyed because an unknown newcomer is muscling in on his patch. The case before Malone is baffling. Worried as he is for his family's safety, distracted by his partner's troublesome love life, with the bite of economic recession casting gloom, this dark summer seems endless-until a vital clue appears, and the case begins to unravel.

Author : Volker Weidermann
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1101870273
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ostend written by Volker Weidermann and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria—searched by the police two years earlier—no longer feels like home. He’s been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with fellow writer and semi-estranged close friend Joseph Roth, who is himself about to fall in love. For a moment, they create a fragile haven. But as Europe begins to crumble around them, the writers find themselves trapped on vacation, in exile, watching the world burn. In Ostend, Volker Weidermann lyrically recounts “the summer before the dark,” when a coterie of artists, intellectuals, drunks, revolutionaries, and madmen found themselves in limbo while Europe teetered on the edge of fascism and total war. Ostend is the true story of two of the twentieth century’s great writers, written with a novelist’s eye for pacing, chronology, and language—a dazzling work of historical nonfiction. (Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway)

Author : Vanessa Lafaye
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1409155404
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summertime written by Vanessa Lafaye and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tensions simmer as a small town, already divided by race, is torn apart by the deadliest of hurricanes . . . THE HELP meets TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in this powerfully emotional and gripping debut novel. In the small town of Heron Key, where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp, everyone is preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, unaware that their world is about to change for ever. Missy, maid to the Kincaid family, feels she has wasted her life pining for Henry, who went to fight on the battlefields of France. Now he has returned with a group of other desperate, destitute veterans, unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beaten nearly to death, suspicion falls on Henry. As the tensions rise, the barometer starts to plummet. But nothing can prepare them for what is coming. For far out over the Atlantic, the greatest storm ever to strike North America is heading their way...

Author : Rebecca J. Greenwood
Publisher : Sweetwater Books
ISBN 13 : 9781462120949
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darkest Summer written by Rebecca J. Greenwood and published by Sweetwater Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Cora Winfield's life has always gone according to plan--her mother's plan. That's why Cora is so fascinated when she meets the dark Duke of Blackdell. Knowing his dangerous reputation, Cora's mother flatly forbids the match, and the duke decides to take matters into his own hands. Kidnapped and facing a scandal, Lady Cora must now decide whether love will be her downfall or the beginning of a new plan, one she never dreamed possible.

Author : Allan Massie
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780704372665
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Summer in Bordeaux written by Allan Massie and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his son's safe return, Superintendent Lannes and his wife can, at last, have some joy amid the grim reality of Vichy France. Not that the unexplained murders seem to have stopped. This is the second volume in a trilogy, following Death in Bordeaux.

Author : Iris Johansen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312368089
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Summer written by Iris Johansen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It begins with a single shot. Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital on a remote search and rescue mission. When a man arrives with his wounded black Lab, Ned, she has no idea that she is about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror and destruction. Jude Marrock is out for revenge and has no choice but to involve Devon in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with an escalating body count. She doesn’t trust him one bit, but when the shots start flying and friends start falling, she finds herself with nowhere else to run. And there are innocent lives, both human and animal, at stake, including Ned and his mysterious pack. Is Jude her salvation or her damnation? Are the secrets he’s protecting worth killing for . . . or dying for? With a lightning-fast pace, unforgettable characters, and gut-wrenching action, Dark Summer is compelling new terrain for this master storyteller.