The Spartan Wrker

Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110115148X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wrecker written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Isaac Bell travels the early-twentieth-century American railways, driven by a sense of justice and a determination to stop a new mastermind reigning terror on a crucial express line in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn’s best man, Isaac Bell, quickly discovers a mysterious saboteur haunting the hobo jungles of the West. Known only as the Wrecker, he recruits vulnerable accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the “privileged few”? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done—that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn’t stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk—it could be the future of the entire country.

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nic Fields
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783830492
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spartan Way written by Nic Fields and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a period of some 200 years, Sparta was acknowledged throughout the Greek world as the home of the finest soldiers. Xenophon called them 'the only true craftsmen in matters of war'. Nic Fields explains the reasons for this superiority, how their reputation for invincibility was earned (and deliberately manipulated) and how it was ultimately shattered. The Spartan Way examines how Spartan society, through its rigid laws and brutal educational system, was thoroughly militarized and devoted to producing warriors suited to the intense demands of hoplite warfare - professional killers inculcated with the values of unwavering obedience and a willingness to fight and die for their city. The role of Spartan women, as mothers and wives, in shaping the warrior ethic is considered, as are the role of uniform and rigorous training in enhancing the small-unit cohesion within the phalanx , and the psychological intimidation of the enemy. The final chapters chart the course of Sparta's successes through the period of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, through the Corinthian and Theban wars of the fourth century BC, which culminated with the shattering military defeats at Leuctra and 2nd Mantinea, and the years of her decline with the Spartans as a source of mercenaries for the wars of other states.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1360 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Expenditures written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
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Download or read book War Expenditures: Quartermaster corps. pts. 1-21 in 3 v written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Supreme Court Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.

Author : Miltiadis Michalopoulos
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473884292
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Name of Lykourgos written by Miltiadis Michalopoulos and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the 3rd century B.C. Sparta was a shadow of its glorious past. Politically and militarily weakened and with huge inner social problems, she seemed to have followed the fate of most contemporary city- states and fallen on the fringe of the political developments of her time. The 3rd century was a time when the great states and the Hellenistic empires were prominent. But contrary to the other city states, which compromised with the new political forces of their time, Sparta resisted stubbornly and tried to reclaim the hegemony of southern Greece. In this fight, Sparta showed unexpected vigor, even defying one of the most formidable powers of the time: Macedonia. The uneven collision that followed culminated tragically and painfully for Sparta at the Battle of Sellasia in 222BC. And still Sparta refused to compromise. After a while, she managed to recover and became once more a player on the international stage, not hesitating this time to challenge the most powerful state of the ancient world: Rome. This last Spartan twilight, the revolutionary movement that sparked it and the two ultimate turning points of her history [the battle of Sellasia and the siege of Sparta by the Romans] are analysed in this book with exhaustive bibliography and special emphasis on the military aspects of this epic fight. The original Greek edition of In the Name of Lykourgos received great critical acclaim and was named winner of the 2009 Lakedaimonian Prize of the Academy of Athens. It is here translated into English for the first time.

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1432 pages
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Download or read book Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.

Author : United States. Supreme Court
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1362 pages
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Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references.

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Total Pages : 1016 pages
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Download or read book The Insurance Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports of all decisions rendered in insurance cases in the federal courts, and in the state courts of last resort.