The Time Of The Missyl

Author : Cheryl Scott Norman
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921636068
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Time of the Missyl written by Cheryl Scott Norman and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ali's mother Jane tells her daughter of her own time in the land of Isshuay... Isshuay's border has been breached by a Missyl, a mysterious, shape-changing creature from a neighbouring land. Hopelessly lost in a hostile environment, the lonely Missyl is unwittingly contaminating the inhabitants of Isshuay as it searches for the way home. As the years pass, the land's goodness is slowly disappearing through the breach in the border. Anger and despair have replaced the happiness that once filled the land. Jane is selected by the fabulous Silver Ones as the one person who has the knowledge and skills to heal their land. Happily accepting the challenge, she travels with young Nestor across the Shimmering into Isshuay to begin her task of seeking the elusive Missyl and sending it home. Joined by Old Marje and other intriguing characters, she discovers the dangers and the wonders of Isshuay.

Author : Cheryl Scott Norman
Publisher : Isshuay
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Time of the Missyl written by Cheryl Scott Norman and published by Isshuay. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ali's mother Jane tells her daughter of her own time in the land of Isshuay... Isshuay's border has been breached by a Missyl, a mysterious, shape-changing creature from a neighbouring land. Hopelessly lost in a hostile environment, the lonely Missyl is unwittingly contaminating the inhabitants of Isshuay as it searches for the way home. As the years pass, the land's goodness is slowly disappearing through the breach in the border. Anger and despair have replaced the happiness that once filled the land. Jane is selected by the fabulous Silver Ones as the one person who has the knowledge and skills to heal their land. Happily accepting the challenge, she travels with young Nestor across the Shimmering into Isshuay to begin her task of seeking the elusive Missyl and sending it home. Joined by Old Marje and other intriguing characters, she discovers the dangers and the wonders of Isshuay.

Author : Margaret Pearce
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925574083
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebecca and the Flying Horse Problem written by Margaret Pearce and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy princess turned mortal, Rebecca discovers her horse Sally has unexpectedly given birth to a filly. Rebecca names the newborn Saturday. In the midst of joy, a monster tries to kill them. Protecting her horses isn't Rebecca's only problem. Hiding the fact that Saturday has the ability to speak the human language and is growing wings is becoming a big problem all its own.

Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393540820
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis written by Serhii Plokhy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The definitive history.…With his masterly book, Mr. Plokhy has sounded a warning bell." — The Economist A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy’s Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. In breathtaking detail, Plokhy vividly recounts the young JFK being played by the canny Khrushchev; the hotheaded Castro willing to defy the USSR and threatening to align himself with China; the Soviet troops on the ground clearing jungle foliage in the tropical heat, and desperately trying to conceal nuclear installations on Cuba, which were nonetheless easily spotted by U-2 spy planes; and the hair-raising near misses at sea that nearly caused a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine to fire its weapons. More often than not, the Americans and Soviets misread each other, operated under false information, and came perilously close to nuclear catastrophe. Despite these errors, nuclear war was ultimately avoided for one central reason: fear, and the realization that any escalation on either the Soviets’ or the Americans’ part would lead to mutual destruction. Drawing on a range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents, as well as White House tapes, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides a way for us to grapple with the problems posed in our present day.

Author : Eric G. Swedin
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597975176
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Angels Wept written by Eric G. Swedin and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and Soviet troops armed with tactical nuclear weapons. However, a U-2 spy plane flight would soon find the Soviet missile sites, thus sparking the famous missile crisis. For thirteen terrifying days, the world watched nervously as the two superpowers moved toward escalation, holding the world's fate in their hands. Finally, Nikita Khrushchev blinked. He agreed to withdraw the weapons from Cuba in return for John F. Kennedy's pledge not to invade the island. But what if it had not turned out this way? What if the U-2 flight had been delayed? If the confrontation had set off a nuclear war, what would have happened to the United States and Soviet Union in 1962? What kind of account would a historian have written in a world scarred by nuclear war? Eric G. Swedin draws on research made available after the Soviet Union's collapse to examine what could have happened. Top U.S. military officers all urged stronger action against Cuba than the naval blockade, including a bombing campaign and even a full-scale invasion. Unknown to the Americans, meanwhile, the Soviet Union had tactical nuclear weapons in Cuba and were prepared to use them. The 1962 crisis had many possible outcomes. Positing an alternate history helps us better appreciate the dangers of that tense time. Such counterfactual speculation shows what the Cuban missile crisis could have wrought and how it was truly one of the most important moments of the twentieth century.

Author : David K. Stumpf
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610754298
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Titan II written by David K. Stumpf and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Titan II ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) program was developed by the United States military to bolster the size, strength, and speed of the nation’s strategic weapons arsenal in the 1950s and 1960s. Each missile carried a single warhead—the largest in U.S. inventory—used liquid fuel propellants, and was stored and launched from hardened underground silos. The missiles were deployed at basing facilities in Arkansas, Arizona, and Kansas and remained in active service for over twenty years. Since military deactivation in the early 1980s, the Titan II has served as a reliable satellite launch vehicle. This is the richly detailed story of the Titan II missile and the men and women who developed and operated the system. David K. Stumpf uses a wide range of sources, drawing upon interviews with and memoirs by engineers and airmen as well as recently declassified government documents and other public materials. Over 170 drawings and photographs, most of which have never been published, enhance the narrative. The three major accidents of the program are described in detail for the first time using authoritative sources. Titan II will be welcomed by librarians for its prodigious reference detail, by technology history professionals and laymen, and by the many civilian and Air Force personnel who were involved in the program—a deterrent weapons system that proved to be successful in defending America from nuclear attack.

Author : Gretchen Heefner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674067460
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missile Next Door written by Gretchen Heefner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s the Air Force buried 1,000 ICBMs in pastures across the Great Plains to keep U.S. nuclear strategy out of view. As rural civilians of all political stripes found themselves living in the Soviet crosshairs, a proud Plains individualism gave way to an economic dependence on the military-industrial complex that still persists today.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effects of Magnus Moments on Missile Aerodynamic Performance written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : U.S. Army
Publisher : Jeffrey Frank Jones
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book TM 9-1425-485-10-2 LANCE (Missile) FIRING OPERATIONS written by U.S. Army and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on 1983-12-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I scanned the original manual at 600 dpi.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1963 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: