Then They Flew

Author : Sherrell Michael Smith Jr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514492911
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Then They Flew written by Sherrell Michael Smith Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of a life well spent as a world traveler and police commander with the Richmond Virginia Police Department. It is presented as is life, in the form of short stories of police operations and life lessons in other areas. There is much humor inside, because this is the way I saw my life. There is, as well, serious and well-thought-out tales that occurred over a lifetime of living.

Author : Carlos M. N. Eire
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300259808
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Flew written by Carlos M. N. Eire and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era--tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft--even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as Newton's scientific discoveries. Relying on an array of firsthand accounts, and focusing on exceptionally impossible cases involving levitation, bilocation, witchcraft, and demonic possession, Eire challenges established assumptions about the redrawing of boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity. Using as his case studies stories about St. Teresa of Avila, St. Joseph of Cupertino, the Venerable María de Ágreda, and three disgraced nuns, Eire challenges readers to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality and of the supernatural's relationship with the natural world. The questions he explores--such as why and how "impossibility" is determined by cultural contexts, and whether there is more to reality than meets the eye or can be observed by science--have resonance and lessons for our time.

Author : Adrian Stewart
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783409754
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Flew Hurricanes written by Adrian Stewart and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the renowned WWII aircraft and the aviators who flew them—includes rare photographs. The Hawker Hurricane, together with the Spitfire, is the most famous aircraft of the Second World War. Many pilots, including Douglas Bader, thought it was superior to the Spit—but together they saved Britain from Nazi invasion and possible defeat. Adrian Stewart has produced a gloriously atmospheric and nostalgic book capturing the spirit of these great aircraft and the pilots who flew them. It tracks the aircraft as it was developed and improved, and follows it to the many theaters of the war where it saw service. Among the lesser-known are Burma and hazardous convoy protection in the Arctic and Mediterranean, flying from makeshift carriers. This book will fascinate specialist aviation historians and those who enjoy a rattling good war story, and includes a superb selection of rare photographs.

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Publisher : Childs Play International Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781846430077
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer written by and published by Childs Play International Limited. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die-cut windows reveal glimpses of what five spacemen observe as they fly around the world, then leave one by one because they do not like what they see.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rear Admiral Edwin C. Parsons
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178625994X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Flew With the Lafayette Escadrille written by Rear Admiral Edwin C. Parsons and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in 1916, a year before the United States entered World War I, a handful of valiant Americans banded together as the Lafayette Escadrille to forge their mark in history in the skies over France. Be it for fame, adventure or patriotism, they stepped forward to meet the common enemy long before their own nation realized the true extent of the threat to world freedom. During their days with the Escadrille, some of these men met death, while others lived out the war; but each, in his own way, earned immortality for himself and the Escadrille. As long as there remains a man with a love for flying in his heart, or one who has experienced the indescribable thrill of passing along through the tranquil solitude of the firmament, the memory of the Lafayette Escadrille and of those who served it so nobly will endure. This is the chronicle of an elite group of men, written by one of their own who survived the holocaust. The vivid account of battles in the air, the flush of success over a fallen foe, the sorrow from the loss of a comrade—all of these carry the reader back across the decades to that exciting period of so long ago. In essence, one does not read this book—he lives it.

Author : Gian J. Quasar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988850507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Flew Into Oblivion written by Gian J. Quasar and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quasar, the man considered the leading expert in the world on the Bermuda Triangle, pulls Flight 19 from the Triangle's clutches to reveal it as a military blunder, a tragedy, and an irony. Like an absorbing detective read, "They Flew into Oblivion" leads the reader through the case and its aftermath and then follows the author on his solution of its mystery.

Author : Charles Bullock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day of days, conducted by C. Bullock written by Charles Bullock and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heinz Knocke
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783030763
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Flew for the Fuhrer written by Heinz Knocke and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading like a novel, this primary source is a valuable look at the ‘other side’ of World War II aviation.”—Gazette665 Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs, a bestselling counterbalance to the numerous accounts written by Allied pilots. Knoke joined the Luftwaffe on the outbreak of war, and eventually became commanding officer of a fighter wing. An outstandingly brave and skillful fighter, he logged over two thousand flights, and shot down fifty-two enemy aircraft. He had flown over four hundred operational missions before being crippled by wounds in an astonishing ‘last stand’ towards the end of the war. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross for his achievements. In a text that reveals his intense patriotism and discipline, he describes being brought up in the strict Prussian tradition, the impact of the coming of the Nazi regime, and his own wartime career set against a fascinating study of everyday life in the Luftwaffe, and of the high morale of the force until its disintegration. In a postscript provided for this edition, Heinz Knoke writes of the struggle to survive after the war in Germany, and his building of a new life. Now that the Berlin Wall has been torn down, his memoirs are set in a new perspective, both a valuable contribution to aviation literature and a moving human story.

Author : Leo Richer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304447243
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Flew the Lancaster Bomber written by Leo Richer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Leo Richer, featuring his time as a pilot during World War II flying the Lancaster Bomber.