Tag: Hell

Hell at the Breech A Novel


Free Download Tom Franklin, "Hell at the Breech: A Novel"
English | 2003 | pages: 362 | ISBN: 0060566760 | PDF | 1,0 mb
In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends – -mostly poor cotton farmers – form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty. Caught in the maelstrom of the Mitcham war are four people: the aging sheriff sympathetic to both sides; the widowed midwife who delivered nearly every member of Hell-at-the-Breech; a ruthless detective who wages his own war against the gang; and a young store clerk who harbors a terrible secret.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell [Audiobook]


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English | August 27, 2024 | ASIN: B0DCHHYN6N | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 49m | 219 MB
Author: Nicholas Meyer | Narrators: Nicholas Meyer, David Robb
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson cross the Atlantic at the height of World War I in pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram in this new mystery from the author of The Return of the Pharaoh.
June, 1916. With a world war raging on the continent, exhausted John H. Watson, MD, is operating on the wounded full-time when his labors are interrupted by a knock on his door, revealing Sherlock Holmes, with a black eye, a missing tooth and a cracked rib. The story he has to tell will set in motion a series of world-changing events in the most consequential case of the detective’s career.

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A Hell of a Storm The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War [Audiobook]


Free Download A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVJCHDM8 | 2024 | 11 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 339 MB
Author: David S. Brown
Narrator: Jacques Roy

The history of the United States includes a series of sectional compromises-the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850. While these accords created an imperfect republic, or "a house divided," as Lincoln put it, the country remained united. But then in 1854, this three-generations system suddenly blew up with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and here, David Brown explores in riveting detail how the Act led to the sudden division of North and South. The Act declared that planters, if permitted by territorial laws, could bring their enslaved peoples to the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains-the core of Jefferson’s old Louisiana Purchase which had been reserved for free labor. Northerners were shocked that free soil might now be turned over to slavery and responded with unprecedented backlash.

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Blown to Hell in a Fountain of Horror at the Crater on July 30, 1864


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English | July 29, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CW1BTJY2 | 150 pages | EPUB | 0.52 Mb
On July 30, 1864, the struggle for the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia, was one of the bloodiest clashes of the Civil War. One of the most forgotten reasons that explained why thousands of Federals were unable to charge through the Crater and gain their strategic objectives to capture Petersburg was because of the remarkable defense of General Stephen Elliott and his South Carolina Brigade, despite having lost hundreds of men in the great mine explosion of 4 tons of black powder that had been placed under Elliott’s Salient. Quite simply, the South Carolinians saved the day and Petersburg, although General Elliott, who even led a counterattack to thwart the Federals, was mortally wounded, although he would not die until shortly after the Civil War. This is a remarkable story not previously told in full by generations of Civil War historians.

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Hell or High Water


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English | October 1, 2009 | ISBN: 186950786X | 290 pages | PDF | 7.46 Mb
‘Hell or High Water’ provides a record of the vital contribution the New Zealand merchant navy made to the Allies’ war effort during the Second World War.

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Go to Hell A Traveler’s Guide to Earth’s Most Otherworldly Destinations


Free Download Go to Hell: A Traveler’s Guide to Earth’s Most Otherworldly Destinations by Erika Engelhaupt
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 1426223536 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 106.54 MB
You can go to hell and back with the help of this one-of-a-kind illustrated travel guide to real-life underworld destinations around the globe. Full of intrigue, lore, and plenty of brimstone and fire, each of the 54 destinations-from Antarctica’s Blood Falls to a tropical hell on Grand Cayman island-will be worth adding to your devilish bucket list.

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Raising Hell The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay


Free Download Ronin Ro, "Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay"
English | 2005 | pages: 353 | ISBN: 0060781955, 0060781971 | PDF | 0,9 mb
The year is 1978. Saturday Night Fever is breaking box office records. All over America kids are racing home to watch Dance Fever, Michael Jackson is poised to become the next major pop star, and in Hollis, Queens, fourteen-year-old Darryl McDaniels-who will one day go by the name D.M.C.-busts his first rhyme: "Apple to the peach, cherry to the plum. Don’t stop rocking till you all get some." Darryl’s friend Joseph Simmons-now known as Reverend Run-thinks Darryl’s rhyme is pretty good, and he becomes inspired. Soon the two join forces with a DJ-Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell-and form Run-D.M.C. Managed by Run’s brother, Russell Simmons, the trio, donning leather suits, Adidas sneakers, and gold chains, become the defiant creators of the world’s most celebrated and enduring hip-hop albums-and in the process, drag rap music from urban streets into the corporate boardroom, profoundly changing everything about popular culture and American race relations.

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In the Hell of the Eastern Front The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2


Free Download Arno Sauer, "In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1526797704, 1526733331 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 0.5 mb
On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa – Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets ground on relentlessly for almost four years. It was into this bloody theater of war that Fritz Sauer was sent.

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