Tag: Rescue

Joey How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See [Audiobook]


Free Download Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See (Audiobook)
English | December 04, 2018 | ASIN: B07KJWS5GZ | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 22m | 217 MB
Author: Jennifer Marshall Bleakley | Narrator: Emily Durante
The heartwarming true story of a blind horse named Joey
At the height of his show career, this beautiful Appaloosa’s majestic stature, strength, and willingness to work made him the perfect partner. But when an injury cost Joey his show career, he moved from one owner to the next, ultimately experiencing severe abuse and neglect. A rescue group found Joey nearly dead from starvation – and blind.

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The Rescue Ships and the Convoys Saving Lives During The Second World War


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English | July 4th, 2024 | ISBN: 1036102661 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 4.84 MB
The Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. Despite the threat of heavy losses of ships and lives, no hospital ships, which had to be lit, could accompany the convoys as they would betray a convoy’s position.

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The Longest Rescue The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson


Free Download Glenn Robins, "The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0813166217, 0813143233 | EPUB | pages: 290 | 2.9 mb
While serving as a crew chief aboard a U.S. Air Force Rescue helicopter, Airman First Class William A. Robinson was shot down and captured in Ha Tinh Province, North Vietnam, on September 20, 1965. After a brief stint at the "Hanoi Hilton," Robinson endured 2,703 days in multiple North Vietnamese prison camps, including the notorious Briarpatch and various compounds at Cu Loc, known by the inmates as the Zoo. No enlisted man in American military history has been held as a prisoner of war longer than Robinson. For seven and a half years, he faced daily privations and endured the full range of North Vietnam’s torture program.

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Rescue Cats Portraits and Stories


Free Download Rescue Cats: Portraits and Stories by Traer Scott
English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1797228749 | 120 pages | True EPUB | 69.41 MB
The perfect gift for cat lovers everywhere, Rescue Cats will delight and inspire with its collection of full-color, close-up portraits of cats and their stories of adoption, from the award-winning author of Finding Home and Forever Home.

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Space Rescue Ensuring the Safety of Manned Spacecraft


Free Download Space Rescue: Ensuring the Safety of Manned Spacecraft by David J. Shayler
English | PDF (True) | 2009 | 384 Pages | ISBN : 0387699058 | 13.9 MB
In Space Rescue: Ensuring the Safety of Manned Spacecraft, author David J. Shayler reviews the development of crew survival and escape methods from the earliest designs of manned spacecraft to the current discussions of systems for ISS and on to the future prospect of sending men and women out towards Mars.

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The Rules of Rescue Cost, Distance, and Effective Altruism


Free Download Theron Pummer, "The Rules of Rescue: Cost, Distance, and Effective Altruism"
English | ISBN: 0190884142 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

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The Rescue Of Belle And Sundance


Free Download Birgit Stutz, Lawrence Scanlan, "The Rescue Of Belle And Sundance"
English | 2010 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1554686199, 1554686202 | EPUB | 3,9 mb
On December 15, 2008, two snowmobilers discovered a pair of abandoned horses atop B.C.’s Mount Renshaw in the Canadian Rockies. Belle and Sundance were a sorry sight – they were emaciated, shivering and trapped in a small shelter they had made for themselves by tramping down the six-footdeep snow. Next morning, a party of four from the nearby town of McBride was sent back up the mountain with a bale of hay, a handgun and a heartbreaking choice to make: either feed the horses, or shoot them.

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Persecution and Rescue The Politics of the Final Solution in France, 1940-1944


Free Download Wolfgang Seibel, "Persecution and Rescue: The Politics of the "Final Solution" in France, 1940-1944"
English | ISBN: 0472118609 | 2016 | 440 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
In 1942, two years after invading France, the Germans implemented their policy of exterminating the Jews. In contrast to Jews in many parts of German-occupied Europe, however, the majority of Jews in France survived, thanks to opposition to the Nazi extermination policy from Church dignitaries and the moral indignation of the average Frenchmen. Seeking to maintain popular support, the Vichy Regime bargained with the Germans over the substance and extent of its collaboration, which the Germans needed in order to hold France.

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