Tag: Turns

Free Download Alfred Wellnitz, "For the Cause: The Cold War Turns Hot in Korea and Why Young Men Went to War"
English | ISBN: 1490970320 | 2013 | 300 pages | EPUB | 1442 KB
Two young South Dakota farm boys, Pete Houser and Chris Engleson, with uncertain futures decide to join the marines as an alternative to some other mundane job. It is 1950 and they complete boot camp just as the Korean War suddenly erupts. Chris finds himself assigned to the First Provisional Marine Brigade being hurriedly put together to be deployed to Korea. Pete is assigned to a marine unit providing base security for the Sangley Point Naval Air Station in the Philippines. The story follows the lives of the two young men during the last six months of 1950 while Chris in Korea is involved in the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon and the Chosin Reservoir battles and Pete spends his time as a security guard in the Philippines. Over a short period of time Chris changes from a green farm boy into a seasoned warrior and Pete’s world expands quickly as he encounters unfamiliar moral standards and first love. The story alternates between Chris in Korea and Pete in the Philippines until the story comes to a surprising conclusion.

Free Download Sick!: The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs by Heather L. Montgomery, Lindsey Leigh
English | February 20, 2024 | ISBN: 1547609850 | 160 pages | MOBI | 71 Mb
When a super sickness lands on the land, when a parasite becomes more than a pest, when an infection ignites an epidemic, what’s a body to do? Your body is an animal body, so why not ask the animals?

Free Download Frank Sanello, "Reel V. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction"
English | 2002 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0878332685 | EPUB | 9,3 mb
All too often, highly fictionalized cinematic depictions of the past are accepted as the unassailable truth by those unfamiliar with the "real" account. This book profiles sixty movies that portray actual moments in history, and compares the mythologized account of each event to what really happened. Movies chronicled include The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, A Man for All Seasons, Gladiator, Gandhi, Apollo 13, The Thin Red Line, Dances with Wolves, Braveheart, The Last Emperor, All the Presidents Men, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind, Bonnie & Clyde, Patton, and Elizabeth. Sanello also contrasts several historical figures with their filmed treatments, including Julius Caesar, Henry V, Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, Sir Thomas More, Jesus Christ, Catherine the Great, Sigmund Freud, and Harry Houdini. Lavishly illustrated with sixty film stills, Reel v. Real shows how a happening’s genuine details are frequently reshaped and distorted by Hollywood’s bottomless appetite for over-the-top flamboyance and melodrama.

Free Download The Road to Oz: Twists, Turns, Bumps, and Triumphs in the Life of L. Frank Baum by Kathleen Krull, Kevin Hawkes
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0375832165 | 48 Pages | EPUB | 8.7 MB
Kathleen Krull’s lively text traces the life of L. Frank Baum from his dreamy privileged childhood in mid-19th-century upstate New York through the many detours on his road to Oz.

Free Download T. D. Jakes, "Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power"
English | 2020 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1455595381, 154601053X | EPUB | 2,6 mb
Follow God’s process for growth and find hope in life’s darkest moments with Bishop T.D. Jakes’s uplifting stories and advice from his own faith journey.

Free Download Graham Turner, "Orléans 1429: France turns the tide (Campaign)"
English | 2001 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 1841762326 | PDF | 29,9 mb
ThisOsprey titleexamines the crucial campaign which marked the turning point of the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453). In 1415 King Henry V of England invaded France and won an overwhelming victory at the Battle of Agincourt. Following his victory, the English conquered a large part of northern France, and by 1429 were besieging the city of Orléans. In this darkest hour, France’s fortunes were transformed by the inspirational leadership of a young woman, Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc). Within four months the French had broken the siege and won a great victory at the battle of Patay over the previously invincible English.