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Author | : Daniel Brown |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493022016 |
Download Under a Flaming Sky Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002 burned 350,000 acres in one week, the Hinckley fire did the same damage in five hours. The fire created its own weather, including hurricane-strength winds, bubbles of plasma-like glowing gas, and 200-foot-tall flames. In some instances, "fire whirls," or tornadoes of fire, danced out from the main body of the fire to knock down buildings and carry flaming debris into the sky. Temperatures reached 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit--the melting point of steel. As the fire surrounded the town, two railroads became the only means of escape. Two trains ran the gauntlet of fire. One train caught on fire from one end to the other. The heroic young African-American porter ran up and down the length of the train, reassuring the passengers even as the flames tore at their clothes. On the other train, the engineer refused to back his locomotive out of town until the last possible minute of escape. In all, more than 400 people died, leading to a revolution in forestry management practices and federal agencies that monitor and fight wildfires today. Author Daniel Brown has woven together numerous survivors' stories, historical sources, and interviews with forest fire experts in a gripping narrative that tells the fascinating story of one of North America's most devastating fires and how it changed the nation.
Author | : William W. Johnstone |
Publisher | : Pinnacle Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2017-10-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0786040750 |
Download Remington 1894 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After a vicious gang kills his family, a sharpshooting Civil War vet vows revenge by any means in this action-packed Western from 2 bestselling authors. As a teenager, John McMasters won the Medal of Honor as a sniper for the Union Army during the Civil War. Thirty years later, McMasters lives a peaceful life in the Arizona Territory, raising a family and running cattle. These days, he needs eyeglasses to hit a distant target. But that doesn't stop his wife and four children from buying him a special present for his fiftieth birthday: a beautiful new Remington shotgun. Turns out, he's going to need it . . . The Butcher gang has come to town. By the time McMasters learns of their arrival, they've invaded his ranch and slaughtered his family, hightailing it out of the county. McMasters wants revenge, using his new shotgun to hunt down those butchers like the animals they are. But he can't do it alone. His friend, Deputy U.S. Marshal Daniel Kirkpatrick, is hauling six of the deadliest criminals in the country to a prison in Yuma. They're cutthroat killers, every bit as ruthless as the Butchers. But when McMasters points his Remington at their heads, they will become his killers . . .
Author | : Hall Caine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1897 |
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Author | : George Orwell |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2022-11-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Nineteen eighty-four Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.
Author | : S. C. M. Paine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521817141 |
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Author | : James De Mille |
Publisher | : Problematic Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1927996031 |
Download A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [Annotated] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Problematic Press edition of James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder features the following unique additions: * A Foreword by David Reynolds introduces the author and the novel. * Annotated end notes by David Reynolds reflect on interesting elements of the text and reference scholarly works. DESCRIPTION While playing a silly game, four bored yachtsmen find a mysterious copper cylinder bobbing along the sea. They soon discover the briny cylinder contains a massive script, a journal of sorts, detailing the adventures of Adam More, a sailor lost at sea. Examining the script reveals More's incredible story of drifting across the ocean, sailing to lost lands, encountering giant beasts, and meeting truly peculiar people. This is a satirical tale that is sure to entertain!
Author | : Benny Morris |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2019-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 067491645X |
Download The Thirty-Year Genocide Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi’s impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.
Author | : S. C. M. Paine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2002-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316025578 |
Download The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power, disrupting the traditional power balance and fracturing the previous international harmony within the Confucian world, leaving enduring territorial and political fault lines that have embroiled China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and Taiwan ever since. The book examines the war through the eyes of the journalists who filed reports from China, Japan, Russia, Europe, and the United States showing how the war changed outside perceptions of the relative power of China and Japan and the consequences of these changed perceptions, namely, the scramble for concessions in China and Japan's emergence as a great power.
Author | : Dan King |
Publisher | : Schiffer Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2003-09-01 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : 9780764318818 |
Download Japanese Military Sake Cups, 1894-1945 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The main purpose of this book is to provide the reader with accurate information to aid in translating, determinig the origin, value, and history of the Japanese military Sake cups"--Page 2 of cover.
Author | : John Montgomery |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Comedy films |
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