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Author | : Kenneth D. Rose |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814775233 |
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Why some Americans built fallout shelters—an exploration America's Cold War experience For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy—"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the time—forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the 1960s and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over living under communism, what's perhaps most striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters. Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of national resolve, or rather encourage political and military leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war? Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in fascinating detail—including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbor the entire United States Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon—One Nation, Underground goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.
Author | : Mark L. Lewis |
Publisher | : North Star Editions, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1641859822 |
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This title provides readers with a compelling overview of underground rescues. Clear text, colorful photos, and helpful diagrams give readers an on-the-job look at what it's like to be a rescue worker.
Author | : Jeff C. Young |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1464502293 |
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"Readers can learn about the rescues of Jessica McClure, Floyd Collins, the Quecreek Mine Rescue, the Elandsrand Mine Rescue, and Wesley Autrey"--Provided by publisher
Author | : Mark L. Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Caving |
ISBN | : 9781791125516 |
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"This title provides readers with an on-the-job look at what it's like to be an underground rescue worker"--
Author | : Timothy Ballard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781629724843 |
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Follow two abolitionists who fought one of the most shockingly persistent evils of the world: human trafficking and sexual exploitation of slaves. Told in alternating chapters from perspectives spanning more than a century apart, read the riveting 19th century first-hand account of Harriet Jacobs and the modern-day eyewitness account of Timothy Ballard. Harriet Jacobs was an African-American, born into slavery in North Carolina in 1813. She thwarted the sexual advances of her master for years until she escaped and hid in the attic crawl space of her grandmother's house for seven years before escaping north to freedom. She published an autobiography of her life, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which was one of the first open discussions about sexual abuse endured by slave women. She was an active abolitionist, associated with Frederick Douglass, and, during the Civil War, used her celebrity to raise money for black refugees. After the war, she worked to improve the conditions of newly-freed slaves. As a former Special Agent for the Department of Homeland Security who has seen the horrors and carnage of war, Timothy Ballard founded a modern-day "underground railroad" which has rescued hundreds of children from being fully enslaved, abused, or trafficked in third-world countries. His story includes the rescue and his eventual adoption of two young siblings--Mia and Marky, who were born in Haiti. Section 2 features the lives of five abolitionists, a mix of heroes from past to present, who call us to action and teach us life lessons based on their own experiences: Harriet Tubman--The "Conductor"; Abraham Lincoln--the "Great Emancipator"; Little Mia--the sister who saved her little brother; Guesno Mardy--the Haitian father who lost his son to slave traders; and Harriet Jacobs--a teacher for us all.
Author | : Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2012-04-27 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780117541115 |
Download Fire and Rescue Service operational guidance - incidents in tunnels and underground structures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This publication presents a framework for a safe system of work for operations at incidents involving tunnels and underground structures. It provides a robust yet flexible insight that can be adapted to the nature, scale and requirements of the incident. Incidents involving tunnels and underground structures may place significant demands on local fire and rescue services and have often required a national co-ordinated response from across the country. This type of incident may generate intense media attention where the operations of the emergency services are rigorously scrutinised. Whilst much of this attention is approving it will invariably focus on the preparedness of the emergency services and their operational effectiveness.
Author | : Wes Davis |
Publisher | : Paul Dry Books |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2024-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1589881885 |
Download The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Wes Davis' fast-paced tale of wartime sabotage reads more like an Ian Fleming thriller than a mere retelling of events." ―Wall Street Journal "The story unfolds with the rich characterization and perfectly calibrated suspense of a great novel. It can be hard at points to remember the book is actually a work of nonfiction." ―Christian Science Monitor The Ariadne Objective is the extraordinary story of the Nazi occupation of Crete told from the perspective of an eccentric band of British gentleman spies. These amateur soldiers―writers, scholars, archaeologists―included Patrick Leigh Fermor, a future travel-writing luminary; John Pendlebury, a pioneering archaeologist whose walking stick concealed a sword; Xan Fielding, who would later translate books like Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes into English; Sandy Rendel, a future Times of London reporter; and W. Stanley Moss, who would write up his account of their exploits in Ill Met By Moonlight (Paul Dry Books, Inc.). Alongside Cretan partisans, these British intelligence officers carried out a daring plan to sabotage Nazi maneuvers, culminating in a high-risk plot to abduct the island’s German commander. Wes Davis presents the scintillating story of these legends in the making and their adventures in one of the war’s most exotic locales. Includes 17 black and white photographs.
Author | : Héctor Tobar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Copper miners |
ISBN | : 9781473635104 |
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August 2010: the San Jose mine in Chile collapses trapping 33 men half a mile underground for 69 days. Faced with the possibility of starvation and even death, the miners make a pact: if they survive, they will only share their story collectively, as 'the 33'. 1 billion people watch the international rescue mission. Somehow, all 33 men make it out alive, in one of the most daring and dramatic rescue efforts even seen.
Author | : David Gur |
Publisher | : Gefen Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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This book contains one of the most inspiring pages in the history of Hungarian Jewry- the recruitment and organisation of the Zionist Youth Movement in the year 1944, during the Nazi occupation. The youth movements mounted resistance against the Nazi conquerors and their Hungarian helpers, and were able to rescue many Jewish youth from the claws of extermination, as well as tens of thousands of Jews from Budapest and many, many more from among the prisoners and from forced labour camps throughout Hungary. This anthology presents 420 personalities from among the Zionist underground activists in Hungary in the year 1944, with their pictures and brief biographies. The material in this book was assembled sixty years after the events, and therefore record retrieval was a formidable challenge, yet we were able to locate and find details of approximately a third of the resistance activists. This commendable compilation deserves the appreciation and pride of every Jew. In particular it is an exemplary model for the young generation. The anthology was published in Hebrew (2004) by the Israeli non-profit Society for the Research of the History of the Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary and in English (2007) in conjunction with Gefen Publishing House.
Author | : Joanne Mattern |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9781338571752 |
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"Have you heard about: the boys' soccer team trapped inside a flooded cave system? A school bus full of kids desparately fleeing a raging wildfire? The deaf hiker who was saved by a dog that appeared out of nowhere? You will never forget these and other true stories of courage and heroism." --P. [4] of cover.