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Author: Bill Mills Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1612348548 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
While the Great War raged across the trench-lined battlefields of Europe, a hidden conflict took place in the distant hinterlands of the turbulent Mexican Republic. German officials and secret-service operatives plotted to bring war to the United States through an array of schemes and strategies, from training a German-Mexican army for a cross-border invasion, to dispatching saboteurs to disrupt American industry, and planning for submarine bases on the western coast of Mexico. Bill Mills tells the true story of the most audacious of these operations: the German plot to launch clandestine sea raiders from the Mexican port of Mazatlán to disrupt Allied merchant shipping in the Pacific. The scheme led to a desperate struggle between German and American secret agents in Mexico. German consul Fritz Unger, the director of a powerful trading house, plotted to obtain a salvaged Mexican gunboat to supply U-boats operating off Mexico and to seize a hapless tramp schooner to help hunt Allied merchantmen. Unger’s efforts were opposed by a colorful array of individuals, including a trusted member of the German secret service in Mexico who was also the top American spy, the U.S. State Department’s senior officer in Mazatlán, the hard-charging commander of a navy gunboat, and a draft-dodging American informant in the enemy camp. Full of drama and intrigue, Treacherous Passage is the first complete account of the daring German attempts to raid Allied shipping from Mexico in 1918. Purchase the audio edition.
Author: Bill Mills Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1612348548 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
While the Great War raged across the trench-lined battlefields of Europe, a hidden conflict took place in the distant hinterlands of the turbulent Mexican Republic. German officials and secret-service operatives plotted to bring war to the United States through an array of schemes and strategies, from training a German-Mexican army for a cross-border invasion, to dispatching saboteurs to disrupt American industry, and planning for submarine bases on the western coast of Mexico. Bill Mills tells the true story of the most audacious of these operations: the German plot to launch clandestine sea raiders from the Mexican port of Mazatlán to disrupt Allied merchant shipping in the Pacific. The scheme led to a desperate struggle between German and American secret agents in Mexico. German consul Fritz Unger, the director of a powerful trading house, plotted to obtain a salvaged Mexican gunboat to supply U-boats operating off Mexico and to seize a hapless tramp schooner to help hunt Allied merchantmen. Unger’s efforts were opposed by a colorful array of individuals, including a trusted member of the German secret service in Mexico who was also the top American spy, the U.S. State Department’s senior officer in Mazatlán, the hard-charging commander of a navy gunboat, and a draft-dodging American informant in the enemy camp. Full of drama and intrigue, Treacherous Passage is the first complete account of the daring German attempts to raid Allied shipping from Mexico in 1918. Purchase the audio edition.
Author: Sprague Theobald Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN: 1616086238 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 225
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Traces the author's family's eight thousand five hundred mile voyage along the dangerous Northwest Passage, describing the divorce-related mistrust and the formidable environmental factors that posed constant threats.
Author: Mark Heyward Publisher: Monsoon Books ISBN: 1915310172 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 243
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When Australian Mark Heyward decides to build a home and raise a family on the island of Lombok, east of Bali, he has little idea of what is to come. Riots and battles, mythical princesses, magical voyages, birth and death, love and loss – the story takes us into the heart of Indonesia, a country where Mark has lived on and off for twenty years, but never on an island like this. The call to prayer echoes in the valleys as the sun drops behind the island. The oceans answer to the tug of the moon, the seasons turn, the rains come and go. Some things never change. The love of a man for his wife, for his children; his desire to build, to create, to leave a mark on this good earth; his struggle to survive, his love of life, his fear of death. This is the heart-warming story of one family's attempt to build a new life in paradise.
Author: Tim Parks Publisher: Arcade Publishing ISBN: 9781559706100 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 370
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A brilliant new collection of essays on writers & writing by the man Joseph Brodsky has called "the best British author writing today."
Author: Eliga Gould Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108317812 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1073
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The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men and women brought as slaves or indentured servants to the colonies that European settlers founded. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, the volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. Essay topics include exploration and environment, conquest and commerce, enslavement and emigration, dispossession and endurance, empire and independence, new forms of law and new forms of worship, and the creation and destruction when the peoples of four continents met in the Americas.
Author: Michael Egley Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1491720530 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 521
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More than a year ago, Salagars life changed forever when he stumbled onto his grandsires secret room filled with magical items, including a Dae-inspired dagger and a mysterious journal that launched a dangerous journey to find the legendary Dagors axe. Unfortunately, now the axe is lost, and Constantine, the disloyal Priest of Dagnir, is dead. Salagar, an unlikely halfling hero, has no choice but to flee for his life. Accompanied by his best friend, Perry, and the fiery faery, Malina, Salagar makes his way to what he hopes is anonymity in the city of Haven. Instead, he discovers his lover and companion, Sasha, has been murdered. Now lost in a world of revenge, rogues, and coin, Salagar precariously teeters on the brink of insanity and deathuntil the timely intervention of assassins sends him on a voyage replete with pirates, sea monsters, magical creatures, and gold to seek safety on the Spice Islands. As Salagars journey spans the Fast Sea, he and his friends must find an oracle who possesses the knowledge needed to defeat the Dagor and their malevolent goddess, Dae. In this continuing saga, only time will tell if the heroes can secure the axe before the forces of evil find and release its power, forever changing the future of the world.
Author: Mark Gibson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190605871 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 321
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"Master conductor Mark Gibson addresses the technique of conducting as an extension of intimate knowledge of the score to the hands and arms, employing a variety of everyday activities and physical motions (brushing the dog, Tinkerbelle, the 'door knob') to describe the physical aspects of the role. The approach to score study is detailed, bar-by-bar and comprehensive, both in terms of musical analysis and conducting method."--Page [4] of cover.
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