Author: Chandler Brossard Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504012151 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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A “startling, terrifying” novel about a troubled young street thief in the gritty Washington, DC, of the thirties and forties (Houston Post). At the park where the outcasts of Washington, DC, gather, everyone calls him Yogi. Although only a boy, he steals like a man, taking jewelry and money from wherever and whomever he can. When he’s flush, Yogi spends like a prince, eating beef stew and wasting whole afternoons at the cinema. When he’s broke, he looks for someone else to rob. At home, Yogi goes by his real name: George Brown. With their violent, alcoholic father absent for long periods of time and their mother too brittle to cope, George and his older brother learn to fend for themselves. Roland becomes a security guard while George turns to a life of crime. But to survive among the prostitutes, muggers, and extortionists who prowl the streets of the nation’s capital, a young man must always have his wits about him, and Yogi/George is prone to schizophrenic hallucinations. When he is locked up in jail for a night and experiences his most vivid delusion yet, he fears that the line between sanity and insanity has become permanently blurred. Brilliantly fusing hard-edged realism and surrealistic flights of fantasy, The Bold Saboteurs is a highly original work of art from the groundbreaking author of Who Walk in Darkness.
Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour Publisher: Morgan James Publishing ISBN: 1642796964 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 160
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“Dispenses true-to-life advice on . . . pitching investors, facing down competition, and modifying your business to embrace disruption.” —Stanford B. Silverman, founder and CEO Minerva Capital Management Start-Up Saboteurs shows entrepreneurs how to create real wealth by abandoning their limited thinking, eliminating boundaries, and stop defining the outcome. Money is first and foremost about freedom and not about acquiring things nor flaunting them in front of family and friends. Money is about the freedom to do whatever one wants, whenever they want. Ziad K. Abdelnour calls upon striving entrepreneurs within Start-Up Saboteurs to empower them to create their own wealth. He guides them through the challenging maze of egos, incompetence, and ignorance so they can separate fact from fiction. By the end of Start-Up Saboteurs, entrepreneurs are inspired to create their own wealth, not for the sake of wealth, but for the sake of becoming free and independent. “Start-ups are not for a weak stomach nor is this book. I have seen many start-ups launch without a true and honest self-assessment that would have saved them and others years of heartache, pain, and chaos. Ziad guides you through that assessment and jolts you with the start-up world’s brutal realities to help protect you from the saboteurs—including yourself.” —Katherine Malmay Bazemore, CEO and president of Cocoon Resources, Inc. “As a veteran financier in private equity and the commodity markets, Ziad knows it’s not easy for start-up to succeed so he pushes you—hard—to reach your full entrepreneurial potential.” —Mark Skousen, investment expert and editor-in-chief for Forecasts & Strategies Newsletter
Author: Eugene Rachlis Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1839741368 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 385
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They Came to Kill, first published in 1961, is the fascinating World War II story of the U-boat landings of eight Nazi spies on beaches on Long Island and in Florida in June 1942, equipped with explosives and a large amount of U.S. money. Their mission, known as Operation Pastorius, was to disrupt and destroy vital war manufacturing plants and railways in the Tennessee Valley and elsewhere in the United States. The men were quickly rounded up by the F.B.I., in part due to the voluntary surrender of one of the group’s leaders, George Dasch. Following their arrest, the men were tried before a specially created military tribunal; all eight were found guilty and initially sentenced to death. Six of the men were executed in the electric chair, while President Roosevelt reduced the sentences of two of the men due to their turning themselves in to authorities. Included are 8 pages of illustrations.
Author: Patrick K. O'Donnell Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743235746 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
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O'Donnell has tracked down and interviewed more than 300 elite and mysterious former OSS (Office of Strategic Services) members and, for the first time, relates their incredible true stories of World War II--stories that may read like the best spy novels but are shockingly true. 16-page photo insert.
Author: Lynn Marie Zott Publisher: ISBN: 9780787675691 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 600
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This title in Gale's Literary Criticism Series presents comprehensive collections of criticism related to particular literary movements and themes throughout history. This set focuses on the Beat Generation, covering the major topics, authors and works of the period complete with reprinted full-text literary criticism. Volume 1, a topics volume, opens with an overview of the period followed by topical essays covering the Beat Generation and its relationship to publishing, visual and performing arts. Volumes 2 and 3 (authors A-H and authors I-Z) include entries on 28 major literary figures associated with the movement. Author entries include introductions, a representative list of major works, primary source documents, reprinted criticism and lists of further reading sources. Authors featured include:William S. BurroughsNeal CassadyGregory CorsoLawrence FerlinghettiAllen GinsbergJack KerouacKen KeseyKenneth RexrothAnd othersAdditional features include: Foreword written by Anne Waldman, noted Beat author, scholar, and educatorBlack and white photographs of authors, other notable people, places, and eventsChronology of key events in the history of the Beat GenerationComprehensive author, title, and subject indexes in each volume
Author: Giles Milton Publisher: Picador ISBN: 1250119049 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men—along with three others—formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course Second World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Giles Milton's Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War.
Author: Andrew Gross Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1250079519 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 414
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A "story probing the limits of heroism, sacrifice, and determination, The Saboteur portrays a hero who must weigh duty against his heart in order to single-handedly end the one threat that could alter the course of World War II"--Amazon.com.
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