Engineering & Transportation
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:James White [General, Sector]

and caught the end in a double grip as the plate teetered and disappeared sideways under the thorns. Conway climbed down as far as he could and pulled the rope ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Beryl Markham [Markham, Beryl]

XIII Na Kupa Hati M’zuri THE RED-JAWED RUSSIAN SQUINTS over his glass of vodka, swallows, and snorts from the bottom of his belly. ‘Leopard?’ he says. ‘Pah! I have fought ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Thor Heyerdahl [Heyerdahl, Thor]

Hold on, Haugland! If the intervals between the waves were too short, water often came on board from astern, and the helmsman had a hard job to prevent himself from ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Kershaw [Kershaw, Ian]

IV Not lost, however, was the war against the Jews – in Hitler’s eyes, the authors of the entire world conflagration. As we noted, Hitler had agreed in June to ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charlie A. Beckwith [Beckwith, Charlie A.]

The briefing room was up at XVIII Airborne Corps. General Warner’s large office was filled with stars. It was like a Delta class reunion. General Meyer was there, along with ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Davies, Nicholas [Nicholas Davies]

One of the SEALs’ classic exploits – code-named Task Unit Whiskey – took place in December 1989, when they were involved with the capture and removal of General Manuel Noriega, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2004-06-29 | Author:Harold G. Moore;Joseph L. Galloway [Galloway, Harold G. Moore;Joseph L.]

Rescorla and his men had been watching the air show appreciatively. "We gathered for the last sweep. Suddenly a fighter-bomber plowed down from above. We buried our noses at the ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:James R. Hansen [Hansen, James R.]

On the one hand to dwell in the very center of technological reality…yet to inhabit—if only in one’s dreams—that other world where death, metaphysics and the unanswerable questions of eternity ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Duncan Falconer [Falconer, Duncan]

8 Before going over the water we were given two days’ leave. I went home to Poole to see some squadron friends and also to do some judo. I was ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Al Worden [Worden, Al]

CHAPTER 8 LAUNCH You never forget launch day. Finally, your mission is about to begin. You are in a special zone, like an athlete walking out for an Olympic event. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Col. Michael Lee Lanning [Lanning, Michael Lee]

Major Willis L. Powell (top), founder of the army’s 9th Infantry Division Sniper School, briefs Assistant Division Commander Brigadier General James S. Timothy on the XM21 sniper rifle in October ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Iversen, Kristen [Iversen, Kristen]

THE INCINERATOR at our little old house in Arvada is long gone and turned into a garden planter by the new owners. We don’t have an incinerator at the house ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Henry Dana

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Narratives March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Max Hardberger [Hardberger, Max]

The next morning I went to see Willem Bik at Belgisch Scheepssloperij. He’d delivered the Deletion Certificate to the ship a week earlier, and I hadn’t seen him since. As ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Martin Roach [Martin Roach]

CHAPTER 13 The Bugatti Veyron When cars are sent to Top Gear for testing, it’s usually left for the manufacturer to insure the vehicle and take any subsequent damage on ...
( Category: Television Performers March 26,2014 )