A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser forces NUMA Special Assignments Team leader Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a ship of trapped men. Reprint.
Evocative and moving, this fascinating book is a humbling account of man at his most intrepid and nature at its most indomitable.
This definitive English-language work on the 105-day war between Finland and Stalin's Soviet Union during the winter of 1939-1940 details the successful resistance of the Finnish forces against the massive Red Army.
Ultimately, the book describes how death rituals both manifest and reinforce different cultural identities, and suggests that perhaps, it is through the experience of death that we might find the most enduring possibilities for promoting ...
Compelling account of the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union The Soviets expected to crush Finnish forces in mere days, but the Finns broke the Red Army's advance and held out for almost four months Authentic depiction of ...
Troy was standing on one of the many half-landings on the south staircase, in front of one of Norman Shaw's vast windows, watching the river flow. He saw Coyn reflected in the glass – the dark mass of his uniform, dotted with the ...
As well as recounting Albanov’s vivid, first-person account of his ninety-day ordeal over 235 miles of frozen sea, this expanded paperback edition contains three newly discovered photographs and an extensive new Epilogue by David Roberts ...
In 1912, six months after Scott and his men came to grief in Antarctica, the Russian navigator Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous.
Over the years we have never referred to a storm like this as a blizzard around this region because blizzards were supposed to be associated with a certain kind of weather condition which is normally found in the central plains in ...
(Salmi Frontier Guard Station). Detachment Battalion 9, Ranger Battalion 9 and Ranger Battalion 3 attacked the peninsula of Hepojärvi-Kivijärvenkannas from the south-east. The attack was unsuccessful and the objective was not reached.
This is a history of tuberculosis as a whole, including its social, artistic and human impact. Dormandy's graphic account for a cure is accompanied by a description of its complex natural history.