Operation Osoaviakhim is the Cold War secret history that changes what you think you know about the Space Race, the nuclear arms race, and the world you are living in right now.On October 22, 1946, at three in the morning, thousands of German scientists and their families woke to fists hammering on their doors across the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. Armed soldiers were in the hallways. Families were given one hour to pack. Telephone lines had been cut. Public transportation h...

Operation Paperclip (Operation Overcast) is a classified American program that turned Nazi war criminals into national heroes, and buried the evidence for forty years.In April 1945, American soldiers liberated the concentration camps and found thousands of corpses. In the same weeks, other Americans were moving through the ruins of the Third Reich with a different mission. They were not looking for survivors. They were looking for scientists.More t...

1966 Palomares hydrogen bomb accident, the day four thermonuclear weapons fell from a clear blue Spanish sky and turned one forgotten farming village into the most dangerous square mile of the Cold War. This book drops you into the cockpit of the doomed B-52, the cramped belly of the KC-135 tanker, the tomato fields dusted with invisible plutonium, and the classified conference rooms in Washington and Madrid where men in suits tried to bury what really happened. You are not reading a dry s...

Operation Eagle Claw: The failed US hostage rescue mission in Iran tells the full, cinematic story of one of the most consequential nights in U.S. military history, the night eight American servicemen died on an Iranian salt flat before a single enemy soldier had been encountered, and the night that forced the United States to rebuild how it fights its most dangerous wars.On November 4, 1979, Iranian student militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized 66 American diplom...

Spanning generations and crossing continents, this is the sweeping story of one American family facing ordinary challenges amidst extraordinary events. Through every trial, they are continually drawn back to a single location, Crystal Lake. This family saga takes readers to the shores of Normandy during one of history's most consequential events, the villages of equatorial Africa rattled by political and ethnic upheaval, the drug-infested streets of Honduras, the peace and tranquility of B...

On the night he was awarded the Turner prize for his art, Jason learned that his fiancée, and fellow artist Catherine, had killed herself. Worse, it was a suicide pact. She had leapt off a cliff, hand in hand with her secret lover – with a video camera set up to record the event as their final artwork.Devastated by this, at first Jason contemplates killing himself too. However he finds himself compelled to discover just what Catherine meant by the cryptic comments she made to the c...

We took in eight Months Provisions each, at Portsmouth; Stores, Careening-Geer, and Necessaries requisite to continue us a double Voyage down the Coast of Guinea, for meeting, if possible, with the Pyrates; who did then very much infest those Parts, and destroy our Trade and Factories. Accordingly the Company’s Governors for Gambia and other Places, embark’d under our Convoy, and were to have what Support we could give them, in restoring the Credit of the Royal African Company; which begun...

In a constantly changing world where we're drowning in information, yet starving for wisdom, every so often someone comes along who understands the answers so well, that they're able to explain them simply …Bad things don't happen because we're bad - its not like we're being punished. All That Is is for anyone who's ever wondered who we are?, why are we here?, and what are we meant to be doing?Based on a series of 'light bulb' moments, this intriguing compilation contains 101...

John Black has been a missionary to Africa for a number of decades, and has sent hundreds of letters to the churches he has worked with there, full of Bible teaching and encouragement. The recipients have valued these so highly that they have been kept for future use; now 143 letters, spanning an eighteen-year period have been collated and published in one volume for the first time.

In "Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature," August Wilhelm von Schlegel presents a comprehensive analysis of European drama, focusing particularly on the evolution of the form from classical antiquity to his contemporary era. Schlegel adopts a nuanced yet accessible literary style, blending critical analysis with personal insights that reflect the Romantic ideals of his time. His lectures not only engage with the works of great playwrights such as Shakespeare and Goethe but also critique...

In "Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature," August Wilhelm von Schlegel offers an incisive exploration of the principles underlying drama and literature, encapsulating the essence of the Romantic movement that characterized early 19th-century Germany. Schlegel's lectures stand as a culmination of his profound understanding of classical and contemporary dramaturgy, integrating a critical analysis of notable playwrights such as Shakespeare and Goethe while advocating for the emotional dept...

This authoritative and comprehensive dictionary contains clear, concise definitions of approximately 3,500 key economic terms. Covering all aspects of economics including economic theory and policy, applied microeconomics and macroeconomics, labour economics, public economics and public finance, monetary economics, and environmental economics, this is the essential reference work in this area. The new edition of this dictionary has been updated to include entries on China, India, and South...