When A B-52 Fell from the Sky is a military aviation history book based on the true story of the 1961 Yuba City crash, when a B-52 Stratofortress carrying nuclear weapons crashed during the Cold War, nearly triggering a nuclear catastrophe.On March 14, 1961, a fully armed United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying two thermonuclear bombs began what should have been a routine Strategic Air Command mission. More than twenty...

Rescue Mission To Save Bat 21 Bravo tells the largest, longest, and most complex combat search and rescue of the Vietnam War comes. In the Easter Offensive's killing ground south of the DMZ, one EB‑66 navigator was stranded behind tens of thousands of North Vietnamese troops. This book follows, in forensic detail and human depth, the eleven‑day operation that bent an entire air campaign around the promise that no man left behind.Drawing on official U.S. Air Force h...

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...

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...

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.

Cold War history buried the truth for thirty-one years. On a freezing February night in 1950, a massive Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber staggered across the dark sky over Canada's Pacific coast, crippled by icing, fire, and failing engines. Somewhere over the cold waters of the Pacific, its crew made a decision that would remain classified for decades. They jettisoned a nuclear weapon into the sea below and then fought to keep the dying aircraft in the air long enough for the crew to surviv...

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...

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...