[Illustrated with 17 additional photos of the author and the machines he flew and fought against]As a young Billy Bishop looking up into the sky above his Canadian trench in July 1915, a passing Royal Flying Corps aircraft was returning home from patrol. He was envious and said to whoever was listening "...it's clean up there! I'll bet you don't get any mud or horse **** on you up there. If you die, at least it would be a clean death.". Struck by his sudden epiphany he requested a t...

Wisdom and Humour from a Monk’s BowlA man was sitting with his friends in a local inn. After a couple of drinks, he asked his friends, “Do you love me?” “Of course, we do,” they replied. “So do you know what I need?” No one answered. “If you don’t know what I need then how can you say you love me?”To love and to be loved is the most basic human need. No wonder we are attracted to people who give us attention, care about us, and love us. Yet, love also remains the greatest challenge in most...

A fascinating look at the history of Wales by renowned Welsh historian Owen Morgan Edwards.

Illustrated with 6 maps and numerous photos.The Battle that ended Rommel's offensive in the Desert of North Africa, and the Axis hopes of Victory against the Allied forces by the Generals who commanded the two sides."The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 Aug. and 5 Sep. 1942 south of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Panzerarmee Afrika-a German-Italian force commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel-attempted an envelopmen...

Global Literature and the Digital analyses the continued impact of the digital revolution upon contemporary literature. From the vantage of the 2020s, global literature possesses a digital sensibility where reality and perceptions are shaped by digital saturation and global networks. Time becomes on-demand and space seems to contract as we engage beyond national borders.The book explores the influence of the digital: from the emergence of digital culture in the 1990s amid ...

Illustrated with 29 maps/diagrams and 44 photographs"The second of the eight volumes dealing with the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War, this book is largely concerned with the consequences of Germany's decision to prop up its faltering Italian ally in North Africa in 1941. It opens with General Rommel reversing Britain's conquest of Italian Cyrenaica, and increasing Axis air attacks on the fortress island of ...

Illustrated with 30 maps and 40 photos."Britain defeats Italy on land and sea in Africa and the Mediterranean in 1940."The first of eight volumes in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War covering the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres. After setting the political and military scene, the authors open the action with Italy's declaration of war and France's collapse in June 1940. Britain's painful neutralisation of the French fleet at Oran and Ale...

You have nothing on your person apart from a hastily packed suitcase and the dress you came into town wearing, on the run from trouble back home. Too bad the sheriff’s missing a bride that matches your description.You swore you’d never look back after what happened back east. Traveling west was supposed to be your escape, a place where no one would know your name or the horrors you’d left behind, but when Sheriff John Thorne mistakes you for the mail-order bride that he’s ...

Picture the water particles in front you like the code of the movie "The Matrix." This is the energy field of G-D; the source of all life. 5 billion years ago earth did not exist. Over 20 million years gravity brought dust together to form the earth.

This is Volume 2 of a total of 2 Volumes of this Title.The special focus of this book is to make the ardent readers aware of the salient features of this Vedic text on astrology and how it is distinct from the other transcripts on the subject, available thus far. Great concerted efforts were made to collect, collate and combine all the available manuscripts and other related published material contributed by the eminent contemporary writers and commentators and then the sequence of...

This is Volume 1 of total 2 volumes of the Title Parashar Hora.Every student of astrology is familiar with BPHS ie Brihat Parashar Hora Shastra. However, this book reveals the hitherto hidden storyline behind the naming convention.Parasara Hora by Maharishi Parasara is of prime importance in Vedic astrology. All the Acharyas following Rishi traditions like Varahamihira, Kalyan Varma, Nrisingh, Daivagya, Vaidyanath Dixit, Manteshwar, Balbhad...