Operation Hot Gates

Author : Frank Keith
Publisher : Frank Keith
ISBN 13 : 1310726841
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Hot Gates written by Frank Keith and published by Frank Keith. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been uncountable episodes in military history were rearguards, made up of merely a handful of brave and determined men, staved off superior enemy forces. The stories of most of them were soon forgotten, having been too small and insignificant to be noted in thick history books. But for the men who took part in them, these actions were momentous. They knew what likely fate awaited them. These measures were by their very nature usually desperate ones, and their outcome had almost always meant inevitable annihilation. But their love of their land, families and their camaraderie too, gave them the needed strength and determination to help them overcome their fear of the predictable fate: Death. Will the difficult operation described within these pages follow the same pattern?

Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553904051
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gates of Fire written by Steven Pressfield and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .

Author : John Ringo
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618248111
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hot Gate written by John Ringo and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fight to free the Earth from alien domination began in Live Free or Die, and continued in Citadel. Now Tyler Vernon, and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station Troy, face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die-and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Author : Frank Keith
Publisher : Frank Keith
ISBN 13 : 1310569355
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukraine: Trip Three written by Frank Keith and published by Frank Keith. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trip three to the Ukraine was an out of the ordinary journey, primarily for one reason: The Maidan. To visit this, in the meantime, world famous city square during the major protest movement known as the Euromaidan was the reason why I returned to this nation at this time, impromptu and in the dead of winter. Wanting to make the best out of this tour, I also visited my friends on the Crimea. Thus I went on another road trip, this time from Kiev directly to Simferopol. The mid-winter season would make this journey a somewhat adventurous undertaking, being in a country already fraught with bad roads. Another very memorable place visited was a former secret submarine base by the small Crimean town of Balaklava.

Author : Frank Keith
Publisher : Frank Keith
ISBN 13 : 1311303324
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukraine: Trip Five written by Frank Keith and published by Frank Keith. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a travel biography about a journey to Ukraine in May and June 2015. Highlight of the tour was a road trip to Mariupol and being taken to the embattled town of Shyrokyne by members of the Azov Regiment. Cities visited: Kyiv, Boryspil, Kremenchuk, Dneprodzerzhinsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Mariupol, Shyrokyne and other towns and villages.

Author : Frank Keith
Publisher : Frank Keith
ISBN 13 : 1310924317
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Tales of Thorn written by Frank Keith and published by Frank Keith. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time long gone by, there lived a folk who inhabited a land far, far away. Together they lived, sometimes in peaceful fellowship, but in other times in war and broil, and these conflicts could be born out of need to defend or mere pettiness, like a lord’s longing for more land or power. And there were darker forces too, lurking in the big forests and in the mountains to the north, and they could spread fear and dread. Enter this world and indulge in everyday life of this time and place and adventures too, both small and large, and discover the fantasies told herein, sprinkled with some lore and even some truth.

Author : Frank Keith
Publisher : Frank Keith
ISBN 13 : 1311897534
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukraine: Trip Two written by Frank Keith and published by Frank Keith. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visit to near Chernobyl and a cross-country road trip, beginning in Kyiv, then on to Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Simferopol, Sevastopol and other minor settlements.

Author : Frank Keith
Publisher : Frank Keith
ISBN 13 : 1370545460
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alisha: A Desert Urchin Part II: Alharibin written by Frank Keith and published by Frank Keith. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worst sand storm from time immemorial is rushing over the lands of Sultan Mejhem ibn El-Hashem’s territory. Within its murkiness and brutally assaulted by sand and dust trots a large caravan. It comes from the coastal city of Tyre and its mission is to bring the Byzantine ambassador to el-Hashem in Sakakah. The goal is to bring the two allies closer together in their fight against the barbarian tribes from the far north. Meanwhile, Alisha, Zenobia and the Vandal Geisarix are still locked up in the dungeon. The girls had fallen from grace with the sultan and would from now on serve as sexual objects for his soldiers. But things turn out a little different than everyone thinks. The girls are unexpectedly released from their cells. They are brought back into the palace, where they are cleaned, handed new clothes and prepared to be served as sex slaves for special guests of the sultan. As it turns out, this is a prime opportunity for Alisha and Zenobia to escape, but not before they are forced to perform an awful deed. They manage to free others from the dungeons too and make their way into the city, barely escaping recapture from roving patrols of soldiers. Alisha safely guides the other escapees to a certain house in the city, whose owner she knows. They are safe there for the time being, but on the next day already they are once again forced to flee. They make their way to Farid’s house. There they also find shelter and a hiding place and they even learn that Farid is the true emir of Sakakah. In addition, they get informed about other truths concerning the sultan and other persons. But their prime concern is getting out of the city. This is made very difficult by the sultan’s significant search efforts to find them. When they are informed that a delegation of Vandals is coming to town, it raises the hopes of Alisha, Zenobia and Geisarix, for they expect to get help from them to escape the sultan’s clutch. However, this still poses problems since the delegation is not a large force at all, but merely a small group of warriors. The three fugitives are taken to another house in yet another part of the city. There, Geisarix and the girls enjoy a big surprise; another Vandal sits before them on a chair, bound and gagged. He is freed from the fetters, and then he and Geisarix make plans that will hopefully help them to escape. But then they get informed that the sultan and the Vandals are no longer enemies and that the sultan and the Byzantines are no allies. What does this mean for the escapees? Is this news even true, or did the diabolical emir concoct a deception? If not, what will happen to the Vandal delegation? The sultan has no Geisarix to present them with, after all, and this was the main reason why the Vandal delegation had been summoned to Sakakah in the first place. Will there be a war now, or will the opposing parties find a consensus?

Author : Frank Keith
Publisher : Frank Keith
ISBN 13 : 1370447507
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alisha: A Desert Urchin written by Frank Keith and published by Frank Keith. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sultan Mejhem ibn El-Hashem has forty-two wives and countless children. He has a large, prosperous realm, a large palace and numerous fortresses too. He has good relations with the Byzantine Empire and also the Persian one. Emissaries come from far and wide to pay homage to this illustrious ruler of Anazzah, master of Sakakah and Ar’ar, of the numerous other towns, villages and oases and of the deserts too stretching to the north, to the south, to the west and to the east. But, despite the sultan’s many riches, influence and power, and his complete command over life and death, he lacks the control over one single person. And her name is Alisha. Alisha is but one of many … one wife out of forty-two. A mere child when she was snatched away from the streets of Sakakah, this former street urchin was discovered by one of the sultan’s wife seekers. She was a beautiful girl, only thirteen years old and just right for the ruler. Alisha was made a wife and she served him well enough until other, younger wives took his interest away from her. But Alisha did not care about this. She never loved nor even liked the sultan. She thought of him as an old, fat and ugly man, aloof and uncaring and wholly inadequate as a husband. And despite her previous life in the city streets, Alisha was never impressed by el-Hashem’s power and wealth. One day, Alisha fell in love with another wife of the sultan. Her name is Zenobia. And Zenobia loved Alisha too, for she felt the same way about their husband as Alisha. Thus, the two wives of the sultan lived their daily lives in the palace, married to him, but devoted to each other. Alisha kept up the veneer of being a sultan’s wife until one day she and Zenobia met a prisoner. His name is Geisarix and he was brought to Sakakah by the Byzantines, who had captured him in battle. The barbarian warrior was to be sold as a slave, but the sultan bought him instead, to be made a member of his guards. When Alisha and Zenobia first saw him, they were impressed by his looks, strength and sense of freedom. This chance meeting inadvertently increased Alisha’s desires to be free again, like she once was. And thus she and Zenobia initiated a plan that would free them from the sultan’s clutches and liberate Geisarix too, whose defiance got him thrown into the dungeon. Although things initially went well, they run into trouble when the sultan catches wind of some of their misdeeds. Eventually, the two girls end up in the dungeons, and even a slave too, who had assisted the two wives. And thus the four of them sit in murky cells, lost and forlorn. What will happen next? Will the sultan punish Alisha and Zenobia further, as he had promised? Or will they be set free? If not, can they get free on their own? Will Alisha forsake Zenobia to favor Geisarix, or perhaps vice versa? And what will become of Bahira, the slave?