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  Bully Able Leader - The Story of...

  George G Loving

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  This USAF pilot’s memoir “masterfully describes the progress of the war . . . [and] superbly chronicles the many close-support and interdiction missions.” —Air & Space Power Journal    This action-packed account by an American pilot and squadron commander in the Korean War reveals just what it was like to fly the F-80 Shooting Star against MiGs and ground targets. Using the radio call sign of “Bully Able Leader,” Lieutenant General George G. Loving flew 112 combat missions in five major campaigns from 1950–1951.  This well-written, first-hand account of life in the cockpit of a USAF fighter jet will appeal to aviation enthusiasts and military history buffs alike.   “Valuable insights of the flying environment that earmarked this first war of extensive use of jet combat aircraft.” —Col. Joe McCue, USAF (Ret.), Air Power History

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  American Nation The: A History...

  Albert Bushnell Hart

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  A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms 
  Slavery and Abolition 1831–1841 by Albert Bushnell Hart, LLD. Professor of History at Harvard University. Published in 1906 by Harper and Brothers. 
  Narrated by Joseph Tabler. This book is in the public domain. It is read ‘as written.' 
  Narrator’s Note: an excellent book! Quite smart and thorough. Well written by the Editor of the Series. 
  Volume 16 of 27 in The American Nation: A History From Original Sources by Associated Scholars published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University. 
  In the Editor’s Introduction to the series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time, hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in an untechnical style, which shall serve the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader. 
  From the Author’s Preface: Except perhaps the struggle between patriots and tories at the outbreak of the Revolution, no controversy in the history of the United States has aroused such passion and led to such momentous results as that between the advocates and the opponents of slavery … The book has the double purpose of describing the conditions of slavery and the state of mind of those interested in it or against it, and at the same time recording the events which mark the anti-slavery agitation. 
  It is hard for a son and grandson of abolitionists to approach so explosive a question with impartiality, but the book is intended to show that there was more than one side to the controversy and that both the milder form of opposition called antislavery and the extremer form called abolition were confronted by practical difficulties which to many public-spirited and conscientious men seemed insurmountable. 
  CONTENTS:Author’s PrefaceI. American Social Characteristics (1830–1860)II. The Intellectual Life (1830–1840)III. The Era of Transportation (1830–1850)IV. Slavery as an Economic System (1607–1860)V. The Slave-Holder and his Neighbors (1830–1860)VI. The Free Negro (1830–1860)VII. Plantation Life (1830–1860)VIII. Control of the Slaves (1830–1860)IX. The Slave-Market (1830–1860)X. The Defense of Slavery (1830–1860)XI. The Anti-Slavery Movement (1624–1840)XII. Garrisonian Abolition (1830–1845)XIII. Non-Garrisonian Abolition (1831–1860)XIV. The Abolition Propaganda (1830–1840)XV. The Abolitionist and the Slave (1830–1840)XVI. The Abolitionist and the Slave-Holder (1830–1860)XVII. Abolition and Government (1830–1840)XVIII. Anti-Slavery in Congress (1831–1840)XIX. Interstate and International Relations of Slavery (1822–1842)XX. Panic of 1837 (1837–1841)XXI. The Effects of Abolition (1830–1860) 
  Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org 
  Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. I love obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread, or unheard. Aloha.

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  The Decline of the West

  Oswald Spengler

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  The decline of the West, which at first sight may appear, like the corresponding decline of the Classical Culture, a phenomenon limited in time and space, we now perceive to be a philosophical problem that, when comprehended in all its gravity, includes within itself every great question of Being. 
  "If therefore we are to discover in what form the destiny of the Western Culture will be accomplished, we must first be clear as to what culture is, what its relations are to visible history, to life, to soul, to nature, to intellect, what the forms of its manifestation are and how far these forms — peoples, tongues and epochs, battles and ideas, states and gods, arts and craftworks, sciences, laws, economic types and world ideas, great men and great events — may be accepted and pointed to as symbols." 
   

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  Covert Ops - The Golden Camel

  Steve Barker

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  Two hostages. One cartel. Zero margin for error. When diplomacy fails, the Covert Ops team doesn’t. 
   
  A Caribbean paradise. A deadly cartel. A rescue mission that was never meant to succeed. 
   
  When two young travellers vanish in the Caribbean, ex-military operator Steve Barker and his team are called in for an off-the-books mission: extract the hostages, eliminate the cartel, and leave no trace. 
   
  But the intel stinks. The contact’s hiding something, the money’s too clean, and every street in San Juan hums with danger. What begins as a textbook rescue spirals into a nightmare of betrayal, ambushes, and firefights stretching from the Old Fort Castillo San Cristóbal to the jungles of Saint Ann. 
   
  Cut off from command and surrounded by enemies, the Covert Ops team must rely on instincts, brotherhood, and raw fury to bring their people home—or die trying. 
   
  Expect: 
  • Gritty realism and black humour straight from the veteran’s battlefield mindset 
  • Caribbean gunfights, urban chases, and a high-risk extraction deep in cartel territory 
  • Authentic military banter and tactics forged in combat 
  • PTSD, loyalty, and redemption colliding in the heat of the mission 
   
  Perfect for fans of: Tom Clancy, Andy McNab, Lee Child, and Mark Greaney—readers who crave covert ops with bite, not polish. 
   
  The mission: rescue the innocent, punish the guilty, and survive the extraction. 
  Grab Covert Ops: The Extraction and lock in for the most explosive mission yet.

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  The Case of the Autographed...

  Jack El-Hai

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  The true-crime saga of the intertwined lives of a Native spiritual leader and a prominent literary figure—and their shared work in their pursuit to right a tragic wrongful conviction.Silas John Edwards—a charismatic Apache medicine man—was known as a controversial figure on Apache reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, where white authorities were determined to maintain control over reservation life. When his wife, Margaret, was brutally murdered in 1933, Silas John was tried and convicted, receiving a sentence of life in prison. The key piece of evidence against Silas John was a rock found near Margaret's body, scratched with his initials, “S. J. E."Were the scratched initials an attempt to frame a man whose independent path was deemed troublesome? Eighteen years into Silas John’s sentence, the celebrated writer of the Perry Mason mysteries, Erle Stanley Gardner, received a desperate letter from the incarcerated medicine man. Gardner and Silas John met in prison and joined forces to reinvestigate the case. Under the auspices of Gardner’s Court of Last Resort, an organization like today’s Innocence Project that investigated cases of wrongful conviction, Gardner traveled through Arizona’s varied reservation landscapes to hunt for clues.Together, Silas John and Gardner attempted to unravel the flimsy evidence—including dubious footprint casts and questionable claims of Apache custom—to shatter the "cement silence" of prison and fight for the freedom of a historically important spiritual leader. The Case of the Autographed Corpse details a dramatic and little-known episode in American history and two men’s unwavering commitment to the truth.

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  Pardon Power - How The Pardon...

  Kim Wehle

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  If you've ever wondered about the constitutional basis for presidential pardons, this book explains it, offering examples from the recent and distant past. Follow constitutional law professor and popular newsroom commentator Kim Wehle through a fascinating rundown of how this executive power has been—and might be—used by American presidents.

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