Jack Hinson never planned to become a deadly sniper. A prosperous & influential Kentucky plantation owner in the 1850s Hinson was devoted to raising his growing family & working his l&. Yet by 1865 Hinson had likely killed more than one hundred men & had single-handedly taken down an armed Union transport in his one-man war against Grants army & navy. By the end of the Civil War the Union had committed infantry & cavalry from nine regiments & a specially equipped amphibious task force of marines to capture Hinson who was by that time nearly sixty years old. They never caught him. Since then the story of Jack Hinson has evaded astute historians & until now he has remained invisible in the history of sniper warfare. John S. Old Jack Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with impartial disinterest. A friend of Ulysses S. Grant & Confederate officers alike" ...

You wake up in a dark room with no idea where you are. You are gagged & forced into a waiting truck. You have done nothing wrong. What would you do? Fourteen-year-old Ben travels to Pakistan on a school exchange programme. Ben & his Pakistani host Aaarya find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. They see something they're not supposed to & are kidnapped by some strange men. Caught up in a terrifying planned terrorist attack that could destroy Southern Afghanistan killing thousands Ben & Aarya are dragged through the most terrifying battleground in the world. ...

From its south-eastern tip Sussex is little more than sixty miles from continental Europe & the countys coastline some seventy-six miles long occupies a large part of Britains southern frontier. Before the days of Macadam & the Turnpike water travel could prove more certain than land transportation & the seas that define the borders of our nation aided rather than deterred the invader. Though the last successful invasion of Britain took place almost 1 000 years ago the gently shelving beaches of Sussex have tempted the prospective invader with the promise of both an easy disembarkation & a short & direct route to London
- the last time being just seven decades ago. As the authors demonstrate the repeated threat of invasion from the Continent has shaped the very landscape of the county. The rounded tops of the Iron Age hill forts the sheer walls of the medieval castles the squat stumps of Martello towers the moulded Vaubanesque contours of the Palmerstone redoubts & the crouched concrete blocks & bricks of the Second World War pillboxes constitute the visible evidence of Sussexs position on Britains front line.
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The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought the world's first all-big-gun battleship rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage so expensively maintained for decades. Already locked in an arms race with Germany Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger more complex & more costly vessels. In this she succeeded spectacularly: in little over a decade fifty such ships were completed almost exactly double what Germany achieved. It was only made possible by the country's vast industrial nexus of shipbuilders engine manufacturers armament firms & specialist armour producers whose contribution to the creation of the Grand Fleet is too often ignored. This heroic achievement & how it was done is the subject of this book. It charts the rise of the large industrial conglomerates that were key to this success looks at their reaction to fast-moving technical changes & analyses the politics of funding this vast national effort both before & during the Great War. It also attempts to assess the true cost
- & value
- of the Grand Fleet in terms of the resources consumed. & finally by way of contrast it decribes the effects of the post-war recession industrial contraction & the very different responses to rearmament in the run up to the Second World War.

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As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics
- The New 52 event of September 2011 Batwomans new series finally begins! The creative team
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Her family's cottage was a place of innocence for twelve-year-old Julie Bauer
- until her sister was murdered. It's been many years
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Spain 1939. Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war a young girl Julia enters a convent in Barcelona. Looking for a way to maintain her links to the outside world she volunteers to help in a maternity clinic. But worrying adoption practices in the clinic force Sister Julia to decide how far she will go to help those placed in her care. England 2011. Six months after her parents' shocking death 34-year-old journalist & jazz enthusiast Ruby Rae has finally found the strength to pack away their possessions & sell the family home. But as she does so she unearths a devastating secret her parents Vivien & Tom had kept from her all her life. ...

Baychimo is the legendary Hudsons Bay Company ship that survived for years in the Arctic after being abandoned by her crew in 1931. In the 1920s the crew of Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada sailed on fur-trading expeditions to Siberia during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War & eventually made the dangerous annual voyage around Alaska to Canadas western Arctic coast shouldering her way through the ice floes to re-supply the HBCs remote trading posts. Anthony Dalton tells the story of the hardy ship & her sometimes irascible captain Sydney Cornwell & through them brings to life the larger story of the community of northern traders hunters & sailors of which Baychimo was a part. But this ships story had a remarkable twist. When Baychimo was caught in 1931 in an ice floe that refused to let go her crew expected her to sink at any moment & abandoned ship. But she was as stubborn as the ice & she floated away unharmed to begin what would prove to be the longest phase of her seemingly charmed career: for the next four decades she would appear on the horizon at unexpected times & places always defiantly upright & afloat becoming the legendary ghost ship of the Arctic. ...

Machine learning methods extract value from vast data sets quickly & with modest resources. They are established tools in a ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is a fine 11th century masterpiece which has proved of exceptional documentary value towards our current ...