A collection of the correspondence of an Irish granny, with over 300 letters and documents, reveals the hidden world of a woman in the years 1867-1915. It has a share of romance, tradgedy and enduring friendship.

This exciting and unusual World War Two book contains the biographies of young men from the United States and Commonwealth Countries who flew through enemy infested skies in a civilian passenger plane known as the Hudson Bomber. The author portrays not only flyers but their families as they face the unfolding fates of their youngsters flying in Royal Air Force Coastal Command Squadrons. Much of the book is written from primary research material: personal diaries, log books, a large number of photographs and anxious letters home to parents and wives and friends. "Searching For The Hudson Bombers" rings loudly with authenticity of how World War Two impacted people at an intimate and personal level. Flying duties of these patriotic youth from America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are portrayed in a range of activities from over the North Sea to the Mediterranean. The Hudson air crews bomb shipping and search in all kinds of nasty weather for submarines, cover convoys and look for downed air craft. Sub themed in the text are the disappointing activities of politicians, corporations, financial institutions and religious bureaucracy. One will not find much grand strategy as planned by Presidents, Prime Ministers and Generals in, "Searching For The Hudson Bombers." This is a book about unheralded flyers who risked their lives each time they went aloft in a less than reliable aircraft, the Hudson Bomber.

This intriguing and intensely researched work exposes the truly human side of one of history's most cataclysmic events. An excellent read!"
Major General (Ret'd) Lewis W. MacKenzie OStJ,OOnt,MSC,CD.

"Poignant stories of young men in the prime of life who risked their lives fighting for their countries."
Ms.Lynn McLeod, B.A. M.L.S. Mississauga Public Library System

"I spent many hours as navigator of a Hudson and I find the research done to compile this wonderfully researched volume to be absolutely mind-boggling.
F/Lt. (O) Earle Briggs RAF 24/512 SQ's

For further information on photographs of the Hudson flyers and the index to "Searching For The Hudson Bombers" go to www.hudsonbomber.com

During the Second World War, six million Jews - as well as other targeted groups such as Gypsies, Poles, the handicapped and homosexuals - were systematically murdered by Adolf Hitler's Nazis and their collaborators. The incomprehensible number - six million - becomes all the more horrifying when it is broken down into the many individual atrocities, which occurred almost daily from 1941-1945.

Holocaust: In the Name of the Füehrer is the second book of a planned Holocaust trilogy. The first book, Genocide: The Final Solution to the Jewish Question is also available from Trafford Publishing.

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The Iraqi Threat, is the only currently available book which provides comprehensive and current estimation of Iraq's Military Forces, Armor Forces, Republican Guard Corps, Special Republican Guard, Air Defenses, Special Operation Forces, their structures, military equipment and capability. Covered in detail,is Iraq's Cruise & Scud Missiles, Drones,Chemical and Biological Warfare Munitions, of Missiles, Artillery, and more.

Over 500 pages of research material taken, from Military, Scientific Institutes, and UNSCOM. Such sources as the Wisconsin Project , Iraq-Watch. With more than 5,000 pages of material, Iraq Watch is a comprehensive repository of open source information about Iraq's mass destruction weapon programs. The Armed Forces Institute Research, which has worldwide investigative resource capability, and reporting. The Federation of American Scientists. The major problem confronting the U.S. Military and our politicians, is a concise comprehensive information of Iraq placed in a single volume of work. To this, is this book. Indexed and categorized, and heavily illustrated detailing the Iraq threat and Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Format is designed for military personnel.

This book relates to the explosion of the Boeing 747 that was Pan Am flight # 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21st, 1988. Author John Crawford was a detective on the scene and is writing this account based on what actually occured. This is an insider's view of 'the Lockerbie incident' - who did what and when. The 'why' is left to you, the reader...

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The conception - day gift includes a means of storing information (memory) and of transmitting information (speech). Memory & Speech could thus be considered as a first generation of media. However, natural selection can explain our evolution only to a hunter - gatherer society. How have we managed the transitions over historical time to an agricultural, an industrial, and now an information society? We have learned how to extend our nervous systems by storing information (Print & Film - second generation), by transmitting information (Telephone & Television - third generation), and by both storing and transmitting information outside our bodies (Multimedia & Internet - fourth generation). A History of Media tells this story of the co-evolution of the person and media as extensions.

This long perspective will help us better understand our turbulent transitional times as we assimilate the fourth generation of media. This third transition will be clarified by analogy with the first and second transitions as we assimilated the second and third generations of media. The work of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and their successors in the Toronto School of Media Studies will help illuminate those transitions.

In 1939 the realease of atomic power was discovered in Germany during the recovery of industry and the rearmament. Trapped in Germany because of the outbreak of war, Erwin Klinge was asked by his boss to leave his job researching osmosis in Berlin and to move to Frankfurt to learn the process of producing 'a special heavy metal'. Wishing to maintain a low profile during these turbulant times, Erwing agreed and made the journey back to his birthplace unaware of the inherent danger that lay ahead of him.

Erwin became employed in the production of urnanium as part of Germany's initiative to become an atomic power. Once Erwin realised his involvement and the threat of creating a German atomic power, not to mention the risk to his health while working with such primitive equipment in the production of this toxic material, his thoughts turned at once to escape. The Truth is Marching On is his remarkable story about his war experience in Germany and that of his subsequent succeses in the chemical industry and as a committed Christian.

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Stories from a Small Town is the anecdotal history of a little Irish town by the sea, Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and virtually invented by the railway when the Dublin track to Bray was extended to Wicklow in 1855. Characters... Among those who tell their story to the author are a parlour-maid, plumber and fireman; carpenter, farmer and garrage owner; a judge, milkman and second world war mid-turret gunner shot down in flames over Germany to spend the rest of the war as a prisoner.

Recollections of Japan is a personal account of living in Tokugawa Japan in the beginning of the nineteenth century, from a European's perspective. The author, Hendrik Doeff, chief of the United Dutch East India Company in Deshima, mastered the Japanese language, giving him a unique grasp of the Japanese culture which he describes with dispassionate, journalistic objectivity and respect.

With Europe engulfed in the Napoleonic wars, Holland occupied by the French and the Dutch colonies usurped by the English, Hendrik Doeff successfully thwarted attempts by the Russians, English and Americans to break the Dutch monopoly on trade with Japan.

Twice English ships forced themselves into the bay of Nagasaki and only Doeff's skill and diplomacy prevented a massacre of the English which in turn might have provoked a was between England and Japan and changed history. Doeff also describes in detail one of his three treks to the Court in Edo and the eagerness of Japanese scholars to obtain Western knowledge. There is a link with America's early history as the Dutch used American ships, to circumvent the capture of their own ships by the English. An embargo imposed by the United States Congress had idled many American ships who sailed to the Pacific instead. This book is a micro history and gives a delicious insight into international intrigues, national pride, hatreds and prejudices in a time of competitive monopoly seeking. Most of all, it reveals how supposedly "closed" Japan kept a window open to the world, especially the West, which explains its rapid transformation from a feudal to an industrialized nation after Perry opened Japan to the wider world.

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    The historical record of human achievement by the United States of America in the twentieth century is enormous and sometimes miraculous when being described. The past one hundred years' list of accomplishments far surpasses those of any other period of time. The history of the twentieth century stands the test of comparison as the sun sets on the second millennium.
    The inventions such as electricity, computers, automobiles, telephones, talking motion pictures, commercial radio, television, and air conditioning are some of the major significant accomplishments that caused this century to completely change the face of America and the world. The discovery and eventual application of various theories include the theory of flight, the splitting of the atom, the identification of DNA, the cure for tuberculosis, and body part transplant surgery. The historical events such as landing a man on the moon, flying an airplane around the world, ending a world war, or seeing an historical sporting event captured the American spirit and enthusiasm of this country as well as the rest of the world.
    However, three years of the hundred in the twentieth century have extreme significance when they occurred and the subsequent years thereafter. These three years had a major impact in the areas of American politics and major league baseball. These historic events occurred simultaneously in the years of 1941, 1947, and 1968. Obviously other significant political and baseball events occurred in the other years of the century, but these unrelated major milestones of political and major league baseball feats and accomplishments are at the zenith in comparison with the other 97 years.
    For example, the year of 1941 had several major historical and political events such as the Japanese surprise attack bombing of Pearl Harbor that caused the United States to enter World War II and later become a major power in international affairs. That role continues to this day. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in for his unprecedented third term as President of the United States. To ensure nobody else would serve more than two terms, the twenty-second amendment was added to the United States Constitution. This reaction to Roosevelt's third term has had lasting impact on future presidents including Eisenhower, Reagan, and Clinton.
    The major league baseball momentous events of 1941 included the 56 consecutive game hitting streak of New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio and the .406 seasonal batting average of Boston Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams. Each subsequent baseball season thousands of baseball players have attempted to tie or break these batting benchmarks and every year they have failed.
    The year of 1947 was politically and historically significant because of the start of the "cold war", the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Taft-Hartley Act, and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The impact and legacy of these events and policies would have an enormous effect on the remainder of the twentieth century and beyond.
    The major league baseball momentous events were the integration of the majors by Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians. The face of baseball and other professional sports were changed forever by these actions as well as the racial and social implications that would change the face of America.
    The explosive year of 1968 was historically and politically significant because of such incidents as the "Tet Offensive" and the hotly contested presedential campaign that included the Chicago riot-torn convention of the Democractic Party. These events coupled with the assassinations of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the ultimate election of Richard M. Nixon marked the end of optimism in America that would prevail throughout the remainder of the century.
    The momentous major league baseball achievements of 1968 included stellar pitching performances by two pitchers each pitching in a separate league. Detroit Tiger pitcher Denny McLain won 31 games that year and has the distinction of being the last major league pitcher to win at least 30 games in one season. Arguably, a greater accomplishment was performed that year by St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Bob Gibson. The Hall-of-Fame hurler ended the season with a microscopic earned run average (ERA) of 1.12 while pitching over 300 innings. These seasonal performances are the pitching standards that have never been seriously challenged since.
    The fact that these unrelated political and baseball events occurred during these three years and have had such an enormous impact on the twentieth century compared to any of the other 97 years cannot be denied. The impact and legacy of these events that occurred in 1941, 1947, and 1968 continue to affect America to this day.

On December 24, 1989, a group of Libyan-trained armed dissidents, which styled itself the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), attacked Liberian territory from neighboring Ivory Coast. The band of outlaws was led by Charles Taylor, an ex-Liberia government official who escaped from prison in the United States while facing extradition to Liberia for allegedly embezzling nearly one million dollars of public funds. After he fled the U.S. Taylor returned to West Africa, from where he connected with Libya. Sustained by Libyan support, Taylor went to Liberia to spearhead his murderous brand of civil war.

Liberia's dictatorial leader Samuel Doe responded to the NPFL invasion by deploying troops in the conflict area, whose senior ranks were dominated by the military strongman's own ethnic group. The government forces carried out collective punishment against local villagers, killing, looting, and raping, while singling out people from certain ethnic groups whom they regarded as supporters of the invasion by reason of their ethnic identity. The NPFL also targeted members of Doe's ethnic group and other ethnic groups that were seen to be supportive of the government, as well as its officials and sympathizers.

As the war spread from the interior toward the Liberian capital of Monrovia amid widespread death and destruction, the United States responded to the deteriorating situation by dispatching four warships with 2,300 marines to evacuate Americans and other foreigners who were in the country. The U.S. decided not to intervene to contain the unfolding catastrophe. Officials of the George Bush administration maintained that Liberia, which was then America's closest traditional ally in Africa, was no longer of strategic importance to the U.S. Coincidentally, the Liberian civil war started at the time the Cold War was ending.

Located on the West Coast of Africa, Liberia was founded in 1822 by freed black American slaves who were returned to the continent. Their passage was paid by the American Colonization Society, a philanthropic organization, whose members included Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. The Liberian capital Monrovia is named after Monroe, who was president of the United States at the time Liberia was founded. The country's national flag of red, white and blue stripes with a star, bears close resemblance to the American flag. The systems of government and education, architecture and other aspects of Liberian life reflect American taste. Names of places in the country include Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana and Buchanan. More than anywhere in Africa, spoken English in Liberia echoes the rhythms of Black American speech.

Liberia served as the regional headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and hosted a Voice of America relay station that beamed American propaganda, as well as other major U.S. security installations during the Cold War. The Americans also operated the Omega Navigation Tower, which was intended to track the movement of ships and planes in the region and beyond. Once one of Africa's most stable and prosperous countries, Liberia was regarded as a haven for international trade and commerce because of the use of the American dollar as a legal tender. Major U.S. investments in the country included the Firestone Rubber Plantation, the world's largest plantation, which produce rubber for Firestone tires, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Citibank. Pan American Airlines (PAN AM) once operated Liberia's Roberts International Airport, where U.S. fighter jets have landing rights. During part of the 1970s, Liberia's per capita income was equivalent to that of Japan.

Independent since 1847 as Africa's first republic, Liberia's plunge into anarchy began after a bloody military coup that ended the rule of descendants of the freed slaves, who monopolized political and economic power for over a century. During the 1980 coup, President William Tolbert, who tried to institute some meaningful political reforms but was seen to be not pro-American, was butchered in bed at the presidential Executive Mansion. Then 28-year old Master Sergeant Samuel Doe of the Liberian armed forces, who seized power, promised Liberians equality and good governance, and he also adapted a very pro-American policy. Over a period of five years, the U.S. provided half a billion dollars in aid to the Doe regime, despite evidence that the regime had become increasingly brutal and corrupt. The U.S. endorsed Doe after he rigged the 1985 presidential elections and unleashed a reign of terror that resulted to hundreds of Liberians being killed. The bloody conflict surrounding the election eventually led to the Taylor-led armed insurgency to drive the dictator from power.

Over the course of seven years of civil war, seven major armed factions emerged, and the country was partitioned. In parts of the country controlled by the various factions, marauding armed thugs terrorized defenseless people. An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people lost their lives, and almost the entire country was destroyed. During this period of horror and starvation, people struggled to sustain themselves on an assortment of hitherto inedible leaves and substances. For example, the food situation was very desperate during the early part of the war that dogs literally turned into wolves and survived on eating dead human bodies that littered about. The living ate the dogs when food ran out. Hundreds of thousands of Liberians became refugees in neighboring countries and other parts of West Africa, while almost the entire population remaining in the country was displaced.

The civil war was so peculiarly horrible that some West African countries, led by Nigeria, took the unprecedented step in African history to organize a military force, called ECOMOG for short, to intervene and halt the slaughter of defenseless people, and to restore peace. Other countries that made up the original ECOMOG force, which was supported by the United States and the United Nations, included Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. The original ECOMOG force entered Liberia about eight months after the war started, and Liberia had turned into a "slaughter house," according to then Gambian President Dawda Jawara, who was chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the regional organization that groups together 16 West African countries. Senegal, Uganda and other countries later provided troops.

The West Africans also acted out of fear that the Liberian conflict might spill over into neighboring countries and eventually destabilize the sub-region. The NPFL force also included Libyan-based dissidents from some of the West African countries, who were planning their own revolutions to seize power in their respective countries. Some of those revolutionaries had been involved in unsuccessful military coups and armed rebellions to unseat the governments in their countries of origin. Libya, declared by the U.S. as a leading sponsor of terrorism around the world, was known for its military adventurism in West Africa. Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, using his country's oil wealth to spread his staunchly anti-Western vision of pan-African revolution, reportedly hosted and trained hundreds of men, some of whom are now rulers of African countries. Gadaffi also used the opportunity of the Liberian civil war to undermine U.S. influence in Liberia. And Gadaffi may have had good reason for wanting to contain American influence in Liberia. The CIA reportedly used Liberia as a base to attempt the destabilization and overthrow of Gadaffi's regime.

For their part, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast also played pivotal roles in Taylor's campaign of death and destruction. Burkina Faso's president Blaise Campaori, another Libyan protege who seized power by murdering the leader of that country, provided foreign mercenaries and training bases for Taylor's rebels, and his country served as the centra

This is the story of an actual, real life little girl, America Kelsey, who accompanied her parents and siblings on a rugged wagon trip from their home in Missouri in the 1840's to settle in California as the first Anglo family before it became a state.

That is the true part. Much of anything from there on has been somewhat fabricated, due to lack of historical substance. Her father was truly the first white man to die and be buried in what is now the Charles M. Weber Event Center in Stockton, California.

All this was truly happening while California was a Department of the Mexican Nation and the story includes the difficulties that the American Emigrants were having in trying to wrest the future State from the Mexican Government.

American Kelsey is truly revered in California as an example of how a little girl could surmount all kinds of difficulties to establish a fine home for her family in a strange new land.