Meanwhile, he had founded his own company, Simulations Publications, Inc. While still in college, he got involved in wargaming, and designed Jutland, which Avalon Hill published in 1967, following it up with 1914 the next year, and the groundbreaking Panzerblitz in 1970, which eventually sold half a million copies. After the military, he attended Pace University studying accounting, then transferred to Columbia University, graduating with a degree in history in 1970. Dunnigan (born 1943) is an author and wargame designer currently living in New York City, notable for his matter-of-fact approach to military analysis.īorn in Rockland County, New York, after high school he volunteered for the military instead of waiting to be drafted, and from 1961 to 1964 worked as a repair technician for the Sergeant ballistic missile, which included a tour in Korea.
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They parachuted into France early D-Day morning and knocked out a battery of four 105 mm cannon looking down Utah Beach they parachuted into Holland during the Arnhem campaign they were the Battered Bastards of the Bastion of Bastogne, brought in to hold the line, although surrounded, in the Battle of the Bulge and then they spearheaded the counteroffensive. In combat, the reward for a job well done is the next tough assignment, and as they advanced through Europe, the men of Easy kept getting the tough assignments. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. And at its peak-in Holland and the Ardennes-Easy Company was as good a rifle company as any in the world.įrom the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen E. They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments. With the discourse of social welfare all but evaporated, federal programs under presidents Johnson and Nixon promoted a new vision for racial justice: that the franchising of fast food restaurants, by black citizens in their own neighborhoods, could finally improve the quality of black life. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In Franchise, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who-in the troubled years after King’s assassination-believed they found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality. Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald’s have long symbolized capitalism’s villainous effects on our nation’s most vulnerable communities. So begins a very rough, cold, soggy and dangerous week, with thrilling misadventures and some spectacularly dangerous flood-water rescues. What's more is the telephone wires and the electricity are out. The children arrive soaked, exhausted, and frightened to find the house locked and empty. Their parents, coming separately (the children are coming from their respective boarding schools with their pets in tow), are, in theory, already at home at the house and set up for Christmas. Lincoln, Miranda and Pinks, alongside bull terrier Oliver Cromwell and Siamese cat Sheba, manage against some odds to get from Victoria Station to the flooding village of Duckford before a landslip cuts off the railline, and along (dangerously) flooded roads during a gale to their rented holiday home 'Little Topsails'. as Lions in the Woodshed), 1954 Ī survival story of three siblings, their dog and their cat, set in rural Somerset during a historic flood. Now he feels permanently one step behind. This is my second one (I previously read and reviewed Wonder Woman ), and I have enjoyed both of them in spite of not currently being a fan of comic books. As Batwing, he�s trying to stop a new team of villains from ruining his mother�s plans. Catwoman is part of the DC Icons Series featuring non-graphic novels centered around the teenage versions of Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, and Catwoman. As a scion of one of Gotham�s finest families, he�s expected to attend these events with pride. When several high-profile fundraisers are disturbed, Luke�s clandestine activities clash with his parents� expectations. Luke Fox has been looking for just the right opportunity to show Batman he can protect the city from Gotham�s worst as Batwing. But her past is catching up to her, and she is running out of time. As Gotham�s newest socialite, she�ll put her old talent for picking pockets to new use while rubbing shoulders with the city�s finest citizens. Maas�s young adult novel is adapted as a graphic novel by comics legend Louise Simonson and artist Samantha Dodge! It�s been two years since Selina Kyle last set eyes on Gotham City.and now that Batman is gone, Selina is back! Or at least, Holly Vanderhees is. "Tonight you have surpassed yourself." He kissed her gallantly on both cheeks in a somewhat matter-of-fact manner. "Magnificent, petite, magnificent," he cried. A bearded gentleman received her enthusiastically in his arms. In a swirl of blue and orange draperies the dancer left the stage. Enthusiastic Frenchmen continued to beat the ground appreciatively as the curtain fell with a swish, hiding the reds and blues and magentas of the bizarre decor. Her narrow black eyes narrowed themselves still more, the long line of her scarlet mouth curved faintly upwards. Nadina, the Russian dancer who had taken Paris by storm, swayed to the sound of the applause, bowed and bowed again. To end what the Blood Queen has begun, Poppy might have to become what she has been prophesied to be-what she fears the most.Īs the Harbinger of Death and Destruction. Ancient primal powers have already stirred, revealing the horror of what began eons ago. Armentrout Read by Stina Nielson and Tim Campbell The Blood and Ash Series: Book 4 26.60 Hours 1 Format : Digital Download 46.99 44.64 or 2 Credits War is only the beginning. Together, Poppy and Casteel must embrace traditions old and new to safeguard those they hold dear-to protect those who cannot defend themselves. Not if she has any hope of building a future where both kingdoms can reside in peace. With the strength of the Primal of Life’s guards behind her, and the support of the wolven, Poppy must convince the Atlantian generals to make war her way-because there can be no retreat this time. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Nothing will stop Poppy from freeing her King and destroying everything the Blood Crown stands for. Buy a cheap copy of The War of Two Queens book by Jennifer L. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done is almost unthinkable. Casteel Da’Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could’ve prepared for the staggering revelations. In her earlier piece “Growing Up with Juneteenth,” written for The New Yorker, Gordon-Reed recounts how the Texas holiday became a national tradition: “When I was a little girl, in Texas, I thought Juneteenth belonged to us, meaning to the state of Texas generally and to Black Texans specifically,” she starts, before going on to recount the disconnect between “freedom” in legal terms versus lived reality, the unfulfilled promise of the Declaration for Black Americans, and the horrors they have had to endure even after the Emancipation Proclamation. “I think it will be good for the country to have a day to reflect on slavery and the end of slavery,” Gordon-Reed said. When President Joe Biden finally signed into law a bill that established Juneteenth as a federal holiday-the culmination of a decades-long effort-Gordon-Reed was among those invited to witness the historic moment. It quickly became a New York Times bestseller, was featured on the magazine’s 100 Notable Books list, and chosen as one of its the top five non-fiction books of the year. Her latest book, On Juneteenth, sets out to capture the integral importance of the holiday to American history. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School, and the award-winning author of six books. Annette Gordon-Reed is a Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, the Carl M. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts - until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.įour queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.įor centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.Ī tempestuous Fury, exiled to Earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.Ī dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this thrilling urban fantasy set in the magical underworld of Toronto that follows a queer cast of characters racing to stop a serial killer whose crimes could expose the hidden world of faeries to humans. “Beautifully written and deliciously complex…I couldn’t get enough.” (Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers series) Many blacks wore Afros then, but by dint of her status as a political activist, prisoner, and rallying point (and, there’s no denying, its awesome regality), hers went global. Nor is it even the event that brought her international notoriety, her 1970 arrest (after going underground to avoid and contest it) and 1972 trial on conspiracy charges in the murder of a California judge.ĭavis’ hair is, indeed, iconic: that large, perfectly round, and proud Afro, the focal point of every photograph of her back in the day. Yet, as she observed in a 1994 essay (“ Afro Images: Politics, Fashion and Nostalgia”, in the journal Critical Inquiry), that isn’t what many people think of when they hear her name. It is humiliating because it reduces a politics of liberation to a politics of fashion it is humbling because such encounters with the younger generation demonstrate the fragility and mutability of historical images, particularly those associated with African American history.” – Angela Davisįor almost 50 years now, Angela Davis has been a professor, author, and activist, weighing in on everything from the prison-industrial complex to female blues singers of the ’20s. “…It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo. |