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Greetings, Hero is for the outsiders. This short story collection, the first of widely published Irish author Aiden O'Reilly, features a dizzying array of characters, stories and dreams. Families, regrets, outsiders, love, death and DIY girlfriends all collide in this collection, with stories stretching across Europe, from building sites in Dublin to the Husemann Strasse n Berlin. Through 17 exquisitely crafted short stories, O'Reilly expertly questions our position in the world - and the role of those pushed to its margins. | Author: Aiden O'Reilly | Publisher: Honest Publishing | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2014 | Number of Pages: 322 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 0957142757 | ISBN-13: 9780957142756
Killing Crazy Horse is the latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught history of our country's founding on already occupied lands, from General Andrew Jackson's brutal battles with the Creek Nation to President James Monroe's epic "sea to shining sea" policy, to President Martin Van Buren's cruel enforcement of a "treaty" that forced the Cherokee Nation out of their homelands along what would be called the Trail of Tears. O'Reilly and Dugard take readers behind the legends to reveal never-before-told historical moments in the fascinating creation story of America. This fast-paced, wild ride through the American frontier will shock readers and impart unexpected lessons that reverberate to this day.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill O’Reilly, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris from the grip of the Nazis during World War II “Taking Paris does for Paris during World War II what The Splendid and the Vile did for London.”—James Patterson• “Heroes and villains abound. You’ll enjoy this fast-paced book immensely.”—Bill O’Reilly • “Succeeds triumphantly.”—The Washington Post May 1940: The world is stunned as Hitler's forces invade France with a devastating blitzkrieg aimed at Paris. Within weeks, the French government has collapsed, and the City of Lights, revered for its carefree lifestyle, intellectual freedom, and love of liberty, has fallen under Nazi control—perhaps forever. As the Germans ruthlessly crush all opposition, a patriotic band of Parisians known as the Resistance secretly rise up to fight back. But these young men and women cannot do it alone. Over 120,000 Parisians die under German occupation. Countless more are tortured in the city's Gestapo prisons and sent to death camps. The longer the Nazis hold the city, the greater the danger its citizens face. As the armies of America and Great Britain prepare to launch the greatest invasion in history, the spies of the Resistance risk all to ensure the Germans are defeated and Paris is once again free. The players holding the fate of Paris in their hands are some of the biggest historical figures of the era: Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, General George S. Patton, and the exiled French general Charles de Gaulle, headquartered in London's Connaught Hotel. From the fall of Paris in 1940 to the race for Paris in 1944, this riveting, page-turning drama unfolds through their decisions—for better and worse. Taking Paris is history told at a breathtaking pace, a sprawling yet intimate saga of hero'sm, desire, and personal sacrifice for all that is right. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780593183090 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication Date: 09-06-2022 Pages: 400 Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)About the Author Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books of history, among them the Killing series with Bill O'Reilly, including Killing the Killers, Killing the Mob, and Killing Crazy Horse. He is also the author of Into Africa, The Training Ground, and The Explorers, as well as The Murder of King Tut with James Patterson.Read an Excerpt Read an Excerpt 1 May 13, 1940 Dinant, Belgium 1600 Hours General Erwin Rommel has had a very busy weekend. The Meuse River rages fast and cold. The loyal admirer of Adolf Hitler paddles a small rubber assault raft toward the west shore. Locals blew the bridges one day ago. This exposed crossing is the only way. Rommel and the young Wehrmacht soldiers spilling over the sides of the cramped black inflatable are not alone. All around them, German troops dig their paddles into the green current, desperate to reach the far shore, where heavily fortified French troops lay down thick rounds of fire. "On the steep west bank . . . the enemy had numerous carefully placed machine-gun and anti-tank nests as well as observation points, each one of which would have to be taken on in the fight," Rommel will report. "They also had both light and heavy artillery, accurate and mobile." Some French defenders are hidden in concrete bunkers on the high rocky bluffs, while others aim their M29 machine guns out the windows of abandoned homes on the water's edge. Still other French fighters launch heavy artillery from the ruins of the Crvecoeur Castle, near a mighty bend in the river where spotters have a clear view of the German attackers. For the first time in days, at a time when he needs it most, the wiry, forty-eight-year-old Rommel enjoys little air support. The only covering fire for the general and this band of young infantry soldiers from the 7th Rifle Regiment-almost all less than half his age-comes from the shore behind them, as tanks from his 7th Panzer Division unleash lethal rounds at French positions. Yet the Meuse must be crossed. Wehrmacht troops have been practicing this moment for months on the Mosel River in the secrecy of Germany's Black Forest, with Rommel in particular driving his men hard to perfect their crossing tactics. This is his first tank command after a highly decorated infantry career and he is desperate to succeed. The time has now come to put that training to use. One hundred yards wide at the Leffe crossing point, and fast enough that any man or vehicle attempting to ford its waters will be swept away, the meandering Meuse is a daunting geographical blockade between the rugged Ardennes Forest and open countryside leading straight into France's heart and soul: the capital city of Paris. The two-thousand-year-old city on the banks of the Seine River is the most sublime and resplendent city in Europe. The City of Lights, as Paris is known, is famous for its architecture and museums, thinkers and writers, ideals and poetry, cuisine and history. As King Francis I, former ruler of France, once stated: "Paris is not a city; it is a world." Such is the allure that Germany's despotic supreme leader, Adolf Hitler, once an aspiring painter of watercolors, has a long-standing fascination with Paris's beauty. Hitler has never set foot in the City of Lights, but despite his admiration he still seethes about the punitive terms of surrender France imposed on Germany at the end of World War I. The Führer is determined to conquer Paris and humiliate its citizens with a display of total Nazi power. "When at last," Hitler wrote in his manifesto, Mein Kampf, "the will-to-live of the German nation, instead of continuing to be wasted away in purely passive defence, can be summoned together for a final, active showdown with France, and thrown into this last decisive battle with the very highest objective for Germany; then, and only then, will it be possible to bring to a close the perpetual and so fruitless struggle between ourselves and France." Hitler dreams of oversized German flags bearing the swastika, symbol of his National Socialist-"Nazi"-Party, flying from the Eiffel Tower. In this fantasy, museums like the great Louvre will be looted and priceless works of art shipped to his own capital city of Berlin, which will be redesigned and reconstructed, completing his goal of humbling the French even further by ensuring that Berlin's wonders far outstrip those of Paris. Adolf Hitler is very close to realizing that goal. á á á The battle for France began on May 10, just three days ago. More than a million German soldiers poured across their border, determined to crush the French army and its British ally, which has sent nearly a half million troops to aid in the defense. Utilizing a technique known as blitzkrieg-"lightning war"-combining fast-moving divisions of Germany's ten panzer tank divisions accompanied by fighter planes and dive-bombers in the skies above, Hitler's unstoppable forces are attacking with a speed never before seen in warfare. It is the panzers at the forefront, punching through enemy defenses and using speed to expand the fluid battle lines. They do not wait for the infantry, as is the tactic of French tanks. Wehrmacht foot soldiers simply do their best to keep up. The German forces are split into tactical armies, with German Army Group B spearheading the attack in the north. Their mission is to slice through Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands, not only capturing those nations but also luring British and French troops into battle. Unbeknownst to the Allies, this is a fatal trap. Meanwhile, German Army Group A silently approaches from the east, using the dense Ardennes Forest to conceal what will become known as one of history's greatest surprise attacks. Their job is to dash all the way from the German border to the English Channel, then link up with Army Group B to completely surround and annihilate the Allied forces. Known as a "double envelopment," this tactic is among the oldest in military history, used by Hannibal to defeat the Romans at Cannae in 216 BC. On paper, it looks like two sides of a vise pressing together, squeezing the conquered army in between. If successful, Hitler will accept the French surrender in due course, then have Paris and all of France to call his own. But the bold plan will fail if German Army Group A cannot cross the impregnable Meuse. Flowing 575 miles from northeast France all the way to the North Sea, this serpentine river twists through valleys lined with high cliffs. "Mosa," its Latin name, roughly translates as "maze," for the many abrupt bends and U-turns on the waterway's journey to the sea. And it is not just the Meuse that serves as a natural barrier between Germany and France but also the mountainous terrain on both banks, making for impregnable natural defensive positions. France's top military leader, the intellectual General Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, has every confidence the Meuse will stop the German invasion. He is the architect of "stand-and-take-it warfare," as some in the press label his strategic mindset. The white haired Parisian calls the river "Europe's best tank obstacle" and has planned his battle strategy accordingly. "La Meuse est infranchissable"-"The Meuse cannot be crossed"-the general is fond of stating. In 1939, Time magazine named Gamelin "the world's foremost soldier," almost ensuring that those words are treated as gospel. But just ten days before Germany attacked, a French military attaché in Switzerland passed along intelligence to General Gamelin in Paris stating that the Germans would invade through the Ardennes Forest, then attempt to cross the Meuse. The attaché was ignored. Gamelin's belief in the invulnerability of the Ardennes is so profound that he also rejected a 1938 study by his own comma
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Explains how to use the computer language to write DBI-based programs while offering an overview of DBI architecture and a description of different database-independent packages. | Author: Tim Bunce | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Publication Date: February 14, 2000 | Number of Pages: 364 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1565926994 | ISBN-13: 9781565926998
In the next book in the multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard tell the larger-than-life stories of Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life--until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard explore the lives, legacies, and tragic deaths of three of the most famous people of the 20th century. Each experienced immense success, then failures that forced them to change; each faced the challenge of growing old in fields that privilege youth; and finally, each became isolated, cocooned by wealth but vulnerable to the demands of those in their innermost circles. Dramatic, insightful, and immensely entertaining, Killing the Legends is the twelfth book in O'Reilly and Dugard's Killing series: the most popular series of narrative history books in the world, with more than 18 million copies in print.
Doctor O'Reilly heeds the call to serve his country in An Irish Doctor in Peace and At War, the new novel in Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country series Long before Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly became a fixture in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was a young M.B. with plans to marry midwife Dierdre Mawhinney. Those plans were complicated by the outbreak of World War II and the call of duty. Assigned to the HMS Warspite, a formidable 30,000-ton battleship, Surgeon Lieutenant O'Reilly soon found himself face-to-face with the hardships of war, tending to the dreadnought's crew of 1,200 as well as to the many casualties brought aboard. Life in Ballybuckebo is a far cry from the strife of war, but over two decades later O'Reilly and his younger colleagues still have plenty of challenges: an outbreak of German measles, the odd tropical disease, a hard-fought pie-baking contest, and a local man whose mule-headed adherence to tradition is standing in the way of his son's future. Now older and wiser, O'Reilly has prescriptions for whatever ails...until a secret from the past threatens to unravel his own peace of mind. Shifting deftly between two very different eras, Patrick Taylor's latest Irish Country novel reveals more about O'Reilly's tumultuous past, even as Ballybucklebo faces the future in its own singular fashion. This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780765338372 Media Type: Paperback(Reprint) Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Publication Date: 09-01-2015 Pages: 432 Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d) Series: Irish Country Series #9About the Author PATRICK TAYLOR, M.D., was born and raised in Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland. Dr. Taylor is a distinguished medical researcher, offshore sailor, model-boat builder, and father of two grown children. He is best-known for the New York Times-bestselling Irish Country series, starting with An Irish Country Doctor; he is also the author of the novels Pray for Us Sinners and Now and in the Hour of our Death. He now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.Read an Excerpt Read an Excerpt Irish Doctor in Peace and at War An Irish Country Novel By Patrick Taylor Tom Doherty Associates Copyright © 2015 Patrick Taylor All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-7653-3837-2 1 A Rose by Any Other Name Someone was ringing the front doorbell of Number One, Main Street, and insistently at that. Doctor Fingal Flaherty O’Reilly was eating a solitary lunch of cold roast ham, hard-boiled eggs, and salad while his partner, Doctor Barry Laverty, was out on an emergency home visit. “Coming,” O’Reilly roared, put down his knife and fork and, grabbing his sports jacket from the back of a chair, headed for the front hall. His housekeeper, Kinky Kincaid, usually answered the door but today she was preparing for her wedding the following day. The noon sun brightened the afternoon, but even its late-April radiance could add little lustre to the full vestments of Mister Robinson, the Presbyterian minister, who stood at the doorway wringing his hands. His rusty black robes, O’Reilly thought, made the man look like a dishevelled crow. “Yes, Your Reverence? What’s up?” “Doctor, can you come across to the church at once? Please?” “Somebody sick?” O’Reilly asked, shrugging into his jacket. “I’ll get my bag.” He turned, but was forestalled by the minister grabbing an arm. “Nobody’s sick, but the war of the roses is breaking out in my church. There’s a row and a ructions, and I don’t know what to do. Please come. If anybody in Ballybucklebo can stop it, it’s you.” He turned, trotted down the short gravelled drive, and was forced by a lorry heading from Bangor to Belfast to wait for O’Reilly to catch up. As soon as there was a gap in the traffic, the minister hurried across the road to the church with O’Reilly trailing behind. “What row?” O’Reilly asked, catching his breath as they passed under the lych-gate. “Maggie Houston and Flo Bishop.” “Who? Maggie and Flo?” O’Reilly frowned as they passed into the shadow of the old yews in the graveyard. “But they’re old friends, for G—” Better not say “God’s sake.” His frown deepened. “I think,” he said, stopping in his tracks, “you’d better explain before we go in.” Mister Robinson sighed. “The ladies of the Women’s Guild take it in turns on a weekly rota to look after decorating the church for services and ceremonies. Maggie Houston’s on the duty this week. Because we all know Kinky’s fondness for wildflowers, Maggie’s got them by the great gross—” “For the wedding tomorrow.” “Correct, but Flo Bishop, being matron of honour, even though it’s not her turn to do the flowers, has assumed responsibility for decorating the church with hothouse roses because she says Kinky deserves the very best. She’s formed a subcommittee with Aggie Arbuthnot and Cissie Sloan. Maggie whipped up support from Jeannie Jingles and Alice Moloney and…” “And you have two regiments going at it hammer and tongs? The wildflower fusiliers and the red-rose rifles, right?” “Right. Mrs. Bishop and her gang have commandeered the communion table and choir area and Maggie and their friends have placed themselves strategically—” “Say no more.” O’Reilly, while being sympathetic to the minister’s dilemma, was having great difficulty controlling an enormous grin. “Lead on, Macduff,” he said. “This is something I’ve got to see.” “Thank you, Doctor. They won’t listen to me. But you’ll make them see sense.” O’Reilly followed the minister until they reached the nave, where the perfume of flowers was overpowering even the dust of two hundred years that usually haunted the old building. On Maggie’s side, heaps of freshly plucked wildflowers were piled on the front pew. Roses on the opposite side of the aisle formed Flo Bishop’s ammunition dump. The two groups, led by their respective champions, stood facing each other at the top of the nave. “You’ll do no such thing, Maggie MacCorkle—” “It’s Mrs. Houston to you, Mrs. Bishop.” Both women stood facing each other, arms akimbo, eyes afire, leaning forward, chins jutting. Flo’s teeth were clenched and there she had Maggie Houston née MacCorkle at a disadvantage. The older woman wasn’t wearing her false ones, and clenched gums were less than threatening. Lord, O’Reilly thought, harking back to his boxing days, And in the blue corner at one hundred and eighty pounds … “Ladies,” he said. “Ladies, whatever seems to be the trouble?” He could make no sense of all the women’s voices speaking at once, but made a shrewd guess about what was being said. “All right, all right,” he said, “now settle down. Settle down.” He waited as Flo smoothed her dress as a just-pecked mallard duck would waggle her tail feathers. Maggie adjusted her hat. It had a single wilted bluebell in its brim. “Can we not sort this out like the civilised people we are?” he said. Flo glowered at Maggie. Maggie folded her arms across her chest. Their supporters closed ranks behind their principals. “All right,” said O’Reilly, “let me see if I can get this straight. Maggie. Maggie?” “Yes, Doctor O’Reilly.” “You and your friends love Kinky and you want her day to be perfect, don’t you?” “We do, so we do, but,” Maggie turned her frowning face sideways to Flo Bishop, “thon Flo—” O’Reilly cut her off. “Flo, you and Aggie and Cissie feel the same way but think you know a better way to make Kinky’s wedding day shine?” Flo glowered and said, “Me and the ladies do love Kinky and she told me that on the night Archie proposed he give her red roses and that’s why—” O’Reilly cut her off too. He wanted no more petrol poured on the flames. “Whoa,” he said, “whoa, calm down and pay attention, the lot of you.” It wouldn’t hurt to throw his weight around just a little bit at the beginning. Take control. “Now listen. I think I know Kinky Kincaid better than anyone in the village and townland. Wouldn’t you all agree?” Subdued murmuring of assent. “Good. And just so we’re all clear, can we agree again that we love Kinky?” Flo scowled at Maggie, who scowled right back. “Ladies?” O’Reilly put an edge of steel in his voice. “Are we all agreed?” “I am,” Cissie Sloan said. “I mind the day she first come til the village, so I do. No harm til you, Doctor dear, but it was way before your time, sir. It was a Wednesday—no, I tell a lie it was a Friday, and she—” First defection on Flo’s side, O’Reilly thought, but let’s not have Cissie ramble on too much. “Houl your wheest, Cissie Sloan,” Jeannie Jingles said, but with a smile. “We all remember her coming and it doesn’t matter a jot or tittle exactly when. What Doctor O’Reilly says is true. There’s not a woman in the whole townland more widely respected.” A breakaway from solidarity with Maggie. “And what,” said O’Reilly, “if the respected Kinky was a fly on the wall here today. What do you reckon she’d be thinking about all these silly selfish schoolgirl shenanigans?” He waited, quite prepared to re-ask the question, but Cissie had started the rent in the fabric of Flo’s group. “I think,” said Aggie Arbuthnot, tearing it further, “she’d be sad to see her friends falling out over nothing, and,” her voice cracked, “I’d not want for Kinky to be unhappy about nothing on her wedding day.” She sighed. “It would be a right shame if she was, so it would.” “You’re dead on, Aggie.” Jeannie Jingles spoke for the opposition. “You just said a mouthful.” She smiled. “I’ll give you my twopenny’s worth,” said Alice Moloney. “I don’t agree, and please let’s not anybody get upset about that, but Kinky’s a very sensible woman. I don’t think she’d be sad at all. I think she’d be laughing like a drain at the lot of us going at it like a bull in a china shop—and all because we want the very best for her. We’re all daft.” She turned to O’Reilly. “We’re like a bunch of kiddies. Thank you, Doctor, for helping us to see that.” O’Reilly inclined his head. “Buck eejits,” said Maggie very quietly, “the
Roughly Oddbins O'Reilly is a Detective Inspector with the Colwyn Bay force. Dr Heinz Pumpernickel is his mysterious writing professor. Roughly produces stories for his writing course that include a description of life on a Cornish lighthouse, the truth about President Obama's dog and an alternative history of the world. The Wonderful World of Jane and Oliver Bloke is a cabinet of curiosities and a Russian doll of a novel. | Author: Rorie Smith | Publisher: Writesideleft | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2023 | Number of Pages: 150 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1739699386 | ISBN-13: 9781739699383
