Imperial Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Fire write by Robert Lyndon. This book was released on 2014-03-11. Imperial Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. AN EPIC HISTORICAL QUEST SET AT THE DAWN OF THE AGE OF GUNPOWDER. In the world after 1066, vast empires clamor for dominance. From the Normans in the north to the Byzantines in the south, battles rage across Europe and around its fringes. But in the east, an empire still mightier stirs, wielding a weapon to rule the world: gunpowder. Seeking the destructive might of this 'fire drug,' the mercenary Vallon -- a man made of grit and earth as much as of flesh and blood -- is sent by the defeated Byzantine emperor on a secret and near-impossible quest to the far off land of Song Dynasty China. Alongside a squadron of highly trained soldiers, Vallon is accompanied by the learned physician Hero, hermit-like tracker Wayland and a young, ego-driven upstart named Lucas. All have their own reasons for going, all have secrets. It's a quest that will lead them across treacherous seas and arid desserts and into an uncharted land of mountains and plains beyond the Silk Road. Many will die. . .but the rewards could be extraordinary.
The Hamlet Fire
The Hamlet Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hamlet Fire write by Bryant Simon. This book was released on 2020-07-23. The Hamlet Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at the plant were silenced or fired. But jobs were scarce in town, so workers kept coming back, and the company continued to operate with impunity. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing plant a stone's throw from Hamlet's city hall burst into flames. Twenty-five people perished that day behind the plant's locked and bolted doors. It remains one of the deadliest accidents ever in the history of the modern American food industry. Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past in the United States. However, as award-winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions. The Hamlet fire and its aftermath reveal the social costs of antiunionism, lax regulations, and ongoing racial discrimination. Using oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy.
Hunting days
Hunting days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hunting days write by Li Donghao. This book was released on . Hunting days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The moonlight, like water, pours on the precise and complicated lines of the disc, arousing brilliance. The huge disc is like silver moon hanging in the air, and short figures emerge from the mirror of the disc.
Fire Caste
Fire Caste - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire Caste write by Peter Fehervari. This book was released on 2013-03-26. Fire Caste available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Black Library novel starring the mysterious alien race the tau In the jungles of the Dolorosa Coil, a coalition of alien tau and human deserters have waged war upon the Imperium for countless years. Fresh Imperial Guard forces from the Arkhan Confederates are sent in to break the stalemate and annihilate the xenos. But greater forces are at work, and the Confederates soon find themselves broken and scattered. As they fight a desperate guerrilla war, their only hope may lie in the hands of a disgraced commissar, hell-bent on revenge.
Hawk Quest
Hawk Quest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hawk Quest write by Robert Lyndon. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Hawk Quest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The year is 1072. The Normans have captured England. The Turks have captured a Norman knight. And in order to free him, a soldier named Vallon must capture four rare hawks. On a heart-stopping journey to the far ends of the earth, braving Arctic seas, Viking warlords, and the blood-drenched battlefields, Vallon and his comrades must track down their quarry one by one in a relentless race against time. The scale is huge. The journey is incredible. The history is real. This is Hawk Quest.
