Legacy Of Ashes
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Author |
: Matthew Ward |
Publisher |
: Orbit |
Total Pages |
: 804 |
Release |
: 2019-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316457897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316457892 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legacy of Ash by : Matthew Ward
Legacy of Ash is an unmissable fantasy debut--an epic tale of intrigue and revolution, soldiers and assassins, ancient magic and the eternal clash of empires. A shadow has fallen over the Tressian Republic. Ruling families -- once protectors of justice and democracy -- now plot against one another with sharp words and sharper knives. Blinded by ambition, they remain heedless of the threat posed by the invading armies of the Hadari Empire. Yet as Tressia falls, heroes rise. Viktor Akadra is the Republic's champion. A warrior without equal, he hides a secret that would see him burned as a heretic. Josiri Trelan is Viktor's sworn enemy. A political prisoner, he dreams of reigniting his mother's failed rebellion. And yet Calenne Trelan, Josiri's sister, seeks only to break free of their tarnished legacy; to escape the expectation and prejudice that haunts the family name. As war spreads across the Republic, these three must set aside their differences in order to save their home. Yet decades of bad blood are not easily set aside. And victory -- if it comes at all -- will demand a darker price than any of them could have imagined.
Author |
: Tim Weiner |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 850 |
Release |
: 2008-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307455628 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307455629 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legacy of Ashes by : Tim Weiner
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
Author |
: Tim Weiner |
Publisher |
: Random House Incorporated |
Total Pages |
: 561 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400067480 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400067480 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Enemies by : Tim Weiner
Presents the history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, detailing how the bureau has been used to conduct political warfare, and how it became the most powerful intelligence service in the United States.
Author |
: Andrew Collins |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2001-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781591439042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1591439043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis From the Ashes of Angels by : Andrew Collins
Provides convincing evidence that angels, demons, and fallen angels were flesh-and-blood members of a giant race predating humanity, spoken of in the Bible as the Nephilim. • Indicates that the earthly paradise of Eden was a realm in the mountains of Kurdistan. • By the author of Gateway to Atlantis. Our mythology describes how beings of great beauty and intelligence, who served as messengers of gods, fell from grace through pride. These angels, also known as Watchers, are spoken of in the Bible and other religious texts as lusting after human women, who lay with them and gave birth to giant offspring called the Nephilim. These religious sources also record how these beings revealed forbidden arts and sciences to humanity--transgressions that led to their destruction in the Great Flood. Andrew Collins reveals that these angels, demons, and fallen angels were flesh-and-blood members of a race predating our own. He offers evidence that they lived in Egypt (prior to the ancient Egyptians), where they built the Sphinx and other megalithic monuments, before leaving the region for what is now eastern Turkey following the cataclysms that accompanied the last Ice Age. Here they lived in isolation before gradually establishing contact with the developing human societies of the Mesopotamian plains below. Humanity regarded these angels--described as tall, white-haired beings with viperlike faces and burning eyes--as gods and their realm the paradise wherein grew the tree of knowledge. Andrew Collins demonstrates how the legends behind the fall of the Watchers echo the faded memory of actual historical events and that the legacy they have left humanity is one we can afford to ignore only at our own peril.
Author |
: Amelia Hutchins |
Publisher |
: Legacy of the Nine Realms |
Total Pages |
: 558 |
Release |
: 2020-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1952712041 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781952712043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ashes of Chaos by : Amelia Hutchins
Aria and company are back inside the Nine Realms, righting the wrongs of the past.
Author |
: Tim Weiner |
Publisher |
: Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2020-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781627790864 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1627790861 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Folly and the Glory by : Tim Weiner
From Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American president With vivid storytelling and riveting insider accounts, Weiner traces the roots of political warfare—the conflict America and Russia have waged with espionage, sabotage, diplomacy and disinformation—from 1945 until 2020. America won the cold war, but Russia is winning today. Vladimir Putin helped to put his chosen candidate in the White House with a covert campaign that continues to this moment. Putin’s Russia has revived Soviet-era intelligence operations gaining ever more potent information from—and influence over—the American people and government. Yet the US has put little power into its defense. This has put American democracy in peril. Weiner takes us behind closed doors, illuminating Russian and American intelligence operations and their consequences. To get to the heart of what is at stake and find potential solutions, he examines long-running 20th-century CIA operations, the global political machinations of the Soviet KGB, the erosion of American political warfare after the cold war, and how 21st-century Russia has kept the cold war alive. The Folly and the Glory is an urgent call to our leaders and citizens to understand the nature of political warfare—and to change course before it’s too late.
Author |
: Tim Weiner |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2014-11-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307824448 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307824446 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Betrayal by : Tim Weiner
The remarkable story of the last American spy of the Cold War: Aldrich “Rick” Ames, the most destructive traitor in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency Tim Weiner, David Johnston, and Neil A. Lewis, reporters for The New York Times, tell how the barons of the CIA could not believe that its headquarters harbored a traitor. For years, the Agency was baffled by a wily Russian spymaster who played a high-stakes chess game against the Americans, deceiving the CIA into thinking that there were other moles—or no moles at all. It took nearly eight years for the CIA to share the full facts of the scenario with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Once they knew those facts, the men and women of the FBI tracked Aldrich Ames day and night for nine months before they arrested him. They tell their story here in astonishing detail for the first time. The interviews are entirely on-the-record. There are no pseudonyms, anonymous quotes, or invented scenes. The men betrayed by Ames were real people, and the stories of their lives are the true history of the espionage game in the waning years of the Cold War.
Author |
: Valynne E. Maetani |
Publisher |
: Tu Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1620142112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781620142110 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ink and Ashes by : Valynne E. Maetani
In this heart-pounding YA mystery, teenager Claire Takata stumbles on a secret from the past and must race to outrun her father's dangerous legacy.
Author |
: Jefferson Morley |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2017-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250139108 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250139104 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ghost by : Jefferson Morley
"The best book ever written about the strangest CIA chief who ever lived." - Tim Weiner, National Book Award-winning author of Legacy of Ashes A revelatory new biography of the sinister, powerful, and paranoid man at the heart of the CIA for more than three tumultuous decades. CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton was one of the most powerful unelected officials in the United States government in the mid-20th century, a ghost of American power. From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton operated beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president. He unwittingly shared intelligence secrets with Soviet spy Kim Philby, a member of the notorious Cambridge spy ring. He launched mass surveillance by opening the mail of hundreds of thousands of Americans. He abetted a scheme to aid Israel’s own nuclear efforts, disregarding U.S. security. He committed perjury and obstructed the JFK assassination investigation. He oversaw a massive spying operation on the antiwar and black nationalist movements and he initiated an obsessive search for communist moles that nearly destroyed the Agency. In The Ghost, investigative reporter Jefferson Morley tells Angleton’s dramatic story, from his friendship with the poet Ezra Pound through the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington to the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate scandal. From the agency’s MKULTRA mind-control experiments to the wars of the Mideast, Angleton wielded far more power than anyone knew. Yet during his seemingly lawless reign in the CIA, he also proved himself to be a formidable adversary to our nation’s enemies, acquiring a mythic stature within the CIA that continues to this day.
Author |
: Tim Weiner |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 2015-06-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781627790840 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1627790845 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis One Man Against the World by : Tim Weiner
The National Book Award–winning author of Legacy of Ashes delivers “a devastating account of Nixon’s presidency . . . powerful [and] extraordinary” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Drawing on newly declassified documents, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not only his cabinet and congress, but the American population at large. In riveting prose, Tim Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate controversy that brought about Nixon’s demise were inextricably linked. From the hail of garbage and curses that awaited Nixon upon his arrival at the White House, to the unprecedented action Nixon took against American citizens, to the infamous break-in and the tapes that bear remarkable record of the most intimate and damning conversations between the president and his confidantes, Weiner narrates the history of Nixon’s anguished presidency in fascinating and fresh detail. A crucial new look at the greatest political suicide in history, One Man Against the World leaves us not only with new insight into this tumultuous period, but also into the motivations and demons of an American president who saw enemies everywhere, and, thinking the world was against him, undermined the foundations of the country he had hoped to lead.