[PDF] Sylvias Soldier eBook

Author : Ram Oren
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813146976

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"There is a lack of quiet in Sylvia that craves for action.... She knows that she is special and that she possesses unusual and varied abilities." -- From the Mossad's psychological evaluation of Sylvia Rafael When Moti Kfir, head of the Academy for Special Operations of the Mossad, first interviewed Sylvia Rafael in a coffee shop, he knew she would make a great combatant for Israel's intelligence agency. She was outgoing, resourceful, brilliant, and had a talent for bonding with others. When Kfir warned her that the mysterious job they'd met to discuss could be dangerous, she simply sat back comfortably in her chair and smiled. Sylvia Rafael is the page-turning account of a young, dedicated agent as told by the man who trained her. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, authors Ram Oren and Moti Kfir tell the story of Rafael's rise to prominence within the Mossad and her intelligence work trying to locate Ali Hassan Salameh -- the leader of Palestine's Black September organization and the mastermind behind the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Her team's misidentification of their mark would eventually lead to her arrest and imprisonment for murder and espionage. Now available in English for the first time, Sylvia Rafael offers new insight into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, its history, and its human cost. It is a gripping, authentic spy story about a fearless defender of the Jewish people.

Author : Sylvia R. Frey
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0292749279

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This social history of the common British soldier in the American Revolution dispels myths and sheds new light on who fought for the Crown—and why. In this extensive study, Sylvia Frey surveys recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs to provide insight into the soldier’s “life and mind.” In the process she reveals a great deal about the common soldier: his social origins and occupational background, his size, age, and general physical condition, his personal economics and daily existence. Her findings dispel the traditional assumption that the army was made up largely of criminals and social misfits. Special attention is given to soldiering as an occupation, and the moral and material factors which induced men to accept the high risks. Focusing on two of the major campaigns of the war—the Northern Campaign which culminated at Saratoga and the Southern Campaign which ended at Yorktown—Frey describes the human face of war, with particular emphasis on the physical and psychic strains of campaigning in the eighteenth century. Frey rejects the traditional assumption that soldiers were motivated to fight exclusively by fear and force and argues instead that the primary motivation to battle was generated by regimental esprit, which in the eighteenth century substituted for patriotism. After analyzing the sources of esprit, she concludes that it was the sustaining force for morale in a long and discouraging war.

Author : Timothy J. Korzep
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1469737019

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The President of the United States has been abducted. While meeting with other world leaders in a unified Europe of the future, President Marge Haydon is among the members of the elite G-10 taken captive by militants who crash a peaceful inaugural luncheon. The terrorists, led by a mysterious man called the Prophet, now have control of some of the most powerful people in the world. Sylvia Jensen is President Haydon's personal assistant. She is a child of the new millennium, trained in anti-terrorism and modern combat. Whether it's mere fate or divine intervention that puts her in the right place at the right time, she may be the world's only chance at a peaceful resolution. But even Jensen can't be sure who she's up against in the gray area of foreign relations, and no-body knows the identity of the Prophet. Jensen finds herself up against a power-hungry threesome who has already amassed almost seven percent of the world's gold re-serves. These men want more, though, and now lives are at stake in the name of domination and greed. The world must watch and wait as world leaders suffer hours of terror and the world approaches the brink of disaster.

Author : Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752355174

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Reproduction of the original: Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell