Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The two men were looking for a schooner that was small enough to be handled by four sailors, but strongly built as well. They wanted the ship to be cheap, since they had little funding for the ambitious venture they planned. #2 The two men, François Raynal and Thomas Musgrave, were looking for a ship to take them on their adventure. They found the Grafton, a coal...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus. #2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland with fifty-eight divisions, fourteen of which were armored or motorized. Poland put into the field only thirty divisions, mostly cavalry and infantry, with just one motorized brigade. #2 The Polish General Staff, led by Romer, had unrealistic strategic ideas stemming from a foreign policy that had seen Soviet Russia as the...

Get the Summary of Henry Kissinger's World Order in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era-madvising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades-Kissinger...

Get the Summary of Sandra Lee's 18 Hours in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In the inspiring tradition of Black Hawk Down, this is the riveting real-life story of how an Australian SAS signalman's courage under fire saved more than 80 lives. It is an enthralling eyewitness account of the war on terror. Jock Wallace was pumped. It was the start of Operation Anaconda, the U.S.-led military...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The word Celtic is being used more and more in popular culture. It is being used to boost sales, and it is being used to promote the Celtic lifestyle. #2 The word Celt is used to describe many things. It is used to describe a shared heritage among many political movements, and it is used to describe the people who live in the Celtic countries. But some archaeologists...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The Pattle family was torn apart when World War I broke out. Jack Pattle, who was a military magistrate in South Africa, went off to fight against the Kaiser's troops in South West Africa. It was four long years before he was able to see his children again. #2 The brothers were sent to the local school in Keetmanshoop, and for the first time in their lives, they were...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was reading about Africa's history when I came across the Congo, and what I read shocked me. I had always thought of Africa as a continent with a lot of different countries, but I realized that they all share the same problems: stasis, or stagnation. #2 The Congo was the site of the world's bloodiest war in the 21st century, but the loss of life there hardly made...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Oleg Kalugin, who was the KGB's chief of counterintelligence from 1974 to 1982, said that the Soviet Union first targeted foreign elections a century ago. They would provide money and support to people they thought would be friendly and change their countries' foreign and domestic policies. #2 Secret funding is perhaps the oldest form of covert electoral interference....

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The lawyer, Billy Payne, tried to sell the idea of the Atlanta Olympics to the mayor, Andy Young. But Young had already decided to support the idea. #2 The Olympic Games had been created in Greece in the eighth century BCE as a religious event to honor the god Zeus. In 1896, a French aristocrat with a passion for Greek philosophy, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, led an...