William Walker

Death arrived early at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Two years before the track hosted its first 500-mile event, five drivers and spectators were killed during inaugural races. Death has lingered around the oval ever since. Over the past century, fatalities have mounted and a total of seventy-three drivers, mechanics, and spectators have perished on the two-and-a-half-mile circuit. The Last Lap chronicles one of the greatest Indy mysteries, the deaths of driver Pete Kreis and riding mechanic Bob Hahn in 1934. Piloting a front-drive race car in practice, Kreis crashed into the wall of Turn One, rode along the top of the retaining wall for seventy-five feet, and careened down an embankment at the south end of the oval. As the car smashed into a tree in the backyard of a nearby house, both men were killed. The next year, an impromptu "coroner's jury" of Indy drivers and Speedway experts held an intense review of the accident, and they concluded that Kreis's demise was "the strangest death in all racing history," later implying that the accident may have been a suicide. That informal judgment appeared in a nationwide newspaper story that fueled more controversy and debate among Kreis's relatives, friends, and race fans. Lifelong racing fan and acclaimed historical author, William Walker's (Betrayal at Little Gibraltar) search to solve the mystery surrounding Kreis's death has spanned three-quarters of a century and too many miles to count. Walker's fascination with the mysterious crash is driven by more than a love of racing-Kreis is a distant cousin. The dynamic, nonfiction narrative is the result of a decades long quest in search of the truth--the real story of Pete Kreis, his colorful racing career, and his tragic death.

Pete Kreis's Death Drive at the Indianapolis 500

The Last Lap

Hubert Languet

Glenn S. Sunshine

Of the Lawful Power of the Prince over the People, and of the People over the Prince, Being a Treatise

Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos

Shewing Much of the Variety of Their Significations and Uses in English ; and how to Render Them Into Latin According to the Propriety and Elegancy of that Language ...

A Treatise of English Particles

David Albright

Frans Berkhout

World Inventory of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium, 1992

She is a free spirit of the night. He is a soldier that defends the light. They get an opportunity to talk about life and discover an eternal connection for just one night. Once they realize the connection between their hearts, she tries to get him to discover something deep inside. The goal is to find the spirit of God from within the third eye. Her method to find God is unique and requires a leap of faith. But he has a hard time letting go of what he already believes. They are polar opposites, but together they seem to balance each other out. They are a match made in heaven, and all they have to do is survive a brief separation. He is heading off to hell to fight for freedom, while she is trying to create a heaven on earth. Only time will tell if their efforts can create a rebirth.

A Mind and Heart Altering Interactive Novel

Edge of the Kingdom

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Idiomatologia anglo-latina

"A painstakingly researched account of World War I's violent Meuse-Argonne Offensive and the 100-year-old cover-up at its center traces the efforts of AEF Commander-in-Chief John J. Pershing to capture the near-impregnable German Montfaucon and the inside betrayal that cost untold lives"--NoveList.

A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I

Betrayal at Little Gibraltar

Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines ‘the problem of order’ arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction. This central problem of international order has its origins in the nineteenth century, when industrialization and the emergence of new sciences, technologies and administrative capabilities greatly expanded states’ abilities to inflict injury, ushering in the era of total war. It became acute in the mid-twentieth century, with the invention of the atomic bomb and the pre-eminent role ascribed to nuclear weapons during the Cold War. It became more complex after the end of the Cold War, as power structures shifted, new insecurities emerged, prior ordering strategies were called into question, and as technologies relevant to weapons of mass destruction became more accessible to non-state actors as well as states. William Walker explores how this problem is conceived by influential actors, how they have tried to fashion solutions in the face of many predicaments, and why those solutions have been deemed effective and ineffective, legitimate and illegitimate, in various times and contexts.

Nuclear Weapons and International Order

A Perpetual Menace

Handbook of Drawing

Charles Leocha

Winter 1987-88

Ski Europe

Malcolm Chalmers

This comprehensive text presents a study of the nuclear deterrent from a Scottish persepctive. The presence of nuclear weapons in Scotland has always been controversial north of the border, not least because no specific Scottish consent has been given for their deployment there.

The UK, Nuclear Weapons and the Scottish Question

Uncharted Waters

In the Seven-syllable Character Note System of Music ... : Containing the Choicest Collection of Hymn and Psalm Tunes, Odes and Anthems ... : Also a Copious Elucidation of the Science of Vocal Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners

The Christian Harmony

Philip Gummett

Nationalism, Internationalism and the European Defence Market

The Magnetism of Ships, and the Mariner's Compass

Shewing Much of the Variety of Their Significations and Uses in English: ... With a Praxis Upon the Same. By William Walker, B.D. ...

Shewing Much of the Variety of Their Significations and Uses in English : and how to Render Them Into Latine According to the Propriety and Elegancy of that Language : with a Praxis Upon the Same

Life of ... George Gleig ... bishop of Brechin

"Alter Ego: A Tale" by W. W. Walker. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Alter Ego: A Tale

Excerpt from The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860 Various works purporting to deal with Scottish minor poets and poetry have within recent years been placed before the public - some of them excellent so far as they went, others little better than mere catchpennies, crude and unreliable all of them defective, because the field was too wide for any one man to master or one work contain. I have long felt certain that an adequate presentation of such a subject was only possible through each shire or district receiving separate treatment - hence The Bards of eon-accord. Though the plan proposed in this work was to deal with those writers only, who, connected by birth or residence with our north-eastern district, have published up to 1860, yet its subject is brought down to a much more recent date - living writers, however, with one exception, being excluded from the body of the work. In the Appendix of Fugitive Poetry this latter restriction has been discarded, and notices of living writers whose effusions engaged public attention prior to 1860 are there given. In the bibliography forming part II. Of the Appendix, biographical notes have frequently been added, in order to render the work as fairly complete as the limits of one volume would allow. The treatment of the whole subject is chronological, and dates, more or less approximative, have been given at the top of each page, so that a reader may know at once the period to which any author belongs. The workvfii preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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