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Free Download The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea by Gregory A. Freeman
English | October 29, 2013 | ISBN: 0451465768 | 304 pages | PDF | 8.35 Mb
In October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic-a clash that would prove dramatic, tragic, perplexing, and ultimately one of the most unforgettable stories of Superstorm Sandy.

Free Download The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea by Gregory A. Freeman
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0451465768 | 304 Pages | EPUB | 7.2 MB
In October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic-a clash that would prove dramatic, tragic, perplexing, and ultimately one of the most unforgettable stories of Superstorm Sandy.

Free Download Taming the Risk Hurricane: Preparing for Major Business Disruption by David Hillson
English | September 6, 2022 | ISBN: 152300049X | 168 pages | PDF | 4.02 Mb
A leading expert on risk management describes how to steer your company through a "risk hurricane"-the extreme risk exposure that can lead to major disruption for your business.

Free Download Gail Langer Karwoski, Julia Marshall, "When Hurricane Katrina Hit Home"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1626190836 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.6 mb
Chazz Cohen lives with his grandmom in the Garden District of New Orleans. In his family, money is no problem. But money won’t buy Chazz what he wants-a "real" home with his mom. Across town in the Ninth Ward, Lyric Talbert wishes her mom didn’t expect so much from her, especially when her little brother gets sick. It seemed like the storm would blow over as so many had. But Katrina burst the levees, and the world turned to chaos for Chazz and Lyric and their families. They quickly learn that, though their worlds were different before the storm, it was their courage and compassion that would help them make it through. Through the alternating stories of Chazz and Lyric, acclaimed children’s author Gail Langer Karwoski chronicles the disaster that forever changed New Orleans and its people.

Free Download Arise to Conquer: The ‘Real’ Hurricane Pilot by I.R. Gleed
English | June 20th, 2022 | ISBN: 1399017101 | 232 pages | True EPUB | 23.89 MB
Born in 1916, after learning to fly as a civilian, Ian Richard Gleed was granted a RAF commission in 1936. He completed training on Christmas Day that year, being posted to 46 Squadron which was equipped with the Gloster Gauntlet.

Free Download Aleksander Rusinov, "Soviet Hurricane Aces of World War 2"
English | 2012 | pages: 98 | ISBN: 1849087415 | PDF | 5,5 mb
Following the destruction wrought on the Red Army Air Forces during the first days of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Soviet Union found itself desperately short of fighter aircraft. Premier Josef Stalin duly appealed directly to Prime Minister Winston Churchill for replacement aircraft, and in late 1941 the British delivered the first of 3360 Hurricanes that would be supplied to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease agreement. Specifically requested by the USSR, the Hurricanes were quickly thrown into action in early 1942 – the Soviet Air Forces’ most difficult year in their opposition to the Luftwaffe. Virtually all the Hurricanes were issued to Soviet fighter regiments in the northern sector of the front, where pilots were initially trained to fly the aircraft by RAF personnel that had accompanied the early Hawker fighters to the USSR. The Hurricane proved to be an easy aircraft to master, even for the poorly trained young Soviet pilots, allowing the Red Army to form quickly a large number of new fighter regiments in the polar area. In spite of a relatively poor top speed, and only a modest rate-of-climb, the Hurricane was the mount of at least 17 Soviet aces.

Free Download Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War by Jacky Hyams
English | June 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1789294908 | eISBN: 9781789294903 | 210 Pages | EPUB | 6.3 MB
Britain’s first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.

Free Download Robin Koontz, John Hinderliter, "What Was Hurricane Katrina?"
English | 2015 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 0448486628, 0606367624 | EPUB | 66,7 mb
On August 25th, 2005, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in history hit the Gulf of Mexico. High winds and rain pummeled coastal communities, including the City of New Orleans, which was left under 15 feet of water in some areas after the levees burst. Track this powerful storm from start to finish, from rescue efforts large and small to storm survivors’ tales of triumph.

Free Download Ophera Davis, "The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina: The Resilience and Recovery of Mississippi Black Women"
English | ISBN: 1646634292 | 2021 | 184 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Hurricane seasons have become overactive since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit. The only longitudinal study on a single group of women disaster survivors in America, The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina brings overlooked voices to the forefront as these women share their stories and strategies of survival and recovery before, during, and after Katrina. Using narrative theory and author Alice Walker’s "womanist" orientation, these empowered women provide, in their own words, lessons learned and strategies for how to rebuild one’s life after disasters.