Through U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease program, American leaders sought to keep Joseph Stalin’s Red Army in the field and fighting Adolf Hitler’s forces in the Second World War from 1941 forward. Delivered by the Anglo-American Arctic naval convoys, overland through the Iranian deserts and mountains, and through the skies from Alaska to Siberia, this much-needed material aid helped Stalin’s Red Army to continue fighting and thereby prevented a separate peace with Hitler’s Germany and a mechanized repeat of the First World War’s Brest-Litovsk fiasco. Yet Roosevelt and other U.S. officials, due to their severe underestimation of Stalin’s character and his rigid and fanatical devotion to exporting Communism at gunpoint, gambled incorrectly that they could win the Soviet premier’s heart and mind through several excessive wartime aid gestures, including the furnishing of atomic bomb materials to the Soviet regime. By 1945, American leaders had succeeded in their strategic goal of keeping Stalin and his Red Army in the war and hastening victory but failed in their efforts to purchase the Soviet premier’s goodwill and commitment to postwar peace, heralding the global Cold War, and setting the stage for later U.S. martial aid programs to those resisting aggression abroad. In addition to its primary focus on the American leadership’s perceptions of Stalin’s strategic importance to the Allied war effort in the Second World War, this work also includes a detailed assessment of Roosevelt’s Soviet Lend-Lease program alongside U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s later support for the Afghan Islamic guerrillas resisting Soviet occupation during the Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s and a comparison of both martial aid programs with Washington’s recent revival of Lend-Lease aid for the Ukrainian war effort. It offers today’s American leaders and policymakers a chance to consult the lessons of history and apply them in the present.

This story begins 1,728,000 years ago - When a great war was going on in a different world of different dimensions - The evil from that world came into our dimension and started taking control of this earth - The warriors of that world took a new birth on our earth - But these warriors did not remember anything about their previous birth...

James Blackthorne has composed a complex puzzle with a strange adventure as the centerpiece this book is the result of three stories based on the idea that people, however, eccentric are passionately committed to one another in a struggle to keep the lifestyle they love. Memories, magic and even murder lies in wait as they endure their travels throughout the cosmic realms. When the chapter begins, we discover that the finest mind in the known world has died. This mysterious character is a Grand Wizard called Leon Davith. His only heir and successor is also his greatest creation, a self – aware Golem by the name of Bardson Wolf. He'll be faced with adversaries and dilemmas that threatened to test the very steel that comprises his magic soaked form. Join him on his journey of self – discovery, even as the forces of chaos seek to unmake the very world he only wishes to see preserved. After reaching midway in the fast-moving chapters, Bard has long been in retirement ever since his journey of self discovery came to an end, now content to carry on research on the matter of summoning in the Nine Moons that fuel that Summoning, he unlocks powerful foe that he has to hastily seal away, for fear of the destruction that it might cause. Perhaps the highlight of these adventures are the final chapters that feature the title, Thunder at Dawn, Threshold of the Unknown." Within this thrilling sequence, Bard, Quill, Erin and Leda seek to undo the nightmare that their own negligence ultimately visited upon the world, and through it all, a mysterious Plague strikes unwary citizens, corrupting them with darkness and madness telling them after they've spent the better part of the year has monsters spreading the mysterious illness and dealing death to any fall victim to their talons. But in their way are the Fve Commanders of the Black Legion, including an engamatic Black Warrior wearing a Golden eye patch, called the" White Wolf" this foe is an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. Observe how he dogs the steps of the heroes every chance that presents itself. Will the world died a slow, choking back under the federal rule of the demon Lord known for causing the slow extinction of the entire world's in his cruelty, or will the red warrior find the ultimate weapon in time and bring about an end to the dark Prince? And just who is the mysterious red warrior who rides and Emerald Bird? And why does he seek the Greatest Sword in the known universe, Thunder at Dawn?

The second in a trio of games, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth continues with the epic retelling of the original Final Fantasy VII story. Follow Cloud Strife and company, as they chase Sephiroth, after the events that unfolded in the city of Midgar. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will contain the same action-based combat system introduced in Remake, with additions to keep it fresh. To help you along the way, this guide plans to contain the following content: - Breakdown of gameplay elements and combat mechanics - Detailed guides on how to play every playable character - Boss strategies for those who might be struggling - Walkthroughs for the harder-to-complete Side Quests - Locations of any and all Collectibles - Extensive list of all Minigames, with thorough guides on all of them - Roadmap and guide on how to unlock the coveted Platinum Trophy

The author James Blackthorne portrays his characters as having a strong fighting spirit. The main emphasis is on a character referred to as Bardson Wolfe. He is the son of the grand wizard Leon Davith. Bard is a Glorious Golum that faces overwhelming odds in this well-placed adventure. The bronze Golum remains true to his ideals and takes a firm commitment to his father despite every setback. Leon returned to the room with the large mirror. The pen was still lying on the desk. He sat down with his son Bard and explained how generations upon generations born into the Black Army culture, rose to die. None questioned it, none cared, and their culture was founded around the ideal of slaughter, of merciless battle. They knew nothing of cities, save for the ones they razed, and when none would challenge or oppose them in their great power, they would challenge themselves, battling their own ranks for the sake of maintaining the slaughter. Eventually this self-sustaining death machine, this device of war, mutated into the ones that were known today as the Black Army The Army was the result of the chaotic masses suddenly coming. Some called them the black ones, others, Shadow lords. None dared to call them a friend. It was here that battle was fought daily, not for the sake of any ideal or concept, but due to the sheer boredom the armies had amassed for many ages, long since born into the culture of war, a civilization forged from death. new lord was proclaimed. A far more savage, brutal, and intelligent lord than the Black Army could have ever hoped for. And this new high general began creating a bastion for the otherwise vagrant army of darkness, and once it had been devised, he took a name fitting his status and power. Malakaezar the Black Dragon, head of the army of darkness. But he wasn't content to merely let his army settle into the Dark Continent as his predecessor had, and hungrily, this rogue turned his gaze to the lands beyond, licking his lips at the unfazed lands just Bardson Wolfe the high golem was up to. Screaming as those heads fell over them, the black warriors perished then and there at the hands of the Sarganatas Hydra, a horrific monster that planted itself into the ground, waiting for prey to come to it. Born to destroy, born to kill, raised from the youngest available age to kill or be killed, to devote oneself to senseless bloodshed. And no god could hold sway over their hearts. They knew, for many were those who had been attacked by divine magic intended to sway their hearts away from what the majority of the warriors considered to be their true purpose. However, to a black warrior, such as divine magic was simply considered a jest, for gods could never exist within their hearts. They were immune to holy intervention, though it had been tried many times. Most, if not all the warriors were so resilient to divine magic and spells that a single warrior could weather out a smite spell, considered to be the strongest of Divine Magic because the God connected to it was the one attacking.

Reader beware! This is a big story so it takes volumes of pages to explain the details. However under the heading of Thunder at Dawn, a lot transpires. The beings who participate in the adventure are the particularly stubborn type, brimming over with the will to live. At times the characters face a struggle to survive within their habitat that appears to be more like a living hell. However, to Leon Davith, his Golem son Bard along with his Enchantress companion who is called Quill , team up with two Warrior Ferries who believe that joining with these eccentrics to seek a high and mighty adventure is pure heaven. But all that changes! Bard chanced to carry the Mighty Sword, as he approached the Gnomish City located on the Threshold of the Unknown he noticed how after unsheathing Thunder At Dawn' it reacted by jolting, hissing along with emitting the battery of sparks. It was said that thunder at Dawn was forged from a brilliant lightning bolt striking Dawn itself. Leon the Grand Wizard said that Thunder at Dawn was forged from was forged from a brilliant lighting bolt striking Dawn itself. Meanwhile Quill loaded airship to make a lengthy journey Moreover Erin in Leda returned to Eleven Sky City to insure the well being of the inhabitants. Bard began studying the course and laying the navigations down, while Leon left on an errand to the Empire across the ocean that was headed by the Seer of Shadows, who'd doubtless was elated by the news of the Dark Lords resignation. For the moment Leon had other concerns he brought several things with him namely a phial of the cure he could replicate a phial of Blue Rose potion Yaga had given him, he could now create it at any time, for Blue Roses were a mercifully common plant in many parts of the world and quite easily procured. In one instance Erin and Leda glanced up to see a renewed Leo entered the room, is this size having been returned to its youthful state thanks to the Blue Rose Potion he'd drank. Leon? Don't I get a sit of the cure-all for Crow's feet?" Quill shouted in mock outrage. Quill raised out of her chair to grab the now youthful Leon Davith in a headlock. 'Just allow me to use that potion you stupid jerk!" She snarled, rubbing the wizards scalp raw with her fist. In another less than humorous incident was God came to stand before Bard. "Give that cursed weapon to me boy", said the god. Thunder at Dawn's true form went alight once more and began sending pillars of energy forth even as a lure slowly rose to his feet single-mindedly racing for his friends Bard on the other hand slowly advanced on thunder at Dawn even as it sent waves upon waves of energy after Bard blown back again and again the Golan stubbornly held on as he rushed to the sword stabbing it with its counter shadow blade his intuition paid off. in The black energies of that weapon left the hilt and immediately began corrupting the towering blade of raw energy . thus, chaos had been stopped before his plans could be once again set back into motion. What was the first "as the demon Lord Constable meanwhile back in God sheathe, the red warrior stood before the remains of thunder at Dawn, grabbing up Shadow Blade's hilt and smiling with the remains of its black energy issued forth sheathing the weapon, sheathing the weapon he left whistling to his Emerald Bird the two flew off leaving the cursed remains of Thunder at Dawn far behind as well as pursuit of the sword. Read realized it was time to make tracks. The two flew off leaving the cursed remains of thunder at Dawn far behind as well as his pursuit of the sword better to leave it at that for no sword designed to destroy the world was worth wielding, that he knew for sure. Finally near the end it was concluded that to great swords could not coexist." We should remain apart while we have the weapons." Bard sighed"

Get ready for an exhilarating journey that fuses sci-fi, spirituality, and humor in "Red Man's Gift," the thrilling sequel to "Ari Barak and the Free-Will Paradox." Join Ari and Howard as they embark on a mind-bending adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat. After their yeshiva, Nekudas Habechira, is abruptly closed down, Ari and Howard must adjust to life at a more traditional yeshiva. But when Ari is falsely accused of wrongdoing, he finds himself fighting against a mysterious foe determined to tarnish his reputation and destroy his life. Fortunately, Ari and Howard still possess the Stream Engines that Rabbi White gifted them, enabling them to traverse countless parallel universes, each shaped by humanity's free will choices. As they journey through these diverse universes, they confront profound questions about the nature of free will and unlock a stunning revelation about the true identity and motives of their adversary. "Red Man's Gift" is an epic tale for young adults and young-at-heart adults alike, blending thrilling sci-fi action with witty humor and profound spiritual insights rooted in Jewish tradition. Don't miss out on the wild ride of a lifetime!

This is a story of a misguided youth and his two brothers. After a time in hibernation, he had felt God had abandoned them and set out to destroy all of mankind during the time of the flood of Noah. The misguided boy reawaken in the modern day and later met up with a strange man in Greece, making his brothers follow suit. His life is rattled with joy, pain, anger, hate and love. Will his brothers betray him, or will they follow with his evil ways? Will he realize that God was with him the whole time? Will the boy fall for Satan's lies and part from God for good? Will he and his family make it off of Earth before God destroys it, or will the boy be trapped by his sins?