ANOTHER EPIC STEP HAS BEEN MADE IN WARS OF THE MIND VOL. 4 (ON-TOP A HILL - BENEATH A TALL TREE.) THIS NEW INSTALLMENT IN THE ONGOING MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL BATTLES OF THE WARS OF THE MIND FOLLOWS VOCALIST/ POET JONATHAN W. HAUBERT THROUGH SOME OF THE DARKEST TIMES OF THE POET'S CAREER AND LEADING TO THE MOST EPIC ADVENTURES OF HIS LIFE. AFTER THE COMPLETION OF VOL. 3 (BEHIND OPEN DOORS.) JONATHAN WAS READY TO TAKE FULL CONTROL OF HIS PERSONAL STRUGGLES THROUGH INNER STRENGTH AND SOBRIETY BUT SUCH ACHIEVEMENTS WERE SHORT LIVED, AFTER GAINING THE NEWS OF THE DEATHS OF MANY LOVED ONES, JONATHAN THEN FELL BACK INTO A MUCH DARKER DEPRESSION. HEARTBROKEN AND AT ROCK-BOTTOM, JONATHAN WAS SEARCHING FOR CONTROL AND HOPE, AND THAT HOPE WAS INDEED GAINED, WHEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO REUNITE WITH LONGTIME BEST-FRIEND AND GUITARIST JULIO C. SALAZAR IN COUNT YOUR DEAD AND TO JOIN IN THE WRITING AND RECORDING OF THEIR DEBUT ALBUM "NO RETURN." SO ONCE AGAIN I WELCOME YOU THE READER INTO THIS ENDLESSLY GROWING POETIC WORLD OF LOVE, DEATH, RAGE, PAIN, HATE, HOPE AND TRUTH. SO COME NOW AND TAKE THIS FOURTH STEP INTO THE WARS OF OUR MINDS.

Explore the Dark Side of My Mind with this collection of poetry. These works cover a variety of emotions and poetic styles. Every volume is a new adventure into the life and mind of Briana Blair. Explore feelings of love, hate, fear, hope, pain and everything in between. All of my work arose from things in my own life, whether it was an actual event, a dream, a memory or just the strange roamings of my brain. Each piece has meaning to me, but the reader is left to create their own interpretations. An excellent series, even for those who don’t typically enjoy poetry.

Enter the next chapter in the Wars of the Mind Vol. 3 (Behind Open Doors.) This third volume in the series explores much deeper into the mind of Jonathan W. Haubert and follows along in the vocalist/poet's adventures in stage and studio. Clear minded and focused Jonathan W. Haubert decided for this installment to take a slightly less profane and vulgar direction and to focus a bit more on the timelines and backstories of the young vocalist/poet. Using his lyrics/music and poetry Jonathan was able to find the strength needed to finally overcome his longtime battles with alcohol and drug addiction, to help find sobriety and inner peace. So once again I would like to welcome you into this ever growing poetic world of Love, Death, Rage, Pain, Hate, Hope and Truth. To overcome any and all obstacles and to in turn help find the strength to find a true sense of hope and peace. So come forth and take this next step in the ongoing battles of the Wars of Our Minds...

While many Civil War reference books exist, there is no single compendium that contains important details about the combatant states (and territories) that Civil War researchers can readily access for their work. People looking for information about the organizations, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Civil War States and state governments must assemble data from a variety of sources, with many key sources remaining unavailable online. This crucial reference book, the fourth in the States at War series, provides vital information on the organization, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey during the Civil War. Its principal sources include the Official Records, state adjutant-general reports, legislative journals, state and federal legislation, federal and state executive speeches and proclamations, and the general and special orders issued by the military authorities of both governments, North and South. Designed and organized for easy use by professional historians and amateurs, this book can be read in two ways: by individual state, with each chapter offering a stand-alone history of an individual stateÕs war years; or across states, comparing reactions to the same event or solutions to the same problems.

This, the fourth volume of a five part work that provides a comprehensive insight into all aspects of RAF Bomber Command in World War Two, begins in the spring of 1944 with a completely new insight on the catastrophic raid on Nuremburg on the night of 30/31 March and follows with the disastrous attack on Mailly-le-Camp in May. Gradually, the Allied Bomber Offensive began to bear fruit and in June 1944 the invasion of Normandy took place under an umbrella of almost total Allied air superiority. RAF Bomber Command was to play a huge part in what proved to be the final steps to ultimate victory, returning to the mass raids on German cities by night and even mounting raids on the Reich by day. The authors well-tried formula of using background information interspersed with the crews personal narrative takes you raid by raid through each tour of ops while carrying full bomb loads in sub-zero temperatures, blighted by atrocious weather conditions and dogged by fear of fire, death or serious injury or having to endure months if not years of miserable existence and near starvation behind the wire in notorious PoW camps. The path to peace was paved with the unmitigated slow ebbing of courage with an ever-present possibility of death unannounced from a prowling night fighter, nondescript and unseen, as night after incessant night, shattered and ailing bombers could run out of luck to crash in some foreign field while other crews, almost home almost empty - ran out of fuel and died horrible tortuous deaths in twisted and tangled wreckage. Not for them the glory that was accorded The Few but as Winston Churchill said: Fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.

World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. Over 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war (including the victims of a number of genocides), a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and the tactical stalemate caused by trench warfare, a grueling form of warfare in which the defender held the advantage. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. The war drew in all the world's economic great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom/British Empire, France and the Russian Empire) versus the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Although Italy was a member of the Triple Alliance alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary, it did not join the Central Powers, as Austria-Hungary had taken the offensive, against the terms of the alliance. These alliances were reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war: Italy, Japan and the United States joined the Allies, while the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers. The trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. This set off a diplomatic crisis when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, and entangled international alliances formed over the previous decades were invoked. Within weeks, the major powers were at war and the conflict soon spread around the world. On 28 July, the Austro-Hungarians declared war on Serbia and subsequently invaded. As Russia mobilised in support of Serbia, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg before moving towards France, leading the United Kingdom to declare war on Germany. After the German march on Paris was halted, what became known as the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition, with a trench line that would change little until 1917. Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front, the Russian army was successful against the Austro-Hungarians, but was stopped in its invasion of East Prussia by the Germans. In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai. Italy joined the Allies in 1915 and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers in the same year, while Romania joined the Allies in 1916, followed by United States in 1917. The Russian government collapsed in March 1917, and a subsequent revolution in November brought the Russians to terms with the Central Powers via the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, which constituted a massive German victory. After a stunning German offensive along the Western Front in the spring of 1918, the Allies rallied and drove back the Germans in a series of successful offensives. On 4 November 1918, the Austro-Hungarian empire agreed to an armistice, and Germany, which had its own trouble with revolutionaries, agreed to an armistice on 11 November 1918, ending the war in victory for the Allies. By the end of the war, the German Empire, Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire had ceased to exist. National borders were redrawn, with several independent nations restored or created, and Germany's colonies were parceled out among the winners. During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the Big Four (Britain, France, the United States and Italy) imposed their terms in a series of treaties. The League of Nations was formed with the aim of preventing any repetition of such a conflict. This, however, failed with economic depression, renewed European nationalism, weakened member states, and the German feeling of humiliation contributing to the rise of Nazism. These conditions eventually contributed to World War II.