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Into the Storm is the first book of the Destroyermen series of alternate history novels by Taylor Anderson.The main setting of the series is the four-stacker USS Walker, which in this series is part of the United States Asiatic Fleet, and being pursued by the Japanese battlecruiser Amagi.
The Destroyermen series is a series of alternate history books, written by American writer and historian Taylor Anderson.The fifteen books in the series are Into the Storm, Crusade (both 2008), Maelstrom (2009), Distant Thunders (2010), Rising Tides, Firestorm (both 2011), Iron Gray Sea (2012), Storm Surge (2013), Deadly Shores (2014), [1] Straits of Hell (2015), Blood in the Water (2016 ...
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Several of his books were finalist for a number of major literary awards. Into the Storm was a finalist for the 2009 Compton Crook Award. [11] Blood in the Water was a finalist for the 2016 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel [12] and Devil’s Battle was a finalist for the 2024 Dragon Award for Best Alternate ...
Into the Storm is a sequel to the 2002 television film The Gathering Storm, which details the life of Churchill in the years just prior the war. Into the Storm had its first public premiere on HBO and HBO Canada on 31 May 2009. [1] [2] Into the Storm was nominated for 14 Primetime Emmy Awards. [3]
The book also describes the transformation of the U.S. Army, traumatized by the Vietnam War, and Franks' devastating loss of a leg in that war. Franks became the first amputee active-duty general since the American Civil War. The book is mostly written by Tom Clancy with sections where he uses General Franks' own words.
In early May 2009, Warner Bros. picked up the option to turn Crazy for the Storm into a motion picture. The memoir Crazy for the Storm talks about the growing process of the author, Norman Ollestad, supervised by his strict dad, who asks him to surf, ski, and play hockey at his very young age. Norman resented this at first, and describes his ...
Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Rankin (October 16, 1920 – July 6, 2009) was the first person to survive a fall from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud. [1] He was a pilot in the United States Marine Corps and a World War II and Korean War veteran.