“Beth!” Billy screamed from behind her. “Right. Your right!” She had been just about to fire at the two zombies attacking Mac, and so even as she turned, she did not turn her pistol completely, but kept it aimed to the front towards Mac and the two zombies. By the time she registered how close the three zombies were to her, there was no time to turn the pistol and fire. #Horror #Series #Dystopian #Apocalyptic
The schematics for the neural network were a symphony of complexity, a testament to the intricate beauty and terrifying potential of the human mind. Emily, hunched over her console, felt a profound connection to the data streams flowing before her. Each line of code, each simulated pathway, represented a step closer to her ultimate goal: the creation of a consciousness untethered by the frailties of the flesh, a mind capable of processing the universe at speeds that would leave organic brains gasping in its wake. #readers #Kindle#Frankenstein #Horror
A young Neanderthal girl is orphaned in a brutal attack and left to survive on her own. This is her story of how she survived, set on the European continent 45,000 years ago… #Readers #BookLovers #BookWorms #HistoricalFiction #DellSweet #Neanderthal
In the ancient past, a cro magnon girl child was born and promised in marriage to a distant related tribe. She has come of age, sixteen and will now be escorted across several hundred miles of wilderness to her soon to be mate in the distant tribe.. Hunters and a medicine woman will accompany her. Once there she will begin her new life and face whatever lies ahead for them… #Prehistoric #CavePeoples #CroMagnon #Readers #HistoricalFiction
by Dell Sweet (Author) Format: Kindle Edition To my brothers and sisters on the inside, those whose names I whisper in the quiet hours, those who taught me the brutal calculus of survival: may your scars be badges of your strength, and may your eventual release be a sunrise that washes away the long night. This book is a testament to your resilience, a raw whisper from the belly of the beast. It is for the ones who never made it out, whose lives were extinguished by the system, and whose memories serve as a perpetual warning. #Prison #Crime #Survival #Inside
The Wastelands are the ruins of America after the biggest extinction event in 75,000 years hit the planet Earth. Billions of people died, those that didn’t had no help because the governments, military all crumbled and fell apart.
But a virus was born during the destruction and bred in the billions of bodies. A virus that reanimates the dead. Some believe the world governments released it, some believe it was developed and nurtured by nature, just an occurrence that was bound to happen. It wouldn’t be the first time that the human race was nearly toppled by a virus, after all. Meet the survivors and their daily struggles to stay alive as they make their way through the destruction in search of other survivors, food, and water… #ApocalypticFiction #Horror #Readers #ProphetX #SameWolfe #ZombieFiction
Earth’s Survivors Collection Four: Candace and Mike Kindle Edition
The Earth’s Survivors books follow groups of survivors as they struggle to stay alive in a vastly changed world. The most popular group were Candace and Mike. #Dystopian #ApocalypticFiction #Horror #ZombieFiction #Series
The world, as Alex Chen knew it, had fractured beyond repair. The year was a ghost, a relic of a time when governments held sway and infrastructure meant more than shattered concrete and rusted rebar. America was no longer a nation, but a patchwork quilt of territories, each a desperate scramble for survival. In this mosaic of decay, the East Coast Police Department, or ECPD, stood as a thin, fraying shield. Their jurisdiction, a meager few hundred miles of crumbling asphalt and scattered, desperate outposts, felt less like a territory and more like a last stand. #Dystopian #ApocalypticFiction #PostApocalyptic #Survival #ECPD #Series #Dystopian
World War II was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. Here’s a brief rundown:
Causes and Start: The war began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland. This prompted the United Kingdom and France to declare war on Germany, honoring their guarantees to Poland. Germany’s aggressive expansion, including the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, and the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviet Union, set the stage for the war.
Main Countries Involved:
Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and their allies
Allied Powers: UK, France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and their allies
Why Countries Were Involved:
Germany sought to expand its territory, resources, and dominance in Europe.
Italy and Japan wanted to expand their empires and secure resources.
The UK and France aimed to prevent German aggression and maintain their colonial empires.
The Soviet Union initially collaborated with Germany but later joined the Allies after being invaded.
The US entered the war after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, seeking to protect its interests and security.
Duration: The war lasted six years, from 1939 to 1945, ending with Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945.
American Casualties: The US suffered approximately 418,500 military deaths, with over 650,000 wounded.
End of the War: The Allies accepted Germany’s surrender on May 8, 1945 (V-E Day). The US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945 (V-J Day).
Operation Fortitude: You’re likely referring to Operation Fortitude, a successful Allied deception plan that misled Germany about the D-Day invasion site. The Allies created a fake army, with fake equipment and radio transmissions, to convince Germany that the invasion would occur at Pas-de-Calais, rather than Normandy. This helped secure the success of the D-Day invasion.
World War II had a profound impact on the global economy, leading to:
Massive Destruction: Widespread devastation of infrastructure, industries, and human capital in Europe and Asia.
Shift in Global Power: The US emerged as a dominant economic power, while the UK’s economy was severely weakened.
Bretton Woods System: The 1944 conference established the US dollar as a global reserve currency, shaping international trade and finance.
Global Debt: Countries accumulated significant debt, leading to post-war economic challenges.
Industrial Growth: The war drove innovation, accelerating technological advancements and industrial production in the US.
New Global Order: The war laid the groundwork for the Cold War and the formation of international organizations like the United Nations.
The war’s economic impact was felt for decades, shaping global trade, politics, and economies.
Post-WWWII economic challenges included:
Reconstruction: Rebuilding devastated economies, infrastructure, and industries in Europe and Asia.
Inflation: Managing inflation, which rose due to wartime spending and shortages.
Unemployment: Transitioning from war-time to peacetime economies, leading to job shifts.
Debt: Managing massive government debt accumulated during the war.
Trade: Re-establishing international trade disrupted by the war.
Conversion: Shifting industries from war production to consumer goods.
The US faced challenges like demobilization and labor strikes, while Europe faced food shortages and economic instability. The Marshall Plan (1948) helped stimulate European recovery.
Maya Ramos, a miracle worker with grease-stained hands and eyes that saw the soul of an engine, kept these metal titans breathing, her workshop a sanctuary of organized chaos in the surrounding desolation.
Alex Chen, a man who had once patrolled the gleaming, albeit corrupt, streets of NYPD, now navigated this shattered world with a heavy heart and an even heavier conscience. The rot he’d fought in the old world had merely spread, festering into a continent-wide plague of desperation.
The landscape itself was a testament to the world’s unraveling. Once vibrant shores were now choked with plastic debris and the skeletal remains of ships, their hulls like beached leviathans. Inland, the arteries of commerce, the highways and byways, had become no-man’s-lands. They were arteries of peril, patrolled by opportunistic raiders and desperate scavengers. The air, thick with the perpetual haze of unchecked industry and the lingering dust of forgotten cataclysms, offered little respite. Each breath was a gamble, a taste of the world’s slow, suffocating demise. Resources were a constant source of conflict. Fuel was hoarded, water purified with desperate ingenuity, and food, when found, was a treasure to be defended with one’s life. Every settlement was a fortress, every journey a potential battlefield. #Dystopian #ApocalypticFiction #PostApocalyptic #Survival #ECPD #Series #Dystopian
