Bøger af Michael Leavy

A mysterious time-travelling device discovered in an old, abandoned campervan - could this be the key to changing the history of the biggest musical phenomenon of all time? In the year 2000, Beatles fan Desmond Jones is driving home in torrential rain, desperately hoping to make it back in time to join his friends for their regular Sunday night pub quiz in Middlesham. Whilst held up by flooding, an enigmatic stranger persuades Desmond to follow him down a dark, narrow lane as a shortcut. Here he comes across a time-travelling device, a time radio, which he discovers is able to miraculously transport him to momentous events in the story of The Beatles. The exact point of where and when in time he is transported to is directly related to the music the radio is playing. As the action moves from Hamburg to New York, to Abbey Road and beyond, Desmond is closely monitored by Time Agent Bill and Time Peacekeeper Molly who he first meets as a student in 1980. Molly's job, along with Bill and other time agents, is to try to ensure that time travellers such as Desmond do not do anything to change history as each change creates a new timeline and the more timelines there are, the more fragile they become and fractures are created. The usually reserved Desmond is having the time of his life and is frequently amazed and often rendered speechless as he continues his time-travelling adventures, until his world is turned upside down following a catastrophic event at EMI studios in Abbey Road in 1967. Whether you are fanatical about The Beatles or a mere casual admirer, or even if you're not a Beatles fan and you just like a great adventure with a touch of mystery, this heart-warming story will appeal to you, whatever your age.

The effective end of the American Civil War on April 9, 1865, had hardly sunk in when, only five days later, another disaster stunned the battered and bloodied nation. On the night of April 9, Pres. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. There would be time for vengeful thoughts later, but first the Great Emancipator was going to get a royal send-off. At the center of what would become a three-week national funeral was a spectacular train that would carry Lincoln's remains, and those of his deceased son, from Washington, DC, to Springfield, Illinois. "The Lincoln Special" steamed slowly out of spring mists, allowing thousands of mourners lining the tracks a lingering view. It was a logistics miracle; a romantic pageant of sorrow and wonder, carried off flawlessly. Through the tears, however, was a sense that America's identity had turned a corner and was about to enter a dynamic and hopeful future. Author of nine books, Michael Leavy is an avid Civil War and railroad historian. Leavy has searched through archives to locate rare photographs and new details and dispel some lingering myths surrounding this tragic but formative American event.

Learn the exciting story of the railway that changed the country and the masterminds behind it all.A full generation has passed since a New York Central emblem dashed across the countryside on a railroad car, but few could ever forget "the greatest railroad in the world." The New York Central System grew from an amalgamation of smaller lines stretching from Albany to Buffalo in the 1830s. Twenty years later, the lines were gathered into a single company. Its phenomenal success did not go unnoticed by Cornelius "the Commodore" Vanderbilt. In his late sixties, when most men retire, he methodically started acquiring railroads in the New York City and Hudson River region. He then acquired the New York Central and merged it with his Hudson River Railroad. The Commodore and his son William, the foremost rail barons of their age, forged ahead with one of the most dynamic future-directed endeavors in the world-a railroad empire that traversed 11 states and 2 Canadian provinces.