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Leon Blum by Joel Colton
epub |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Joel Colton [Colton, Joel]

The next stage, after the signing of the non-intervention agreement, is a story in itself—and again a painful one. “It caused us,” Blum confessed in later years, “many disappointments, many ...
( Category: France January 11,2023 )
Ticks and Crosses by Frederic Raphael
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Frederic Raphael [Frederic Raphael]

We were playing tennis (Conti, Beetle, Stee and I ) when Kara called down that Reuter’s were on the line. I ran in (why do I always run to the ...
( Category: Authors January 11,2023 )
Cuts and Bruises by Frederic Raphael
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Frederic Raphael [Frederic Raphael]

Noel Stock’s Ezra Pound. On the face of it, a responsible piece of academic seriousness: one hears the flip of cross-referenced index cards and the whirr of ticketed tapes. The ...
( Category: Television Performers January 11,2023 )
Willard Garvey by Maura McEnaney
epub |eng | | Author:Maura McEnaney

WHEAT FOR HOMES: EVERY MAN A CAPITALIST “Property rights are the foundation of individual freedom.”–WWG FROM THE GANGWAY of the M.V. Caronia ocean liner, a squinting 82-year-old Jean Garvey gingerly ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 11,2023 )
Microbes, Music and Me by John Postgate
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:John Postgate [FRS, John Postgate]

Medical interlude The duodenal ulcer which had troubled me in the early 1950s had gone, or at least become quiescent. But bouts of excessive anxiety continued to plague me and, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 11,2023 )
They Raised Me Up by Carolyn Marie Wilkins
epub |eng | | Author:Carolyn Marie Wilkins [Wilkins, Carolyn Marie]

Chapter Sixteen Alberta Harlem, 1943 Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. —Langston Hughes As World War II raged in Europe, Alberta Sweeney ...
( Category: Black & African American January 11,2023 )
Love Letters of the Great War by Mandy Kirkby
epub |eng | | Author:Mandy Kirkby [Kirkby, Mandy]

Private James Riddell to Nurse Cynthia Kennedy James Riddell has fallen in love with his nurse and sends her love letters from his sickbed. ‘There is no one on the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 10,2023 )
Dead on a High Hill: Essays on War, Literature and Living, 2002-2012 by W.D. Ehrhart
epub |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:W.D. Ehrhart

Cassidy and Bobby McKinstry finished 1–2 in the 500 yard freestyle, with Cassidy setting another college record. At this point, the gleaming gun crew had to be removed after they ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 10,2023 )
Konjo by Sandeep Goyal
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Sandeep Goyal

26 CHOOSE YOUR MOUNTAIN If there is one regret that I will always have, it is that despite my two-decade relationship with Japan, and perhaps, a hundred trips to Tokyo, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 10,2023 )
Growing Up Boeing by Rebecca Wallick
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Wallick

Flutter Next, in terms of adding data points into the box, come tests of the high speed/high altitude handling characteristics of the airplane—the upper portion of the box. The flight ...
( Category: Scientists January 10,2023 )
One Day Closer to the World and WAKE-UP!!! by William (Bill) Hammond
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:William (Bill) Hammond [Hammond, William (Bill)]

DYSENTERY Now I admit that dysentery may sound like a crappy subject, but my memories would not be complete without this one. Two of my best friends while in Nam ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 10,2023 )
The Original American Spies: Seven Covert Agents of the Revolutionary War by Paul R. Misencik
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-12-06 | Author:Paul R. Misencik

ALL gentlemen, Natives of Ireland, who are zealous for the Honour and Prosperity of their Country, are hereby informed, that a Corps, to be stiled the VOLUNTEERS of IRELAND, is ...
( Category: American Revolution January 10,2023 )
Stable Relation by Anna Blake
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Anna Blake [Blake, Anna]

A Member of the Wedding When Sebastian was five years old, he was asked to participate in a wedding. The bride had known him for a while and he was ...
( Category: Women January 10,2023 )
The Kitchener Enigma by Trevor Royle
epub |eng | 2016-03-30 | Author:Trevor Royle [Royle, Trevor]

Notes 1 There is a good overview of this period in James Morris, Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, London, 1968 2 The Times, 22 June 1897 3 Private ...
( Category: World War I January 10,2023 )
The Road Movie by Neil Archer
epub |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Neil Archer

FIGURE 2.2 Travel as political: Ernesto and Alberto at Machu Picchu in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) As a concluding thought, it is to the credit of The Motorcycle Diaries if, ...
( Category: Television Performers January 10,2023 )

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