Biographies & Memoirs
mobi |eng | 1986-12-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Mark Essig

CHAPTER 15 The Unmasking of Harold Brown ON AUGUST 25, just a few weeks after the hearings ended, the New York Sun published stunning revelations regarding Edison's interest in the ...
( Category: Electricity March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Jonathan D. Sarna

Sneersohn knew how to attract attention to his cause. Rather than dressing in traditional East European Hasidic clothing (which might have been exotic enough), he always appeared in public looking ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Drew Gilpin Faust

“It was my Mother’s customs,” “My gentle Mother dear” “I was my Mother’s darling,” for, I loved my lager beer. “Kiss me good-night, Mother,” and bring me a Bourbon plain— ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Sally Jenkins; John Stauffer

From representations made to us we had expect[ed] to find [irregular] organizations among the disloyal for the purpose of resisting our authority. During the first five days operations we obtained ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1990-09-01 | Author:William W. Freehling

8 In the face of Henry Wise’s war on the Van Buren-sanctioned evasive gag rule wording, Henry Pinckney felt driven to seek more uncompromising terminology. A worried Pinckney sought out ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Thomas Powers

During his first weeks at the Red Cloud Agency it was evident that Crazy Horse had determined on peace. He had one overriding goal: to secure an agency in the ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:George C. Daughan

ON DECEMBER 30, 1813, His Majesty’s packet Bramble, under Lieutenant Pogson, arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, from Plymouth, England, with the momentous news: Napoleon had suffered a near fatal blow at ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:James D. Hornfischer

CHAPTER 40 Sinuous and halting, the emergent railway crept up the mountain, moving in contractions and dilations like a vast segmented worm. Alive with the movements of thousands of feet ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Thomas E. Ricks

A stunning Army study of Army officers My Lai held one more surprise for Gen. Westmoreland. When Gen. Peers finished his report on the cover-up, he delivered a separate, confidential ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Sean Naylor

BACK at the site of the attack on Harriman’s convoy, the scene was one of devastation. One of Ziabdullah’s fighters lay dead and another dozen had been wounded, one mortally. ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

Ten military advisers are attached to the Sonsonate armed forces... The episode contains all the unchanging elements of the Salvadoran tragedy— uncontrolled military violence against civilians, the apparent ability of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-01 | Author:Ron Suskind

WHEN DAVID OMAND, AMONG THE most astute professionals in counterterrorism, talks of creating a “convincing narrative” about “the better alternative our society offers,” he’s alluding to a large and diffuse ...
( Category: National & International Security March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Rusty Bradley; Kevin Maurer

Chapter 12 “SHOOT INTO THE BUSHES, DADDY!” If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. —ULYSSES S. GRANT My day started with a tug on my ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 25,2014 )