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Forty Years a Forester by Elers Koch & Char Miller
epub |eng | | Author:Elers Koch & Char Miller

6 The Moose Creek Story Old Bob Monroe threw a couple of chunks on the campfire, which had been allowed to burn down to a bed of coals, as all ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 4,2020 )
The Author's Craft by Bennett Arnold
epub | | | Author:Bennett, Arnold

Part III - Writing Plays * I There is an idea abroad, assiduously fostered as a rule by critics who happen to have written neither novels nor plays, that it ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2020 )
The Notorious Luke Short: Sporting Man of the Wild West (A.C. Greene Series) by Jack Demattos & Chuck Parsons
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Jack Demattos & Chuck Parsons [Demattos, Jack]

Following this introductory paragraph, the letter writer got to the true purpose of his communication. Luke Short was “one of the worst noted characters in our country” and he was ...
( Category: United States March 4,2020 )
Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin by William Dean Howells John L. Hayes
epub |eng | 2019-05-23 | Author:William Dean Howells, John L. Hayes [William Dean Howells, John L. Hayes]

Now, I have only a few comments to make. Popular sovereignty, by his own words, does not pertain to the few persons who wander upon the public domain in violation ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2020 )
A Measureless Peril by Richard Snow
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Richard Snow

Cadet O’Hara’s Last Fight The Naval Armed Guard and the ordeal of the Stephen Hopkins, 1942 “Do you want to go to sea immediately?” During the weeks following Pearl Harbor ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2020 )
Camelot's End by Jon Ward
epub |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Jon Ward

It was break-the-glass time for Kennedy. He didn’t show signs of panic, however. In fact, he became a more effective candidate in those days after the Register poll was released, ...
( Category: Elections March 4,2020 )
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz
epub |eng | 2013-05-20 | Author:Friedrich Katz

Carrancista and Villista Agrarian Policies Villa’s abstention from matters of ideology and social legislation on a national scale ended in May 1915, when he decreed an agrarian law. It is ...
( Category: American Revolution March 4,2020 )
Silvered Wings by John Severne
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:John Severne

After the families had left there were several visits from well known entertainers who gave performances in the open-air theatre. Two of the concerts stick in my memory because of ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2020 )
Divine Rascal (Strange Attractor Press) by Andy Roberts
epub |eng | 2019-12-06 | Author:Andy Roberts [Roberts, Andy]

The Journey To The East Similar to the role Tibet had played in the Western imagination forty years earlier, by the late 1960s – with Tibet closed and Nepal now ...
( Category: United States March 4,2020 )
New Title 3 by Marine Charles
epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Marine, Charles

( Category: Historical March 4,2020 )
A British Achilles by Lorna Almonds Windmill
epub |eng | 2006-03-18 | Author:Lorna Almonds Windmill

Chapter Ten Whitehall Warrior Harold Macmillan’s first government was in office; Edward Heath was Chief Whip. Jellicoe began a meteoric rise in politics. In October, he spoke again in the ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2020 )
Born Jewish by Marcel Liebman
epub |eng | | Author:Marcel Liebman

The inspirational Gert Jospa, centre, a few months after his return from the camps. Yura Livchitz. Nevertheless, the transport still went on its way. Though not for long. Around Wespelaere, ...
( Category: Europe March 4,2020 )
Fighting Through to Kohima by Michael Lowry
epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Michael Lowry

We were to learn that Geoffrey Tattershall’s party broke into the Admin Box and became attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment. In the course of the encirclement, Geoffrey was killed ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2020 )
Back Bearings: A Navigator's Tale by Group Captain Eric Cropper
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Group Captain Eric Cropper

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Cranwell It was strange to be back in Leeds, so familiar but such a contrast to our lives in the previous two years. The Clean Air Act had ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2020 )
Virtue and Terror by Maximilien Robespierre
epub |eng | | Author:Maximilien Robespierre

8 ON THE TRIAL OF THE KING 3 December 17921 After the overthrow of the monarchy on 10 August 1792, the question of the fate of the king was posed. ...
( Category: Radicalism March 4,2020 )

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