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Bomb Aimer Over Berlin: The Wartime Memoirs of Les Bartlett DFM by Peter Jacobs
azw3 |eng | 2007-09-19 | Author:Peter Jacobs [Jacobs, Peter]

Ever since man first took flight, some aircrew have been notoriously superstitious. For some it is merely a matter of not walking under ladders, but for others there have been ...
( Category: Historical March 1,2020 )
Free to Fight Again: RAF Escapes and Evasions 1940-1945 by Alan W. Cooper
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-22 | Author:Alan W. Cooper [Cooper, Alan W.]

Arnhem Evasion On 20 September 1944 a letter was sent to Mrs Simpson from the commanding officer of 299 Squadron, Wing Commander Douglas Tiptree. This followed up the telegram which ...
( Category: Historical March 1,2020 )
Nine Months at Ground Zero by Glenn Stout Charles Vitchers & Robert Gray
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Glenn Stout, Charles Vitchers & Robert Gray

One reason why Charlie Vitchers was able to command the attention and respect of such disparate groups as FDNY and PAPD and tradesmen and contractors, was that he gave the ...
( Category: Historical March 1,2020 )
Franchise by Marcia Chatelain
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Marcia Chatelain

Like virtually all of my fellow workers, I liberated McDonaldland cookies by the boxful, volunteered to clean “lots and lobbies” in order to talk to my friends, and accidentally cooked ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 1,2020 )
Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton (Civil War America) by William Marvel
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:William Marvel [Marvel, William]

14: MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA A lack of concert among far-flung Union armies had abetted the rebellion for three years. The summer campaigns of 1861 had flourished and flickered out independently, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 1,2020 )
Bomb Alley – Falkland Islands1982 by David Yates
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:David Yates

( Category: Historical March 1,2020 )
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diana Preston
epub |eng | 2009-02-28 | Author:Diana Preston

XIV "OUR LITTLE ARK" The next morning, the owner of the house returned with some friends. He expected to find only Dampier, swinging alone in his hammock, and was astonished ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 1,2020 )
Almost Pioneers by John Fry
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:John Fry

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Home Life Our husbands always thought that Jessie Day and I had too many ideas—especially the day that we decided we needed some beauty around our houses. There ...
( Category: United States March 1,2020 )
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History by Richard Wightman Fox
epub |eng | 2015-02-08 | Author:Richard Wightman Fox [Fox, Richard Wightman]

AFTER THE GROUNDBREAKING on Lincoln’s birthday in 1914, it took over eight years to complete the Lincoln Memorial. The details of the statue emerged slowly, as Daniel French built larger ...
( Category: American Civil War March 1,2020 )
On the Roads of War by Ivan Yakushin
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Ivan Yakushin

Give Me a Rifle With a Twisted Barrel We normally marched at night. During the day, we rested in forests or ravines, next to some settlement. Night marching was a ...
( Category: Historical March 1,2020 )
The Nelson Companion by Colin White
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Colin White

Great Britain – London Other than Norwich, London was the first city that Nelson saw when, as a boy of twelve, he passed through on his way to join his ...
( Category: Historical March 1,2020 )
Making a New Deal by Cohen Lizabeth
epub |eng | 2014-10-30 | Author:Cohen, Lizabeth

Plate 29. By 1939, a third of all people employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Chicago were black, suggesting how important federal programs like the WPA were to ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 1,2020 )
The History of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association : Commemorating the Few by Geoff Simpson
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Geoff Simpson [Simpson, Geoff]

Battle of Britain Day – 15 September Commemorations of the Battle of Britain in September each year began very quickly after the battle. Early formalization of the principle appears in ...
( Category: Architecture March 1,2020 )
JFK & UFO by Kenn Thomas
epub |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:Kenn Thomas

Synopsis I became a member of my young girlfriend Arl’s class. The class was dominated by the immense presence of the teacher, a son of the Titans. But I sensed ...
( Category: UFOs March 1,2020 )
Strange Blooms by Jennifer Potter
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Potter [Potter, Jennifer]

While including Gerard’s text in his revised edition of the Herball, Thomas Johnson nonetheless introduced a note of realism by declaring that barnacle geese hatched from eggs like any other ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 1,2020 )

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