Historical
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Robert Holmes [Robert Holmes]

Conversely, Kisevalter was well aware that Americans were not universally liked. Talking about Soviets who might consider defecting to the United States, he rounded off his comments with this philosophical ...
( Category: Historical August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Wilkinson & Joan Bright Astley

While Gubbins had been fully engaged in discussing SOE’s future at the strategic level, there had been a series of operational disasters in North-West Europe, some of which have been ...
( Category: Historical August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Barthel

NINE Winchester Friday Afternoon We are so far safe tho’ our progress is so much slower than you expected—your turnpike road is to be sure a very rough one and ...
( Category: Historical August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-14 | Author:Hilaire Belloc [Belloc, Hilaire]

4 WHEN THESE THINGS HAD BEEN DONE AND ORLEANS freed, the English host withdrew from the forts remaining, and next day set themselves out in battle on the plain. But ...
( Category: Catholicism August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Studs Terkel [Terkel, Studs]

BOOK THREE SUDDEN MONEY RAY WAX He is a stockbroker, living in a middle-class suburb just outside New York City. It is a recent endeavor. Previously he had been a ...
( Category: Military August 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-26 | Author:Tim Newark

The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano has long been criticized as more invention than truth, and many of its stories, supposedly from the mouth of Luciano, do not fit in ...
( Category: Historical August 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Callum MacDonald [CALLUM MACDONALD]

Moravec emphasised that once they were dropped from the aircraft over Bohemia–Moravia Gabčĺk and Svoboda would be completely on their own. ‘For evident reasons’ assistance from the home army was ...
( Category: Europe August 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Marianne Monson

The irony that a nation founded on the principles of freedom would continue to justify the institution of slavery long after much of the rest of the world had abolished ...
( Category: Americas August 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Gordon Olive, DFC|Dennis Newton

12 Death in August By the following morning it was clear to everyone that this was a new phase in the fighting. 54 Squadron had been bombed at Manston that ...
( Category: Military August 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eve MacDonald

CHAPTER 11 HANNIBAL RETURNS When they considered the worth of Hannibal and the greatness of his acts, it offended them to think that they had been so base as to ...
( Category: Historical August 7,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Robert Wilson

A Confederate colonel’s horse, killed at Antietam (September 1862). Photograph by Alexander Gardner. Library of Congress The Times reporter begins his piece somewhat melodramatically, calling up the list of the ...
( Category: Americas August 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Echols, Alice [Echols, Alice]

8 Little Girl Blue On December 21, 1968, just three weeks after her last show with Big Brother, Janis and her new soul band made their debut in Memphis, Tennessee. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dick Thornburgh

THE MOST PRESSING challenge in the area of white-collar crime at the outset of the Bush administration was the savings and loan mess. Most Americans were as unaware as I ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Gross

* * * I It was also Kessler who’d figured out years before that the key to getting the US Postal Service to temporarily move out of its home on ...
( Category: Sociology August 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-03 | Author:Geoffrey Elliott [Geoffrey Elliott]

15 His Bonnet in Germany Whatever Elliott found, didn’t find, thought he had found, or thought he had lost when he came back from ‘Spangers’ in 1945, he didn’t enjoy ...
( Category: Historical August 4,2018 )