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Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front by Anthony Fletcher
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Anthony Fletcher

Yet letters home, one finds, contain far more material about the deaths of colleagues, their injuries and broken comradeship than about mud or the horrific physical aspects of trench service. ...
( Category: Military May 4,2018 )
The Black Prince by Michael Jones
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Michael Jones

The Black Prince spent the summer of 1358 travelling round his estates. In August he visited Cheshire, where his officials had levied substantial fines on the foresters of Wirral and ...
( Category: Europe May 3,2018 )
A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | 1934-05-03 | Author:Edith Wharton

3 I believe James enjoyed those days at the Mount as much as he did (or could) anything connected with the American scene; and the proof of it is the ...
( Category: Specific Groups May 3,2018 )
The Best of the West by Anthology
epub |eng | 2015-03-22 | Author:Anthology [Anthology]

Blunt. Cold. Wordless. Bloodless. That was Carson Reddner. That was the image. It made sense, because the only moments of his thirty-seven years that the Territory had preserved in its ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 3,2018 )
An ABC of Science Fiction by Anthology
epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Anthology [Anthology]

“What I can’t see,” said Dr. Barret later, as Dr. Tally helped him lug the heavy, squealing crates back toward the Agricultural Experiment Station, “is how you can reconcile this ...
( Category: Adventure May 2,2018 )
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Ernst Junger

In Flers, I found my designated quarters had been occupied by several staff sergeant-majors, who, claiming they had to guard the room on behalf of a certain Baron von X, ...
( Category: Memoirs May 2,2018 )
A Spy Named Orphan by Roland Philipps
epub |eng | | Author:Roland Philipps

13 Collapse Away from the increasing stresses and evasions of Cairo, Donald Maclean was once again the relaxed family man on holiday in Italy, playing tennis, drinking in moderation and ...
( Category: True Crime May 2,2018 )
Saving Sin City by Mary Cummings
epub |eng | 2018-05-02 | Author:Mary Cummings

1905 23 CORPORATE SCANDAL AND A CAUTIONARY CASE There are no laws to cover ninety-nine out of a hundred cases of the crimes committed every day in this era in ...
( Category: Specific Groups May 2,2018 )
Young Washington by Peter Stark
epub |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Peter Stark

Part Three Chapter Fifteen JAMES SMITH WAITED ANXIOUSLY AT FORT DUQUESNE ALL that afternoon. The battered eighteen-year-old captive hoped to hear that General Braddock’s army had decimated the French and ...
( Category: Americas May 2,2018 )
Eleanor Of Aquitaine by Amy Kelly
epub | | | Author:Amy Kelly

20* War Was in His Heart Do you not know that it is our inheritance from remote times that no one of us loves another, but that always, brother against ...
( Category: Europe May 1,2018 )
Overtaken by the Night: One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror (Russian and East European Studies) by Richard G. Robbins
azw3 |eng | 2018-02-16 | Author:Richard G. Robbins [Robbins, Richard G.]

Absorbed by the May riots in Moscow and Rasputin, Dzhunkovsky appears to have been largely oblivious to the political currents and maneuverings that were swirling around him. Thus, Maklakov’s dismissal ...
( Category: Historical May 1,2018 )
The Essential Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
azw3 |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Meriwether Lewis & William Clark [Lewis, Meriwether]

SUMMARY JULY 3 TO JULY 31, 1805 The exhausting 18-mile portage around the Great Falls of the Missouri had delayed the corps for weeks. Now they were faced with still ...
( Category: Americas May 1,2018 )
Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History by Heda Margolius Kovály
azw3 |eng | 2018-01-19 | Author:Heda Margolius Kovály [Kovály, Heda Margolius]

Liberating Russian soldiers shake the hands of residents after driving the Germans out of Prague, 1945. Courtesy Česká televize. In the morning the announcer called me and said: “You know, ...
( Category: World May 1,2018 )
Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project by Jack Mayer
mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Jack Mayer [Mayer, Jack]

The Jewish Fighting Force, ZOB, hereby informs the population that the following have been convicted of crimes against the Jewish People: The Judenrat in Warsaw and its presidium, on the ...
( Category: Specific Groups May 1,2018 )
A World to Win by Sven-Eric Liedman
epub |eng | | Author:Sven-Eric Liedman

Society Beyond Capitalism One of the most famous sections in the Grundrisse deals with the forms of production and property that preceded capitalism.58 What Marx called the Asiatic mode of ...
( Category: Historical May 1,2018 )

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