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The Bletchley Park Codebreakers (Dialogue Espionage Classics) by Michael Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-20 | Author:Michael Smith [Smith, Michael]

Network diagram showing the number and flow if messages passing between a headquarters and its outstations on a Stern (star) radio net. Figure 15.2 Network diagram showing the number and ...
( Category: Europe April 12,2018 )
Edmund Booth by Harry G. Lang
epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Harry G. Lang

THE new year arrived with Edmund still in California. He wrote from Columbia on January 8, 1853, to let his family know that he was all right despite the scarcity ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 12,2018 )
Across China on Foot by Edwin John Dingle
epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Edwin John Dingle

THE POLICE Until a few years ago, as China was kept in law and order without the necessary evil of a standing army, so did Yün-nan-fu slumber on in the ...
( Category: Asia April 12,2018 )
Founder by Rotberg Robert I.;
epub |eng | 1998-04-12 | Author:Rotberg, Robert I.;

“The Predatory Instincts of Our Race” Making War in Rhodesia RHODES FINALLY VISITED his newly fashioned colony in late 1891, after the conclusion of his first full legislative session as ...
( Category: Africa April 12,2018 )
North by Morley Paul
epub |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Morley, Paul

72 1829 In October the news spread around England that a mechanic fairly obscure outside the north-east had achieved what had previously seemed impossible. At Rainhill, near Liverpool, in the ...
( Category: Memoirs April 12,2018 )
California's Lamson Murder Mystery: The Depression Era Case that Divided Santa Clara County (True Crime) by Zaniello Tom
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Zaniello, Tom [Zaniello, Tom]

Title page of The Case of David Lamson: A Summary , published by the Lamson Defense Committee, 1934. Author’s collection . Film poster for Christine of the Hungry Heart (1924), ...
( Category: Americas April 12,2018 )
Hartford Mayor Ann Uccello: A Connecticut Trailblazer by Pirrotta Paul
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Pirrotta, Paul [Pirrotta, Paul]

The 1967 Christmas card from John Barber to Mayor Ann Uccello. Ann Uccello’s collection . Barber and the patrons were “bowled over” by the mayor’s visit. This anecdote says so ...
( Category: Regional U.S April 12,2018 )
Erich Von Manstein: Hitler's Master Strategist by Benoit Lemay
mobi |eng | 2010-07-27 | Author:Benoit Lemay [Lemay, Benoit]

XI MANSTEIN, THE ELEVENTH ARMY IN THE CRIMEA, AND THE FINAL SOLUTION At his trial held in Hamburg in 1949, Manstein was declared not guilty in relation to the issue ...
( Category: Historical April 12,2018 )
The State of Africa by Martin Meredith
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Meredith [Meredith, Martin]

In practice, Museveni’s ‘no-party’ system operated little differently from a ‘one-party’ system. Candidates supporting Museveni’s National Resistance Movement were helped at election times with government cash and cars; candidates known ...
( Category: Africa April 11,2018 )
Hurricane Street by Ron Kovic
epub |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Ron Kovic

Tuesday, February 19, 1974 Someone has put up a large number 6 on the window, and already the press seems to be everywhere. Both KNBC and KCBS are setting up ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
Becoming My Mother's Daughter by Erika Gottlieb
epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Erika Gottlieb [Gottlieb, Erika]

THE TUNNEL, 1944–1945 83 13. Urged by the nuns to move quickly, we leave by the back door, family by family, trying to be invisible, to let the mercifully dark ...
( Category: World April 11,2018 )
Scandals of Classic Hollywood by Anne Helen Petersen
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Anne Helen Petersen

VOLUME FIVE BROKEN BY THE SYSTEM At the peak of the studio system, Hollywood stardom was engineered to be every girl’s fantasy: the glamour, the clothes, the handsome costars. And ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 11,2018 )
The Operators: On The Street with Britain's Most Secret Service by Rennie James
epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Rennie, James [Rennie, James]

1. Patrolling at the junction of the Springfield Road and the Ballymurphy estate in the early morning. At any other time of day we would sprint across an open area ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
Brother Number One by David P Chandler
mobi |eng | 2011-04-22 | Author:David P Chandler

Tuol Sleng. Photo by Bruce Sharp. Copyright by Bruce Sharp. An interrogation room at Tuol Sleng. When Vietnamese troops arrived in Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, the bodies of ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
Frantz Fanon: A Biography by David Macey
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:David Macey

Three broken voices that surprise us Closer than ever Three living springs who did not see The light of day And who made us hear The anguished murmur Of subterranean ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )

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