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From Yorkshire to Archangel by David Wherrett
epub |eng | 2017-05-11 | Author:David Wherrett

As a footnote to this episode, Commodore Dowding was eventually to receive a CBE in recognition of his valiant efforts on this east bound Arctic convoy, and the subsequent homeward ...
( Category: World War II January 14,2023 )
SOG Medic by Unknown
epub |eng | 2018-10-05 | Author:Unknown

Another significant incident in which I was not involved took place on October 14, 1968. Rodd had previously picked up Tho as the interpreter for team Florida after RT Ohio ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 13,2023 )
The Children of Castletown House by Sarah Conolly-Carew
epub |eng | 2014-12-24 | Author:Sarah Conolly-Carew

One of the first horses Diana bought on her own judgement came out of a chance meeting with the famous hunting priest, Father McMahon. He persuaded her to drive to ...
( Category: Ireland January 12,2023 )
The Private Lives of Winston Churchill by John Pearson
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:John Pearson

22 Psychic Dynamite “My dear Maxine!” Churchill exclaimed, descending from the limousine that had brought him and a mountain of luggage from the station. He smiled at his old friend ...
( Category: Ireland January 12,2023 )
A Trash Hauler in Vietnam by Bill Barry
epub |eng | 2017-05-25 | Author:Bill Barry

Late 1966—The author at his Mactan cot. The day after that, we were again deep into support of the army operations around Tay Ninh. We hauled three mixed loads of ...
( Category: Air Force January 12,2023 )
Mother India by Pranay Gupte
epub |eng | 2012-02-02 | Author:Pranay Gupte [Pranay Gupte]

PART IV TRIUMPH AND TWILIGHT 15. Taking on Titans IN THE BATTLE to ensure Zakir Husain’s nomination for President, Indira Gandhi had shown that she could marshal key votes within ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2023 )
Roswell: The History of America’s Most Famous UFO Incident by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]

Even Johnson’s original photos have never been in Roswell. Copies of his photos are on display at the UFO Museum in Roswell, but the originals were sold by the Fort ...
( Category: United States January 12,2023 )
Hong Kong Policeman by Chris Emmett
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Chris Emmett

CHAPTER 7 SHIELDS AND HELMETS BEFORE THE PRO-TAIWAN riots of 1956, Hong Kong Police anti-riot strategy was pretty basic. Each division had three anti-riot platoons which, under the command of ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2023 )
Stand Before Your God by Paul Watkins
epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Paul Watkins [Watkins, Paul]

I had myself in tears the first morning of classes, trying to get dressed in the Eton uniform. The gold studs that attached the starch-stiff collar to my shirt kept ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2023 )
To Scale the Skies by Peter Cornwell
epub |eng | 2011-08-28 | Author:Peter Cornwell

P/O Wells has apparently been shot down in flames. At any rate he is found in his hotel bedroom, apparently dead and lying amidst a heap of charred pyjamas, silk ...
( Category: World War II January 12,2023 )
Major Cotterell at Arnhem by Jennie Gray
epub |eng | 2012-09-20 | Author:Jennie Gray

We crossed the Rhine using the main bridge for which so many lives had been sacrificed. I could see many marks of the bloody fighting which had taken place as ...
( Category: World War II January 11,2023 )
Leon Blum by Joel Colton
epub |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Joel Colton [Colton, Joel]

The next stage, after the signing of the non-intervention agreement, is a story in itself—and again a painful one. “It caused us,” Blum confessed in later years, “many disappointments, many ...
( Category: France January 11,2023 )
Dead on a High Hill: Essays on War, Literature and Living, 2002-2012 by W.D. Ehrhart
epub |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:W.D. Ehrhart

Cassidy and Bobby McKinstry finished 1–2 in the 500 yard freestyle, with Cassidy setting another college record. At this point, the gleaming gun crew had to be removed after they ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 10,2023 )
Dream in a Suitcase by Domnica Radulescu
epub |eng | 2021-12-14 | Author:Domnica Radulescu

Farewells and New Beginnings The new millennium started with the death of my father, only two days after I had said, “Goodbye, Dad, I’m waiting for you to come visit ...
( Category: Historical January 9,2023 )
Outside Passage by Julia Scully
epub |eng | | Author:Julia Scully

THIRTY-NINE Timmy Sullivan is a squawman. That's what Mother says. Any man who has lived in Alaska for a while is bound to be a squawman, she says. I wonder ...
( Category: United States January 9,2023 )

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