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Churchill : The Unexpected Hero by Churchill; The Unexpected Hero
epub |eng | 2005-12-19 | Author:Churchill; The Unexpected Hero

SIX The Making of a Hero, 1939–1945 On 15 March 1939 German troops marched into Prague and the Czechoslovak state ceased to exist. The moral case for the Munich agreement––that ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
Churchill Unexpected Hero by Paul Addison
mobi |eng | 2005-01-13 | Author:Paul Addison

So long frustrated, the two great ambitions of Churchill’s youth–to be a military hero and a hero of democracy––had come together in a blaze of glory in his sixty–sixth year. ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
Fire Mission - The Diary of a Firing Sergeant in Afghanistan by Douglas Craig
epub |rus | 2013-09-21 | Author:Douglas, Craig [Douglas, Craig]

The Patrol People are beginning to move out of the local area. An exodus to safety, which means a presence of Taliban. Smudge can sense the weight of many sets ...
( Category: Middle East December 20,2015 )
Failures of the Presidents by Thomas J Craughwell
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Thomas J Craughwell

NATIONAL REGRET A movement for redress gathered force in the late 1960s and early 1970s and gradually, belatedly, won some concessions from the government. In 1976, President Gerald Ford rescinded ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 18,2015 )
The Faithful Executioner by Joel F. Harrington
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:Joel F. Harrington

A dastardly ambush of an innocent traveler by two robbers. Note the glee of the perpetrators and the fear of the victim (1543). As in broadsheet accounts of crime, Frantz’s ...
( Category: Germany December 18,2015 )
The Lady and the Peacock by Peter Popham
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Peter Popham

PART FOUR HEIRS TO THE KINGDOM 1 ALONE ON the day they placed me under arrest,” Suu told an American journalist who visited her at home in 1995, “this garden ...
( Category: Political December 18,2015 )
The Auschwitz Kommandant by Barbara Cherish
epub |eng | 2010-12-17 | Author:Barbara Cherish [Barbara U. Cherish]

Childhood fantasies and Stories told Were of Angels and Cherubs to behold, These Angelic forms with extended wings Forever back to my childhood brings, These words still echo, so few ...
( Category: Fascism December 18,2015 )
Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch by Ben Thompson
mobi |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Ben Thompson [Thompson, Ben]

So Colonel Chamberlain, a schoolteacher in his regular life (kind of like Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan), completely out of ammo and with the entire fate of the Civil ...
( Category: Humor December 17,2015 )
The Western Front 1915 by Peter F Batchelor
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Peter F Batchelor

Battle of Festubert After sixty hours – the longest artillery bombardment of the war to date – the battalion, having moved up to its assembly positions during the night, prepared ...
( Category: Veterans December 17,2015 )
Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )
Louisa May Alcott by Susan Cheever
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Susan Cheever

Further up the Atlantic Coast, Louisa May Alcott was taking her first trip beyond New England. She hadn’t left Baltimore yet, but her journal is already more Dickensian than Richardsonian. ...
( Category: United States December 17,2015 )
The Obamas by Kantor Jodi
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kantor, Jodi [Kantor, Jodi]

PERHAPS THE STRANGEST THING ABOUT the relationship between the president, the first lady, and the advisers was the sheer expansion it measured in the Obama union. That was the singular ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 17,2015 )
Eminence by Blanchard Jean-Vincent
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Blanchard, Jean-Vincent [Blanchard, Jean-Vincent]

Chapter 8 War (1635–1637) In the busy morning hours of May 19, 1635, the guards at Brussels’s Hau gate witnessed a curious spectacle. A proud-looking man arrived on horseback, wearing ...
( Category: France December 16,2015 )
Mill Girls by Johnson Tracy
epub |eng | | Author:Johnson, Tracy

Almost 80 years later, as a 93-year-old lady, it’s funny thinking back to the young, naïve girl I was then. I worked in there for 45 years and, trust me, ...
( Category: Industries December 15,2015 )
At Home in Japan by Rebecca Otowa
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Otowa

For Japanese people, the time of the cherry blossoms is evocative of new beginnings in all walks of life. Children in brand new school uniforms and gleaming bags walk on ...
( Category: General December 14,2015 )

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