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Shadow Warrior by Woods Randall B
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Woods, Randall B. [Woods, Randall B.]

14 BIRDS OF PEACE AND BIRDS OF WAR While Colby’s CORDS programs were making progress in South Vietnam, new actors appeared on the American political stage; indeed, a new play ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu by Jim McEnery & Bill Sloan
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Jim McEnery & Bill Sloan [McEnery, Jim & Sloan, Bill]

THE CRAB AND COCONUT WARS WHEN WE EMBARKED from Gloucester on May 5, most of us in K/3/5 were pretty sure we were on our way back to Camp Balcombe ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics March 26,2014 )
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Dugard Martin & O'Reilly Bill
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Dugard, Martin & O'Reilly, Bill [Dugard, Martin]

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-16 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant [Grant, Ulysses S.]

CHAPTER FORTY FOUR BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA — A GALLANT CHARGE — COMPLETE ROUT OF THE ENEMY — PURSUIT OF THE CONFEDERATES — GENERAL BRAGG — REMARKS ON CHATTANOOGA AT TWELVE ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
Best Little Stories from the Civil War by C. Brian Kelly
epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:C. Brian Kelly

Gettysburg Facts, Stats WHERE MORE THAN THIRTEEN HUNDRED MEMORIALS AND COMMEMORATIVE markers now stand in one central area, the Union fielded 246 infantry regiments for the famous Battle of Gettysburg, ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
1861 by Adam Goodheart
epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Adam Goodheart [Goodheart, Adam]

Afterward, in a letter to a close friend (a black New Yorker named Randolph Ryer), King exulted like a warrior returning from the field of victory. “I pitched into Secession, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
The Searchers by Glenn Frankel
epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Glenn Frankel [Frankel, Glenn]

13. The Novel (Pacific Palisades, California, 1953) Supper is over and a bloodred sun is setting outside the ranch house. Henry Edwards is taking a last look around the extended ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )
Hatchet Men by Richard Dillon
epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Richard Dillon [Dillon, Richard]

When it was the journalist’s turn to take part in the ceremony he surrendered to his fastidiousness and surreptitiously dipped his finger into the bowl of oil first, covering his ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
In the Country of Brooklyn by Peter Golenbock
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Golenbock

John Ford at his first communion from St. Teresa’s, 9th Ward, Brooklyn. Courtesy of John Ford “As a young boy I went to St. Teresa’s, a parochial school, and in ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
3000 Degrees by Sean Flynn
epub |eng | 2008-12-20 | Author:Sean Flynn [FLYNN, SEAN]

“Command to Engine 3.” Lt. John Sullivan heard Mike McNamee call his truck. He punched his radio. “Engine 3” “Come up to the side of the building,” Mike told him. ...
( Category: Fire Science March 26,2014 )
The Arabs by Eugene Rogan
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Eugene Rogan

The entire Arab world was stunned by the magnitude of the Palestine disaster. Yet in this moment of crisis, Arab intellectuals proved remarkably clear-sighted about both the causes and the ...
( Category: Middle East March 26,2014 )
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Alan Ereira
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-04 | Author:Alan Ereira

CHAPTER SIX KNIGHT ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ THE YEAR: 1278. THE PLACE: open country near Le Hem, in Picardy. A court is assembled; the field is laid out for a tournament and splendidly ...
( Category: England March 26,2014 )
Enslaved by a King
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anitra Lynn McLeod [McLeod, Anitra Lynn]

Chapter 8 After the spectacular bonding they’d shared, the last thing Mingor wished to do was allow anything to destroy the peaceful feeling he had. Lately, his calm had been ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Making the Modern World by Vaclav Smil
epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Vaclav Smil

4.6 Life-Cycle Assessments Quantifications of energies embedded in materials are useful and revealing companions to standard analyses of material flows using mass or value. But a brief reflection shows that ...
( Category: Materials Science March 26,2014 )

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