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Defeat Into Victory by Viscount Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim
epub |eng | 1956-07-14 | Author:Viscount Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim

CHAPTER XIV HOW IT HAPPENED THE story of the prolonged and hard-fought battle of Imphal–Kohima that developed from the plans of Japanese and British commanders is not easy to follow. ...
( Category: Military July 25,2020 )
The Journal of John Woolman by John Woolman
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:John Woolman [Aeschylus, Sophocles]

CHAPTER IX Table of Contents His religious Conversation with a Company met to see the Tricks of a Juggler —His Account of John Smith's Advice, and of the Proceedings of ...
( Category: Religious July 25,2020 )
Frank, Anne - The Diary of Anne Frank by Frank Anne
epub |eng | 1993-05-31 | Author:Frank, Anne [Frank, Anne]

I think Mother believes that Margot and I have a better relationship with our parents than anyone in the whole wide world, and that no mother is more involved in ...
( Category: Historical July 25,2020 )
John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1779-1821 by John Quincy Adams
epub |eng | 2017-06-19 | Author:John Quincy Adams [Adams, John Quincy]

5. VI. The arrears of my Journal are a continual pressure upon me. I shall probably be very soon compelled to change my plan, and to notice the Events of ...
( Category: American Revolution July 25,2020 )
The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson
epub |eng | | Author:James Patterson

Ted and his family spend the August Senate recess at the family compound in Hyannis Port. On August 28, Ted goes on the annual Kennedy family camping trip, but Joan ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 24,2020 )
The G Ring: How the IUD Escaped the Nazis by Tuhus-Dubrow Rebecca
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-02-26 | Author:Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca [Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca]

After he finished talking, Norman Haire rose to speak. He had first heard about the ring from colleagues when visiting Berlin in 1926, and in July 1929 began to try ...
( Category: Historical July 24,2020 )
Marcus Aurelius by John Sellars
epub |eng | 2020-07-23 | Author:John Sellars

Here Marcus draws a threefold division between (i) necessary fate (heimarmenê), (ii) providence (pronoia) that can assist, and (iii) blind chaos. He goes on to say that if fate is ...
( Category: Rome July 24,2020 )
Reports from Hell by Chas Smith
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2020-06-04 | Author:Chas Smith

Chapter 3 The next few days blended into an exhausting blur. We’d chase destruction wherever it was happening, which happened to be more and more places. Random little towns in ...
( Category: Surfing July 24,2020 )
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:Larry Tye

Alarm about the dynamic between the battle-scarred senator and the neophyte president also was spreading abroad. “In his attitude toward the G.P.U. Senator, courageous General Eisenhower appears to be downright ...
( Category: History & Theory July 24,2020 )
Baseless by Nicholson Baker
epub |eng | 2020-07-20 | Author:Nicholson Baker

* * * — RICE IS SO IMPORTANT. One of the Korean War SUEDE intelligence intercepts, from February 22, 1952, says: A North Korean message of 22 February—possibly between two ...
( Category: Authors July 24,2020 )
Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone
epub |eng | 2020-07-20 | Author:Oliver Stone

“Is this it? Is this what it’s all about? Eating, drinking, snorting, fucking? Then what? You’re fifty and you got a bag for a belly and tits with hair on ...
( Category: Direction & Production July 24,2020 )
The Point of It All by Charles Krauthammer
epub |eng | 2018-12-04 | Author:Charles Krauthammer [Krauthammer, Charles]

The Washington Post, June 17, 2005 The Tribalization of America One day’s news: — A prominent Tory MP is killed by an IRA car bomb. — Government soldiers in Liberia ...
( Category: Executive Branch July 23,2020 )
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act by Nicholson Baker
epub |eng | 2020-07-20 | Author:Nicholson Baker

* * * — RICE IS SO IMPORTANT. One of the Korean War SUEDE intelligence intercepts, from February 22, 1952, says: A North Korean message of 22 February—possibly between two ...
( Category: Authors July 23,2020 )
Family Line by John H. Matthews
epub |eng | 2018-07-19 | Author:John H. Matthews [Matthews, John H.]

Chapter 24 Living in a small town is like having windows all around you, everyone knowing what you’re up to at all times. I had tried my best to stay ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions July 23,2020 )
Ahead of the Curve, Washington Women Lead the Way by John Hughes
epub |eng | | Author:John Hughes [Hughes, John C., & Young, Bob]

Justices Madsen and Fairhurst. Washington Attorney General’s Office THOUGH FAIRHURST’S calendar is overflowing right now, she smiles broadly when she talks about being chief justice: I love being chief. It’s ...
( Category: Historical July 22,2020 )

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