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Winters, Dick - Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Winters Dick
epub |eng | 2006-02-07 | Author:Winters, Dick [Winters, Dick]

10 Surrounded Again Ask any veteran of the campaign in northwest Europe to identify his toughest single engagement, and you might expect him to say D-Day or some other day ...
( Category: World War II July 8,2020 )
Hole in the Sky: A Memoir by William Kittredge
epub |eng | 1993-06-01 | Author:William Kittredge [Kittredge, William]

In the early summer of 1954, when my daughter was an infant and my wife and I were both of us twenty-one, we lived on the second floor of an ...
( Category: Authors July 8,2020 )
Huey by David Hilliard
epub |eng | | Author:David Hilliard [Hilliard, David; Keith; Zimmerman, Kent; Newton, Fredrika]

Young Huey on a pony. (Courtesy: The Huey P. Newton Foundation) Adolescent Huey. (Courtesy: The Huey P. Newton Foundation) David Hilliard and Huey. (Copyright Temple University Libraries) Ericka Huggins, founding ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 8,2020 )
Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson
epub |eng | | Author:Nigel Nicolson

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at Monk’s House in 1926, with Pinka (Flush) in the foreground. A photograph taken by Vita. The general strike of May 1926 was more of an ...
( Category: Authors July 8,2020 )
Return to Dragon Mountain by Spence Jonathan D
epub |eng | | Author:Spence, Jonathan D.

CHAPTER SIX OVER THE EDGE In a world where men such as Rufang and Sanshu were identified primarily by their specialized functions, how did Zhang Dai fare? Poorly, in his ...
( Category: Asia July 7,2020 )
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Other Works by Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Frederick Douglass

( Category: American Civil War July 7,2020 )
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches From Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by Calvin Trillin
epub |eng | 2016-06-27 | Author:Calvin Trillin [Trillin, Calvin]

“Well, you do the best you can,” the judge replied. The backers of Lee Otis Johnson maintain that, unlike someone caught with a hundred pounds of marijuana or convicted of ...
( Category: Minority Studies July 7,2020 )
Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina by Virginia Rounding
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Virginia Rounding [Rounding, Virginia]

CHAPTER EIGHT Grigory the Wonder-Worker 1912 Simple-lifers, utopian socialists, spiritualists, occultists, theosophists, quietists, pacifists, futurists, cubists, zealots of all sorts in their approach to life and art, later to be ...
( Category: Russia July 7,2020 )
Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 by Robert Dallek
mobi, pdf |eng | 1998-03-18 | Author:Robert Dallek [Dallek, Robert]

8 A Sea of Troubles BY the beginning of 1967, the dissent over Vietnam, urban riots, political reverses, and doubts about administration programs to elevate poor folks into the middle ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 7,2020 )
American Disruptor by Roland De Wolk
epub |eng | | Author:Roland De Wolk

Jennie Stanford had been a quiet, if somewhat ostentatious presence so far, enduring the scorn of the more established San Francisco moneyed class with the same stoicism she had mustered ...
( Category: American Revolution July 6,2020 )
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson
epub |eng | 1999-07-01 | Author:Joyce Johnson [Johnson, Joyce]

There was a dark radiance about Elise when she was happy — you could always hear it immediately in her voice, like a light turned on behind the words. “Allen’s ...
( Category: Beat Generation July 6,2020 )
Milwaukee's Italian Heritage by Anthony Zignego
epub |eng | 2018-12-16 | Author:Anthony Zignego

( Category: Cities July 5,2020 )
Children Against Hitler by Monica Porter
epub |eng | 2020-03-18 | Author:Monica Porter

Chapter Six Hortense Daman – A Grocery Delivery Girl With Fresh Eggs and Hand Grenades The Daman family was central to the life of their community in the small Belgian ...
( Category: World War II July 5,2020 )
Make for the Hills by Robert Thompson
epub |eng | 1989-07-14 | Author:Robert Thompson

14. The author with President Ngo dinh Diem, Saigon, 1960 (p. 122) 15. Inspecting the Home Guard at a strategic hamlet, Vietnam (p. 129) 16. The author dining with Lee ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 5,2020 )
Churchill Style: The Art of Being Winston Churchill by Singer Barry
epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Singer, Barry [Singer, Barry]

CIGARS A fascinating and largely unknown facet of Churchill’s enforced economization program in the 1930s involved cigars. Churchill’s expensive taste in cigars had always run to Cubanos, with Romeo y ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 5,2020 )

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