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Jubal Early by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III
epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Benjamin Franklin Cooling III

2. Frances H. Kennedy, ed., The Civil War Battlefield Guide, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 299–303. For a fuller account of Hunter’s depredations, see Gary C. Walker, Hunter’s Fiery ...
( Category: American Civil War August 6,2020 )
Remember Us by Martin Small
epub |eng | 2011-01-23 | Author:Martin Small

More Aimless Wandering The days and weeks after the escape from Koldichevo melded into one long struggle. Shmulek and I parted ways from the other escapees, banking on our own ...
( Category: American Revolution August 6,2020 )
Five Four Whiskey by Robert Sweatmon
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Sweatmon [Sweatmon, Robert]

Track Fifteen CUE: Folsom Prison Blues, JOHNNY CASH Every man who has ever stood in the line of battle has had to come to the realization that death is a ...
( Category: Vietnam War August 6,2020 )
African American women of the Old West by Wagner Tricia Martineau
epub |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Wagner, Tricia Martineau

Home Sweet Home •<* The town of Oracle was known for its natural beauty. It was 40 miles northeast of Tucson, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, but the climate ...
( Category: Women in History August 6,2020 )
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Teege

■ ■ ■ I LOVE THAT PHOTO of the three of us in matching nightclothes, on the bunk beds. After Inge and Gerhard had put us to bed, we would ...
( Category: United States August 6,2020 )
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Wentworth Higginson [Higginson, Thomas Wentworth]

CHAPTER SIX A NIGHT IN THE WATER YES, THAT WAS A PLEASANT LIFE ON PICKET, IN THE DELICIOUS EARLY summer of the South, and among the endless flowery forests of ...
( Category: American Civil War August 6,2020 )
Dead Wrong by Richard Belzer
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Belzer

Courtesy of Saint John Hunt, www.SaintJohnHunt.com Johnson’s deep resentment of President Kennedy is well-documented. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words—check out the two which follow: Employing French ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration August 6,2020 )
Joseph Smith by Richard Lyman Bushman
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Richard Lyman Bushman

RETURN The day after dictating the letter to the Church, Joseph answered a letter from his “Affectionate Wife.” Emma had written, her “hands stiffened with hard work” and “heart convulsed ...
( Category: Mormonism August 6,2020 )
Rangers in World War II by Robert W. Black
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Robert W. Black [Black, Robert W.]

Despite the slaughter on Omaha Charlie, succeeding waves of infantry and engineers had continued to land. Men of the 146th, 149th, and 121st Engineers valiantly tried to clear paths through ...
( Category: World War II August 6,2020 )
Born to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor by Catherine Mayer
epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Catherine Mayer [Mayer, Catherine]

CHAPTER 6 Helping and Hindering “You need to listen to each other. It’s respect,” says team leader David Tovey. A girl raises her head from the table and stares at ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 6,2020 )
Whitewash III by Harold Weisberg
epub |eng | 1966-12-31 | Author:Harold Weisberg

Printed in the United States of America TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. The New Math and the New Morality 2. Mary Moorman Didn’t Make It! 3. Hugh Betzner, Jr., Elsie ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 5,2020 )
Mob Cop by Fred Pascente
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Fred Pascente

19 SHAKESPEARE Chicago police districts are duly numbered as in any proper police department, but they are interchangeably referred to by name, usually borrowed from a nearby street, park, or ...
( Category: United States August 5,2020 )
We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank From Her Classmates by Theo Coster
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Theo Coster [Coster, Theo]

“In that house, I slept in a kind of closet under the floor. What I mean is, there was a closet in one of the rooms—an ordinary closet with a ...
( Category: United States August 5,2020 )
Court Lady and Country Wife by Lita-Rose Betcherman
epub |eng | 1927-08-14 | Author:Lita-Rose Betcherman [Betcherman Lita-Rose]

A less controversial subject was the beds, silver, and other household goods that Leicester had purchased in France for Penshurst and the London town house. French luxury goods were famous. ...
( Category: Women in History August 5,2020 )
Résistance by Agnes Humbert & Barbara Mellor
mobi |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Agnes Humbert & Barbara Mellor [Humbert, Agnes]

Krefeld, June 1943 Is it the intense heat that has caused our eyes to get bad again? Whatever the reason, at breakfast yesterday morning most of us were wearing dark ...
( Category: World War II August 5,2020 )

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