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An Army Doctor's American Revolution Journal, 1775–1783 by James Thacher
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:James Thacher

( Category: American Revolution March 19,2020 )
A Soldier of the Legion - An Englishman's Adventures Under the French Flag in Algeria and Tonquin by George Manington
epub |eng | 2017-01-05 | Author:George Manington [Manington, George]

"Cannot I die now?" he said to Tho. "No! no! we are to take you alive. Such are the orders which must be obeyed." Then to me: " Camarade, you ...
( Category: Military March 19,2020 )
It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country by David Shulkin
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:David Shulkin

26 Visiting Our Allies IN JULY, WE WERE INVITED TO THE FIVE EYES CONFERENCE IN LONDON, which forty-three times previously had brought together the five allied countries that had fought ...
( Category: Military Policy March 19,2020 )
The Life of Garibaldi by Theodore Dwight
epub |eng | | Author:Theodore Dwight

New kingdom 37,640 7,800,000 Venetia 9,525 2,200,000 Papal States 17,218 2,900,000 Tuscany 8,741 1,750,000 Parma 2,268 500,000 Modena 2,090 410,000 Two Sicilies 42,000 8,400,000 Although disappointed, by the imperfect accomplishment ...
( Category: Military March 19,2020 )
Conversations with Lincoln by Gordon Leidner
epub |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Gordon Leidner

The next morning, after being admitted to Lincoln’s office, she continued the narrative: He sat down by his desk, reached out for the petition, wrote across the back, “Release this ...
( Category: American Civil War March 19,2020 )
Sons of Providence by Charles Rappleye
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Rappleye

Philadelphia in 1775 was the largest city in America, more than ten times the size of Providence, with wharves that stretched two miles along the shore of the Delaware River. ...
( Category: American Revolution March 19,2020 )
Greed by Adams Media
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Adams Media [Media, Adams]

(HAG-ul) VERB: To bargain with; to dicker or negotiate on price or terms. She is so tightfisted with her money that she tries to HAGGLE the price on every purchase ...
( Category: Word Lists March 19,2020 )
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Caro

Moses often built structures just because the projects secured him more money and power Developing areas without consulting residents was certainly an expression of Moses’s disinterest in other people’s views, ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 19,2020 )
Warrior-in-Waiting by Farman Edward George & Farman E.G
epub |eng | 2019-06-17 | Author:Farman, Edward George & Farman, E.G [Farman, Edward George]

RAF Tangmere No.115 Squadron 18 May 1960 to 24 May 1962 No. 115 Squadron was a busy unit, charged as it was with calibrating the approach and landing aids for ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 19,2020 )
Forty-Seven Days by Mitchell Yockelson
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Mitchell Yockelson

11 PROGRESS WAS MADE By October 5, Germans under General Krug von Nidda finally retreated from Blanc Mont Ridge and formed a new line along the Aisne, but left behind ...
( Category: Military March 19,2020 )
Hunt For The Blower Bentley by Kevin Gosselin
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Kevin Gosselin

Chapter Twenty Six Newcastle Upon Tyne, April 5, 1941 What was it the Americans said, ‘Like shooting fish in a barrel’, Stephan puzzled over his morning tea and paper at ...
( Category: Military March 19,2020 )
Follow the Model by J. Alexander
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:J. Alexander

Finland has changed a lot, but when I first arrived there almost fifteen years ago, it could be rough for a black gay man. One time I was sitting in ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 18,2020 )
What Has Life Taught You? by Zoe Sallis
epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Zoe Sallis

Robert Graham I think I have a destiny. It’s a kind of package you have been dealt. You look at it and say I can squander it or I can ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 18,2020 )
With the Royal Navy in War and Peace by B B Schofield & Victoria Schofield
epub |eng | 2019-03-17 | Author:B B Schofield & Victoria Schofield

Contact with the German officers had initially been arranged by a German refugee, Franz Fischer (and known as Dr Franz) in September 1939 with the British agent, Captain Sigismund Payne ...
( Category: Military March 18,2020 )
A Radical Line by Thai Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Thai Jones

Later, she read Blake and Shelley, and her poetry in the school literary journal was closer to the Victorian taste. She was captain of the debating team and secretary for ...
( Category: Radicalism March 18,2020 )

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