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Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy by Patrick Dalzel-job
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Patrick Dalzel-job

Norwegian coaster passing Patrick’s lair on the evening of 19 October 1943. Stavenes from Patrick’s lair on Kjærviknes, at 13.20 on 19 October, 1943. German convoy, 13.20 on 16 October ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 4,2020 )
Falklands Hero by Jon Cooksey
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Jon Cooksey [Cooksey, Jon]

The Argentine .50-calibre heavy machine gun which was a thorn in the side of 4 and 5 Platoons of B Company, 3 Para during the attack on Mount Longdon. Protected ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2020 )
The Passing of the Armies by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

CHAPTER VI APPOMATTOX THE darkest hours before the dawn of April 9, 1865, shrouded the Fifth Corps sunk in feverish sleep by the roadside six miles away from Appomattox Station ...
( Category: American Civil War March 4,2020 )
Letters from An Early Bird by Donal MacCarron
epub |eng | 2006-03-03 | Author:Donal MacCarron

* * * 19th November, 1914 Dearest Mother, Wilkinson’s parcel has arrived at last, such nice socks, and the blanket is very acceptable, also the cigarettes. I shan’t want socks ...
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Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain by Alexander Kristen
epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Alexander, Kristen

‘It’ll never happen to me’ Before the close of day, Goering’s commanders were obliged to digest the Reichsmarshall’s latest directive. It was essentially an appraisal of the effectiveness of Luftwaffe ...
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Rebel Crossings by Sheila Rowbotham
epub |eng | | Author:Sheila Rowbotham

Opposition to imperialism had made William restless in discussions with small groups, and that autumn he decided to align himself with William Jennings Bryan who had been chosen as the ...
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Deadlines Past by Walter R. Mears
epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Walter R. Mears [Mears, Walter R.]

It was Carter’s primary anyway. He won easily, in a state where a year before there had been opinion polls suggesting that Kennedy was popular enough to beat the president ...
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The Life and Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz
epub |eng | 2013-05-20 | Author:Friedrich Katz

Carrancista and Villista Agrarian Policies Villa’s abstention from matters of ideology and social legislation on a national scale ended in May 1915, when he decreed an agrarian law. It is ...
( Category: American Revolution March 4,2020 )
First among equals President of India by Scharada Dubey
epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Scharada Dubey [Dubey, Scharada]

A Scholar and a Rebel Giani Zail Singh Term of Office: 25 July 1982–25 July 1987 Being able to stand up to injustice throughout one’s life, in the midst of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 4,2020 )
Infantery Attacks: Infanterie Greift An by Erwin Rommel
epub |eng | 2015-01-09 | Author:Erwin Rommel [Rommel, Erwin]

Preparations for the attack of August 11, 1917. View from the west. My attack order was: "On my signal the forward line (1 platoon of the 3d Company and Grau's ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2020 )
Fighting Through to Kohima by Michael Lowry
epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Michael Lowry

We were to learn that Geoffrey Tattershall’s party broke into the Admin Box and became attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment. In the course of the encirclement, Geoffrey was killed ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2020 )
Flying in High Winds by S.K. Misra
epub |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:S.K. Misra [Misra, S.K.]

◆ The US and French Festivals of India overlapped with each other, but while the Annee de L’Inde (Festival of India) was limited to one year, the American Festival continued ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 4,2020 )
Encounters of Heaven by Lynette Love
epub |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Lynette Love [Love, Lynette]

Chapter Eleven What the Holy Spirit looks like I ask the Holy Spirit what He looks like. He shows me. At first I think I am looking at Jesus – ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 4,2020 )
Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot by Helmut Mahlke
epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Helmut Mahlke

I submitted a full report on the débâcle to our Geschwaderkommodore and requested that he take the matter up with Jafü 2, stressing the fact that this was no way ...
( Category: History March 4,2020 )
The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't) by Alvin S. Felzenberg
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Alvin S. Felzenberg

Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was the most economically successful president in the last third of the twentieth century. Unlike his four predecessors, Reagan was willing to endure the short-term pain ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 4,2020 )

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