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Star Spangled Scandal by Chris DeRose
epub |eng | | Author:Chris DeRose

Chapter Thirty-One The Implements of Death * * * “This dreadful affair is the theme of conversation in every social community in the country. No event of a similar kind ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem June 26,2019 )
Alone at Dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force (9781538732311) by Schilling Dan; Longfritz Lori
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Schilling, Dan; Longfritz, Lori

As Jay froze in the pre-morning light, stuffed inside his puffy jacket, Andy and Mako-31 were already executing their pre-operation strike. Shortly after midnight, they had quietly jammed all their ...
( Category: Afghan War June 26,2019 )
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Don Jordan & Michael Walsh
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Don Jordan & Michael Walsh [Jordan, Don]

stroked all that were brought to him and then put about each of their necks a white ribbon with an angel of gold on it. In this manner His Majesty ...
( Category: Royalty June 25,2019 )
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
epub |eng | 2013-02-02 | Author:Julius Caesar [Caesar, Julius]

2 The second crossing of the Rhine (53 B.C.) 9. After marching from the country of the Menapii to that of the Treveri, Caesar determined to cross the Rhine for ...
( Category: Rome June 25,2019 )
The Crisis by Winston Churchill
epub |eng | | Author:Winston Churchill

* That same Thursday, when the first families of the city were whispering jubilantly in each other's ears of the safe arrival of the artillery and stands of arms at ...
( Category: War June 25,2019 )
Witnessing History by Jennifer Zeng
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Jennifer Zeng

A few days later the camp leader summoned me again and went over the same thing: the informal discussion with reformed Falun Gong practitioners was an opportunity not to be ...
( Category: Women June 24,2019 )
Robert Menzies by Troy Bramston
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Troy Bramston

IN February 1957, just a few months after he was elected deputy leader, Harold Holt wrote a 21-page paper for Menzies titled ‘The political situation’. The paper provided an inside ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian June 23,2019 )
Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway by David Rigby
epub |eng | | Author:David Rigby

Figure 12.3 Best/Penland map as modified by Lewis A. Hopkins.85 If Hopkins did dive on Akagi, he did not do so as part of a six-plane division, contrary to what ...
( Category: World War II June 23,2019 )
Spoken from the Heart (2010) by Bush Laura
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Bush, Laura [Laura, Bush,]

George worked hard to reach out to Putin in spite of the philosophical divide between them. The next morning at the ranch, the four of us had breakfast and then ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 23,2019 )
The Enemy of the People by Jim Acosta
epub |eng | 2019-05-08 | Author:Jim Acosta

ACOSTA: How can the White House Chief of Staff, how can the Press Secretary, how can this White House still be standing behind him when Mr. Porter appeared to be ...
( Category: Elections June 22,2019 )
Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society by Michael Heinrich;
epub |eng | 2019-06-21 | Author:Michael Heinrich;

3 THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, THE BEGINNINGS OF YOUNG HEGELIANISM, AND MARX’S DISSERTATION PROJECTS 1838–1841 From the first two years of Marx’s studies (1835–37), the sources available to us are ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 22,2019 )
1941 by Andrew Nagorski
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Andrew Nagorski

* * * For a long time, the Nazis had equivocated on the ultimate fate of the Jews. After Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, the Germans had quickly ...
( Category: World War II June 21,2019 )
Truth Worth Telling : A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times (9781488053627) by Pelley Scott
epub |eng | 2019-03-22 | Author:Pelley, Scott

* * * For many years in America, blue collars have been turning red hot. The middle class has suffered with zero growth in inflation-adjusted income for the last five ...
( Category: Political June 21,2019 )
The Crowded Hour by Clay Risen
epub |eng | | Author:Clay Risen

CHAPTER 11 “AN AMPHITHEATER FOR THE BATTLE” At about 4 a.m. on July 1, the nearly 17,000 men who comprised General Shafter’s Fifth Corps crawled from under their blankets and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 21,2019 )
Siege : Trump Under Fire (9781250253811) by Michael Wolff
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Wolff [Wolff, Michael]

* * * While Trump was disrupting—or acting out at—the NATO summit, Bannon teamed up with Hannity to go to London, hoping to catch a ride on Hannity’s plane. Bannon ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 20,2019 )

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