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An Ordinary Man by Richard Norton Smith
epub |eng | 2023-02-04 | Author:Richard Norton Smith

FOR THE POLITICAL animal, nothing is more easily rationalized than a lost cause. During golf games that fall at Burning Tree Country Club, a tony all-male preserve with a $12,000 ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2023 )
Blackhorse Riders by Keith Philip A
epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Keith, Philip A. [Keith, Philip A. ]

1820, MARCH 26, 1970, TEAM ALPHA AND CHARLIE COMPANY, COMBINED BATTLE FORMATION Lieutenant Henderson, commanding 3rd Platoon, was still deferring, as well he might, to his platoon sergeant, SFC Robert ...
( Category: Vietnam War June 20,2023 )
‘Rommel?’ ‘Gunner who?’ by Spike Milligan
epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Spike Milligan

27th Feb.: First Day at Waggon Lines 0700. After breakfast, Bombardier⁄Artificer Donaldson detailed five men to accompany him to the old Waggon Lines to collect equipment left behind in yesterday’s ...
( Category: World War II June 19,2023 )
Background and Setting Questions by Unknown
pdf | | | Author:Unknown

( Category: Social Activists June 17,2023 )
The Watchdog by Steve Drummond
epub |eng | 2023-02-23 | Author:Steve Drummond

16 BAD ENGINES On March 22, the same day Truman, Fulton and the other senators were grilling Lester Perry and Benjamin Fairless about faked steel inspections, investigator Donald Lathrom was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 14,2023 )
The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State by John C. Winters
epub |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:John C. Winters

( Category: American Civil War June 14,2023 )
McQueen by Christopher Sandford
epub |eng | 2001-06-15 | Author:Christopher Sandford

* While a number of critics tried turning Thomas Crown into something heavy or even profound, McQueen’s own take, as usual, was on the money: ‘A lot of people are ...
( Category: Rich & Famous June 14,2023 )
Unlikely Heroes by Derek Leebaert
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Leebaert

( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 14,2023 )
Our King by Robert Jobson
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Jobson

CHAPTER 12 Dissident at Heart He [Prince Charles] would readily embrace the political aspects of any contentious issue he was interested in . . . He often referred to himself ...
( Category: Royalty June 14,2023 )
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by David Waldstreicher
epub |eng | | Author:David Waldstreicher

( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 14,2023 )
Surf When You Can by Brett Crozier
epub |eng | 2023-06-13 | Author:Brett Crozier

CHAPTER 6 Play Small Ball As a kid growing up in California, baseball was a big deal. We listened to it, we watched it, we talked about it, and we ...
( Category: Iraq War June 14,2023 )
The Windsors at War by Alexander Larman
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Larman

Chapter Twelve ‘The Hard Sacrifice’ On 10 August 1941, the queen made a radio broadcast to the women of America. She had not made a similar broadcast since the outbreak ...
( Category: Royalty June 14,2023 )
Ulysses S. Grant by Geoffrey Perret
epub |eng | 2012-06-06 | Author:Geoffrey Perret [Perret, Geoffrey]

CHAPTER 21 “GET ALL THE SUNSHINE I CAN” There had been only one lieutenant general in the history of the Republic, and that was George Washington. True, Winfield Scott had ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 13,2023 )
The Coronation Book: The History and Legends of the Crowning of the British Monarchy by Leonard Wibberley
epub |eng | | Author:Leonard Wibberley [Wibberley, Leonard]

CHAPTER XIII The Royal Heralds WITHIN the Kingdom of England there is a shadow realm, with three kings and ten nobles. It is a kingdom of which the British peoples ...
( Category: Royalty June 13,2023 )
Damn Lucky by Kevin Maurer
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Maurer

12 TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH OCTOBER 1943 As King Bee climbed, Lucky keyed his mic. “Copilot to crew,” he said over the interphone. “Take your positions.” Tech Sergeant Alfred Loguidice, the ...
( Category: Military June 13,2023 )

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