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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel
epub |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Studs Terkel [Terkel, Studs]

BOOK THREE SUDDEN MONEY RAY WAX He is a stockbroker, living in a middle-class suburb just outside New York City. It is a recent endeavor. Previously he had been a ...
( Category: Military August 7,2018 )
The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich by Callum MacDonald
epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Callum MacDonald [CALLUM MACDONALD]

Moravec emphasised that once they were dropped from the aircraft over Bohemia–Moravia Gabčĺk and Svoboda would be completely on their own. ‘For evident reasons’ assistance from the home army was ...
( Category: Europe August 7,2018 )
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy by Jim Proser
epub |eng | 2018-08-06 | Author:Jim Proser

0515 Hours—25 February 1991 The Iraqi counterattack begins from the west with a feint against Mattis and the 1/7 on the left flank of Task Force Ripper, followed by large-scale ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 7,2018 )
Women of the Blue and Gray by Marianne Monson
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Marianne Monson

The irony that a nation founded on the principles of freedom would continue to justify the institution of slavery long after much of the rest of the world had abolished ...
( Category: Americas August 7,2018 )
Spitfire Ace by Gordon Olive DFC|Dennis Newton
epub |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Gordon Olive, DFC|Dennis Newton

12 Death in August By the following morning it was clear to everyone that this was a new phase in the fighting. 54 Squadron had been bombed at Manston that ...
( Category: Military August 7,2018 )
Hannibal by Eve MacDonald
epub |eng | | Author:Eve MacDonald

CHAPTER 11 HANNIBAL RETURNS When they considered the worth of Hannibal and the greatness of his acts, it offended them to think that they had been so base as to ...
( Category: Historical August 7,2018 )
Mathew Brady by Robert Wilson
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Robert Wilson

A Confederate colonel’s horse, killed at Antietam (September 1862). Photograph by Alexander Gardner. Library of Congress The Times reporter begins his piece somewhat melodramatically, calling up the list of the ...
( Category: Americas August 6,2018 )
Where the Evidence Leads by Dick Thornburgh
epub |eng | | Author:Dick Thornburgh

THE MOST PRESSING challenge in the area of white-collar crime at the outset of the Bush administration was the savings and loan mess. Most Americans were as unaware as I ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 5,2018 )
The Last British Dambuster by George Johnny Johnson
mobi |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:George Johnny Johnson

CHAPTER 8 THE DEBRIEF AND A RETURN TO THE SORPE AFTER MOST OTHER raids, we were still talking too loudly when we bundled into the debriefing room. We’d left Chuck-Chuck ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 5,2018 )
House of Outrageous Fortune by Michael Gross
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Gross

* * * I It was also Kessler who’d figured out years before that the key to getting the US Postal Service to temporarily move out of its home on ...
( Category: Sociology August 4,2018 )
I Spy by Geoffrey Elliott
epub |eng | 2013-08-03 | Author:Geoffrey Elliott [Geoffrey Elliott]

15 His Bonnet in Germany Whatever Elliott found, didn’t find, thought he had found, or thought he had lost when he came back from ‘Spangers’ in 1945, he didn’t enjoy ...
( Category: Historical August 4,2018 )
Masquerade by Tivadar Soros
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Tivadar Soros

Chapter 17 False Dawn In August 1944 things at last began to assume the shape I had been waiting for so impatiently. German military failures began to have an effect ...
( Category: World August 4,2018 )
Harvey Milk by Lillian Faderman
epub |eng | 2018-08-03 | Author:Lillian Faderman

10 Supervisor Milk HARVEY ALWAYS FELT wounded by his older brother’s long-standing opinion of him as a lightweight who never grew out of being a showoff. It was not just ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 4,2018 )
Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter by Elena Rzhevskaya
epub |eng | 2018-03-29 | Author:Elena Rzhevskaya

Lodging for the Night Looking for somewhere to stay late in the evening of 3 May, we found ourselves in the Berlin outskirts. As we were walking down a dark, ...
( Category: Historical August 4,2018 )
Derek Prince: A Biography by Stephen Mansfield
epub |eng | 2009-07-30 | Author:Stephen Mansfield

In the latter part of 1946, the Prince family was living a largely Arab life in the little village of Ramallah. To their credit, they had refused to isolate themselves ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 4,2018 )

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