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From Manassas to Appomattox by James Longstreet
epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:James Longstreet

“P. S.—I think your passage of the Potomac by our rear at the present moment will, in a measure, disclose our plans. You had better not leave us, therefore, unless ...
( Category: Americas July 20,2018 )
Terror of the Autumn Skies by Blaine Pardoe
epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Blaine Pardoe

Frank returned to Rembercourt on the 24th of September, after only five days in Paris. Most men, when granted seven days leave in a war, would cherish being away from ...
( Category: Military July 20,2018 )
Trust Me, Child by Betty Walker
epub |eng | 2012-01-12 | Author:Betty Walker [Walker, Betty]

Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights; hemmed in ...
( Category: Christian Living July 19,2018 )
Lone Star Rising: Vol. 1: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 by Robert Dallek
epub |eng | 1991-08-15 | Author:Robert Dallek [Dallek, Robert]

12 For Country, Party, and Self LYNDON’Selection as majority Whip in January 1951 encouraged a belief among Washington insiders that he was a rising star in the Senate and Democratic ...
( Category: Historical July 19,2018 )
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-04-16 | Author:William Taubman [Taubman, William]

THE WEATHER in Washington was hot; the sky above Andrews Air Force Base was cloudless. Flags of both countries fluttered in a slight breeze while the fifty-six-piece military band’s shiny ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 19,2018 )
Sergeant Rex by Mike Dowling
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Dowling

Chapter Eleven IN MY FINAL YEAR AT HIGH SCHOOL I INJURED MY SHOULDER PRETTY badly playing football. I had been hoping to play professionally, but by the time I went ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care July 19,2018 )
Risen Christ, The by Leith Anderson
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Leith Anderson [Anderson, Leith]

†The Romans developed a standard protocol for crucifixion but may not have always followed the same routine, especially in Judea, which was out on the perimeter of the empire. The ...
( Category: Theology July 19,2018 )
D-DayHistory in an Hour by Rupert Colley
epub |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Rupert Colley [Colley, Rupert]

THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY During the following morning, 7 June, British troops captured Bayeux with relative ease; the first French city to be liberated. British soldier inspecting identity cards of ...
( Category: Americas July 18,2018 )
Coolidge_An American Enigma by Robert Sobel
epub |eng | 1998-05-25 | Author:Robert Sobel [Sobel, Robert]

9 President When I became president it was perfectly apparent that the key by which the way could be opened to national progress was constructive economy. Only by the use ...
( Category: Historical July 18,2018 )
The Dawn Prayer[Or How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison] by Matthew Schrier
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Matthew Schrier [Schrier, Matthew]

Early one evening we were all just chilling in our own private hell when we heard the piercing shriek of a MiG slice the air above the hospital. I saw ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 18,2018 )
The Dawn Prayer_Or How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison by Matthew Schrier
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Matthew Schrier [Schrier, Matthew]

Early one evening we were all just chilling in our own private hell when we heard the piercing shriek of a MiG slice the air above the hospital. I saw ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 18,2018 )
Elizabeth I by Helen Castor
epub |eng | 2018-01-13 | Author:Helen Castor

Now that Elizabeth was beyond doubt the last of the Tudor line, the unacknowledged heir she kept under guard at Sheffield embodied a yet more intractable dilemma and a yet ...
( Category: Historical July 18,2018 )
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
epub, azw3 |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Ernst Jünger

In Flers, I found my designated quarters had been occupied by several staff sergeant-majors, who, claiming they had to guard the room on behalf of a certain Baron von X, ...
( Category: Europe July 18,2018 )
Party Like a President by Brian Abrams
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Abrams

The state of Ohio vs. Todd. One highlight of McKinley’s prudish ways happened in 1869. Four years out of law school, he served a single term as prosecuting attorney of ...
( Category: Historical July 18,2018 )
Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:Russell Shorto [Shorto, Russell]

Perhaps the most talked-about event in London during the summer of 1777 was the case of William Dodd, a popular clergyman whose taste for the good life led him to ...
( Category: Americas July 18,2018 )

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