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As Green as Grass by Emma Smith
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Emma Smith

Well – not quite. There remain various obstacles that must be surmounted. Under the prevailing rules and regulations of a country at war, a person can’t just change jobs on ...
( Category: Memoirs May 14,2018 )
Nimitz by E.B. Potter
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:E.B. Potter [Potter, E.B.]

CHAPTER 17 GALVANIC AND FLINTLOCK ADMIRAL NIMITZ DIRECTED the principal officers of Operation Galvanic to make CinCPac an information addressee on all important radio messages passing between their commands. From ...
( Category: Military May 13,2018 )
Audrey Hepburn by Suzanne Lander
epub |eng | 2018-04-25 | Author:Suzanne Lander

In addition to being memorialized on a US Postal Service stamp in 2003 as part of the Legends of Hollywood series, Audrey was featured on a German stamp. However, the ...
( Category: Photography & Video May 13,2018 )
Colour Bar by Susan Williams
epub |eng | 2007-05-12 | Author:Susan Williams

17 Six thousand miles away from home As W. A. W. Clark had suspected, Tshekedi had been very annoyed by Seretse’s separate speech of farewell to the Bangwato, after their ...
( Category: Africa May 12,2018 )
The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-06 | Author:Theodor Herzl

III. The Jewish Company OUTLINES THE JEWISH COMPANY IS PARTLY MODELLED ON THE lines of a great land-acquisition company. It might be called a Jewish Chartered Company, though it cannot ...
( Category: World May 12,2018 )
The Name of Death by Nick Caistor
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Nick Caistor

As to the causes of death of Maria Lúcia Petit, the document stated that the young communist had been killed by two gunshot wounds: one to the right thigh, fired ...
( Category: Historical May 11,2018 )
Mr. Smith Goes to Prison by Jeff Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Smith

5 “THIS IS JAIL, NOT YALE” The Demise of Country Club Prisons “One of the things I learned quickly is you don’t play basketball,” said Webster Hubbell, the third-highest-ranking Justice ...
( Category: Specific Groups May 10,2018 )
Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction by Elleke Boehmer
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-09 | Author:Elleke Boehmer

11. Kapitan’s restaurant, Kort Street, downtown Johannesburg. A symbol of his growing cross-cultural affinities, Kapitan’s was one of Mandela’s favourite 1950s lunchtime eateries, where he particularly enjoyed the prawn curry. ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 9,2018 )
Hitler & Mussolini by Santi Corvaja
epub |eng | | Author:Santi Corvaja [Corvaja, Santi; Miller, Robert L.]

X. The Italian Crisis Berchtesgaden: January 19–20, 1941 The last thing on Mussolini’s wish list was to spend a weekend in the middle of winter with Adolf Hitler, in the ...
( Category: Historical May 9,2018 )
Song in a Weary Throat by Pauli Murray
epub |eng | | Author:Pauli Murray

A more immediate consequence of our 1944 campaign was the discovery that ultimate victory over Jim Crow in the city of Washington did not require the enactment of civil rights ...
( Category: Specific Groups May 9,2018 )
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps
epub |eng | 2018-05-02 | Author:Roland Philipps [Philipps, Roland]

13 Collapse Away from the increasing stresses and evasions of Cairo, Donald Maclean was once again the relaxed family man on holiday in Italy, playing tennis, drinking in moderation and ...
( Category: True Crime May 8,2018 )
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer
azw3 |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:Anshel Pfeffer [Pfeffer, Anshel]

19 Good for the Jews As Eitan Haber, Yitzhak Rabin’s chief of staff, read the government statement on the prime minister’s assassination, people in the crowd outside Ichilov Hospital in ...
( Category: Middle East May 8,2018 )
From Cold War to Hot Peace by Michael McFaul
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Michael McFaul

At the end of my sophomore year at Stanford University, I traveled from Bozeman, Montana, to Leningrad, USSR, June 1983. It was my first trip abroad. Courtesy of the author ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 8,2018 )
Rise by Paige VanZant
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Paige VanZant

don’t call or write. i’m done with you. I change my phone number right after I hit “Send” because I don’t have the head to deal with what I know ...
( Category: Specific Groups May 8,2018 )
Operation Medusa by Major General David Fraser
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Major General David Fraser

The key to operations is intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Without knowing what is out there, you will never have good situational awareness. Canada bought the Sperwar, an unmanned aerial vehicle ...
( Category: Military May 8,2018 )

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