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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father by Peter Stark
epub |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Peter Stark

Part Three Chapter Fifteen JAMES SMITH WAITED ANXIOUSLY AT FORT DUQUESNE ALL that afternoon. The battered eighteen-year-old captive hoped to hear that General Braddock’s army had decimated the French and ...
( Category: Americas May 4,2018 )
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe by David I. Kertzer
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:David I. Kertzer

Yet food was growing short, and the French had cut off the ancient Roman aqueducts, so fresh water had become scarce. Amid the deprivation and fear, many Romans were beginning ...
( Category: Catholicism May 4,2018 )
President's Fact Book Revised and Updated!: The Achievements, Campaigns, Events, Triumphs, and Legacies of Every President from George Washington to Barack Obama by Matuz Roger
epub |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Matuz, Roger

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 8, 1841. At the age of sixteen, he began attending Harvard University, where he wrote ...
( Category: Historical May 4,2018 )
Daughter of the Cold War by Grace Kennan Warnecke
epub |eng | | Author:Grace Kennan Warnecke

CHAPTER 7 New Waters My new single life in San Francisco was jolted by a telephone call from John Wasserman, the funny and outrageous music critic of the San Francisco ...
( Category: Historical May 4,2018 )
Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front by Anthony Fletcher
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Anthony Fletcher

Yet letters home, one finds, contain far more material about the deaths of colleagues, their injuries and broken comradeship than about mud or the horrific physical aspects of trench service. ...
( Category: Military May 4,2018 )
To Vietnam in Vain by Edward A. Hagan
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Edward A. Hagan

The Smell of Pink Plexiglass When I went down in the helicopter on February 23, 1970, the incident was the worst moment of my year in Vietnam, but it has ...
( Category: Military May 3,2018 )
If I Could Tell You Just One Thing... by Richard Reed
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Reed

‘If I was to give one piece of advice, it is this: life is all about rhythm. Your heartbeat, great sex, the seasons, how often you call your parents, your ...
( Category: Personal Transformation May 2,2018 )
Champion by Craig Johnson
epub |eng | 2018-02-28 | Author:Craig Johnson

One day I received a call from a pastor friend of mine in San Antonio, Pastor Henry, who asked if I would come and help them start a Champions Club ...
( Category: Christian Living May 2,2018 )
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Ernst Junger

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: Memoirs May 2,2018 )
British Conservative Leaders (British Leaders) by
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:

CHAPTER 13 WINSTON CHURCHILL JOHN CHARMLEY Churchill’s electoral record shows two defeats – one by a landslide in 1945 and the other by a narrow margin in 1950 – and ...
( Category: Crafts & Hobbies May 2,2018 )
Young Washington by Peter Stark
epub |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Peter Stark

Part Three Chapter Fifteen JAMES SMITH WAITED ANXIOUSLY AT FORT DUQUESNE ALL that afternoon. The battered eighteen-year-old captive hoped to hear that General Braddock’s army had decimated the French and ...
( Category: Americas May 2,2018 )
A World to Win by Sven-Eric Liedman
epub |eng | | Author:Sven-Eric Liedman

Society Beyond Capitalism One of the most famous sections in the Grundrisse deals with the forms of production and property that preceded capitalism.58 What Marx called the Asiatic mode of ...
( Category: Historical May 1,2018 )
Street Fighting Years by Tariq Ali
epub |eng | | Author:Tariq Ali

This racism – anti-black, anti-Asiatic, anti-Mexican – is a basic American attitude with deep historical roots and which existed, latently and overtly, well before the Vietnamese conflict. One proof of ...
( Category: World May 1,2018 )
Punching Nazis by Keith Lowell Jensen
epub |eng | 2018-04-16 | Author:Keith Lowell Jensen

RAIDER Raider was my neighbor. Raider loved my band, which was good since we loudly rehearsed in my living room, just a few yards from his windows. He told me ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 1,2018 )
Trip by Tao Lin
epub |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:Tao Lin

— On day 2, we heard six or seven cases. Each case began with the judge and his assistant leaving the room; a stenographer entering and sitting at a typewriter ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling May 1,2018 )

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