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American Soldier by General Tommy R. Franks
epub |eng | | Author:General Tommy R. Franks

THE TEN DAYS FROM HELL ENDED ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19. Near midnight, Afghan time—early afternoon in Tampa— John Mulholland inserted the first Special Forces A-Team into General Dostum’s mud-brick village ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 15,2018 )
Force Recon Command by Alex Lee
epub |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Alex Lee [Lee, Alex]

13 SILVER EAGLE RETURNS A CALL As the year 1969 stubbed its toe on the way into the history books, Third Force Recon prepared to greet the arrival of 1970 ...
( Category: Military April 15,2018 )
Dante Valentine 03 by The Devil's Right Hand
epub |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:The Devil's Right Hand [Hand, The Devil's Right]

Another first. Well, wasn’t this a day for surprises. Knife-work is close and dirty, and his speed and strength gave him an edge. But my katana kept him just out ...
( Category: Fantasy April 14,2018 )
Last Escaper by Tunstall Peter
epub |eng | | Author:Tunstall, Peter

Chapter Eight “What’s the plan?” John Milner and I were separated, and on return to Fort 15 at Thorn our treatment was unpleasant. It is something to be said for ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 14,2018 )
Bright Light: A Lifetime of Seeing God at Work by Harold Ewing Burchett
mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Harold Ewing Burchett

Chapter 12 God at Work on the University Campus We carried our church’s witness directly to the university campus in several ways. All members of the church who attended area ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 14,2018 )
Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson by Elliot R. Wolfson
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Elliot R. Wolfson [Wolfson, Elliot R.]

The rational soul (which is the matter of the divine image) in the Jew is not comparable to the rational soul in the Gentile . . . for the rational ...
( Category: Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts April 14,2018 )
Skalski: Against All Odds by Franciszek Grabowski
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-11 | Author:Franciszek Grabowski [Grabowski, Franciszek]

I said it would be fine, but while there would be no trouble with the officers, I had five non-commissioned officers. Broadhurst answered that it was just the matter of ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )
Friedrich Hayek: A Biography by Alan Ebenstein
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alan Ebenstein [Ebenstein, Alan]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Influence INFLUENCE IS SO DIFFICULT TO MEASURE. Hayek quoted Mill approvingly in The Constitution of Liberty on the “‘lesson given to mankind by every age, and always disregarded—that ...
( Category: Economics April 14,2018 )
Maimonides by Abraham Joshua Heschel
epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

David had run a business and traveled, as though to demonstrate the precept about the position of the wise in this world. Did this not pose a question, did David’s ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 14,2018 )
Erasmus, Man of Letters by Jardine Lisa; Jardine Lisa;
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Jardine, Lisa; Jardine, Lisa;

21. Title page of the Epistolae D. Erasmi Roterodami ad diuersos (Basle, 1521). By definition, the letter makes the absent vividly present in writing. Unlike the classic oration or the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 14,2018 )
Muhammad Abduh by Mark Sedgwick
epub | | | Author:Mark Sedgwick

THE NATIONAL COURTS Egypt had three parallel judicial systems. The oldest of these was the Sharia Court system, which had existed from time immemorial, applying Islamic law and staffed by ...
( Category: Islam April 14,2018 )
Generalship of Muhammad by Rodgers Russ;
epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Rodgers, Russ;

6 The Surge After the destruction of the Banu Qurayzah in January 627, Muhammad allowed his fighters to take a well-deserved break. It would seem that during this interlude he ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )
War in Val d'Orcia by Iris Origo
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Iris Origo [Iris Origo]

DECEMBER 6TH Antonio spends the day in driving from one village to another, trying to find a safe shelter for the X.s. At last, through the Bishop of Pienza, a ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )
Monica's Story by Andrew Morton
epub |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:Andrew Morton

CHAPTER TEN Enter Kenneth Starr WITH A LIGHTED CIGARETTE in her hand and tears brimming in her eyes, Linda Tripp stood with Monica in a back alley outside the Pentagon, ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 14,2018 )
Inside Force Recon: Recon Marines in Vietnam (Stackpole Military History Series) by Michael Lee Lanning & Ray W. Stubbe
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-01 | Author:Michael Lee Lanning & Ray W. Stubbe [Lanning, Michael Lee]

Chapter 11 Work on the Task Force Level When the Force Recon units first arrived in Vietnam, they were employed to provide reconnaissance at the regiment level. As more Marine ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )

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