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Naked in Da Nang: A Forward Air Controller in Vietnam by Mike Jackson & Tara Dixon-Engel & Frank Borman
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Mike Jackson & Tara Dixon-Engel & Frank Borman

My best pal Joe (front) and I ham it up in one of those cheesy little photo booths that seemed to be everywhere in the 1950s and 60s. My parents, ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
Maimonides by Joel L. Kraemer
epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Joel L. Kraemer

THE DAYS OF THE MESSIAH The days of the Messiah are yearned for not for any material rewards they might bring but for the tranquility that permits untrammeled pursuit of ...
( Category: Philosophy April 8,2018 )
Four Princes by John Julius Norwich
epub |eng | 2017-03-30 | Author:John Julius Norwich

59 He is said to have been put up to this escapade by Ibrahim Pasha, who hoped that the lady might supplant Roxelana in Suleiman’s affections. 60 La Goletta is ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Alastair Campbell [Campbell, Alastair]

Friday, April 16 Brussels. Pretty extraordinary day. My main message for the NATO lot was that a military campaign had to be founded on simple concepts, and so did any ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography 1706-1757 by Benjamin Franklin
epub | | 2010-05-21 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

CHAPTER 12 My ideas at that time were, that the sect should be begun and spread at first among young and single men only; that each person to be initiated ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2018 )
Barack Obama, the Unauthorized Biography by Webster Tarpley
epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Webster Tarpley [Tarpley, Webster]

222 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography OBAMA: TERRORIST AYERS IS “COURAGEOUS” We thus have from this time a rare published endorsement of Ayers by Obama which appears to have ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
The Intimate Merton by Thomas Merton
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas Merton [Merton, Thomas]

August 16, 1961 It is certainly true that man is most human and proves his humanity by the quality of his relationship with woman. (This, in Marx, surprised me.) How ...
( Category: Catholicism April 8,2018 )
His Father's Son by Tim Brady
epub |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Tim Brady

Part of the agreement in letting their husbands make this journey was that the Roosevelt brothers’ wives, Eleanor and Belle, would get their own trip to India. At its outset, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Peter Abelard

Letter 7 Abelard to Heloise This long letter is Abelard’s answer to Heloise’s first question about the origin of nuns. To us it seems prolix and not very logical in ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 8,2018 )
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
epub |eng | | Author:Xenophon

Chapter 7 THE GREEKS CATCH SIGHT OF THE SEA NEXT came a five days’ march of ninety miles into the country of the Taochi, and here provisions began to run ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 8,2018 )
The Dawn Prayer (Or How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison): A Memoir by Matthew Schrier
epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | 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: Memoirs April 8,2018 )
Nathanael Greene in South Carolina: Hero of the American Revolution (Military) by Moring Leigh M
epub |eng | 2016-12-05 | Author:Moring, Leigh M. [Moring, Leigh M.]

Chapter 4 “A MOST OBSTINATE AND BLOODY ACTION” Dear Sir, We have a most obstinate and bloody action. Victory was ours. –Greene to George Washington on the Battle of Eutaw ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2018 )
Alvin York by Douglas V. Mastriano
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas V. Mastriano

York on the 1929 cover of the U.S. Army War College Annual Exposition. The U.S. Army featured York as its guest of honor during its annual expo in Washington, D.C., ...
( Category: Americas April 8,2018 )
North Carolina Governor Richard Caswell: Founding Father and Revolutionary Hero by Mobley Joe A
epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Mobley, Joe A. [Mobley, Joe A.]

General Benjamin Lincoln. Alarmed at the threat posed to North Carolina if its neighbor to the south succumbed to British invasion, Caswell increased his efforts to raise troops for service ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 8,2018 )
Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation by Marc Dierikx
epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:Marc Dierikx

* * * If Anthony was pleased with the praise that came his way in London, he positively beamed three days later at the festivities in Holland to welcome the ...
( Category: Transportation April 8,2018 )

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