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Ministers at War by Jonathan Schneer
epub | | | Author:Jonathan Schneer

WINSTON CHURCHILL EXHIBITED PATIENCE AND CUNNING IN HIS DEALINGS with Stafford Cripps. With Lord Beaverbrook, another member of his War Cabinet who would likewise pose a significant challenge to his ...
( Category: Military February 1,2018 )
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-23 | Author:Martin Lings

Nu'aym went back through the town and made his way to the Bani Qurayh, who welcomed him as an old friend and offered him food and drink. "I came not ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 31,2018 )
Gaius Marius by Marc Hyden
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Marc Hyden [Marc Hyden]

XIV DRUSUS ‘O my relatives and friends, will my country ever have another citizen like me?’ – Marcus Livius Drusus As Marius and other Romans were searching further afield for ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 30,2018 )
Riding Rockets by Mike Mullane
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-24 | Author:Mike Mullane

Chapter 22 Coming to America The next morning we prepared for reentry. We scrubbedDiscovery ’s walls and windows clean. An earlier crew had turned over a dirty vehicle to their ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 30,2018 )
Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Evan S. Connell

He had no single quality that would serve to draw his people to him, yet he was by far the most influential man of his nation for many years,—neither Gall, ...
( Category: Americas January 30,2018 )
My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:A.P.J. Abdul Kalam [Kalam, A.P.J. Abdul]

henever I talk to the youth anywhere in India, I am invariably asked one question: which are your favourite books? Even though modern life has changed many of our habits, ...
( Category: Historical January 30,2018 )
Young Hitler (Kindle Single) by Paul Ham
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Paul Ham [Ham, Paul]

6 - Soldier, 1917-1918 HITLER’S REGIMENT ENTERED 1917 grimly conscious of having failed to distinguish itself in offensive action. At Ypres and the Somme, they had been comprehensively ‘stabbed in ...
( Category: Historical January 30,2018 )
The Honor Was Mine by Elizabeth Heaney
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Elizabeth Heaney [Heaney, Elizabeth]

Moti I’ve spent the morning in an auditorium, giving briefings to three hundred soldiers who’ve just returned from their year in Afghanistan. I’ve conducted the briefing so many times now ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 30,2018 )
A Dictionary of Political Biography by A Dictionary of Political Biography
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:A Dictionary of Political Biography

Back - New Search Kennedy , Robert Francis (b. Brookline, Massachusetts , 20 Nov. 1925; d. 6 June 1968) US; Attorney-General 1961–4, US Senator 1965–8 Kennedy served in the navy ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 30,2018 )
The Other Side of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky
epub |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Victor Ostrovsky [Ostrovsky, Victor]

CHAPTER 20 TUESDAY, MAY 20 It was getting dark at the end of a long flight. I could see land as the plane banked slightly to the right. We were ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 30,2018 )
Worst. President. Ever. by Robert Strauss
epub |eng | 2016-01-30 | Author:Robert Strauss [Strauss, Robert]

I was teaching an advanced writing class at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-2000s when we discovered that William Henry Harrison was the only president of the United States ...
( Category: Historical January 30,2018 )
Kind of Blue by Ken Clarke
epub |eng | | Author:Ken Clarke [Clarke, Kenneth]

15 ‘School Days’ (Dizzy Gillespie, 1951) EDUCATION In November 1990, John Major was ascendant and triumphant, newly anointed as leader of the party and our fresh-start prime minister. He very ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 30,2018 )
George IV--The Rebel Who Would Be King by Christopher Hibbert
epub |eng | 2015-09-26 | Author:Christopher Hibbert

[27] The Warwick House Affair 1814 ‘Like a bird let loose from its cage’ CREEVEY, for one, looked forward to the next instalment of the drama with anticipatory delight. ‘Well, ...
( Category: Historical January 30,2018 )
The Red Circle by Brandon Webb
epub |eng | | Author:Brandon Webb

SEVEN WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED In the late summer of 2000 our platoon embarked on a trans-Pacific run, headed for the Persian Gulf by way of Hawaii, Australia, and points west. ...
( Category: Military January 29,2018 )
Growing Up Patton by Benjamin Patton & Jennifer Scruby
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Benjamin Patton & Jennifer Scruby [Patton, Benjamin]

EIGHT Jim Dozier AT 5:30 P.M. on December 17, 1981, the doorbell rang at Major General James Dozier’s penthouse apartment in Verona, Italy. This was unusual—visitors were supposed to call ...
( Category: Memoirs January 29,2018 )

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