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Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:Robert Leckie [Leckie, Robert]

1 I have heard it said that General Smedley Butler was fond of observing: “Give me a regiment of brig-rats, and I’l lick the world.” It may be that Old ...
( Category: Military December 31,2017 )
Hitler's Home Front: Memoirs of a Hitler Youth by Don A. Gregory Wilhelm R. Gehlen
epub |eng | 2016-09-30 | Author:Don A. Gregory, Wilhelm R. Gehlen

A winter food source for us that is mostly ignored today is Viper Grass, also known as Black Root or Scorzonera. We used this weed in salads by washing the ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 31,2017 )
Open Secret by Stella Rimington
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stella Rimington [Rimington, Stella]

133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 In addition to the law, Antony Duff’s other great contribution was to secure Prime Ministerial backing for a new building for MI5. ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 31,2017 )
Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis
epub |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Richard Harding Davis [Davis, Richard Harding]

IX Clay slept for three hours. He had left a note on the floor instructing MacWilliams and young Langham not to go to the mines, but to waken him at ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 30,2017 )
Killing Patton The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Bill O'Reilly
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Bill O'Reilly [O'Reilly, Bill]

16 TRIER, GERMANY MARCH 13, 1945 MORNING George S. Patton is on the move. Finally. Sgt. John Mims drives Patton in his signature open-air jeep with its three-star flags over ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 30,2017 )
King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War by Catrine Clay
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-11-26 | Author:Catrine Clay [Clay, Catrine]

12 Uncle Bertie and his Two Nephews THE NEWSPAPERS WERE extravagant in their praise of the new King, all but The Times, which took a high moral tone, reminding its ...
( Category: Historical December 30,2017 )
Bill O'Reilly by Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
mobi |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

16 TRIER, GERMANY MARCH 13, 1945 MORNING George S. Patton is on the move. Finally. Sgt. John Mims drives Patton in his signature open-air jeep with its three-star flags over ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 30,2017 )
Four Days in November by Vincent Bugliosi
epub |eng | 2007-12-30 | Author:Vincent Bugliosi

11:00 a.m. Robert Oswald arrives at the Hotel Adolphus and finds that room 906 is a suite. A stranger answers his knock. “I’m Robert Oswald. Is my mother here?” “In ...
( Category: Americas December 30,2017 )
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
epub |eng | | Author:Jocko Willink

Sunrise over South-Central Ramadi. An M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle provides cover for American and Iraqi troops on the ground and a SEAL sniper overwatch out beyond the forward line of ...
( Category: Military December 30,2017 )
Martin Luther by Mansch Larry D.; Peters Curtis H.;
epub |eng | 2016-06-03 | Author:Mansch, Larry D.; Peters, Curtis H.;

• Chapter 17 • The Faith Alive Although the Peasants’ rebellion had been put down and the Catholic presence in Germany remained sizeable, by the late 1520s half of the ...
( Category: World December 30,2017 )
Caracalla by Ilkka Syvanne
epub |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:Ilkka Syvanne

‘The enchantments of the enemy had made Antoninus frenzied and beside himself; at any rate, some of the Alamanni, on hearing of his condition, asserted that they had employed charms ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 30,2017 )
The Madness of Kings by Vivian Green
epub |eng | 2017-12-30 | Author:Vivian Green

‘Of the five Habsburg kings’, Marañon later wrote incisively, ‘Charles V inspires enthusiasm, Philip II respect, Philip III indifference, Philip IV sympathy and Carlos II pity.’ Yet when on 6 ...
( Category: World December 30,2017 )
Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain by Philip Matyszak
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Philip Matyszak

Having suffered this major setback, Manlius pulled back to his own province. A fragment which has survived from a text by the historian Sallust suggests that Hirtuleius did not let ...
( Category: Historical December 30,2017 )
Agnostic by Lesley Hazleton
epub |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:Lesley Hazleton

SIX THE SENSE OF AN ENDING Defining the meaning of life is evidently an endless challenge. There are enough such definitions to fill a whole library, if not several of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 30,2017 )
Party of One by Michael Harris
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Michael Harris [Harris, Michael]

twelve FORKED TONGUE On July 5, 2013, a report marked “Secret” landed on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s desk. The document was written by his special envoy on West Coast energy ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 29,2017 )

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