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With the Help of God and a Few Marines": The Battles of Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood by Albertus W. Catlin
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Albertus W. Catlin [Catlin, Albertus W.]

( Category: Military October 31,2017 )
Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors by James D. Hornfischer
epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:James D. Hornfischer [James D. Hornfischer]

CHAPTER 40 Sinuous and halting, the emergent railway crept up the mountain, moving in contractions and dilations like a vast segmented worm. Alive with the movements of thousands of feet ...
( Category: Military October 30,2017 )
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics by Richard Parker
mobi |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Richard Parker [Parker, Richard]

At the Pentagon, Robert McNamara, no less enthusiastic, implemented the White House’s newly authorized lifting of the fiscal constraints inherited from Eisenhower, even as he sought to “rationalize” military spending ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 30,2017 )
Territorio comanche by Pérez-Reverte Arturo
epub | | 2009-12-13 | Author:Pérez-Reverte, Arturo [Pérez-Reverte, Arturo]

( Category: War October 30,2017 )
King in Exile by John Callow
epub |eng | 2017-04-30 | Author:John Callow

CHAPTER SEVEN ECLIPSE AT RYSWICK I In June 1694, the Earl of Perth and his wife broke their journey to Antwerp, leaving the comfort of their coach so that they ...
( Category: Historical October 29,2017 )
Friends Divided by Gordon S. Wood
epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Gordon S. Wood

NINE THE PRESIDENT VS. THE VICE PRESIDENT WHEN WASHINGTON ASSUMED the presidency in 1789 many people, including Thomas Jefferson, thought that he might serve for life. That was why Jefferson ...
( Category: Americas October 28,2017 )
Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir by Clint Hill
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Clint Hill

Clint Hill in working attire, Ravello, Italy I had seen how these paparazzi operated, however, and I was not convinced they would follow the “rules.” The morning after our arrival, ...
( Category: Memoirs October 27,2017 )
Aleister Crowley by Gary Lachman
epub |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Gary Lachman [Lachman, Gary]

EIGHT IN AND OUT OF THE ABBEY OF THELEMA Crowley’s exit from New York in late 1919 was not auspicious. He had arranged for a publisher in Detroit to bring ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality October 27,2017 )
Busting Vega$ by Ben Mezrich
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-26 | Author:Ben Mezrich

CHAPTER 16 The Trump Plaza Atlantic City, New Jersey The water was ice-cold, but burned like fire as Semyon dunked his head into the oversize, gilded sink. Even though his ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 26,2017 )
Malayan Spymaster by Boris Hembry
epub |eng | | Author:Boris Hembry

The intention of MULLET was threefold: 1. To establish an ISLD transit camp on the north-west corner of the island of Langkawi. 2. To engage a junk or junks to ...
( Category: Asia October 26,2017 )
Hellucination (Wrath Limited Edition) by Stephen Biro
mobi |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Stephen Biro [Biro, Stephen]

* * * I found myself standing up and shaking my fist at the truth of reality that we don't all see. Violence from the ages flashed before me in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 26,2017 )
Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle by Gary Brozek & Marc Gonsalves & Tom Howes & Keith Stansell
mobi |eng | 2009-02-19 | Author:Gary Brozek & Marc Gonsalves & Tom Howes & Keith Stansell [Brozek, Gary]

NINE Ruin and Recovery September 2004–May 2005 TOM If President Uribe’s objective with his Plan Patriota was to flush out the FARC and get them on the run in order ...
( Category: Memoirs October 26,2017 )
Joseph E. Persico by Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR;World War II Espionage
mobi |eng | 2001-11-06 | Author:Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR;World War II Espionage

Chapter XVIII Distrusting Allies IT WAS the premier secret of the war. The President had personally cautioned physicist Robert Oppenheimer to guard zealously what was happening in the barren wastes ...
( Category: Military October 26,2017 )
The Knife Man by Moore Wendy
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Moore, Wendy [Moore, Wendy]

11 The Chaplain’s Neck ‘Dr Dodd seemed to be willing to die, and full of hopes of happiness.’ James Boswell1 London, June 1777 ON SUNDAY, 22 June 1777, the Reverend ...
( Category: Historical October 26,2017 )
Behind the Veils of Yemen by Audra Grace Shelby
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Audra Grace Shelby

As the maghreb prayer call deafened us from the mosque one block away, Fatima, Aisha, Zahra and I sat on the rug in the living room around the supper we ...
( Category: Ministry & Evangelism October 26,2017 )

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