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The Last of the 357th Infantry by Mark Hager
epub |eng | 2022-05-30 | Author:Mark Hager

During the night on June 25, Paul Esworthy and Harold Frank tried to sleep. Frank was chilled from the sweat of the day, and the cold of the night made ...
( Category: World War II January 30,2023 )
Triumphant Warrior by Peter D. Shay
epub |eng | 2019-05-19 | Author:Peter D. Shay

Vinh Long Airfield Battle Area sketch during Tet Offensive, January 1968. (Modified by A. E. Weseleskey) Explosions at Vinh Long. (Courtesy of A. E. Weseleskey) CHAPTER NINE Bystanders Trapped During ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 30,2023 )
Samuel, Son and Successor of Rees Howells by Richard A. Maton
epub |eng | 2020-10-05 | Author:Richard A. Maton

Every Friday afternoon, Samuel’s familiar figure, sometimes with a black umbrella over his arm, would be seen walking through Salubrious Passage in Swansea, a shortcut from the ‘unknown-to-most’ car park, ...
( Category: Christianity January 30,2023 )
Our Fathers at Shiloh by Jack L Kunkel
epub |eng | 2014-10-02 | Author:Jack L Kunkel

So Breckinridge, former Vice President of the United States, rode over to Johnston in a huff, “General Johnston, I cannot get my men to make the charge.” Johnston replied calmly, ...
( Category: American Civil War January 30,2023 )
Charles Bean's Gallipoli by Phillip Bradley
epub |eng | | Author:Phillip Bradley

The war correspondents’ camp at the edge of a vineyard on Imbros. Bean took the photo when he moved there in July 1915. AWM G01362. 6 July Went down for ...
( Category: World War I January 29,2023 )
Visions From a Foxhole by William Foley
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:William Foley

8 Surrounded by the 6th SS Mountain Division Back in a clearing, the kitchen jeep again was the center of attention—or, rather, the food and hot coffee it carried was. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 29,2023 )
Five Months At Anzac by Dr. Joseph Lievesley Beeston M.D. C.M.G. M.L.C
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Dr. Joseph Lievesley Beeston, M.D., C.M.G., M.L.C [Piers]

TURKISH PRISONERS We saw a good many Turkish prisoners at one time or another, and invariably fraternised with them. They were kept inside a barbed-wire enclosure with a guard over ...
( Category: World War I January 29,2023 )
A People of Hope by John L. Allen Jr
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:John L. Allen, Jr. [Allen, John L.]

In general, you seem committed to keeping lines of communication open even with people with whom you have political disagreements. I just had a dustup with a bishop I really ...
( Category: Catholicism January 29,2023 )
Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe by Caroline T. Schroeder
pdf | | 2013-02-11 | Author:Caroline T. Schroeder

( Category: Christianity January 29,2023 )
Mr. and Mrs. Madison's War by Hugh Howard
epub |eng | 2019-12-18 | Author:Hugh Howard

Colonel Monroe immediately saw something he didn’t like in Stansbury’s configuration. Monroe believed “the left would be much exposed, as it scarcely extended to the rear of the battery.”2 He ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 29,2023 )
Michelangelo in Ravensbruck by Karolina Lanckoronska
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Karolina Lanckoronska

but I can’t use these words here as a motto, since I cannot say that they apply to my own thoughts. Many thoughts of mine are contented. After all the ...
( Category: World War II January 29,2023 )
Wandering Souls by Wayne Karlin
epub |eng | | Author:Wayne Karlin

Hoang Ngoc Dam Homer R. Steedly, Jr. Homer R. Steedly today Homer and Tibby Steedly Homer R. Steedly, Sr. Betty Steedly ne Babette Gumbmann, passport photo Left to right: Homer, ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 29,2023 )
Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini by Marcia Dechen Wangmo
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Marcia Dechen Wangmo [Wangmo, Marcia Dechen]

Normally the sixth consciousness, our mental consciousness, looks away from itself, seeking gratification in outer, perceived objects. Through the practice of meditation, this process is reversed, and the mental consciousness ...
( Category: Buddhism January 29,2023 )
Barbara Egger Lennon by Tina Stewart Brakebill
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Tina Stewart Brakebill

Union Organizing and Local Politics, 1929–1937 The October 1929 stock market crash did not cause the economic descent into the Great Depression, but it did accelerate the fall. In the ...
( Category: Social Activists January 29,2023 )
The Shadows of Youth by Andrew B. Lewis
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Andrew B. Lewis

In November 1964, with the presidential election over and Freedom Summer receding into the past, SNCC members gathered at a little resort on the Mississippi coast to grapple head-on with ...
( Category: Social Activists January 29,2023 )

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