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It Happened on the Way to War by Rye Barcott
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Rye Barcott

THE BARRACKS HUMMED with speculation. Within hours Bin Laden’s name arose as the primary suspect. A small minority of the lieutenants mouthed off about what they believed to be a ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Patrick Hennessey by The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time;Fighting Wars
mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time;Fighting Wars

The daily Baghdad SITREP cheerfully reported one morning that some 1,855 bodies have been delivered to the city morgues in July—a nice record high, up 300 on last month. The ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Corrie ten Boom

10 Scheveningen Outside Haarlem the bus took the south road, paralleling the sea. On our right rose the low sandy hills of the dune country, soldiers silhouetted on the ridges. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Joseph J. Ellis by American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
mobi |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

5 MONTICELLO, 1816–26 I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. —JEFFERSON TO JOHN ADAMS AUGUST 1, 1816 I regret that I am now ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
epub |eng | 1962-09-27 | Author:Richard McKenna [McKenna, Richard]

On the way back he heard the drums and gongs all around him in the city. People still crowded the bund. Over their heads he could see the ship, solid ...
( Category: Military September 27,2017 )
Iris Johansen by The Ugly Duckling
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:The Ugly Duckling

Eleven No one was following her. It was only her imagination, Tania told herself. She was being an idiot. But relief flooded her as she pulled into the driveway. Home. ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 27,2017 )
Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich by Turner Barry
epub |eng | | Author:Turner, Barry

He held out the prospect of an eventual relief. Once the task of transporting refugees by sea from the east and accommodating them in Schleswig-Holstein had been completed, the situation ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Thanks, Obama by David Litt
epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:David Litt

* * * REELECTED PRESIDENT * * * The room exploded. It wasn’t a cheer. It wasn’t a scream. It was a supernova of relief. I threw my hands in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Thunder in the Mountains by Daniel J. Sharfstein
epub |eng | 2017-09-27 | Author:Daniel J. Sharfstein

AFTER A WEEK IN THE MOUNTAINS, Howard’s column emerged from the Lolo Trail on August 6 to good roads, grassy meadows, and a pleasantly sulfurous soak in the local hot ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
Guderian: Panzer General by Macksey Kenneth
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-07-30 | Author:Macksey, Kenneth [Macksey, Kenneth]

The Drive to the English Channel Guderian thrust forward on the 16th with only 1st and 2nd Panzer Divisions, leaving 10th Panzer Division and Grossdeutschland Regiment to the south of ...
( Category: Military September 26,2017 )
White House Confidential by Gregg Stebben
epub |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:Gregg Stebben

CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENCY: THE DAY THE LOVE AFFAIR ENDED Today, as we all know, the Senate has one hundred members, but when George Washington was president, the Senate was ...
( Category: Historical September 26,2017 )
Never Quit: From Alaskan Wilderness Rescues to Afghanistan Firefights as an Elite Special Ops PJ by Jimmy Settle & Don Rearden
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Jimmy Settle & Don Rearden [Settle, Jimmy]

11 Strike Two For a while, I hung around Lackland, awaiting an opening at one of the schools. The break in my orders was long enough that they decided to ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 25,2017 )
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year by Tavis Smiley
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Tavis Smiley [Smiley, Tavis]

PART II THE FINAL SEASON The Last Three Months Chapter Thirteen THIRTY-NINE The year begins ominously. The war is six years old, soon to be the longest in American history—nearly ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2017 )
Roy Jenkins by John Campbell
epub |eng | 2014-03-27 | Author:John Campbell [John Campbell]

* * * fn1 Norris was hurt by Jenkins’ description in his memoirs and wrote to protest, leading Jenkins to apologise. All he had meant, he explained tactfully, was that ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2017 )
What Happened, Miss Simone? by Alan Light
epub |eng | 2016-02-09 | Author:Alan Light

At this moment, Stroud didn’t seem overly concerned with his wife’s mental state. Keeping her on track was a matter of continuity rather than an urgent crisis. “I didn’t picture ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 25,2017 )

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