Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Paul Sabatier

Fresco painting of Francis from Sacro Speco (“holy cave”), the grotto in which St. Benedict lived for a time in the fifth century. A Benedictine abbey still surrounds this place ...
( Category: History August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:George Carlin & Tony Hendra [Carlin, George & Hendra, Tony]

There is a clear line of evolution between “Shoot” and “Seven Words.” The piece grew out of a desire to talk about language standards and the inconsistency in them. So ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 31,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Marcus Luttrell;Patrick Robinson

7 An Avalanche of Gunfire Down the mountain, from every angle. Axe flanked left, trying to cut off the downward trail, firing nonstop. Mikey was blasting away...shouting,...“Marcus, no options now, ...
( Category: Military August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Marcus Luttrell & Patrick Robinson [Luttrell, Marcus & Robinson, Patrick]

7 An Avalanche of Gunfire Down the mountain, from every angle. Axe flanked left, trying to cut off the downward trail, firing nonstop. Mikey was blasting away...shouting,...“Marcus, no options now, ...
( Category: Military August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Bernard Fergusson

IX BIVOUAC I CANNOT HOPE to convey the utter boredom of a long march. When in 1942 we were training in the Central Provinces of India, Orde Wingate, in one ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-17 | Author:Robert Gaudi

Chapter 17 THE WAR AGAINST THE RAILROAD The British Uganda Railway ran nearly 700 miles from the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to its terminus at Kisumu on the eastern ...
( Category: Africa August 30,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Chris Kyle & Scott McEwen & Jim Defelice

THE SALACIOUS AND THE SURREAL One evening, we took over what we thought was an abandoned apartment, since it was empty when we arrived. I was rotating with another sniper, ...
( Category: Military August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Maziar Bahari [Bahari, Maziar]

Chapter Twelve Bang. Bang. Bang. I hit my head hard against the faux marble wall, again and again, ignoring the pain that crept up my neck. I deserved the pain. ...
( Category: Middle East August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Unknown

"Suck up," Trace said under his breath. "I don't have to suck up, I've got the big office." With a flutter of her lashes, she walked out. "I like working ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 30,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Unknown

she headed for the line of trees. The sun was too hot on her skin, the sand too gritty in her sandals. At that moment she hated Desire and everything ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-24 | Author:Granite Man [Man, Granite]

( Category: Historical August 30,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2001-07-25 | Author:Axel Madsen

22 DOUBLE INDEMNITY TAYLOR WAS NERVOUS THE FIRST TIME WE WENT UP TOGETHER,” Lieutenant Tom Purvis would remember. “He was concerned that I was thinking to myself, These handsome Hollywood ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Abigail Pogrebin

Edgar Bronfman Sr. EDGAR BRONFMAN SR. PHOTOGRAPHED BY RICHARD LOBELL MOST BILLIONAIRE EXECUTIVES don’t have a Torah in their corporate office. A Torah under glass, to be precise. But Edgar ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Hans Goebeler

A few days after our visit by Rommel, I had a memorable experience while on guard duty. Late one night, I was standing watch on the upper deck when I ...
( Category: Military August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

CHAPTER SIXTEEN HOME AGAIN CLINTON WENT OUT into the world as a favorite son, barely eighteen, and now, nine years later, a man of twenty-seven, he was back. He had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 30,2017 )