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Inside the Company: CIA Diary by Philip Agee
epub, mobi |eng | 1975-08-19 | Author:Philip Agee [Agee, Philip]

Washington DC 12 February 1964 For the past few days I've been shuttling between the Uruguayan desk and the Cuban branch getting briefed on operational priorities against the Cubans, as ...
( Category: Espionage October 13,2015 )
Battle of the Atlantic by Donald Macintyre
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Macintyre

A vexing problem for the Allied high command was whether their burgeoning Atlantic operations would be more efficiently conducted if made a unified command. While wasteful duplication could obviously be ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )
British Army: A Pocket Guide 2012 - 2013, The by Charles Heyman
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Charles Heyman

Conversion to Role (CTR) Once a pilot has been converted onto type at Middle Wallop, he or she will proceed to a Regiment. At the Regiment a special CTR course ...
( Category: Historical October 11,2015 )
Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang
mobi |eng | 2008-10-06 | Author:Leslie T. Chang

25-YEAR-OLD ACCOUNTANT SEEKS A GUANGDONG MAN WITH A PROFESSIONAL SKILL, AN APARTMENT, A LOVING HEART, AND A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY. Women wanted a man with a good job and steady ...
( Category: Asian American Studies October 11,2015 )
Unlikeable by Edward Klein
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Edward Klein

“To be really good at [politics] you’ve gotta like people,” Bill Clinton said. “You’ve gotta like policy. And you’ve gotta like politics. You’ve gotta have a pain threshold. You have ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion October 11,2015 )
ESCAPE FROM ARNHEM: A Glider Pilot's Story by Godfrey Freeman
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Godfrey Freeman [Freeman, Godfrey]

CHAPTER 7 The First Attempt The tonsillitis grew worse as the day wore on and I dallied with the idea of using it as an excuse to ‘duck out’ of ...
( Category: Veterans October 11,2015 )
Killing Reagan by Bill O'Reilly
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bill O'Reilly

John Hinckley Jr. being tackled by Secret Service agents and other onlookers after his attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan, March 30, 1981 As Hinckley is subdued, three men are fighting ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 11,2015 )
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:MacKinlay Kantor [Kantor, MacKinlay]

XXXVI John Winder stood with Henry Wirz on a sentry platform. John Winder did not see the bears witnessed by Henry Wirz; he saw scum, a marsh under the scum, ...
( Category: Historical October 11,2015 )
Modern American Snipers by Chris Martin
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Martin

10 Punishment Due By the conclusion of his first combat deployment as a U.S. SEAL Sniper Course–trained sniper, Chris Kyle had stacked up enough confirmed kills to solidly establish himself ...
( Category: Military October 11,2015 )
The Speechwriter by Barton Swaim
epub |eng | | Author:Barton Swaim

9 * * * VERBIAGE The governor now trusted me to write his letters. I wrote a good many personal letters for him, most of them responses to letters from ...
( Category: State October 11,2015 )
Distant Voices by John Pilger
epub |eng | 1994-06-15 | Author:John Pilger [John Pilger]

VII TRIBUTES ELSIE AND CLAUDE THIS WEEK HAS been the anniversary of Elsie’s death. Such has been my distraction lately that it has arrived and almost taken me unawares. The ...
( Category: Political October 11,2015 )
The Cooler King by Patrick Bishop
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Bishop

NINE Soon the chamber was crowded with bodies as the first batch of escapers clambered in. The margarine lamps gave off an orange light, casting gigantic shadows over the walls. ...
( Category: World War II October 11,2015 )
No Ordinary Joes by Larry Colton
epub |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Larry Colton [Colton, Larry]

Exhausted and cold, Chuck sat on the edge of his lower bunk in the barracks, waiting for another day to end. He was also waiting for the nightly poker game ...
( Category: World War II October 10,2015 )
Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper
epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:William J. Cooper [Cooper, William J.]

Eastern Theater, July-December 1862. From W. J. Cooper and T. E. Terrill, The American South: A History (2d ed.), with permission of the McGraw-Hill Companies Bragg had worked on organization ...
( Category: American Civil War October 10,2015 )
Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

While Mass was said, Elizabeth remained seated on the ancient coronation chair, then the pax was brought to her. She kissed it and went to the altar, where she prostrated ...
( Category: Great Britain October 10,2015 )

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