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Ike's Spies by Stephen E. Ambrose
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

* * * * McCarthy was after William Bundy, a member of the CIA’S Board of National Estimates and Dean Acheson’s son-in-law. Bundy, it seemed, had contributed $400 to the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tom Brokaw

Martha Settle Putney Her all-black unit of medical technicians was to be housed near Gardner General Hospital, not too far from Chicago’s tony Lake Shore Drive. The Army had built ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The Civil War, a Narrative: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-02-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Tactically speaking, Lee no doubt regretted Burnside’s departure. He would miss him, much as he missed McClellan, now in retirement, and John Pope and Joe Hooker, who had been shunted ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
The Civil War a Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
mobi |eng | 1986-12-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna
mobi |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Jonathan D. Sarna

Sneersohn knew how to attract attention to his cause. Rather than dressing in traditional East European Hasidic clothing (which might have been exotic enough), he always appeared in public looking ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Drew Gilpin Faust

“It was my Mother’s customs,” “My gentle Mother dear” “I was my Mother’s darling,” for, I loved my lager beer. “Kiss me good-night, Mother,” and bring me a Bourbon plain— ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins; John Stauffer
mobi |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Sally Jenkins; John Stauffer

From representations made to us we had expect[ed] to find [irregular] organizations among the disloyal for the purpose of resisting our authority. During the first five days operations we obtained ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
Ship of Ghosts by James D. Hornfischer
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author: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: World War II March 25,2014 )
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor
mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Sean Naylor

BACK at the site of the attack on Harriman’s convoy, the scene was one of devastation. One of Ziabdullah’s fighters lay dead and another dozen had been wounded, one mortally. ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 25,2014 )
Lions of Kandahar by Rusty Bradley; Kevin Maurer
mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Rusty Bradley; Kevin Maurer

Chapter 12 “SHOOT INTO THE BUSHES, DADDY!” If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. —ULYSSES S. GRANT My day started with a tug on my ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 25,2014 )
Toussaint Louverture by Madison Smartt Bell
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-08 | Author:Madison Smartt Bell

In France, the spring 1797 elections had brought a royalist majority to power. In the new National Assembly the dispossessed land and slave owners of Saint Domingue found a vigorous ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
mobi |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Wallace Mwangi, or Good Wallace as he was becoming known, was my mother’s first major success. He was born in 1930 and later went to Manguo school for a few ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
mobi, epub, azw, azw3, pdf |eng | 2002-09-15 | Author:Sarah Waters

Part 3 14 I shrieked. I shrieked and shrieked. I struggled like a fiend. But the more I twisted, the tighter I was held. I saw Gentleman fall back in ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
The Coming Out Series (The Coming Out Series (All 3 Books)) by Green John
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Green, John [Green, John]

Chapter 10 Tim was scheduled to return to school again after George’s funeral. It was a beautiful funeral and there was a large turnout; mostly people from George’s work. We ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )

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