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American Guerrilla by Mike Guardia
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Mike Guardia

15 October 1943. Spent most of the day answering reports from the west [presumably Calvert]. The radio news we received is only up to the 27th [September]. They sure are ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2010-03-01 | Author:Hugh Ambrose

ON FEBRUARY 10, EUGENE SLEDGE COMPLETED HIS TRAINING WITH A TEST OF HIS skill on the 60mm mortar. He scored a 94, two points shy of being certified as Expert. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Robin Lane Fox

So, through the baroque imagination of a Greek master, ‘Alexander’s Wedding to Roxane’ won a prize at the festival games of Greek Olympia and survived through a Roman visitor’s description ...
( Category: Greece March 25,2014 )
A fiery peace in a cold war: Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon by Neil Sheehan
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Neil Sheehan

41. AN ASSAULT FROM AN UNEXPECTED QUARTER Having bested McNarney and Lanphier, Bennie was astonished in mid-February to find himself suddenly involved in a totally unexpected fracas with Air Force ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Sheehan Neil
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Sheehan, Neil [Sheehan, Neil]

They met in Critic’s ice cream parlor on the Sunday before Christmas, 1943. It was around 3:00 in the afternoon. Mary Jane and her girlfriend, Nancy, always went there for ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 25,2014 )
Ulysses S. Grant by Michael Korda
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Michael Korda

Inaction, overwhelming responsibilities for which he was unsuited, and some doubt about what to do next were certainly part of the problem, but worse was to come. Up until then ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Eric Foner

7 “Forever Free”: The Coming of Emancipation EVEN AS THE ARMY of General George B. McClellan embarked on the Peninsular campaign, a military commander with a very different political outlook ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Custer Survivor: The End of a Myth the Beginning of a Legend by John Koster & Louise Barnett
mobi, azw3, azw |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:John Koster & Louise Barnett

(i)A huge number of such cases have been collected by B.J. Burkett and Glenna Whitley in Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Adam Goodheart

THE CONVENTION TO DETERMINE Missouri’s course in the national crisis assembled in St. Louis on March 4. Although this was also, by chance, the day of Lincoln’s inauguration, it dawned ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
The Good War by Studs Terkel
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Studs Terkel

BOOK THREE SUDDEN MONEY RAY WAX He is a stockbroker, living in a middle-class suburb just outside New York City. It is a recent endeavor. Previously he had been a ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Wilber Del Quentin
mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Wilber, Del Quentin [Wilber, Del Quentin]

DOCTORS GIORDANO, GENS, and Price watched saline solution drain from the catheter into a small plastic container. The liquid was crystal clear. The belly tap seemed to confirm that Reagan ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Pulitzer by James McGrath Morris
mobi |eng | 2010-07-17 | Author:James McGrath Morris

By June 1892, Pulitzer had alighted in Paris. Like that of a migratory bird, his path was developing regularity. But while he enjoyed his luxurious Parisian summer, workers at the ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X; Alex Haley
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-08-15 | Author:Malcolm X; Alex Haley

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari; Aimee Molloy
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Maziar Bahari; Aimee Molloy

Chapter Thirteen The next morning, Brown Sandals came to my cell early, and with my breakfast, he gave me a pen and six pieces of paper with the names of ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )
Washington by Ron Chernow
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Ron Chernow

PART FOUR The Statesman Bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculpted in 1785. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT American Celebrity WITH PERFECT TIMING, George Washington made it home to the loving embrace ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )

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