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With the Help of God and a Few Marines by Albertus W. Catlin
epub |eng | | Author:Albertus W. Catlin [Catlin, Albertus W.]

On June 11th the report came in that the enemy's machine gun fire had been practically silenced and he was making a last stand at the northern end of the ...
( Category: World War I August 3,2020 )
The Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military Service by Michael J. MacLeod
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Michael J. MacLeod [MacLeod, Michael J.]

CHAPTER 4: FOB ARIAN AND MASSIVE IEDS The best place to get the latest scuttlebutt was breakfast chow. One had to be careful of what was said because third-country nationals, ...
( Category: Afghan War August 3,2020 )
The Procedure by Margaret Belle
mobi |eng | 2012-07-27 | Author:Margaret Belle [Belle, Margaret]

Chapter 28 Philip walked in and my knees turned to rubber. His hair was tied back and I shivered inside remembering how wonderful it had looked hanging loose around his ...
( Category: Supernatural August 3,2020 )
Robert Kennedy by Evan Thomas
epub |eng | | Author:Evan Thomas

CHAPTER 14 WORN IN OCTOBER 1963, Robert Kennedy reversed himself again and gave the FBI authority to wiretap Martin Luther King. Kennedy’s signature became a hunting license for J. Edgar ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 3,2020 )
Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Evan Thomas [Thomas, Evan]

CHAPTER 14 WORN IN OCTOBER 1963, Robert Kennedy reversed himself again and gave the FBI authority to wiretap Martin Luther King. Kennedy’s signature became a hunting license for J. Edgar ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 3,2020 )
By His Own Rules by Bradley Graham
epub |eng | | Author:Bradley Graham

Over the next few months, Bremer moved farther away from the idea of arranging for the transitional Iraqi authority that Garner and Khalilzad had pursued and that Rumsfeld and his ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars August 3,2020 )
Strom Thurmond's America by Joseph Crespino
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Joseph Crespino [Crespino, Joseph]

10 ANNUS MIRABILIS (1968) On June 22, 1968, Strom Thurmond endorsed Richard Nixon to be the next president of the United States. The announcement dumbfounded political observers in South Carolina ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 2,2020 )
Life of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman
epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Alexander Berkman

Despite the signs that the Russian Revolution was heading toward a future diametrically opposed to the ideals that inspired it, Berkman—on hearing of the “Red Scare” in the United States ...
( Category: Anarchism August 2,2020 )
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Samantha Power

Just before he had left the United States, Ibrahim had become engaged to Marcia Luar, an Angolan. As the weeks passed, Luar grew suspicious that Ibrahim might be straying with ...
( Category: Political August 2,2020 )
The Plus by Greg Gutfeld
epub |eng | 2020-07-28 | Author:Greg Gutfeld

* * * When I was an editor in my previous life, I was asked to discuss a story on a major network. Before the segment was to air, they ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 2,2020 )
The True Story of Catch 22 by Patricia Chapman Meder
epub |eng | | Author:Patricia Chapman Meder

AFTER THE WAR After the war, Bob became Chief of the USAF Mission to Argentina. In 1953, after a 36-year career in the USAF, he retired to his farm in ...
( Category: United States August 2,2020 )
In the Company of Generals by Robert Ferrell
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Ferrell [Pierpont L. Stackpole]

Aisne-Marne II When the last of the German attacks failed one day after it began, July 15–16, the Allies and Americans began to force the German army back over a ...
( Category: World War I August 2,2020 )
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography by James Doolittle & Carroll V. Glines
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-14 | Author:James Doolittle & Carroll V. Glines [Doolittle, James]

According to Potter and Braemer, however, they had not been in good friendly company when they landed. They had been discovered by a band of guerrillas, robbed, tied up, and ...
( Category: World War II August 2,2020 )
The Man Who Remade India by Vinay Sitapati
epub |eng | 2018-08-15 | Author:Vinay Sitapati

A year into Rao’s premiership, the opposition parties were coming to the same conclusion as Arjun Singh: the prime minister was not going to fall on his own; he needed ...
( Category: Asian August 2,2020 )
Frank by Barney Frank
epub |eng | | Author:Barney Frank

8 DEFENDING CLINTON Ever since 1993, I’d been defending both Clintons from Republican attacks on their integrity. Serving on the Financial Services Committee, I observed the investigation into the Clintons’ ...
( Category: LGBT August 2,2020 )

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