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If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
mobi, epub |eng | 1975-10-21 | Author:Tim O'Brien

In the rather limited reading I’ve done lately, I’ve discovered the poet Robinson Jeffers. His writing is harsh yet beautiful, and it makes me think of April, and April turns ...
( Category: Southeast Asia March 25,2014 )
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:David Herbert Donald

Naming Rosecrans and Burnside was a shrewd move. Burnside, in particular, was a happy choice. In addition to having some military reputation from his expedition against Roanoke Island, he looked ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War by Hal Vaughan
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Hal Vaughan

EIGHT DINCKLAGE MEETS HITLER; CHANEL BECOMES AN ABWEHR AGENT À la guerre comme à la guerre. —FRENCH PROVERB IN EARLY 1941, Dincklage left Chanel in Paris. He traveled to Berlin ...
( Category: Fashion Design March 25,2014 )
The Things They Cannot Say by Kevin Sites
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:Kevin Sites

The author’s father, Navy ensign Edward Sites, left, in Papua New Guinea, 1945 Intermission: The Greatest Veneration My Father’s War Like so many others in the frequently beatified Greatest Generation, ...
( Category: Iraq March 25,2014 )
Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

This admonition to Short greatly overstated George Washington’s partisanship for France, but it did not overstate—or not by much—the general American feeling that the Jacobins were making European history, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Scott Anderson [Anderson, Scott]

TO THE ANNOYANCE of defense-minded military commanders throughout history, civilians have a tendency to stay put in their homes until an enemy invading force is just over the horizon. Then, ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Jon Meacham

THIRTY-SEVEN A DEEP, DARK, AND WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY The designs of our Cataline are as real as they are romantic. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on Aaron Burr’s western maneuvers JEFFERSON’S WINTER WAS BRIGHTENED ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege With a Sniper Team in Iraq by Dan Mills
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-02 | Author:Dan Mills

15 The only real downer across the battle group, and it wasn't a big one, was that we weren't getting any write-ups back home. Concern had been slowly growing about ...
( Category: Veterans March 25,2014 )
Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln by Lincoln Abraham
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Lincoln, Abraham

Leadership vs. Tyranny If a state, in one instance, and a county in another, should be equal in extent of territory, and equal in the number of people, wherein is ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise And Fall Of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister by Hutchinson Robert
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-23 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

CHAPTER NINE The Distant Sound of Conflict Come, my lord of Winchester. Answer the king here, but speak plainly and directly and shrink not, man! Is not that which pleases ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
Jefferson and Hamilton by John Ferling
epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:John Ferling

Chapter 10 “Devoted to the paper and stockjobbing interest” Unbridled Partisan Warfare It is not likely that Jefferson thought the bank would be the final peg in Hamilton’s program. Washington, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Against the Tide by Noël Browne
epub |eng | | Author:Noël Browne [Browne, Noël]

ROLLAN REMEMBERED STANDING IN THE FOG WITH HIS ARM around Meilin. He remembered being tired all the way through his toes. He remembered waiting in silence; he remembered staring helplessly ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Patriot Pirates by Robert H. Patton
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-19 | Author:Robert H. Patton

Twenty-four-year-old William Bingham excelled at what he called “the art of uniting war and commerce.” The vast network of privateers he managed in the West Indies unsettled Congress with its ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
Battleground Pacific by Sterling Mace
epub |eng | | Author:Sterling Mace

9 A CONSTELLATION OF GHOSTS “… AND THERE’S A SOLID LEFT hand to the body by Louis, and Conn takes it, rolls off the ropes out into the center! But ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
I Always Wanted to Fly by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
epub |eng | 2001-03-24 | Author:Wolfgang W. E. Samuel

American and British RB-45C air crew and technicians, RAF Sculthorpe, 1952. Sam Myers is front right. H. Myers. Hack Mixson explained that “we rotated the three 91st Wing squadrons into ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )

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