epub |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Jonathan Trigg

The Germanske SS Norge (Norwegian SS) parade through Oslo in 1943 on the official ‘SS Day’ – which was also Norway’s National Day. (James Macleod) Two Norwegian SS men (GSSN) ...

epub, mobi |eng, eng | 2007-03-24 | Author:David Bellavia

CHAPTER TWELVE The Stay Puft Marshmallow Cock They’re following us. Not five minutes after we leave the house to mount up in our Brads, the muj flow around into the ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Michael Burlingame

13 “A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) In 1860, the radical abolitionist Parker Pillsbury dismissed Lincoln as “the Kentucky clodhopper,” scoffed at his antislavery record, ...

epub |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax [Wax, Madame Tussaud: A Life in]

10 Vide et Crede! The Lyceum Theatre, London ONE OF PHILIPSTAL’S programmes of entertainment in London was entitled ‘A Magical Deception’. But unfortunately it was not just on stage that ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-30 | Author:David Von Drehle [Drehle, David Von]

9 AUGUST Frequently that summer, a man arrived at the White House whose role in the Civil War was little known at the time and has long since been nearly ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2011-11-07 | Author:Winston Groom

* Military officers in those times were permitted to bring a servant along with them. Since Emory was from a slaveholding family in Maryland, it is highly probable that his ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Seth W. B. Folsom

Chapter 20 Personalities and Paradigms On 11 April more details about the artillery cache discovery surfaced, and it became apparent that, more than likely, the ordnance had not been planted. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2000-09-05 | Author:Wesley B. Turner

British cartoon mocking American sea power. [Courtesy Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.] Wilkinson and Hampton acting together could have cut the route from Montreal to Upper Canada. However, any ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Bruce Catton [Catton, Bruce]

CHAPTER FIVE Turning Point 1: The Signs of the Times There had been a good deal of artillery fire along the Yorktown lines during the night, and there had also ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Abraham Lincoln

LETTER TO HANNAH ARMSTRONG Hannah Armstrong was the wife of Jack Armstrong, leader of the Clary’s Grove boys at New Salem, the man with whom Lincoln had had a famous ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Arana, Marie [Arana, Marie]

THERE ARE FEW LANDSCAPES AS magnificent or unforgiving as the geologic exuberance that lies between Huaraz and Huánuco. The mighty peaks of Huascarán and Yerupajá pierce the skies and send ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Finkel, David [Finkel, David]

Inside: A soldier was howling. He’d been the driver. Part of the EFP had gone under the Humvee and sent shrapnel up through the floorboards, breaking the bones in one ...

mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:T.E. Lawrence

By now the Turkish preparations were complete; they began to move, disclosing that their objective was Guweira, the best road for Akaba. Two thousand infantry pushed out to Aba el ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

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 ...