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The Making of a Chicano Militant by Jose Angel Gutierrez
epub |eng | | Author:Jose Angel Gutierrez [Angel Gutiérrez, José]

December 12, 1969 The TEA investigators wanted the students to tell them under what conditions negotiations could begin. The students told them the unexcused absences and two points off per ...
( Category: American Revolution January 15,2023 )
The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
epub |eng | 2014-02-05 | Author:Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Chapter Eight “Let’s Take Our Hour” Even now if I go to Washington it all comes back, the very stones in the pavement seem to cry out to me with ...
( Category: American Civil War January 15,2023 )
The Nazi Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer
epub |eng | | Author:Brad Meltzer

In a few hours, the Storch will land safely on an airfield outside Rome. There, the two passengers will board another plane, this time bound for the Austrian city of ...
( Category: World War II January 13,2023 )
A Second Chance At Life by PENELOPE AUSTIN
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:PENELOPE AUSTIN

Chapter 9 Saturday was a beautiful day. They decided to set up the outside patio instead of the dining room for the party. Hank looked around and thought what a ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 13,2023 )
The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:William Gilmore Simms

Marion inviting a British Officer to Dinner. The next anecdote, if less pleasing in its particulars, is yet better calculated for the development of Marion’s character the equal powers of ...
( Category: American Revolution January 12,2023 )
The Old Revolutionaries by Pauline Maier
epub |eng | 2012-12-12 | Author:Pauline Maier [Maier, Pauline]

INTERLUDE From the Letters of Josiah and Mary Bartlett of Kingston, New Hampshire 1775-1778 In the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire The Bartlett papers are available on microfilm. ...
( Category: American Revolution January 12,2023 )
Last Letters from Attu by Mary Breu
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Mary Breu

12 Invasion 1942 Visitors to the remote island shared Etta’s feelings about this pleasant sanctuary. Ales Hrdlicka, a noted anthropologist, wrote about his visit to Attu: “The dreamless restoring nights. ...
( Category: World War II January 12,2023 )
My Nuclear Family by Christopher Brownfield
epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Christopher Brownfield [Brownfield, Christopher]

They say that a camel looks like it was designed by a committee. However, the Antonov AN-225 Myria is a plane that actually was designed by a committee—a Cold War ...
( Category: Iraq War January 12,2023 )
Charlie Rangers by Don Ericson
epub |eng | 2011-09-21 | Author:Don Ericson [John, L. Rotundo]

It seemed that only three Rangers in the history of the Vietnam war were ever awarded the Medal of Honor. While small Special Forces teams that ran similar missions had ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 12,2023 )
Into the Teeth of the Tiger by Donald S. Lopez Sr
epub |eng | 2020-01-01 | Author:Donald S. Lopez, Sr. [Lopez, Donald]

12 FIRE AND FALL BACK June continued just as May had ended—with missions and more missions. On June 2 I flew three dive-bombing and strafing missions of two and a ...
( Category: World War II January 11,2023 )
Three Funerals for My Father by Jolie Phuong Hoang
epub |eng | 2021-11-02 | Author:Jolie Phuong Hoang

Chapter 17 What If What had I done? As soon as the bus pulled away, I began to question myself. Why had I put my children in such peril? I ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 11,2023 )
One Day Closer to the World and WAKE-UP!!! by William (Bill) Hammond
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:William (Bill) Hammond [Hammond, William (Bill)]

DYSENTERY Now I admit that dysentery may sound like a crappy subject, but my memories would not be complete without this one. Two of my best friends while in Nam ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 10,2023 )
The Original American Spies: Seven Covert Agents of the Revolutionary War by Paul R. Misencik
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-12-06 | Author:Paul R. Misencik

ALL gentlemen, Natives of Ireland, who are zealous for the Honour and Prosperity of their Country, are hereby informed, that a Corps, to be stiled the VOLUNTEERS of IRELAND, is ...
( Category: American Revolution January 10,2023 )
The Kitchener Enigma by Trevor Royle
epub |eng | 2016-03-30 | Author:Trevor Royle [Royle, Trevor]

Notes 1 There is a good overview of this period in James Morris, Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, London, 1968 2 The Times, 22 June 1897 3 Private ...
( Category: World War I January 10,2023 )
The Eyes of the Eagle by Gary Linderer
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Gary Linderer [Linderer, Gary A.]

September 1, 1968 Frank Souza returned to the company on the first of September. Everybody ragged him about his wound. Not many Vietnam vets had been knocked out of action ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 9,2023 )

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