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The Gift of Valor by Michael M. Phillips
epub |eng | 2005-05-31 | Author:Michael M. Phillips

VI | Shock-Trauma Tent Al Qa'im, Iraq EVEN IN A TIME of smart bombs and aerial drones, the Marines envisioned war as a frenzied bayonet charge into enemy lines. During ...
( Category: Iraq War October 2,2022 )
I Hope This Reaches You by Hilary Connor
epub |eng | 2020-07-29 | Author:Hilary Connor [Connor, Hilary]

Well, we knew the horses were off. Right after breakfast, a batch of Boche prisoners came by, forerunners of thousands. . . . All the way up thru Beaumont and ...
( Category: World War I October 2,2022 )
The Tragedy of Patton a Soldier's Date With Destiny by Robert Orlando
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Orlando

CHAPTER FIVE The Puppeteers On and off the battlefield, Patton was a force to be reckoned with. Yet the very qualities that made Patton a successful battlefield general—unflinching nerve, audacity, ...
( Category: World War II October 2,2022 )
Soldier of Change by Stephen Snyder-Hill
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Stephen Snyder-Hill

11 The Debate Since you’ve read the first chapter in this book, you know that my resolution to stay closeted to the military came crumbling down the minute I uploaded ...
( Category: Iraq War October 1,2022 )
Civil War Wives by Carol Berkin
epub |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Carol Berkin [Berkin, Carol]

Twenty-two “I NEVER REPORT UNFIT FOR DUTY” Varina Begins Her Campaigns for Freedom FOUR YEARS OF PENT-UP ANGER, worry, suffering, and sacrifice on the part of Union soldiers and their ...
( Category: American Civil War October 1,2022 )
Lady Under Fire on the Western Front by Andrew Hallam
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Andrew Hallam

Oct 28th [1915] Mother dear – We had a great meeting of the corps yesterday & everything most amicable.Things are being done on more businesslike & economical lines & I ...
( Category: World War I October 1,2022 )
Faces of Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Bernard Bailyn [Bailyn, Bernard]

Parliament, moving gradually at the will of an imperious ministry, “first on the colonies—then upon Ireland—then upon Great Britain itself,” could destroy the liberties of Britain. But in the end, ...
( Category: American Revolution October 1,2022 )
The Pope at War by David I. Kertzer
epub |eng | 2022-06-07 | Author:David I. Kertzer [Kertzer, David I.]

The letter never did reach Lucia. Abramo, his mother, and his sister Rosa would all die at Auschwitz.[30] As the roundup of Italy’s Jews intensified, it was impossible for the ...
( Category: World War II September 30,2022 )
The Only One Living to Tell by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

14 On the next march we reached Sage Creek, about halfway between the Black Hills and Fort Laramie. Here General Merritt received a message from headquarters at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, ...
( Category: World War II September 30,2022 )
Behind the Scenes or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Elizabeth Keckley

CHAPTER XI THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN I had never heard Mr. Lincoln make a public speech, and, knowing the man so well, was very anxious to hear him. On ...
( Category: American Civil War September 29,2022 )
They Are All My Family by John P. Riordan
epub |eng | | Author:John P. Riordan [Riordan, John P.; Demery, Monique Brinson]

The rest of the weekend, waiting at Walker’s, felt interminable. Eckes had nothing to tell me except to keep waiting. Cuc in the personnel department made up a list; Chuyen, ...
( Category: Vietnam War September 27,2022 )
Call Me Chef, Dammit! by Andre Rush
epub |eng | 2022-02-10 | Author:Andre Rush

The dead remained. Some were entombed under tons of rubble, some perished intact in their offices, some lay in stairwells or corridors where they had tried to escape, and some ...
( Category: Military September 27,2022 )
The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty
epub |eng | 2022-05-24 | Author:Nancy Dougherty [Dougherty, Nancy]

* * * — Sometimes after supper, Frau Heydrich would start to tell me her views about the war. But she never finished. “The war,” she would say, “the war ...
( Category: World War II September 20,2022 )
Lincoln in Lists by Thomas R. Flagel
epub |eng | 2021-07-10 | Author:Thomas R. Flagel [Flagel, Thomas R.]

CAMPAIGNING FOR ZACHARY TAYLORINTHE 1848 ELECTION Lincoln wasn’t so much a supporter of General Taylor as he was an animated opponent of virtually any Democrat, including their nominee for the ...
( Category: American Civil War September 20,2022 )
Number One Realist by Moir Nathaniel L.;
epub |eng | 2021-12-23 | Author:Moir, Nathaniel L.; [Moir, Nathaniel L.;]

More than any other subject, issues related to land in North Vietnam formed internal challenges that divided and threatened Lao Dong authority. According to Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet, “From the ...
( Category: Vietnam War September 19,2022 )

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