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FDR on Democracy by Harvey J. Kaye
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Harvey J. Kaye

21. A True Patriotism Urges Us to Build an Even More Substantial America . . . Speech Dedicating a World War Memorial St. Louis, Missouri, October 14, 1936 Speaking at ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 16,2020 )
Trusted Mole by Milos Stankovic
epub |eng | 2014-01-22 | Author:Milos Stankovic

SIXTEEN Operation Grapple, Bosnia-Hercegovina 20 July 1994 – Sarajevo It was a balmy Sarajevan evening – still air, soft light, warmth still radiating out of old brickwork, and high above ...
( Category: Military April 16,2020 )
What Really Happened by Robert J. Hutchinson
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Robert J. Hutchinson

CRITICAL MINUTES Witnesses claimed to have seen John Wilkes Booth meet with his secret fiancée, Lucy Hale, both on the morning and late afternoon of April 14. If one or ...
( Category: American Civil War April 15,2020 )
My Life With Che by Hilda Gadea
epub |eng | | Author:Hilda Gadea

11 WE SPENT THE month of December in harmony. Sometimes Ernesto ate with us. He would entertain us with the daily stories from the hospital and his activities as a ...
( Category: American Revolution April 15,2020 )
Reds by Ted Morgan
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Ted Morgan [Morgan, Ted]

XI JUDGE JOE Wisconsin became the thirtieth state in 1848, the same year that a revolution in Germany brought thousands of immigrants to America. Many of them found their way ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism April 15,2020 )
Yamamoto Isoroku by Mark Stille
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mark Stille

During the battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese inflicted heavy losses on the Pacific Fleet with the carrier Lexington, shown here exploding, being sunk and a second carrier, Yorktown, ...
( Category: World War II April 14,2020 )
Fortitude by Dan Crenshaw
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Dan Crenshaw

Chapter 6 The Right Sense of Shame In America today, we too often look at personal failings as things to overcome, move past, or forget. Sometimes we should do one ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 14,2020 )
Out of the Depths by Edgar Harrell USMC
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Edgar Harrell USMC [Harrell USMC, Edgar]

For reasons I cannot explain, I remember referring to him as “Uncle Edwin”—one of my dad’s brothers and a close friend back in Kentucky. I suppose my borderline delirious condition, ...
( Category: World War II April 13,2020 )
In the Waves by Rachel Lance
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Rachel Lance [Lance, Rachel]

* * * — The thick, black foam sausage floated in a line from the pier to the center of Pitt Pond. We had already failed twice, still measuring almost ...
( Category: American Civil War April 13,2020 )
Gunship Pilot by Robert F. Hartley
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Robert F. Hartley [Hartley, Robert F.]

The author with the captured .51 cal. Antiaircraft gun and holding an AK-47 It was now December and the missions continued to come down. The NVA was continuing to press ...
( Category: Vietnam War April 13,2020 )
Japan's Spy at Pearl Harbor by Takeo Yoshikawa
epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Takeo Yoshikawa

27 A Special Submarine In the previous chapter, I wrote about the “thunderous explosion” I heard at approximately eight o’clock in the evening. This loud noise, I would later learn, ...
( Category: World War II April 13,2020 )
Lincoln on the Verge by Ted Widmer
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Ted Widmer

Lincoln’s parade (New-York Illustrated News, March, 2, 1861) THE PARADE Lincoln’s parade was a glorious chaos from the start.105 One observer wrote, “Such a crowd as greeted his arrival I ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 8,2020 )
A Piece of My Heart by Keith Walker
epub |eng | 1985-04-14 | Author:Keith Walker [Walker, Keith]

Dot currently works as a physical therapist for a home health agency in Santa Clara County, California, treating patients in their own homes or convalescent hospitals. My interview with Dot ...
( Category: Vietnam War April 7,2020 )
War by Unknown
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Unknown

LETTER 17 KEEP IT AND HONOR IT ALWAYS Tom O’Sullivan to his son, Conor 16 September 1996 The Bosnian War began in April 1992, lasted more than three years, and ...
( Category: World War II April 7,2020 )
Primo Levi's Resistance by Sergio Luzzatto
epub |eng | | Author:Sergio Luzzatto

Lions and lambs After several months of indecision, the Aosta Special Court of Assizes prevailed over the courts of Asti and Turin, winning the right to try Cagni there first.8 ...
( Category: World War II April 7,2020 )

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