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America's Jubilee by Andrew Burstein
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Andrew Burstein

Fig. 14b. Henry Clay of Kentucky, portrait accompanying the 1852 obituary address. The statesmanlike pose belies his reputation as a gambler. Fig. 14a. John Randolph of Roanoke, from Henry Adams’s ...
( Category: American Revolution March 18,2020 )
Arrow in the Blue by Arthur Koestler
epub |eng | 2005-08-31 | Author:Arthur Koestler

Part Four THE ROAD TO RESPECTABILITY 1927–1930 Es pocht eine Sehnsucht an die Welt An der wir sterben müssen. ELSE LASKER-SCHULER XXI. King Feisal of Iraq IN THE SPRING of ...
( Category: Authors March 17,2020 )
Ten Years In Washington by Mary Clemmer Ames
epub |eng | 2019-05-19 | Author:Mary Clemmer Ames [Ames, Mary Clemmer]

IT is one of the traditions of Washington that Andrew Jackson decided the exact site of the present Treasury Building. After the third destruction by fire, in 1833, of the ...
( Category: American Civil War March 17,2020 )
Burke Davis on the Civil War by Burke Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Burke Davis

The ordnance reserve train of the army stood between the Richmond-Petersburg Pike and the Woodpecker Road, not far from Swift Creek—forty-four wagons under the command of Lieutenant Joseph Packard. A ...
( Category: American Civil War March 17,2020 )
Extraordinary Dogs by Liz Stavrinides
epub |eng | | Author:Liz Stavrinides

22 HULK Reston, Virginia “Being a new handler can be intimidating at times, especially when most of my coworkers have years of experience and I have none yet,” says Joe ...
( Category: Plants & Animals March 17,2020 )
Harnessing the Sky by Frederick M. Trapnell Jr
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Frederick M. Trapnell Jr. [Trapnell Jr., Frederick M.; Tibbitts, Dana Trapnell]

CHAPTER 13 THE CHALLENGE, 1946 Trap’s ideas about full-spectrum testing of each airplane within its operating environment had taken hold since his time at Anacostia early in the decade, when ...
( Category: Military March 17,2020 )
World War II Akron by Tim Carroll
epub |eng | 2019-03-16 | Author:Tim Carroll

Jimmy Doolittle (left) shakes hands with Shorty Fulton (right) before the war. Reprinted with permission of the Akron Beacon Journal and Ohio.com. Jimmy Doolittle (left) and Shorty Fulton (right) in ...
( Category: World War II March 17,2020 )
Julius Streicher by Bytwerk Randall L
epub |eng | 2001-03-16 | Author:Bytwerk, Randall L.

A children’s book told how two young boys secretly peered in the window of the town’s Jewish slaughterhouse and saw a bloody scene of animal misery. They leave, shaken and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 17,2020 )
The Jagged Edge of Duty by Robert L. Richardson
epub |eng | 2017-03-16 | Author:Robert L. Richardson [Richardson, Robert L.]

Capt. Richard Decker, upon receipt of the Distinguished Flying Cross. National Archives The melee above Decker continued, with the P-38s continuing to engage the enemy interceptors and protecting the bomber ...
( Category: World War II March 17,2020 )
Lees Lieutenants 3 Volume Abridged by Stephen W. Sears Douglas Southall Freeman
epub |eng | 2018-06-20 | Author:Stephen W. Sears, Douglas Southall Freeman

3 L ONGSTREET T RIES I NDEPENDENT C OMMAND Early in January General Lee had thought it probable that if Burnside went into winter quarters on the Rappahannock, part of ...
( Category: American Civil War March 17,2020 )
The Passions of Andrew Jackson by Andrew Burstein
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Andrew Burstein

13. Excerpt from Jackson’s 1816 letter to John Coffee, wherein Jackson charges his erstwhile friend, Gen. William Carroll, with “wanton wickedness and depravity of heart.” Courtesy the Tennessee Historical Society ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2020 )
A House For Spies: SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse by Wake-Walker Edward
epub |eng | 2020-03-08 | Author:Wake-Walker, Edward [Wake-Walker, Edward]

CHAPTER 9: KEEPING HOUSE IN SUSSEX When the war ended and normal family life resumed at Bignor Manor, Barbara Bertram found to her dismay that she could not sleep. As ...
( Category: World War II March 16,2020 )
The Strategy of Victory by Thomas Fleming
epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Thomas Fleming

THE BATTLES of Springfield and Connecticut Farms reminded many in the American army of the fighting that had convulsed Massachusetts in April 1775. The rush of militia to the battle ...
( Category: American Revolution March 16,2020 )
Joseph Stalin: A Life From Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies Book 4) by History Hourly
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-01-14 | Author:History, Hourly [History, Hourly]

Chapter Five Stalin’s Gambit “In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother.” —Joseph Stalin By most accounts, Stalin was genuinely surprised on June 22nd , 1941 when ...
( Category: World War II March 16,2020 )
American Connections by James Burke
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:James Burke

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Samuel Chase SAMUEL CHASE (MD) was thirty-five. And either a “universally despised…foul-mouthed rabble-rouser” or a man of “energetic eloquence.” On the day of the Declaration vote this lawyer ...
( Category: American Revolution March 16,2020 )

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