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Lincoln on Law, Leadership, and Life by Jonathan White
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Jonathan White

Fortunately, filing systems have improved over the past century and a half. Nevertheless, and despite these shortcomings, Lincoln proved a diligent advocate for his clients. He was always well prepared ...
( Category: American Civil War March 14,2020 )
101 Things You Didn't Know About Lincoln by Brian Thornton
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Brian Thornton

53 Lincoln’s shifting views on abolitionism Lincoln continued to put the Union above all else, even as his own personal views on slavery became more convicted. “If slavery isn’t a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 14,2020 )
Memories Unleashed by Carl Rudolph Small
epub |eng | | Author:Carl Rudolph Small

The marine’s Love, writing to him from half a world away. Twenty minutes. That’s all the time they had: They extended their hand; gripping each other’s forearm; a warrior’s handshake. ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 14,2020 )
Donitz, U-Boats, Convoys by Mallmann Showell Jak P.;
epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Mallmann Showell, Jak P.;

9. The British Western Approaches had its headquarters in Liverpool and after the war many years passed before it became known that the Admiralty also had a highly significant Operational ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
Daylight Bombing Operations 1939-1942 by Bowman Martin
epub |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:Bowman, Martin

Endnotes for Chapter Six 28 As a diversion for the Brest raid, 36 Blenheims in several waves and all escorted by Spitfires, attacked Cherbourg docks with good bombing results but ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
Acceptable Loss by Kregg P. Jorgenson
epub |eng | 2010-08-24 | Author:Kregg P. Jorgenson [Jorgenson, Kregg P. J.]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN I knew even less of personal relationships and love than I knew of the war. Any experience I had came from high-school crushes and youthful emotional romances. My ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 13,2020 )
The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram by David Guss
epub |eng | | Author:David Guss

Around 4 p.m., two Austrian soldiers came to take him away. They were a curiously mismatched pair – one tall, one short, yet both remarkably calm. Alastair called them ‘placid’. ...
( Category: World War II March 13,2020 )
Rebuilding Sergeant Peck by John Peck
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:John Peck

* * * * Obviously, all of this really put me on a downward spiral mentally—down into what I would call my “dark spot.” I had been blown up in ...
( Category: Afghan War March 13,2020 )
Robert E. Lee on Leadership by H.W. Crocker III
epub |eng | 2019-01-03 | Author:H.W. Crocker III

Self-Discipline To lead, Lee well understood, one first had to be the master of oneself. Original Sin taught him to expect human failure. But a Christian and a gentleman was ...
( Category: American Civil War March 13,2020 )
The Personal Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
epub |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant [Grant, Ulysses S.]

[In referring to this period, Grant says that it was the most anxious time of the war when the Army of the Tennessee was guarding the territory acquired by Corinth ...
( Category: American Civil War March 13,2020 )
The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre by David P. Jordan
epub |eng | | Author:David P. Jordan

CHAPTER 10 The Committee of Public Safety PLATE XII (Photo. Bibl. nat. Paris ) ON JULY 27 Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety, the executive committee of ...
( Category: Military March 13,2020 )
America's First Dynasty by Richard Brookhiser
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

____________________ ADAMS WAS AHEAD of his time. The country reacted to the prospective collapse of its political arrangements by making one more effort to prop them up. It was the ...
( Category: American Revolution March 13,2020 )
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Elizabeth Kantor
epub |eng | 2018-11-21 | Author:Elizabeth Kantor

Mary’s step-sister Jane (“Claire”) Clairmont, was also living with them. Claire’s own involvement with Shelley may explain why Mary complained, years later, that Claire had “poisoned my life when young.” ...
( Category: European March 12,2020 )
Fly! by Richard De Crespigny
epub |eng | | Author:Richard De Crespigny

Understanding probability Probability is the likelihood or chance of something happening. This stumps a lot of people, but it doesn’t have to. If you’re not maths-oriented you might feel you’ll ...
( Category: Military March 11,2020 )
The Man Who Took the Rap: Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the Fall of Singapore by Dye Peter
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Dye, Peter

18 STRENGTHENING MALAYA’S DEFENSES 1941 Brooke-Popham lost little time in moving Malaya to a war footing, starting with a two-day desk-based exercise designed to shake down the headquarters and test ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 11,2020 )

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