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The Train to Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell
epub |eng | | Author:Jan Jarboe Russell

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The False Passports On the morning of January 20, 1945, while Ingrid was still at sea on the MS Gripsholm, a fourteen-year-old girl, Irene Hasenberg, slept on a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 11,2020 )
Wellington in India by Jac Weller
epub |eng | 2013-05-16 | Author:Jac Weller

IX The Mahratta War Begins Wellesley’s orders were issued for the morning of 7 August 1803: at sunrise the army was to march the seven miles to Ahmednuggur. The monsoon ...
( Category: Military March 11,2020 )
Josephus's The Jewish War by Martin Goodman;
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-08-09 | Author:Martin Goodman;

FIGURE 4.3. Masada. The site of the mass suicide of Sicarii according to book 7 of the Jewish War. Photo, courtesy of Andrew Shiva. If the site of Masada struck ...
( Category: Rome March 11,2020 )
When It Was Grand by LeeAnna Keith
epub |eng | | Author:LeeAnna Keith

Having seized his highbrow booty, Higginson and his black regiment took pains to cover their retreat, consigning the town of St. Mary and several outlying plantations to the flames.24 Montgomery ...
( Category: Political Parties March 11,2020 )
A World Erased by Noah Lederman
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Noah Lederman [Lederman, Noah]

* * * * Most likely, when she says “river,” Grandma is referring to one of the canals that the four hundred Jewish boys and men imprisoned in Karczew had ...
( Category: World War II March 11,2020 )
Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War by Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Frederick Douglass

II. THE CIVIL WAR How to End the War TO OUR mind, there is but one easy, short and effectual way to suppress and put down the desolating war which ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 11,2020 )
A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade by Barbara Rylko-Bauer
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Barbara Rylko-Bauer [Rylko-Bauer, Barbara]

14 Flossenbürg and the End of War JADZIA REMAINED BEHIND IN FLOSSENBÜRG, locked up in the condemned prisoners’ section of the camp. “There were these separate buildings for prisoners who ...
( Category: World War II March 10,2020 )
Waiting for an Ordinary Day by Farnaz Fassihi
epub |eng | | Author:Farnaz Fassihi

16 My Name Is Moonlover, So Romantic, So Free In June we attend two celebrations, each displaying significantly less fanfare and flash than is customary, where planning revolves entirely around ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 10,2020 )
To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order by Thomas J. Knock
epub |eng | 2018-12-25 | Author:Thomas J. Knock

11 The Stern Covenanter New York Harbor erupted in splendid pandemonium as the George Washington, bearing President Wilson and a small army of advisers and newspaper reporters, began its historic ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 10,2020 )
The Struggle for the Dardanelles by Philip Rance
epub |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Philip Rance

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE DARDANELLES by Major E.R. Prigge Adjutant to His Excellency Marshal Liman von Sanders with a Foreword by Ernst Jäckh together with Maps and Pictures 1916 Dedicated ...
( Category: World War I March 10,2020 )
The Shoemaker and his Daughter by Conor O'Clery
epub |eng | | Author:Conor O'Clery

CHAPTER 16 HOME AND ABROAD ONE DISADVANTAGE OF being the youngest member of staff in any organization is that the old hands like to pass on the most unpleasant tasks ...
( Category: Political March 10,2020 )
Malta Spitfire by George Beurling
epub |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:George Beurling

HE WENT DOWN VERTICALLY—NOBODY SAW HIM HIT THE DECK, SO I WAS CREDITED WITH A DAMAGED Almost as soon as we were airborne the orders came over the RT: “Gain ...
( Category: World War II March 10,2020 )
Invisible Heroes of World War II by Jerry Borrowman
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Jerry Borrowman

* * * 1. Penny Colman, Where the Action Was, viii. 2. Dickey Chapelle, What’s a Woman Doing Here? 16. 3. Chapelle, What’s a Woman Doing Here? 18. 4. Chapelle, ...
( Category: World War II March 10,2020 )
The Life of Belisarius by Lord Mahon
epub |eng | | Author:Lord Mahon

( Category: Rome March 9,2020 )
The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

* * * AN EDICT BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA (1773) A prolific political journalist, Franklin generally considered his political writings ephemeral. When asked for a gathering of such pieces ...
( Category: American Revolution March 9,2020 )

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