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Setting the World Ablaze by John Ferling
epub |eng | 2000-02-22 | Author:John Ferling

8 “The Womb of Fate” Victory In the summer of 1780, when Adams told Vergennes that the war could be won only if the French fleet acted in concert with ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 23,2020 )
Lincoln's Secret Spy by Jane Singer & John Stewart
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Jane Singer & John Stewart

13 Leaving Dixie It was April 2, 1865: A day fraught with panic. A night of terror. The Yankees were coming. Frightened residents hastily packed foodstuffs and china, boxes and ...
( Category: American Civil War February 23,2020 )
Famous First Flights by Lowell Thomas
epub |eng | 2016-02-21 | Author:Lowell Thomas

Across the wide expanse of the forty-eight states, millions of people are gazing hopefully at newspaper bulletin boards or leaning over their radios, anxiously awaiting the news that all goes ...
( Category: Piloting & Flight Instruction February 22,2020 )
One of the Few by Johnny Kent
epub |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:Johnny Kent

6 Squadron Commander I soon discovered that 92 Squadron, my new command, had not only lost four Commanding Officers, three of them in the past month, but the total losses ...
( Category: World War II February 22,2020 )
Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942 (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) by William H. Bartsch
epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:William H. Bartsch [William H. Bartsch]

IT WAS 0730 ON FEBRUARY 19 when the RAAF Hudsons carrying Vern Head and the other six crashed Timor pilots reached the RAAF field at Darwin after a four-hour night ...
( Category: World War II February 22,2020 )
Striking Inside Angola With 32 Battalion by Marius Scheepers
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Marius Scheepers [Scheepers, Marius]

2. It is no longer a priority to capture and occupy Cahama 3. The expected infiltration by seven SWAPO companies [into SWA] should be avoided at all cost 4. The ...
( Category: African February 22,2020 )
Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
epub |eng | 2020-02-20 | Author:Francesca Wade [Francesca Wade]

Power was not only concerned with an overhaul of domestic policy. Her trip to the Far East in 1920 had expanded her horizons at a time when Europe was in ...
( Category: World War II February 21,2020 )
The Art of Resistance by Justus Rosenberg
epub |eng | 2019-12-23 | Author:Justus Rosenberg

Part III INTERNMENT August 27–29, 1942 WHILE I WAS finding students to participate in the French Underground army, the Germans for the first time had begun to encounter serious military ...
( Category: World War II February 21,2020 )
One Woman's War by Eileen Younghusband
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Eileen Younghusband [Younghusband, Eileen]

This is how their menu read: Christmas Menu Soup Cream of Tomato Joints and Poultry Roast Pork Roast Turkey and Chicken Apple Sauce Chestnut Stuffing Brussels Sprouts Cauliflower Sweets Christmas ...
( Category: World War II February 21,2020 )
The Victoria Cross Wars by Brian Best
epub |eng | 2017-03-29 | Author:Brian Best

MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY MEIKLEJOHN VC (1870-1913) Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn was born in Clapham, London on 27 November 1870, to Professor John and Jane Meiklejohn, their first son was christened ...
( Category: World War I February 21,2020 )
Amateur Gunners by Ian Ronayne
epub |eng | 2014-02-20 | Author:Ian Ronayne

13 August 1916 Dear Papa I go down tomorrow morning for a spell of four days with the infantry. I had some night last night, got back from synchronising watches ...
( Category: World War II February 21,2020 )
Sisters in Arms by Julie Wheelwright
epub |eng | | Author:Julie Wheelwright

Chapter 7 The Legacy ‘And dost thou ask what fairy had inspired A NYMPH to be with martial glory fired? Or what from art, or yet from nature’s laws, Has ...
( Category: Women in History February 20,2020 )
Nelson's Arctic Voyage by Peter Goodwin
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Goodwin

Wednesday 4 August In Racehorse, Phipps simply wrote in his journal: ‘Light Airs and Clear Weather Employed as before.’ More informatively, Lutwidge noted: ‘PM the People employed from both ships ...
( Category: Military February 20,2020 )
Horatio Nelson by Angus Konstam
epub |eng | 2011-07-10 | Author:Angus Konstam

The battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801 As dawn broke on the morning of 2 April Nelson must have been relieved that no such bombardment had taken place, and that ...
( Category: Military February 19,2020 )
Glory, Passion, and Principle by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Melissa Lukeman Bohrer

Lydia Darragh, the daughter of John Barrington, was born about 1728 and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Little is known of her childhood except that she was part of a large ...
( Category: American Revolution February 19,2020 )

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