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Lorenz by Jerry Roberts
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Roberts

Period Two – 1 October 1942–31 December 1942 at 15 per day 1,170 Period Three – January–June 1943 at 30 per day 4,680 Period Four – July–31 December 1943, twenty-four ...
( Category: World War II February 15,2020 )
Red Hugh O'Donnell and the Nine Years War by Darren McGettigan
epub |eng | 2005-07-14 | Author:Darren McGettigan [McGettigan, Darren]

Águila’s force was also suffering in the siege, and his instructions threw the confederate leadership into confusion. By now, all the Gaelic chieftains were becoming anxious at being away from ...
( Category: Military February 15,2020 )
Paddy Mayne by Hamish Ross
epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Hamish Ross

Such a network had its uses, but the scale of the recruitment that had to be undertaken – officers, sergeants and troopers – meant that Mayne had to travel long ...
( Category: World War II February 15,2020 )
For Cause and Comrades by James M. McPherson
epub |eng | 1997-02-14 | Author:James M. McPherson

CHAPTER 9 SLAVERY MUST BE CLEANED OUT A YEAR BEFORE LEE surrendered at Appomattox, a Texas private predicted that Confederate victory was certain because “we are fighting for our property ...
( Category: American Civil War February 15,2020 )
Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig Symonds
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Craig Symonds [Symonds, Craig]

8 “I Shall Have to Cut This Knot” Lincoln as Adjudicator IT WAS NOT ALL BAD NEWS. Though the reports from the Army of the Potomac were devastating, those from ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 14,2020 )
The Three-Cornered War by Megan Kate Nelson
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Megan Kate Nelson

* * * Clark had been back from the Mogollon expedition for two months when a letter arrived in Santa Fe, detailing the discoveries that Joseph Reddeford Walker’s adventurers had ...
( Category: American Civil War February 14,2020 )
Franklin & Washington by Edward J. Larson
epub |eng | 2019-11-26 | Author:Edward J. Larson

Book III Working Together and Apart Six Rendezvous in Philadelphia WITH CIVIC BOOSTERS INTENT on turning Philadelphia into the commercial, financial, and perhaps political capital of the newly independent states, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 14,2020 )
Washington's End by Jonathan Horn
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Jonathan Horn

I. The academy would soon become Washington College and eventually Washington and Lee University. CHAPTER ELEVEN Washington Sinks The pleas to return to public life never ceased. Friends dangled every ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 14,2020 )
The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plumb Martin
epub |eng | 2019-07-04 | Author:Joseph Plumb Martin [Martin, Joseph Plumb]

Chapter VI. Campaign of 1780 Table of Contents The soldier defending his country's rights, Is griev'd when that country his services slights; But when he remonstrates and finds no relief, ...
( Category: American Revolution February 11,2020 )
Che Guevara: A Life From Beginning to End (Revolutionaries Book 2) by Hourly History
epub |eng | 2017-02-08 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Five The Roving Revolutionary “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” —President John F. Kennedy In the immediate aftermath of President Kennedy’s death, most Americans were ...
( Category: Military February 10,2020 )
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
epub |eng | 2020-02-03 | Author:Ariana Neumann

Lotar and Hans must have felt a profound sadness at reading Otto’s first letter from the camp, one that echoed across the years when my father’s sobbing rocked the fence ...
( Category: Europe February 10,2020 )
Never Quit by Jimmy Settle
epub |eng | | Author:Jimmy Settle

11 Strike Two For a while, I hung around Lackland, awaiting an opening at one of the schools. The break in my orders was long enough that they decided to ...
( Category: Afghan War February 8,2020 )
The Great Road by Smedley Agnes;
epub |eng | 2020-01-07 | Author:Smedley, Agnes;

Chapter 20 IT WAS mid-December before all the scattered units of the revolutionary army had assembled and reached the Shaokwan area in northern Kwangtung Province, some two to three days’ ...
( Category: Military February 8,2020 )
The Lost Girls by D. J. Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-10-01 | Author:D. J. Taylor

If the world through which the Lost Girls wandered was one of living for the moment, of sexual recklessness and social opportunism, then there were other ways in which it ...
( Category: World War II February 6,2020 )
Letters from the Front: J. Gresham Machen's Correspondence from World War 1 by Waugh Barry
epub |eng | 2012-05-10 | Author:Waugh, Barry [Waugh, Barry]

August 1, 1918 My dearest Mother: When I give you a little outline of my daily life and at the same time tell you that I am now alone in ...
( Category: Letters February 6,2020 )

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