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Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway by David Rigby
epub |eng | | Author:David Rigby

Figure 12.3 Best/Penland map as modified by Lewis A. Hopkins.85 If Hopkins did dive on Akagi, he did not do so as part of a six-plane division, contrary to what ...
( Category: World War II June 23,2019 )
1941 by Andrew Nagorski
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Andrew Nagorski

* * * For a long time, the Nazis had equivocated on the ultimate fate of the Jews. After Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, the Germans had quickly ...
( Category: World War II June 21,2019 )
The Crowded Hour by Clay Risen
epub |eng | | Author:Clay Risen

CHAPTER 11 “AN AMPHITHEATER FOR THE BATTLE” At about 4 a.m. on July 1, the nearly 17,000 men who comprised General Shafter’s Fifth Corps crawled from under their blankets and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 21,2019 )
Lincoln's Confidant by Temple Wayne C.; Davis Rodney O.; Wilson Douglas L
epub |eng | | Author:Temple, Wayne C.; Davis, Rodney O.; Wilson, Douglas L.

Returns to Journalism The ex–naval officer returned to the field of journalism where he became known as a versatile writer and a prominent California editor.80 “A large daily newspaper, radical ...
( Category: American Civil War June 16,2019 )
Formation by Ryan Leigh Dostie
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Ryan Leigh Dostie

One day a different Iraqi translator visits my guard tower. He’s not a regular at our camp, but he’s on loan from the First Armored Division, clearly higher ranking in ...
( Category: Iraq War June 15,2019 )
Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community's Struggle Toward Freedom by Leonard Elizabeth D
epub |eng | 2018-06-13 | Author:Leonard, Elizabeth D.

Anticipated and Unanticipated Costs of War Meanwhile, back in Washington, DC, as the war came to an end and federal occupation and Reconstruction began, the persistence, patience, unflinching courage, and ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 14,2019 )
Every Man a Hero by Ray Lambert
epub |eng | | Author:Ray Lambert

The Home Front Back home, people hunkered down for another winter of war. Certain things that would have seemed odd two years before were now routine—blackout curtains or shades on ...
( Category: World War II June 11,2019 )
The Kaiser by Virginia Cowles
epub |eng | 2018-12-11 | Author:Virginia Cowles [Cowles, Virginia]

Chapter 11. The German Fleet “He’s a Satan. You can hardly believe what a Satan he is!” exclaimed the Kaiser about Edward VII to a startled dinner party on March ...
( Category: World War I June 11,2019 )
The Mathews Men by William Geroux
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:William Geroux

Just days after the East Indian sinking, Edna Hodges received a call from her lawyer. He had finally received a copy of one of R. M. Jenkins’s letters from Havana ...
( Category: United States June 9,2019 )
The Targeter by Nada Bakos
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Nada Bakos

Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, was found guilty of crimes against humanity for the 1982 killing of 148 Shias in the small city of Dujail, approximately forty miles north ...
( Category: Iraq War June 5,2019 )
Parallel Lives--Complete by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2014-03-16 | Author:Plutarch

Comparison of Nikias and Crassus I. In the first place, the wealth of Nikias was much more honestly and creditably obtained than that of Crassus. Generally speaking, one cannot approve ...
( Category: Military May 29,2019 )
The Black Heavens by Brian R. Dirck;
epub |eng | | Author:Brian R. Dirck;

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, I have no taste for war; My joy is not in fire and fight, In cannon’s roar and bullet’s flight, And nasty pools ...
( Category: American Civil War May 28,2019 )
9781859594575 by Philip Warner
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Warner [Philip Warner]

Fortunately for Henry it was intercepted by a knight of his bodyguard, Hubert de Clair, who died of the wound. In a campaign taking approximately a year, he imposed royal ...
( Category: Military Technology May 28,2019 )
Germanicus by Lindsay Powell
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Lindsay Powell

The discovery of the use of black magic would reinforce the impression of the couple’s wicked intentions. The little room of horrors may even have been stage-managed by friends of ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
Mithridates the Great: Rome's Indomitable Enemy by Matyszak Philip
mobi |eng | 2009-04-19 | Author:Matyszak, Philip [Matyszak, Philip]

Peace talks Whilst Sulla delicately fenced with the envoys of Archelaus on talks about talks, Fimbria took his army into Asia Minor and, by damaging Mithridates there, improved Sulla’s negotiating ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )

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