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Madame Fourcade's Secret War by Lynne Olson
epub, azw |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Lynne Olson

* * * — WHILE MARIE-MADELEINE LOVED THE peace and security of Ussel, she knew that her presence there was putting at risk the clandestine Lysander landings at the nearby ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2019 )
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. Bradford
epub |eng | 2018-02-03 | Author:Sarah H. Bradford [Bradford, Sarah H.]

"I'll meet you in de mornin', When you reach de promised land; On de oder side of Jordan, For I'm boun' for de promised land." The brothers started with her, ...
( Category: American Civil War April 24,2019 )
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality by Nancy Isenberg & Andrew Burstein
epub |eng | 2019-04-16 | Author:Nancy Isenberg & Andrew Burstein

HEAPED UPON John Quincy Adams attended Madison’s inauguration on March 4, 1809, and was present as well at a ball that evening attended by the outgoing president, Jefferson. “The crowd ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 18,2019 )
Dutch Girl by Robert Matzen
epub |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:Robert Matzen

24 Aflame “Arnhem was pretty much flattened” was the way Audrey described it. From her location in Velp, she couldn’t see it happening but everyone heard it all day and ...
( Category: World War II April 15,2019 )
Grateful American by Gary Sinise
epub |eng | 2019-01-03 | Author:Gary Sinise

When George Wallace finished, I was set to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at Steppenwolf in Chicago. Moira started to go to AA meetings in Malibu. I ...
( Category: Military April 7,2019 )
Revolutionary by Robert L. O'Connell
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Robert L. O'Connell

CHAPTER 5 Out in the Cold 1 Having taken several substantial bites out of his tormentors, the fox was in his lair for the winter. “Washington has since taken post ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 5,2019 )
Desert Fox by Samuel W. Mitcham
epub |eng | | Author:Samuel W. Mitcham

As November 2 dawned, the battle entered its eleventh day like an enraged bull. Rommel grabbed a quick breakfast of chicken fricassee with rice (most likely the remains of supper), ...
( Category: World War II April 4,2019 )
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer
epub |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Brad Meltzer

47 New York, New York June 1776 The Life Guards. They’re George Washington’s elite unit. His trusted bodyguards. The most disciplined men. The best-trained soldiers. In an army otherwise made ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 3,2019 )
Abraham Lincoln : the war years, 1861-1865 by Sandburg Carl 1878-1967
epub |eng | 2004-03-28 | Author:Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

JAY COOKE— CASH FOR WAR- HARD TIMES AND FLUSH The Union Government was spending easily more than $2,000,000 a day for the war. Chase had reason to say that while ...
( Category: American Civil War March 29,2019 )
Paul Revere and the world he lived in by Forbes Esther
epub |eng | 1999-03-28 | Author:Forbes, Esther

john Hancock's trunk 267 in the salt marsh of East Cambridge. The officer in command was Revere's North Square neighbor of the last year — £ firery and profane,' 'aminable ...
( Category: American Revolution March 29,2019 )
Cold War by unknow
epub |eng | 2001-12-01 | Author:unknow

Inverness, Scotland When he hung up with Nessa, Gorrie glanced at the clock. Though he had told his wife he’d be home by eight, he realized there was little sense ...
( Category: Military March 28,2019 )
American Cipher by Matt Farwell & Michael Ames
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Matt Farwell & Michael Ames

SIXTEEN BOB’S WAR Bob and Jani’s lives were now fully intertwined with the U.S. government’s fiasco in Afghanistan, their son’s fate to be determined by the same convoluted calculus that ...
( Category: Afghan War March 25,2019 )
Lighter Than Air by Guy Warner
epub |eng | 2016-06-30 | Author:Guy Warner [Warner, Guy]

Beta II & Delta on manoeuvres. A cache of hydrogen cylinders being stacked for the airships taking part in the Army manoeuvres of 1912. (Via Nigel Caley) After the army ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2019 )
War Flower by Brooke King
epub |eng | | Author:Brooke King

Tin Box Battalion The flag lowered, sinking down to white-gloved hands that were already saturated with sweat from standing in the late afternoon sun. The rope whipped against the pole, ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 25,2019 )
Washington's crossing by Fischer David Hackett 1935-
epub |eng | 2004-03-23 | Author:Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-

The Battle at Princeton g£P> hLI?»- > 77i£ Z)^/z of General Hugh Mercer, a sketch by John Trumbull (1786). The defiant American leader refused British orders to surrender and was ...
( Category: United States March 23,2019 )

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