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The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Rubenstein

CHAPTER SIX A CHANCE FOR PEACE? American officials had long assumed that Stalin’s death would expose the fragility of his regime. As far back as February 1946, George Kennan advised ...
( Category: History & Theory September 11,2016 )
Double Ace by Robert Coram
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Coram

21 LEAVING CHINA Chennault’s genius for tactics and Scott’s genius for colorful leadership turned the Twenty-third into a fast-moving, nimble, and unpredictable combat organization that had an impact far out ...
( Category: World War II August 24,2016 )
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything by Rosa Brooks
epub |eng | | Author:Rosa Brooks

Born in Blood We can go further: maybe the apparent permanence and ubiquity of the nation-state is just a mirage. We take it for granted that states are (and ought ...
( Category: National & International Security August 19,2016 )
The Free State of Jones and the Echo of the Black Horn by Thomas Jefferson Knight
epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Thomas Jefferson Knight

CHAPTER 9 Bold Ventures As soon as the officers of the company were sworn in, and each had pledged himself to fight and die before surrendering to any man, a ...
( Category: United States August 19,2016 )
Way of the Reaper by Nicholas Irving
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Irving

SIX WITHOUT REMORSE “IRV! LET GO of your junk, man. You’re out in public!” The rest of the forty-man 1st Platoon who heard Ramirez’s successful attempt to punk me laughed. ...
( Category: Afghan War August 19,2016 )
Fields of Battle by John Keegan
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:John Keegan [Keegan, John]

The War in the South After Monmouth Courthouse there were to be no more major battles in the North and indeed scarcely any more serious fighting in the Revolutionary War. ...
( Category: American Civil War July 24,2016 )
A Waterloo Hero by Friedrich Lindau
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Friedrich Lindau [Lindau, Friedrich]

ACTION AT TOLOSA Two days after Vitoria, Graham was sent to intercept the retreat of a French corps under General Foy, who had not been present at the battle. On ...
( Category: Veterans July 17,2016 )
Eve of a Hundred Midnights by Bill Lascher
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:Bill Lascher

When Mel wasn’t running around in circles trying to find a marriage license, he often took in the vista from his room at the aptly named Bay View Hotel. Over ...
( Category: World War II July 13,2016 )
Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor by Clinton Romesha
epub, azw |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Clinton Romesha [Romesha, Clinton]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Alamo Position ONE OF THE strangest hallmarks of combat is that it is so chaotic that sometimes the turmoil it engenders in the mind never fully resolves. ...
( Category: Military July 8,2016 )
Founding Feuds by Paul Aron
epub |eng | 2016-07-07 | Author:Paul Aron

• • • Hamilton’s death made him a martyr for Federalists and led to an outcry against dueling. Many had already seen it as an aristocratic anachronism; after Weehawken, it ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 8,2016 )
A French Soldiers War Diary 1914-1918 by Desagneau Henri
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Desagneau, Henri

25 April Alert at dawn. We are off to Coigneux to take up positions in case of attack. At 6.30 p.m. we return. Our route is scattered with huge English ...
( Category: World War I July 6,2016 )
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism (Politically Incorrect Guides) by Kevin D. Williamson
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-20 | Author:Kevin D. Williamson [Williamson, Kevin D.]

Chávez Seizes the Oil . . . And Everything Else, Too Crucially, after the strike was suppressed, some 18,000 PDVSA workers were fired, leaving Chávez with more direct control of ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 28,2016 )
Disciples by Douglas Waller
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Waller

CHAPTER 21 TO GERMANY * * * The Doctor team spent its first five days hidden in the Scheffau farmhouse of the three Austrian deserters. The trio’s leader, who identified ...
( Category: World War II June 27,2016 )
Circle of Treason by Sandra V. Grimes
epub |eng | 2016-06-24 | Author:Sandra V. Grimes [Grimes, Sandra;Vertefeuille, Jeanne]

CIC FORMATION AT THE BEGINNING OF 1988, plans for the reorganization of the CIA’s CI staff began to move into high gear. Various permutations and combinations were proposed and, as ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage June 27,2016 )
Douglas MacArthur by Arthur Herman
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

CHAPTER 19 GREEN HELL There is hardly any celebrated enterprise in War which was not achieved by endless exertion, pains, and privations; and as here the weakness of the physical ...
( Category: World War I June 16,2016 )

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