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Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )
The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II by Winston Groom
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-11-10 | Author:Winston Groom [Groom, Winston]

ON FEBRUARY 21, 1938, Jean MacArthur presented her husband with a seven pound, eight ounce boy who was christened Arthur MacArthur IV. He was tended to by Jean and a ...
( Category: World War I December 7,2015 )
Law of the Jungle by John Otis
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:John Otis

“IT’S EASY TO CRY OVER SPILLED milk,” Clara Rojas later wrote. “But if the president’s attitude had been different on that day, we very probably would not have been kidnapped.” ...
( Category: Military December 6,2015 )
The Love-Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Lara Feigel

When he suggested having Mark, I thought to myself, ‘You’ve had all these women and you live with them and you say you love them and then come back after ...
( Category: World War II December 5,2015 )
The Lieutenant Don't Know: One Marine's Story of Warfare and Combat Logistics in Afghanistan by Clement Jeffrey
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Clement, Jeffrey

Poppy fields on the left (irrigated with several inches of water) and wheat fields on the right of this route limited the convoy’s mobility to a single route. Insurgents could ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars December 2,2015 )
The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:John Rabe [Rabe, John]

15 JANUARY As is obvious from the letters that arrived for me yesterday from Shanghai via the German embassy and to which on 14 January I replied to the management ...
( Category: Germany December 2,2015 )
The Orpheus Clock by Simon Goodman
epub |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Simon Goodman

CHAPTER 10 SEARCHING FOR DEGAS From the old negative taken by Rose Valland and found in Bernard’s boxes. My father wasn’t able to leave my brother or me much, or ...
( Category: Holocaust December 1,2015 )
The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America's Deadliest Marksmen by Brandon Webb & John David Mann & Marcus Luttrell
epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:Brandon Webb & John David Mann & Marcus Luttrell [Webb, Brandon & Mann, John David & Luttrell, Marcus]

SEVEN WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED In the late summer of 2000 our platoon embarked on a trans-Pacific run, headed for the Persian Gulf by way of Hawaii, Australia, and points west. ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars December 1,2015 )
Washington's Circle by David S. Heidler Jeanne T. Heidler
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler [Heidler, David S.]

Newspaper and pamphlet attacks had stepped up over the summer of 1792. Because Hamilton and Jefferson believed the other responsible for starting the public phase of the conflict, each thought ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 29,2015 )
The Hill Fights by Edward F. Murphy
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Edward F. Murphy

Chapter Eight Kilo 3/9 had spent the morning of 30 April near Mike 3/3’s night defensive perimeter. While it waited, artillery forward observer LCpl. Robert W. Stewart and his radioman, ...
( Category: Vietnam War November 27,2015 )
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

Over a decade after the Treaty of Alliance was signed, in the early days of the French Revolution, a forlorn Louis XVI would answer a letter from his Indian ally ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 23,2015 )
Blood and Steel 2: The Wehrmacht Archive - Retreat to the Reich, September to December 1944 by Graves Donald E
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Graves, Donald E.

Training Company: 500 men (75% ‘Magen’ personnel) all aged over 35 Convalescent Company: Approximately 150 men During the preceding few months, personnel of these companies underwent a fairly thorough training ...
( Category: Germany November 23,2015 )
Lincoln's Final Hours by Kathryn Canavan
epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Kathryn Canavan

Booth escaped over the Navy Yard Bridge into Maryland. Credit: National Archives Gurley said, “I will speak to God.” Stanton replied, “Do it just now.”32 Gurley dropped to his knees ...
( Category: Civil War November 23,2015 )
See no evil: the true story of a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism by Robert Baer
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-11-21 | Author:Robert Baer [Baer, Robert]

In February 1980, a Lebanese Sunni, Anis Naqqash, attempted to assassinate former Shapour Bakhtiar in Paris, where the former Iranian prime minister was living as a political refugee. Naqqash fumbled ...
( Category: Specific Topics November 22,2015 )
0451475623 (N) by Brandon Webb
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Brandon Webb [Webb, Brandon]

I just wanted to write to thank you guys at Indigen Armor. I was on a mission today in the streets of the city where I’m stationed and our convoy ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage November 21,2015 )

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