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Ministers at War : Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet by Schneer Jonathan
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Schneer, Jonathan [Schneer, Jonathan]

The audience roared its approval. Beaverbrook was at the peak of his powers and riding the crest of the wave. What might he not aspire to, given his reception at ...
( Category: History & Theory May 19,2015 )
PATTON: A BIOGRAPHY by Alan Axelrod
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-03 | Author:Alan Axelrod

CHAPTER 8 Conqueror of Sicily As originally drawn up in Washington and London, far from the scene of the proposed action, the plan for Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, ...
( Category: World War II May 11,2015 )
Abundance of Valor by Will Irwin
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Will Irwin [Irwin, Will]

* Brinkgreve, Olmsted, Austin, Cor, Daan, Gerard, Toon, Klaas, Coos, Marie, Ank, and Riek. * William Joyce, or Lord Haw Haw, made his final broadcast for the Germans on April ...
( Category: World War II May 10,2015 )
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-11-14 | Author:Philip Caputo [Caputo, Philip]

Chapter Eleven If I were fierce and bald and short of breath, I’d live with scarlet majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death. —Siegfried ...
( Category: Vietnam War April 7,2015 )
A Covert Affair by Jennet Conant
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Jennet Conant

How like the Autumn’s warmth is Julia’s face So filled with Nature’s bounty, Nature’s worth. And how like summer’s heat is her embrace Wherein at last she melts my frozen ...
( Category: World War II April 5,2015 )
Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Jill Lepore

Franklin’s story doesn’t fit neatly on one side of that divide, nor Jane’s on the other. Their lives were messier than that. John Adams found Benjamin Franklin impossible to account ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 5,2015 )
We Walked Right Into It: Pennsbury High and the Vietnam War by Nau Terry
mobi |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:Nau, Terry [Nau, Terry]

CHAPTER NINE: DEATH WITH HONOR IN VIETNAM WAR CASUALTIES STRIKE AT THE heart and soul of families, taking away a brave son or daughter who cannot be replaced. Parents’ lives ...
( Category: Military March 23,2015 )
The Yankee Comandante by Michael Sallah & Mitch Weiss
epub |eng | 2014-01-05 | Author:Michael Sallah & Mitch Weiss

The man in the lobby of the Capri said it was urgent. Call Morgan. He wanted just a few minutes with the Americano. It would be worth Morgan’s time. Morgan ...
( Category: Cuba March 22,2015 )
Hitler's Valkyrie by David R L Litchfield
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:David R L Litchfield

5 BAVARIAN RHAPSODY * * * 1934–36 * * * Somewhere between fear and sex is passion. Somewhere between God and the Devil. Jeanette Winterson On 30 June 1934 the ...
( Category: World War II March 22,2015 )
Crucible of Command by William C. Davis
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:William C. Davis [Davis, William C.]

When he decided to go for Jackson, Grant had sent McClernand’s corps to Edwards’ Station on the Vicksburg & Jackson Railroad, about twenty-eight miles west of Jackson and eighteen miles ...
( Category: American Civil War March 22,2015 )
The Good Man of Nanking by John Rabe
epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:John Rabe

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: China March 22,2015 )
Hard Case: Boxed Set Books 1,2 & 3 (John Harding Books) by DeLeo Bernard Lee
mobi |eng | 2014-01-25 | Author:DeLeo, Bernard Lee [DeLeo, Bernard Lee]

Chapter Eleven: Take Down at Sam’s Town “What the hell was that all about, Clint?” “The guy with the AK-47 in his dead lap fronted Lynn and I at the ...
( Category: Anthologies March 22,2015 )
The Hitler–Hess Deception by Martin Allen
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Martin Allen

( Category: World War II March 22,2015 )
88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary by Grenier Robert L
epub |eng | 2015-01-26 | Author:Grenier, Robert L. [Grenier, Robert L.]

Chapter 28 * * * A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS NOVEMBER 17, 2001 HEY, CHIEF.” THE COPS (Chief of Operations) was leaning through my doorway. “Jalil’s on the line. He sounds ...
( Category: Afghan War March 22,2015 )
The Women who Wrote the War by Nancy Cladwell Sorel
epub |eng | 1990-03-20 | Author:Nancy Cladwell Sorel

21 Trekking North from Rome But not all women correspondents that summer of 1944 were primed to go to Normandy. When Martha Gellhorn, confined to a nurses’ training camp in ...
( Category: World War II March 21,2015 )

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