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Ghost Waltz: A Family Memoir (P.S.) by Day Ingeborg
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Day, Ingeborg [Day, Ingeborg]

Chapter 46 And yes, National Socialists were anti-Semitic. In fact, anti-Semitism may have been the one common denominator among all Austrian parties, from the extreme and moderate left, over middle-of-the-road ...
( Category: World War II March 21,2015 )
The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer by Thom Hatch
epub |eng | | Author:Thom Hatch

Fourteen Bodies on the Field It had been at about 9:00 on the morning of June 27 while leading an advance guard of mounted infantry attached to the Montana Column ...
( Category: United States March 21,2015 )
Golden Warrior, The by Lawrence James
epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Lawrence James

Lawrence’s accounts of what befell him in Dera are open to many challenges. Fearful that someone might seek out Hajim Muhittin Bey and ask for his account of what happened ...
( Category: Authors March 21,2015 )
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers by Nicholas Irving & Gary Brozek
epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Nicholas Irving & Gary Brozek [Irving, Nicholas]

7. A Whole ’Nother Danger As painful as it had been to be crammed into that Humvee, I was grateful that we were no longer being shot at. I’d been ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 21,2015 )
The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy by Judith L. Pearson
epub |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Judith L. Pearson

Virginia kept London on top of things by sending off long, coded reports with outgoing agents. It was important that London know every detail of life in the zone libre. ...
( Category: Military March 21,2015 )
Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Martha Hodes [Hodes, Martha]

Jefferson Davis, dressed in hoopskirt and military boots, hangs above an open grave. This 1865 cartoon lithograph, entitled “Freedom’s Immortal Triumph!” and “Finale of the ‘Jeff Davis Die-Nasty,’” shows a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2015 )
Brave Genius by Sean B. Carroll
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Sean B. Carroll [Carroll, Sean B.]

He and Monod had a lot to talk about. CHAPTER 20 ON THE SAME PATH A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON, ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2015 )
Genghis Khan by John Man
epub, mobi | | 2010-10-22 | Author:John Man [Man, John]

The Great Raid on Russia and its crucial encounter on the Kalka river had extraordinary consequences. As the Mongols rode back to rejoin Genghis on the Irtish river, they brought ...
( Category: China March 11,2015 )
President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Tr: (A Special Publication of The Library of America) by Harold Holzer
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Harold Holzer [Holzer, Harold]

The day when the people of the United States were called upon to perform the painful duty of showing the last honors to the assassinated Chief Magistrate, was the gloomiest ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 10,2015 )
Joker One by Donovan Campbell
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-05 | Author:Donovan Campbell [Campbell, Donovan]

For Joker One, though, the events of April 6 began well before we launched into the city to relieve third platoon. In fact, for us April 6 began precisely at ...
( Category: Iraq War March 6,2015 )
Two Souls Indivisible by James S. Hirsch
epub |eng | | Author:James S. Hirsch [Hirsch, James S.]

9. The Hanoi March As the summer approached, the Hanoi media increased their attacks on the POWs. They had always been called "criminals," "air pirates," or "mercenaries," but now they ...
( Category: Military March 4,2015 )
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Henry Wiencek

12 The Double Aspect Mary Hemings Bell had the good fortune, and the misfortune, to be a Hemings. As a Hemings, she had autonomy, which allowed her to leave Monticello ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 4,2015 )
Mitterrand by Philip Short
epub |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Philip Short [Philip Short]

* * * fn1 Mitterrand confessed years later that he put the codes in his jacket pocket and promptly forgot about them, remembering their existence only the next day when ...
( Category: France March 4,2015 )
The Real Custer by James S Robbins
epub |eng | | Author:James S Robbins [Robbins, James S.]

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE COURT-MARTIAL The Custers arrived at Fort Riley in late October 1866 to join the newly formed 7th Cavalry regiment. George was disappointed at not being named regimental commander; ...
( Category: American Civil War March 4,2015 )
Within Arm's Length: A Secret Service Agent's Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President by Dan Emmett
epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Dan Emmett [Emmett, Dan]

FROM CAT TO THE SHIFT When PPD absorbed CAT in 1992, everyone on CAT became members of PPD. While few of us wanted to be adopted by the detail and ...
( Category: Law Enforcement March 4,2015 )

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