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The Black Count : Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Reiss Tom
mobi |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Reiss, Tom [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: France September 18,2014 )
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 by Hamilton Nigel
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Hamilton, Nigel [Hamilton, Nigel]

Poor Harry Hopkins, having handed over the rest of the President’s cable, now witnessed Churchill’s meltdown. Hopkins, sickly but willing to do anything for his revered president, had traveled to ...
( Category: History & Theory September 16,2014 )
Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess by Weightman Christine
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-21 | Author:Weightman, Christine [Weightman, Christine]

CHAPTER 6 ‘This Diabolicall Duches’ ‘LYKE A DOGGE REVERTYNGE TO HER OLDE VOMYTE.’ ‘Once more’, wrote Jean Molinet, ‘the house of York has been left wretched and deserted by Good ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
Dilke by Roy Jenkins
epub |eng | 1965-09-05 | Author:Roy Jenkins

Chapter Twelve An Inconclusive Verdict The Case of Crawford v. Crawford and Dilke was heard before Mr. Justice Butt on Friday, February 12th. Dilke appeared with a formidable array of ...
( Category: Political September 6,2014 )
My Share of the Task by General Stanley McChrystal
epub |eng | 2012-11-25 | Author:General Stanley McChrystal

* * * At 6:40 P.M., the skis of the Little Birds skidded into the dirt of a clearing four hundred meters from the house’s driveway. Before the helicopters rocked ...
( Category: Afghan War September 6,2014 )
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? by Horace Greasley
epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:Horace Greasley [Horace Greasley]

CHAPTER ELEVEN It was December 1941. The Japanese were about to make a mistake they would regret for many years to come. They were about to bring America into the ...
( Category: World War II September 2,2014 )
After the Flag Has Been Folded by Karen Spears Zacharias
epub |eng | 2009-08-23 | Author:Karen Spears Zacharias

DADDY’S LAST INSTRUCTION to me was to stop crying because it upset Mama. I tried as best I could to do as Daddy had asked. But what he didn’t know ...
( Category: State & Local August 24,2014 )
The Man Who Saved the Union by H.W. Brands
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:H.W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

On March 29 Grant began moving. The rain had stopped and roads begun to dry. But the army was scarcely in motion when the skies opened again. “The heavy rains ...
( Category: Civil War August 20,2014 )
Battleworn: The Memoir of a Combat Medic in Afghanistan by Chantelle Taylor
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Chantelle Taylor

Me, Sgt Chantelle Taylor, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, 2008; my final tour The Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders (5 Scots) a ‘multiple’ of fighting men also known as a platoon minus. The ...
( Category: Military July 31,2014 )
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger & Michael Hofmann
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-05-04 | Author:Ernst Jünger & Michael Hofmann

These idyllic positions have the one drawback that one's superior officers like to visit them, which is a great dampener to the cosiness of trench life. That said, my left ...
( Category: World War I July 23,2014 )
Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam by Warren James A
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Warren, James A. [Warren, James A.]

PHASE TWO Giap renewed the attack at 1700 on March 30, when the 312th and the 316th jumped off from their trenches to seize five key hills within strongpoints Dominique ...
( Category: Strategy July 20,2014 )
Clive Caldwell, Air Ace by Kristen Alexander
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-14 | Author:Kristen Alexander [Alexander, Kristen]

EIGHT The Day the Planes ‘All Fell into the Sea’ Any mention of Spitfires at Darwin usually brings the sort of stupid response, ‘Oh yes, didn’t they get the hell ...
( Category: Military July 17,2014 )
Jack Davenport - Beaufighter Leader by Kristen Alexander
epub |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:Kristen Alexander [Alexander, Kristen]

Jack met Sheila McDavid in late 1942, shortly after his return from Russia. (COURTESY BRUCE DAVENPORT) Jack on HMS Argonaut in Iceland, returning from Russia. Sheila kept this photo in ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand July 9,2014 )
On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follett
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

Perot’s parents: he had his father’s love of jokes, his mother’s iron will. Bull Simons. ABOVE with Lucille. BELOW, the San Francisco party. ABOVE. the Seventh Floor Squad. FROM LEFT: ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 8,2014 )
Patton by Michael Keane
epub |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Michael Keane

The destruction of the bridge required that the task force improvise their plans. Baum detoured his men six miles north to Burgsinn, an old walled city with a narrow city ...
( Category: Military July 8,2014 )

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