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Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Hannah Arendt

X Deportations from Western Europe– France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Italy “Ruthless toughness,” a quality held in the highest esteem by the rulers of the Third Reich, is frequently characterized in ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows by Brian Castner
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Brian Castner

I’m sitting with Jimbo in another faceless airport, before dawn, drinking another cup of black coffee, waiting for another flight to I-can’t-remember. Texas? North Carolina? It all blends together. If ...
( Category: Iraq March 25,2014 )
The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost—From Ancient Greece to Iraq by Victor Davis Hanson
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson

On the Brink (December 1950–January 1951) On Christmas Day 1950, six months after the North Korean invasion of the south, Matthew Ridgway landed in Japan. In just half a year, ...
( Category: Military Policy March 25,2014 )
Bravo two zero by Andy McNab
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-10-15 | Author:Andy McNab

9 They must have been thousand-pounders. We heard several explosions; the area was getting severely hammered. The pressure waves hit us and the car rattled. The guards cursed. The vehicle ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
The Secret History of the World by Jonathan Black
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Black

WHAT IS LESS WELL KNOWN IS THAT ANOTHER enemy was at work on the other side of the world. There an initiate wielded a blacker, more powerful magic than that ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
A History of the World by Andrew Marr
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Andrew Marr

And Yet It Moves A day in August 1609: in one of the most gorgeously decorated rooms in the world, the Hall of the College in the Doge’s Palace in ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
Gig by John Bowe
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-17 | Author:John Bowe

I did it because I loved it. And, in addition, I got special perks and privileges, such as lots of drugs. HEAVY METAL ROADIE Thomas B. I set up my ...
( Category: Interviewing March 25,2014 )
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Niall Ferguson

5 Safe as Houses It is the English-speaking world’s favourite economic game: property. No other facet of financial life has such a hold on the popular imagination. No other asset-allocation ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
This Sceptred Isle by Lee Christopher
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Lee, Christopher [Lee, Christopher]

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE 1721–6 Robert Walpole (1676–1745) was a short, stout, ruddy-faced Norfolk farmer who hunted most of the season. In 1721 he became Britain’s first Prime Minister – a title ...
( Category: General Broadcasting March 25,2014 )
The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
mobi |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Rick Atkinson

Part Four 10. ARGONAUTS Citizens of the World MORNING sun and a tranquil breeze carried hints of an early Mediterranean spring across Grand Harbour, where strains of “The Star-Spangled Banner” ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills by Neil Ansell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Neil Ansell

6. The Bird in the Bush The goshawks caught me unawares. So far as I knew they had died out in Britain decades ago, and their stealthy return had passed ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2014 )
The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

Official portrait from the swearing in of Aguirre as lehendakari. The oath, in Euskera, is printed on the portrait. (Sabino Arana Foundation, Bilbao) Children who grew up in the 1930s ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
A Guest in my Own Country by George Konrad
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:George Konrad

I have presented these developments to give the reader a sense of the future trajectory of the man who sat to my right in the front seat of the car. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1960-01-02 | Author:William L. Shirer

* Hitler’s proclamation to the Army announcing the opening of hostilities was broadcast over me German radio at 5:40 A.M., and the newspaper extras were on the street shortly after. ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
Stasiland: Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
mobi |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Anna Funder

15 Herr Christian Several days pass in which my main activity seems to be feeding and emptying the heater. Now I’m rugged up and off to the station. Near the ...
( Category: Germany March 25,2014 )

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