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Blackbeard by Craig Cabell & Graham Thomas
epub |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:Craig Cabell & Graham Thomas

An old postcard image of the Bruton Parish Church. Chapter 11 Pardon This Vaine had the impudence to send me word that he designs to burn my guard ship and ...
( Category: Military October 23,2018 )
Guarding Hitler by Mark Felton
epub |eng | 2014-08-03 | Author:Mark Felton

After the war had began, and following Bormann’s stringent efforts to beef up security around the Berghof and prevent day trippers and hikers from getting anywhere near the place, any ...
( Category: Historical October 23,2018 )
The Heart to Artemis by Bryher;
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Bryher;

What a disappointment I was to my parents! All their friends had liked me as a child but here I was with the raw aggressiveness of a boy, clamoring to ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 23,2018 )
The Last Great Cavalryman by Richard Mead
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Richard Mead

Chapter 18 River and Mountain ‘The last two nights,’ Dick wrote to Lettice on the day Naples was liberated, ‘I have had a pleasant site alongside some world famous ruins.’ ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 23,2018 )
Founding Martyr by Christian Di Spigna
epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Christian Di Spigna

On their return, in Lexington, Smith’s troops were fortunate to meet with Lord Hugh Percy’s reinforcements—he arrived from Boston with two field pieces. Percy let the beleaguered soldiers rest and ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 23,2018 )
The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey
epub |eng | 2003-10-22 | Author:John Bailey

Somewhat shaken after watching Grymes maul his first witness, Upton next called Madame Hemm. She was a middle-aged German woman of dour respectability, whom he felt sure would have no ...
( Category: Americas October 23,2018 )
The Real Tenko by Mark Felton
epub |eng | 2011-09-18 | Author:Mark Felton

During the same month on New Guinea a large party of Australian soldiers and airmen was captured and executed by the Japanese. Two female missionaries were captured alongside them. They ...
( Category: Asia October 23,2018 )
Through Veterans' Eyes_The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience by Larry Minear
epub |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:Larry Minear [Minear, Larry]

Interview Tyler Benson (AFC2001/001/52131), Photographs (PH 07), VHP, AFC, LOC. Photograph © Linda Cullen, used with permission. * * * Spec. Tyler Benson of the Minnesota National Guard’s 134th Signal ...
( Category: Military October 22,2018 )
The Lyncher in Me by Warren Read
epub |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Warren Read

My great-grandfather Louis (left) and my grandfather Ray (right) with their workhorse team, Buster and Bob, in about 1946 My grandmother Margaret, my mother, and my grandfather Ray in 1950. ...
( Category: Sociology October 21,2018 )
My Dearest Julia by Ulysses S. Grant
epub |eng | 2018-09-13 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant

54 Virginia Paine Grant (1832–1913), Grant’s younger sister. 55 Julia’s brother, John Cromwell Dent. 56 Margaret Getz, the wife of an enlisted soldier, worked as a servant for Grant. ✯ ...
( Category: Americas October 21,2018 )
Undaunted by Zoya Phan
epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Zoya Phan

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE NEW VILLAGE Uncle Joe took us directly to my father’s house. The dirt road passed through the village marketplace and petered out at the edge of a ...
( Category: Asia October 21,2018 )
Clarence Darrow by John A. Farrell
epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:John A. Farrell [Farrell, John A.]

THE GREAT WAR cleaved wounds in the radical community. Socialists like Debs and pacifists like Jane Addams decried the slaughter, which they blamed on militarists and industrialists from both sides. ...
( Category: Historical October 20,2018 )
Shade : A Tale of Two Presidents (9780316422529) by Souza Pete
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Souza, Pete

( Category: Americas October 20,2018 )
False Calm by María Sonia Cristoff
epub |eng | 2018-08-09 | Author:María Sonia Cristoff

But why is it any of her business! I hear from the seat in front of me. And you don’t go around talking like that to people you don’t know. ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 18,2018 )
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Jackson Julian
epub |eng | 2018-06-17 | Author:Jackson, Julian

Their conversation opened against the background of the crisis that had broken out a few days earlier when President Nasser of Egypt suddenly nationalized the Suez Canal. Alphand referred to ...
( Category: Historical October 18,2018 )

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