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Operation Eichmann: The Truth About the Pursuit, Capture and Trial by Zvi Aharoni
mobi |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Zvi Aharoni

In the centre of San Fernando, near the main square, we lost the moped when we had to stop because of an endlessly long, enervatingly slow funeral procession. And since ...
( Category: Fascism August 1,2020 )
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
epub |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch [Meltzer, Brad]

47 New York, New York June 1776 The Life Guards. They’re George Washington’s elite unit. His trusted bodyguards. The most disciplined men. The best-trained soldiers. In an army otherwise made ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 31,2020 )
The Master Plan by Heather Pringle
epub |eng | 2006-07-14 | Author:Heather Pringle [Heather Pringle]

HIRT WAS THIRTEEN years older than Beger and was a man that many found impossible to forget. As a young teenaged soldier during the First World War, he had received ...
( Category: World War II July 30,2020 )
Men on Horseback--The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution by David A. Bell
epub |eng | | Author:David A. Bell

In a Washingtonian gesture, Bolívar ostentatiously declared that he would resign both from the Peruvian dictatorship and the Colombian presidency. In both countries, the legislative bodies refused to agree. In ...
( Category: Democracy July 29,2020 )
Another Bloody Love Letter by Anthony Loyd
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Anthony Loyd [Loyd, Anthony]

CHAPTER 10 A group of child soldiers lazed in the sun outside Jibrl Massequoi’s home, their eyes sliding lizard-like in my direction from beneath hooded lids, then away again in ...
( Category: Military July 29,2020 )
Benjamin Franklin : an American Life by Walter Isaacson
mobi |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Walter Isaacson

Franklin’s First Articles of Confederation Plan For the colonies to cross the threshold of rebellion, they needed to begin conceiving of themselves as a new nation. To become independent of ...
( Category: American Revolution July 28,2020 )
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution by R. R. Palmer
epub |eng | 2005-07-25 | Author:R. R. Palmer [Palmer, R. R.]

CHAPTER X Dictated Economy TWO ideas gave purpose to the struggles in France during the Revolution, the rights of the individual and the sovereignty of the nation. Revolutionary philosophers saw ...
( Category: American Revolution July 27,2020 )
Omaha Beach and Beyond by John Robert Slaughter
epub |eng | 2007-07-14 | Author:John Robert Slaughter

CHAPTER TEN SHRAPNEL WOUND AT HILL 203 HOW THE ENEMY BECAME MY FRIEND No one had to tell us that we were now in the combat zone. In the distance ...
( Category: World War II July 26,2020 )
On Her Majesty's Nuclear Service by Eric Thompson
epub |eng | 2018-04-19 | Author:Eric Thompson [Thompson, Eric]

**** Fire is one of the worst things that can happen in a submarine. It very rapidly burns up the limited amount of oxygen on board and turns it into ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism July 25,2020 )
Always a Soldier by Rob Smith
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Rob Smith

Alex and Murphy were very careful after their brush with almost being caught. They stayed together for a few years, even as Alex decided to leave the Army and Murphy ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars July 25,2020 )
The Paratrooper Generals by Mitchell Yockelson
epub |eng | 2020-05-22 | Author:Mitchell Yockelson

On the morning of June 6, 1944, war correspondent Wright Bryant delivered the first account of the paratroopers dropping into Normandy. (ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER) “Father of the Airborne,” Brigadier General ...
( Category: World War II July 25,2020 )
The Berlin Shadow by Jonathan Lichtenstein
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Lichtenstein [Lichtenstein, Jonathan]

4.2 For our summer holidays we would camp in the small town of Dale in Pembrokeshire on the west coast of Wales, my father towing his tiny home-made dinghy, Sal, ...
( Category: World War II July 25,2020 )
John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1779-1821 by John Quincy Adams
epub |eng | 2017-06-19 | Author:John Quincy Adams [Adams, John Quincy]

5. VI. The arrears of my Journal are a continual pressure upon me. I shall probably be very soon compelled to change my plan, and to notice the Events of ...
( Category: American Revolution July 25,2020 )
The Indomitable Florence Finch by Robert J. Mrazek
epub |eng | 2020-07-20 | Author:Robert J. Mrazek

Though for now the abuse subsided, a deadly serious issue arose soon after that threatened the lives of many more prisoners. Carl was summoned to the Japanese camp headquarters to ...
( Category: World War II July 22,2020 )
The Beauty of Living by J. Alison Rosenblitt
epub |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:J. Alison Rosenblitt

20 TIME STANDS STILL In prison, time stood still. “It is like a vast grey box in which are laid helter-skelter a great many toys,each of which is itself completely ...
( Category: United States July 22,2020 )

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