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Boy Soldiers of the Great War by Richard van Emden
epub |eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:Richard van Emden [Emden, Richard van]

9 The Big Push A BOY IN YEARS A MAN IN DEEDS 18/596 Private Willie Whitaker 18th West Yorkshire Regiment Killed in Action 1 July 1916, aged 18 In June ...
( Category: Children's Studies March 26,2014 )
In Danger's Hour by Douglas Reeman
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-04-15 | Author:Douglas Reeman [Reeman, Douglas]

One of Their Own Sub-Lieutenant Tudor Morgan lifted his face from the wheelhouse voicepipe and squinted into the fierce glare. 'Steady on zero-four-five, sir!' Ransome crossed to the opposite side ...
( Category: War March 26,2014 )
The Making Of The British Army by Allan Mallinson
epub |zho | 2009-11-09 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

The promise of serving together proved powerful. In Liverpool the earl of Derby, the great mover and shaker of the commercial northwest (and subsequently director-general of army recruiting), called on ...
( Category: Engineering March 26,2014 )
A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Simon Jenkins

Painted ceiling in the Royal Hospital in Greenwich: though firm Protestants, William and Mary revelled in Stuart grandeur and understood the potency of monarchical symbols. Anne, last of the Stuart ...
( Category: England March 26,2014 )
Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Anne Applebaum [Applebaum, Anne]

Chapter 12 INTERNAL ENEMIES The Party promises only one thing: after the victory, one day when it can do no more harm, the material of the secret archives will be ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimons
epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Peter Fitzsimons [Fitzsimons, Peter]

CHAPTER ELEVEN A WEARY WAY TO GO… Kono kuso ame! While the Japanese language has no real equivalent to the western notion of swearing, this phrase loosely translates to ‘this ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
Predators by Williams Brian Glyn
epub |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Williams, Brian Glyn [Williams, Brian Glyn]

DRONES FOIL A MUMBAI-STYLE TERRORIST ATTACK IN EUROPE For those who support Obama’s withering drone campaign, there is no better proof of drones’ success in foiling terror strikes than their ...
( Category: Engineering March 26,2014 )
Afghanistan by David Isby
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:David Isby [Isby, David]

Land and Water Conflicts over land and water rights underlie a lot of Afghanistan’s internal strife, including those relating to corruption and even terrorism. Arable land and water are both ...
( Category: History of Technology March 26,2014 )
Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

Part III THE SIEGE In sieges, as in all undertakings, it is necessary [and] timely to consider every . . . circumstance that may happen during the execution of the ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 26,2014 )
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon by John M. Logsdon
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:John M. Logsdon [Logsdon, John M.]

“ I A M N O T T H AT I N T E R E S T E D I N S PA C E” 145 The presidential party ...
( Category: Engineering March 26,2014 )
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics March 26,2014 )
1861 by Adam Goodheart
epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Adam Goodheart [Goodheart, Adam]

Afterward, in a letter to a close friend (a black New Yorker named Randolph Ryer), King exulted like a warrior returning from the field of victory. “I pitched into Secession, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
The Delaware Canal by Marie Murphy Duess
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Marie Murphy Duess

Boats on the canal were called snappers, stiff boats, packers, flickers, chunkers and scows, but they should never be called barges since, unlike barges, the boats on the Delaware Canal ...
( Category: History March 26,2014 )
Number Our Days by David L. Day
epub |eng | | Author:David L. Day

21 22 i 23 XX 24 B B I Alto 10- as we $ 7- num ber our days * ^£? / So teach us now num ber our 21 ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )

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