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Hitler's Secret War by Whiting Charles;
epub |eng | 2021-06-15 | Author:Whiting, Charles;

* * * The US Merchant Marine lost more tonnage to German subs (400,000 tons) sunk off the coast of New England in the first four months of war than ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 23,2021 )
The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia;
epub |eng | 2021-06-15 | Author:Ted Gioia;

Big Bands in the Modern Era Nowhere was this new separation more apparent than in the obstacles faced by big bands in the postwar years. Working with an instrumentation and ...
( Category: Music June 23,2021 )
Trotsky's Favourite Spy by Day Peter;
epub |eng | | Author:Day, Peter;

CHAPTER 10 GRAND DESIGNS The announcement of a Soviet-German non-aggression pact on 23 August came as an unpleasant surprise to Neville Chamberlain’s Conservative government. The shock waves rippled on throughout ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 22,2021 )
Afghanistan Declassified by Brian Glyn Williams
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Brian Glyn Williams

Ismail Khan, the Amir of Herat As exile parties in Pakistan were developing, several key commanders began to emerge inside of Afghanistan itself. The first of these was a Tajik ...
( Category: Middle East History June 22,2021 )
Battle For Angola by Al J. Venter
epub |eng | 2019-10-30 | Author:Al J. Venter

Perry’s assessment of the South West African People’s Organisation – SWAPO – is instructive. As he says, SWAPO’s intent was to use its guerrilla forces to reshape Namibia in the ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 22,2021 )
The Rocket That Fell to Earth by Jeff Pearlman
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Pearlman

IN JANUARY 1995, ROGER and Debbie Clemens went on a week’s vacation to Honolulu, where they ate, swam, read, danced—and renewed their wedding vows. It was Roger’s idea, a token ...
( Category: American History June 22,2021 )
The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic by Stephen Howard Browne
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Howard Browne [Browne, Stephen Howard]

FEDERAL HALL Federal Hall was not particularly ornate, nor was it exceptionally large (fig. 9). A happy synthesis of European and new-world federal tastes, the structure was nevertheless perfectly suited ...
( Category: American History June 22,2021 )
Connecticut River Valley Flood Of 1936 by Joshua Shanley
epub |eng | 2021-06-14 | Author:Joshua Shanley

The original stretch of the Mill River in Northampton underwent a major diversion by the USACE to avoid future flooding. Forbes Library. Construction on the Calvin Coolidge Bridge started in ...
( Category: American History June 22,2021 )
First to Fall by Ken Ellingwood
epub |eng | 2021-05-04 | Author:Ken Ellingwood

* * * LOVEJOY’S REPLY CAME IN the form of two resounding blasts. One arrived on July 20, nine days after the Market House meeting aimed at getting him to ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 22,2021 )
American Agriculture by Mark V. Wetherington
epub |eng | 2021-03-20 | Author:Mark V. Wetherington

THE SOUTHERN RANGE The southern Coastal Plains extended from southeastern Virginia to East Texas and stretched from the fall line to the Low Country. Much of this vast tract was ...
( Category: American History June 22,2021 )
A Nation of Immigrants by Martin Susan F
epub |eng | 2021-01-09 | Author:Martin, Susan F.

( Category: European History June 22,2021 )
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird
epub |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Kai Bird [Bird, Kai]

6 “A Man Without a Country,” 1967-1970 Kai, Kodaikanal School, India, 1968 There have been times recently, when I thought it a pity that you should have to go through ...
( Category: Memoirs June 22,2021 )
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal by Dominique Lapierre & Javier Moro
epub |eng | 2009-05-29 | Author:Dominique Lapierre & Javier Moro [LAPIERRE, DOMINIQUE]

29 “My Beautiful Plant Was Losing Its Soul” The young engineer who had risked his life escorting the first barrels of MIC from Bombay to Bhopal could not believe it. ...
( Category: European History June 22,2021 )
He Was Our Man in Washington by Owen Symes
epub |eng | 2021-02-19 | Author:Owen Symes

4.1.4 Civil Rights vs. Law and Order The federal government responded to black agitation in several ways. Under Truman, the military was desegregated (after much internal resistance). Eisenhower tried to ...
( Category: American History June 22,2021 )
Driving Back the Nazis by Martin King
epub |eng | 2020-12-09 | Author:Martin King [King, Martin]

A tank from the 10th Armored ‘Tiger’ Division on the move after the Battle of Metz. They would be the first American unit to reach Bastogne a few weeks later ...
( Category: European History June 22,2021 )

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