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Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars by Douglas E. Delaney Mark Frost and Andrew L. Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas E. Delaney, Mark Frost, and Andrew L. Brown

“A Proper Soldier Now”: Unit Cohesion While conditioning individual bodies to withstand the rigors of war, PT and battle training also enhanced the unit cohesion required for success in battle.85 ...
( Category: European History May 21,2021 )
Operation Pedestal by Max Hastings
mobi, epub |eng | 2021-03-22 | Author:Max Hastings

9 Scuttling Charges As Nelson ploughed west that night, George Blundell read signals about the tribulations of Force X and wrote in his diary: ‘shortly after we left them they ...
( Category: Military History May 20,2021 )
Christians at Mecca by Augustus 1875- Ralli
epub |eng | 2016-09-09 | Author:Augustus 1875- Ralli [Ralli, Augustus 1875-]

i 4 4 CHRISTIANS AT MECCA set out to join the Ouled-ben-AH caravan. It was composed of 400 pilgrims and 1000 camels. Roches was received with great courtesy by the ...
( Category: World History May 20,2021 )
Revolution Is My Name by Mona Prince & Samia Mehrez
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Mona Prince & Samia Mehrez [Prince, Mona & Mehrez, Samia]

7 Sunday, January 30 Morning It was morning already. The curfew hours had ended. I wanted to go home, but I didn’t have the energy to walk to the metro ...
( Category: Historical Biographies May 20,2021 )
Bengali Culture Over a Thousand Years by Ghulam Murshid
epub |eng | 2018-08-09 | Author:Ghulam Murshid

The sudden flowering of Bengali prose came at a price. Not only were Arabic and Farsi words weeded out, as far as possible, in the tradition of written language that ...
( Category: Asian History May 20,2021 )
Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig
epub |eng | 2021-05-17 | Author:Carol Leonnig [Leonnig, Carol]

* * * — “YOU KNOW YOU don’t belong here,” Stafford said gruffly. The director, six feet three inches tall and broad-shouldered, stood to address Ralph Basham, the man who ...
( Category: Historical Biographies May 20,2021 )
Operation Relentless by Damien Lewis
epub |eng | 2017-04-26 | Author:Damien Lewis

Chapter Fifteen Willemstad, Curaçao, January 2008 The morning after their first meeting, Mike, Carlos and Smulian gathered for a fine Hilton breakfast. Smulian seemed refreshed after a good night’s sleep. ...
( Category: True Crime May 20,2021 )
Lives in Land – Mucking Excavations by Christopher Evans Grahame Appleby Sam Lucy
epub |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Christopher Evans,Grahame Appleby,Sam Lucy

Figure 4.42. RBI Enclosure, sections. Table 4.3. RBI, pottery distribution by enclosure ditch-depth. The main RBI Enclosure itself extended over 85 × 55m; with a ‘V’-shaped profile its associated ditches ...
( Category: American History May 19,2021 )
American Republics by Alan Taylor
epub |eng | 2021-01-11 | Author:Alan Taylor

All I want in this creation Is a pretty little wife and a big plantation Away up yonder in the Cherokee nation In a common swindle, a white man forged ...
( Category: American History May 19,2021 )
Early Modern Wars by Dennis Showalter
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Dennis Showalter

The battle began around midday with a two-hour exchange of artillery fire, during which the more modern Swedish guns demonstrated their superior rate of fire. (This was especially true of ...
( Category: Military History May 19,2021 )
Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities During the War for Independence by Ken Miller
epub |eng | 2014-09-19 | Author:Ken Miller [Miller, Ken]

Both ideology and pragmatism governed the revolutionaries’ relations with their German captives. Efforts to convert the Hessians squared with the Whigs’ self-interest and flattered their self-image. By redeeming the hirelings ...
( Category: United States History May 19,2021 )
War on the Border by Jeff Guinn
epub |eng | 2021-05-18 | Author:Jeff Guinn

* * * On April 13, the Mexican government dispatched two vehement telegrams to the U.S. State Department, both claiming that Major Tompkins precipitated a violent confrontation at Parral. Besides ...
( Category: American History May 19,2021 )
Freedom by Sebastian Junger
epub |eng | 2021-05-17 | Author:Sebastian Junger [Junger, Sebastian]

BOOK THREE • THINK We passed Tyrone in a thumping rain, skirting a maintenance yard that forced us into some overgrown bottomland along the river. There was a deer-hunting blind ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People Biographies May 18,2021 )
Chasing the Thrill by Daniel Barbarisi
epub |eng | 2021-05-18 | Author:Daniel Barbarisi [Barbarisi, Daniel]

10 a famous family, a fabulous treasure “So, this is actually the oldest elevator in all of Florida,” Megan McDowell told me as the ancient device ground its way toward ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies May 18,2021 )
Children of Lucifer; The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism by Ruben van Luijk
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ruben van Luijk [Luijk, Ruben van]

PRECURSORS AND INSPIRATIONS LaVey presented his Church of Satan as “the first above ground organisation of Satanism.”27 He probably did so in good faith. Yet his Satanic church was not ...
( Category: Christian Theology May 18,2021 )

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