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Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series) by Thomas C. Schelling
azw3 |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Thomas C. Schelling [Schelling, Thomas C.]

Coercive Warfare The theoretical question whether limits in warfare tend by nature to be qualitative, or can be matters of degree, assumed sudden relevance with the initiation of the bombing ...
( Category: Military History November 17,2020 )
Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Operations on the Front Lines of Afghanistan by Shaffer Anthony
azw3 |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Shaffer Anthony [Anthony, Shaffer]

♦ 12 ♦ AL QAEDA HOTEL “I’VE got something for you, shipmate.” With a slight grin, Dave was standing, sentinel-like, just outside our HUMINT tent getting printouts off the network ...
( Category: Military History November 17,2020 )
Boston Light (Images of America) by Sally R. Snowman & James G. Thomson
azw3 |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:Sally R. Snowman & James G. Thomson [Snowman, Sally R.]

This c. 1937 postcard has no caption. It shows keeper Babcock sitting front and center amongst more than 42 women. It was unusual to have such a large number of ...
( Category: Photography & Video November 17,2020 )
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (Pacific War Trilogy) by Ian W. Toll
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Ian W. Toll [Toll, Ian W.]

TWO PARALLEL PACIFIC CAMPAIGNS, north and south of the equator, now had the imprimatur of the Allied high command. But Nimitz did not yet possess the sea or carrier air ...
( Category: Military History November 17,2020 )
Cincinnati's Golden Age by Betty Ann Smiddy
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Betty Ann Smiddy

This photograph of Garfield Place (Piatt Park) was taken looking west in 1906. Theodore Rosenthal owned the corner drugstore, and the Harrison House offered furnished rooms by the day or ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )
Havana Real by Yoani Sanchez
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Yoani Sanchez [Sanchez, Yoani]

Not under pressure … nor without pressure This morning, April 27, some of us went with our friend Edgar to appeal his denial of permission to leave the country. A ...
( Category: Memoirs November 17,2020 )
The Everything Pirates Book by Barb Karg
epub |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Barb Karg

Head's Up One can argue that Blackbeard's end was a fitting one for a pirate of his stature. After all, any rogue worth his salt wouldn't dare go down without ...
( Category: History November 17,2020 )
Propaganda, Inc. by Nancy Snow
epub |eng | 2010-06-28 | Author:Nancy Snow

THE USIA’S COLD WAR ORIGINS In June 1942, President Roosevelt coordinated all public information into the Office of War Information (OWI) which set up twenty-six posts overseas known as the ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )
Escape from Reason by Francis A. Schaeffer
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Francis A. Schaeffer

UPPER STORY EXPERIENCES Man made in the image of God cannot live as though he is nothing, and thus he places in the upper story all sorts of desperate things. ...
( Category: Christian Ministry & Church Leadership November 17,2020 )
The American Civil War in an Hour by Kat Smutz
epub |eng | | Author:Kat Smutz

Andersonville Prison During its time, Andersonville (pictured above in August 1864) saw 45,000 prisoners pass through its gates. Out of that number, nearly 13,000 died of exposure, starvation, malnutrition, diarrhoea ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
They Would Never Hurt a Fly by Slavenka Drakulic
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Slavenka Drakulic

CHAPTER 8 One Day in the Life of Dražen Erdemović Dražen Erdemović, born in 1971 in Tuzla, Bosnia, of a Croatian mother and a Serbian father, was accused of crimes ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )
Saving the City by Schofield Malcolm;
epub |eng | 2004-06-05 | Author:Schofield, Malcolm;

I.3 adds that they require a form of virtue to withstand temptations which might impede performance of their jobs (1260 a33–6), and consequently need not merely instructions but advice or ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )
Intimate Rivals by Sheila A. Smith
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Sheila A. Smith

Food Safety and China’s Consumers The gyōza incident transformed Japanese and Chinese governments’ cooperation on food safety. New policy mechanisms were created to handle the growing interdependence between Japanese food-processing ...
( Category: American History November 17,2020 )
The Avar Siege of Constantinople in 626 by Martin Hurbanič
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Hurbanič

( Category: Middle East History November 17,2020 )
German Infantryman (3) Eastern Front 1943-45 by David Westwood
epub |eng | | Author:David Westwood

Long after this tank (a T34) was destroyed, the soldier in the picture and the photographer found it again. The turret has been blown off the hull (on the left) ...
( Category: Military History November 17,2020 )

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