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Presidents and Their Generals: An American History of Command in War by Matthew Moten
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Matthew Moten [Moten, Matthew]

Harry Truman viewed himself as a man who differentiated clearly between black and white, with little interest in shades of gray. Yet, like all people, he overlooked his own compromises. ...
( Category: Military Strategy History July 1,2020 )
Diplomatic Games by Heather L. Dichter
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Heather L. Dichter

8 “Our Way of Life against Theirs” Ice Hockey and the Cold War John Soares By March 1968, Canadians were sick of losing international hockey competitions to the Soviet Union. ...
( Category: Americas July 1,2020 )
Norwegian Waffen-SS Legion, 1941–43 by Massimiliano Afiero & Ramiro Bujeiro
epub |eng | 2018-12-28 | Author:Massimiliano Afiero & Ramiro Bujeiro

SS-Hstuf Jonas Lie, commander of the new Polizei-Kompanie, photographed with Reichsführer-SS Himmler at the Legion’s rear holding camp at Mitau, Latvia during summer 1942. Note that Lie does not wear ...
( Category: World War II July 1,2020 )
Land and Credit by Chris Briggs & Jaco Zuijderduijn
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Briggs & Jaco Zuijderduijn

6.4.6 Security Underpinning Loans In addition to the high average loan size, the most striking aspect of the loans under consideration is the predominance of land pledges as the sole ...
( Category: Biography & History July 1,2020 )
Why Preservation Matters by Max Page
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Max Page

Factory and Canal in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 2013 The abandoned factories of Holyoke, once the papermaking capital of the country, are slowly being renovated. The water flowing through turbines underneath the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 1,2020 )
Fighting in World War I: The History and Legacy of Warfare during the Great War by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Charles River Editors [Charles River Editors]

A disabled tank on the battlefield In the middle and late months of 1917, tanks saw limited action up and down the line. Once over their surprise and shock, German ...
( Category: Military July 1,2020 )
The Watermill by Arnold Zable
epub |eng | 2020-01-18 | Author:Arnold Zable [Arnold Zable]

How do we do justice to a life? The dead cannot speak for themselves. Long after Sonia’s death, it is a thought that haunts me. There are many gaps in ...
( Category: Jewish Holocaust History July 1,2020 )
Celtic Queen: The World of Cartimandua by Armitage Jill
epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Armitage, Jill [Armitage, Jill]

12 THE ROMAN ATTACK In 59 BC Gaius Julius Caesar achieved the position of Consul. He was appointed Governor of Gaul in 58 BC, and the whole of modern France ...
( Category: Historical July 1,2020 )
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan by Marcia Yonemoto
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Marcia Yonemoto

Social Motherhood in Drama and Fiction While the figure of the mother remained curiously absent in didactic and instructional literature until the early nineteenth century, the balance between a mother’s ...
( Category: Women in History July 1,2020 )
Beyond the Map (from the author of Off the Map) by Alastair Bonnett
epub |eng | 2017-07-15 | Author:Alastair Bonnett

IV. Ghostly Places All places have ghosts. I’m not thinking about haunted houses or creaky old villas on the hill, but about ordinary places: shopping centres, car parks, metro systems. ...
( Category: Historic July 1,2020 )
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (Psi Classics in the Counterinsurgency Era) by David Galula
epub |eng | 2009-02-17 | Author:David Galula [David Galula]

1. The insurgent's cause has little appeal (but we have assumed that no wise insurgent would launch an insurgency unless the prerequisite of a good cause had been fulfilled). 2. ...
( Category: Military Technology July 1,2020 )
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law by Suad Amiry
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Suad Amiry

9 A Dog’s Life 1987–95 It was one of those rare moments when I could easily have killed someone. But to kill Dr. Hisham, the only vet in Ramallah (probably ...
( Category: Women in History July 1,2020 )
The Demagogue's Playbook by Eric A. Posner
epub |eng | | Author:Eric A. Posner

In his first inaugural address, he counseled reason and moderation: “My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking ...
( Category: Democracy July 1,2020 )
Globalisation and Education Reforms by Joseph Zajda
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Zajda

Evaluation The immediate Post-World War II era international development institutions promoted Keynesian economics that accommodated government intervention, particularly in the area of investment in infrastructure and employment promotion. While the ...
( Category: Higher & Continuing Education July 1,2020 )
Ohio Off the Beaten Path® by Jackie Sheckler Finch
epub |eng | | Author:Jackie Sheckler Finch

Where’s the Capital? Congress divided the Northwest Territory in 1800 and designated Chillicothe as the capital of the eastern half. The territorial legislature met here in November 1800 in Abrams’s ...
( Category: State & Local July 1,2020 )

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