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Liberal Oasis by Joshua Muravchik
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Muravchik [Muravchik, Joshua]

Here and there, where Jews did not flee in 1948, such as a remnant of the Jewish community of Egypt, they fled a few years later when revolutionary regimes seized ...
( Category: Middle East March 2,2020 )
A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

THE DEEP-SEA CABLES The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar— Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are. There is ...
( Category: British & Irish March 2,2020 )
The Birth of the West by Paul Collins
epub |eng | 2013-01-16 | Author:Paul Collins

For the Romans, Caledonia, or Scotland, was beyond the borders of the known world. But for seven years beginning in AD 77 under the command of the very able governor ...
( Category: Historic Preservation March 2,2020 )
Ioläus - An Anthology of Friendship by Edward Carpenter
epub |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Edward Carpenter [Carpenter, Edward]

( Category: British & Irish March 2,2020 )
Truly Criminal by Martin Edwards
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Martin Edwards

Means, Motive, Opportunity Fitzgibbon’s further enquiries went nowhere but McDowell and Vaughan had been busy with Buchs and now believed that they could prove he had the means, motive and ...
( Category: Historical March 2,2020 )
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Patricia Bell-Scott [Bell-Scott, Patricia]

PART VII FIGHTING FOR A JUST WORLD, 1956–59 Pauli Murray (right) confers with an unidentified supporter at an Adlai Stevenson campaign event, New York City, 1956. “Civil rights cannot be ...
( Category: Women in History March 2,2020 )
Around Terlingua by Thomas C. Alex
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Thomas C. Alex [Alex, Thomas C.]

Life could be good, happy, and fulfilling in the Terlingua area, but it could also be hard and cruel. The small child in the center of this photograph is one ...
( Category: History March 2,2020 )
Figureheads of the Royal Navy by David Pulvertaft
epub |eng | | Author:David Pulvertaft

8.23 HMS James Watt – Hellyer design. THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Other military figures are far less obvious candidates to appear on the bows of British warships, HMS Brunswick was named ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 2,2020 )
Stringbags in Action by Vice Admiral B.B. Schofield
epub |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Vice Admiral B.B. Schofield

Draught: 29½ft (8.9m) Propulsion: Parson’s geared turbines on 2 shafts SHP 85,000 Speed: Designed 22 knots, but after reconstruction 27 knots Armament: Ten 12.6in (320mm) 44 cal (3x2 and 2x2), ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
5 Group Bomber Command: An Operational Record by Chris Ward
epub |eng | 2007-10-05 | Author:Chris Ward [Ward, Chris]

1945. Victory The juggernaut lays waste New Year’s Day began with a flourish on the Continent, as the Luftwaffe launched its ill-conceived and ultimately ill-fated Operation Bodenplatte at first light. ...
( Category: Beadwork March 2,2020 )
Racing With Death by Beau Riffenburgh
epub |eng | 2008-03-01 | Author:Beau Riffenburgh

10 Abandoned When Mawson sent the message to Davis, asking him to return to Cape Denison and pick up the small party still there, he was not the only one ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 2,2020 )
American Fighters in the Foreign Legion (Jerner Great War Memoirs Book 1) by Paul Rockwell
epub |eng | 2014-08-07 | Author:Paul Rockwell [Rockwell, Paul]

Exhausted Legionnaires Sleeping During a Ten-Minutes Halt 'A little farther along, a number of Germans tried to get out of a dugout to set up a machine gun. We drove ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
From Cold War to New Millennium by Colonel Bernd Horn
epub |eng | | Author:Colonel Bernd Horn

The Canadian base in Kabul, Camp Julien. The key tasks of the 3 RCR BG were to: a) assist in the maintenance of a secure environment for the Afghan Transitional ...
( Category: Engineering March 2,2020 )
The British Army Guide: 2016-2017 by Unknown
epub |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Unknown

SA 80A2 LSW UK (temperate) 31,500 16,000 Brunei (hot/wet) 31,500 9,600 Kuwait (hot/dry) 7,875 8,728 Alaska (cold/dry) 31,500 43,200 The first SA 80A2 were in operational service during early 2002 ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 2,2020 )
Britain's Shield: Radar and the Defeat of the Luftwaffe by David Zimmerman
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-12-10 | Author:David Zimmerman [Zimmerman, David]

By the late summer of 1936 Bowen had built a transmitter which could transmit pulses at 6.7 metre wavelength. At first it was not possible to miniaturize the transmitter sufficiently ...
( Category: Radar March 2,2020 )

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