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Mud, Blood and Bullets: Memoirs of a Machine Gunner on the Western Front by Edward Rowbotham
epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Edward Rowbotham [Rowbotham, Edward]

When we went back into the trenches after our rest following the Third Battle of Ypres, we were fortunate in that the sector we moved into contained good, deep trenches ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 15,2017 )
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Jimmy Breslin [Breslin, Jimmy]

5 “They’re Afraid to Come Out” THE SECOND HALF OF the season for the New York Mets was, generally speaking, a catastrophe. The second half of the season consisted of ...
( Category: Baseball October 15,2017 )
Respect Yourself by Robert Gordon
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Robert Gordon

Jesse Epps, left, assumed leadership of the AFSCME union after T.O. Jones. (University of Memphis Libraries/Special Collections) By late May, when Stax was hosting its soul explosion, Epps led a ...
( Category: Music October 15,2017 )
Mother and Me by Julian Padowicz
epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Julian Padowicz

A few days later, Mrs. Rokief came to our door looking for Mother. Everyone was out except Fredek, me, and Sonya. I was the only one Mrs. Rokief knew or ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2017 )
Loves of Yulian by Julian Padowicz
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Julian Padowicz

It was two or three days later that Mother came home from Sra. O’Brien’s, an hour later than usual and wearing a strange, green kerchief on her head. She explained ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 15,2017 )
Seed of South Sudan by Majok Marier
epub |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Majok Marier

About a year after we’d arrived, we four left our jobs at the DeKalb Farmers Market. Mama Gini was a big help when I was looking for work and planning ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 15,2017 )
Sergeant Stubby by Ann Bausum
epub |eng | 2014-05-13 | Author:Ann Bausum [Bausum, Ann]

CHAPTER EIGHT ARMISTICE “THE BLOODIEST BATTLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY” IS HOW historian Edward G. Lengel characterizes the Meuse-Argonne campaign. It lasted 47 days from its start on September 26 to ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 15,2017 )
Of a Fire on the Moon (9780553390629) by Mailer Norman
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Mailer, Norman [Mailer, Norman]

VI Long before, almost two and a half days before, not a half hour after the third stage had completed its five and a half minute burn and pushed Apollo ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 15,2017 )
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak by Andy Hall
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Andy Hall [Hall, Andy]

Wed. July 19. Strong winds all [last] night until noon—Northern storm moves in and dumps a foot of snow during afternoon and night. No contact with High Camp at 8:00 ...
( Category: Mountaineering October 15,2017 )
The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A.J. Baime
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:A.J. Baime [Baime, A.J.]

Before the committee left, the senators posed for a ceremonial photo out on the airfield with a B-24 bomber towering over them, like a beast standing over its prey. Truman ...
( Category: Americas October 15,2017 )
Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild by Novella Carpenter
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Novella Carpenter [Carpenter, Novella]

My parents at the infamous A-frame in Crescent, Oregon. Mom five months pregnant, 1971. Eight We were on the road, headed East from Orofino, to visit friends and go to ...
( Category: Specific Groups October 15,2017 )
Butch Cassidy by W. C. Jameson
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:W. C. Jameson [Jameson, W.C.]

A wanted circular for Harry Longabaugh, the Sundance Kid, and his companion, Etta Place, distributed throughout portions of Argentina. Author’s collection. William A. Pinkerton (center), flanked by agents Pat Connell ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 15,2017 )
Ghosts at Christmas by Darren W. Ritson
epub |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Darren W. Ritson

THE BETSY JANE Upon perusing the Christmas edition of Paranormal Magazine, I discovered an article dedicated to ghostly goings on around Christmas time which had been written and submitted by ...
( Category: History October 15,2017 )
The Mantle of Command by Nigel Hamilton
epub |eng | | Author:Nigel Hamilton

Poor Harry Hopkins, having handed over the rest of the President’s cable, now witnessed Churchill’s meltdown. Hopkins, sickly but willing to do anything for his revered president, had traveled to ...
( Category: Military October 15,2017 )
God's Terrorists by Charles Allen
epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Charles Allen [CHARLES ALLEN]

Chamberlain’s delay had allowed the Hindustanis and their Sayyed allies to seize the initiative, giving them time to send their call out not only to the Bunerwals but to every ...
( Category: World October 15,2017 )

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