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A Kidnapping in Milan by Steve Hendricks
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Steve Hendricks

Chapter 7 Flight AVIANO AIR BASE has a history of renditions, although before the kidnapping of Abu Omar they seem to have been only of a leporine kind. On the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone by Scott Shane
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Scott Shane [Shane, Scott]

10 i face the world as it is It was Obama’s inauguration week in January 2009, a time of historic pronouncements and lofty predictions. On Tuesday, a frigid day, the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
0750958502 (N) by Douglas Boyd
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Douglas Boyd [Boyd, Douglas]

13 BETRAYAL, BEATINGS, ELECTIONS AND EXECUTIONS The inhabitants of the Kakolewnica Forest near Radzyn Podlaski call their woodland maly Katyn – meaning ‘little Katyn’ – for good reason. After the ...
( Category: Military August 19,2017 )
Images of War [00] The Soviet-Afghan War by Anthony Tucker-Jones
epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Anthony Tucker-Jones [Tucker-Jones, Anthony]

This guerrilla is evidently a full-time RPG operator as the pack on his back is for spare grenades. He is wearing a Soviet tank crew helmet, which was probably atrophy ...
( Category: Asia August 19,2017 )
Sky Burial by Blake Kerr
epub |eng | 1997-08-19 | Author:Blake Kerr [Kerr, Blake]

At ten, when we all met at the main entrance to the Jokhang, a group of Chinese and Tibetan men were looking intently at two posters glued to the monastery ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Leslie T. Chang

Soon after they started dating, Chunming sensed he wasn’t right for her. He frequently borrowed money from his parents and lacked her gift for hard work. “He couldn’t accomplish the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup Against Salvador Allende, September 11, 1973 by Guardiola-Rivera Oscar
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar [Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar]

They were never really council meetings. Instead, Allende would give us a pep talk. He would tell us that national security was in peril because of the CIA and other ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Small Wars, Faraway Places by Michael Burleigh
epub |eng | 2013-08-10 | Author:Michael Burleigh

Revealed Realities On 14 October Eden met with Albert Gazier, the acting French Foreign Minister, and General Maurice Challe, Chief of the French General Staff. Challe outlined a bold plan: ...
( Category: Military August 19,2017 )
Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965 by Schmitz David F
epub |eng | 1999-05-31 | Author:Schmitz, David F. [Schmitz, David F.]

Reversing Guatemala’s 1944 Revolution The Eisenhower administration’s successful overthrow of the Guatemalan government in 1954, along with the Bay of Pigs operation, is the most well known and studied example ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Why Are We at War? by Norman Mailer
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]

Back in 1992, a year after the final fall of the Soviet Union, there were many on the right in America, early flag conservatives, who felt that an extraordinary opportunity ...
( Category: Middle East August 19,2017 )
Company Man by John Rizzo
epub |eng | | Author:John Rizzo

I voted for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. It was consistent with a simple—and probably overly simplistic—pattern I had followed up to then and would continue to follow ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 19,2017 )
The Arab Uprisings by Gelvin James L
epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:Gelvin, James L.

What is “R2P”? In 2005, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution establishing as an international norm a doctrine known as R2P (sometimes rendered RtoP)—responsibility to protect. In the wake ...
( Category: History August 19,2017 )
Syrian Notebooks by Jonathan Littell
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Littell

_______________ 37 In Spanish, little stuffed patties. 38 Note to the Verso edition: until Syrian rebels from the surrounding countryside stormed, in July 2012, over half the city of Aleppo, ...
( Category: Middle East August 19,2017 )
Inside Syria by Reese Erlich
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Reese Erlich

We are committed not to work toward developing and producing a nuclear bomb. As enunciated in the fatwa issued by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, we strongly believe that the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia by Malia Martin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-06-30 | Author:Malia, Martin

THE COLD WAR Externally the Patriotic War brought the Soviet Union an empire, but internally it set her back almost to where she had been a decade earlier. Thus, if ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )

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