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Five Came Back by Mark Harris
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-27 | Author:Mark Harris

NINETEEN “If You Believe This, We Thank You” HOLLYWOOD AND ENGLAND, MARCH–MAY 1944 In early 1944, after two years of war, the studios, which had become ever more deeply entangled ...
( Category: Movies August 15,2017 )
Roanoke by Lee Miller
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Lee Miller [Miller, Lee]

To Bid Everything If Raleigh’s cross-purposes were Walsingham’s only motive for murder, we might be hard-pressed to prosecute our case. It is difficult to prove after the fact, and much ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
Barefoot in Babylon by Bob Spitz
epub |eng | 2014-10-02 | Author:Bob Spitz

6 “Goodrich has found us some food cats.” Michael Lang was his old jubilant self as he waited on the other end of the line for John Roberts’s reaction. “Well, ...
( Category: Music August 15,2017 )
Bobby Kennedy by Larry Tye
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-07-05 | Author:Larry Tye

Had he ended on this emotional high point it would have been enough. It also would have had the world speculating—as many did anyway—whether, if JFK was the dead hero ...
( Category: Historical August 15,2017 )
The Quartermaster by Robert O'Harrow
epub |eng | | Author:Robert O'Harrow

CHAPTER 25 “Vast in Quantity” Events now offered conflicting evidence about which side was winning. Confederate armies dominated battle after battle through grit, sacrifice, superior leadership, and daring. The brash ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:M. Wylie Blanchet

FOG ON THE MOUNTAIN I SUPPOSE IT IS THE CONFINED QUARTERS OF A BOAT AND the usually limited amount of standing room on shore that makes the idea of walking ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 15,2017 )
Whispers of War by Kit Pearson
epub |eng | 2002-08-15 | Author:Kit Pearson [Pearson, Kit]

August 1812 11 August 1812 Dear Constance, I have been very ill with ague, which I get every summer. It is such a frustrating disease. One day I am feverish, ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
Standing Next to History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service by Petro Joseph & Robinson Jeffrey
epub |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:Petro, Joseph & Robinson, Jeffrey [Petro, Joseph]

As hard as we try to plan for every possible problem, each trip presents us with plenty of new ones. In the early hours of October 25, 1983, Ronald Reagan ...
( Category: Historical August 15,2017 )
Rock 'n' Roll in Orange County by Chris Epting
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Chris Epting

An ad for a show held at the Cuckoo’s Nest in Costa Mesa. Courtesy of Ernie Grimm. Along with Social Distortion and T.S.O.L., China White’s legacy remains burned in the ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Douglas Preston

CHAPTER 18 This was a forgotten place—but it ain’t forgotten anymore! As usual, it poured all night, sometimes with deafening ferocity, and it was still raining when we awoke to ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
Scramble: A Narrative History of the Battle of Britain by Norman Gelb
mobi |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Norman Gelb

CRISIS As August drew to a close, the Germans, led by faulty intelligence into believing Fighter Command was on the verge of collapse, moved in for the kill. Ranging far ...
( Category: Military August 15,2017 )
The Last Good Heist by Wayne Worcester
epub |eng | 2016-04-21 | Author:Wayne Worcester

Chapter 40 Deuce isn’t exactly shocked that he is wanted by the police, but he is surprised that he has been identified so quickly. Jail is always a prospect. When ...
( Category: True Crime August 14,2017 )
The View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn
epub |eng | | Author:Martha Gellhorn

Eichmann and the Private Conscience THE ATLANTIC, February 1962 In the bulletproof glass dock, shaped like the prow of a ship, sits a little man with a thin neck, high ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 14,2017 )
Nicest Kids in Town by Delmont Matthew F
epub |eng | | Author:Delmont, Matthew F.

The public school system didn’t teach us anything about our culture or our heritage or anything like that. So the Girard College demonstrations sort of opened my eyes to discrimination. ...
( Category: Sociology August 14,2017 )
Honor Before Glory by Scott McGaugh
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Scott McGaugh

GEORGE SAKATO AND KELLY KUWAYAMA WONDERED WHY THE 2/442’s Companies E and F were moving through units of the 141st on the extreme northern flank of the rescue mission. Why ...
( Category: Military August 14,2017 )

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