Americas
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Walter R. Borneman
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Bypassing Rabaul The World War II strategy of island-hopping—isolating and bypassing enemy strong points—had many fathers. The Japanese, consciously or not, employed a version of it when they ...
( Category:
World War II
May 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Pamela Haag
THE MYSTIQUE OF THE WINCHESTER GUN COULD NOT HAVE BEEN more removed from the Winchester gun business, and in a way, that was precisely the point, and precisely the gun’s ...
( Category:
Conventional
May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Kidd, Thomas S.
Virginia’s turn to slavery transpired over a longer period of time, as its supply of African slaves in the early and mid-1600s was limited by imperial and economic factors in ...
( Category:
Colonial Period
May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:Bourrie, Mark [Bourrie, Mark]
CHAPTER 8 Censoring News from the Front Lines ON JANUARY 14, 1944, Globe and Mail war correspondent Ralph Allen sat down at his typewriter and began a column that, back ...
( Category:
20th Century
May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Jean Medawar [Medawar, Jean]
EDITH BüLBRING Edith Bulbring’s father was a professor of English at Bonn University, which must have been an advantage for her. When Karl, Edith’s father, died young, his brother took ...
( Category:
Holocaust
May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Jonathan Dimbleby
12. Beating the Drum In January 1942 the neon signs along the eastern seaboard from thousands of restaurants, bars and casinos from Miami to New York sent a spiral of ...
( Category:
World War II
May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Tim Mahoney
THE CLEANUP MAN Wallace Jamie, boy wonder, was a criminologist, a rare thing for his day. This 24-year-old teetotaler and vegetarian had a University of Chicago education and a pedigree: ...
( Category:
State & Local
May 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-06 | Author:Toland, John [Toland, John]
Here, I felt, all were my brothers, not merely in a figurative sense, but literally as sons of the same Mother Asia. Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Manchukuoan, Filipino, Burmese, Indian—Asiatics all, ...
( Category:
Japan
May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Denise A. Spellberg [Spellberg, Denise A.]
JEFFERSON’S TREATY WITH TRIPOLI AND THE QUESTION OF ISLAM, 1806 Religion had never figured previously in Jefferson’s diplomatic dealings with North African states, but the language of his treaty with ...
( Category:
Islam
May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-04 | Author:Gabriella West [West, Gabriella]
10. For once I was visiting Elsie Street in the daytime. I noted with pleasure that the weather was sunnier than in my old neighborhood. I made the turn up ...
( Category:
Architecture
May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Turner, Katherine Leonard
SOUTHERN TEXTILE MILL VILLAGES Textile workers in mill villages throughout the South lived suspended between rural and industrial life. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, low crop prices ...
( Category:
United States
May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Neuwirth [Neuwirth, Jessica]
DISCRIMINATORY LAWS “Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not. I have three ...
( Category:
General
May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-04 | Author:H. W. Brands
IN FACT HE did intend to make money on the Union war bonds. Cooke cultivated Chase assiduously, hosting the Treasury secretary at his estate outside Philadelphia. Chase brought along his ...
( Category:
Money & Monetary Policy
May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Walter Isaacson
MR. MCGRAW Kevin Baker THEY CALLED HIM THE LITTLE NAPOLEON, AN ODDLY REDUNDANT nickname that was nonetheless apt. He led his teams with a passion that might—literally—leave your city razed ...
( Category:
Leadership
May 5,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Moushey, Bill & Dvorchak, Robert [Moushey, Bill]
Chapter 11 Insularity and Isolation Penn State had a way of doing things in isolation. Nobody had to construct a symbolic Great Wall to separate Happy Valley from the outside ...
( Category:
Child Abuse
May 5,2016 )
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