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Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II by Niall Barr
epub, azw |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Niall Barr [Barr, Niall]

While Baytown appeared a relatively straightforward operation, Eisenhower always recognised that not only was Avalanche a more risky venture but that the US Fifth Army was something of an unknown ...
( Category: Treaties December 20,2015 )
Fodor's England 2016 by Fodor's
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Fodor's

Where to Stay The Bradley. $ | B&B/INN | The thoughtful and hospitable owners take great pride in this town house, near the center, that has been in the same ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums December 20,2015 )
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) by Kabaservice Geoffrey
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Kabaservice, Geoffrey [Kabaservice, Geoffrey]

CHAPTER 9 Some Revelation Is at Hand Richard Nixon’s First Year in Office, 1969 During his long political career, Richard Nixon inspired countless attempts to determine his ideological and psychological ...
( Category: Political Parties December 19,2015 )
Kitchen Literacy by Ann Vileisis
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Vileisis

CHAPTER 8 Kitchen Countertrends In the late 1960s, a new Stop & Shop supermarket was constructed on the site of the “town farm” where my grandfather, as a boy in ...
( Category: United States December 19,2015 )
Lonely Planet Washington, DC by Lonely Planet
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

BULKOREAN ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %202-733-3921; www.buldc.com; 2431 18th St NW; mains $10-20; h5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun; mWoodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan) BUL is DC's first pojangmacha ('covered wagon'), or Korean street-food eatery. ...
( Category: Atlases December 19,2015 )
Failures of the Presidents by Thomas J Craughwell
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Thomas J Craughwell

NATIONAL REGRET A movement for redress gathered force in the late 1960s and early 1970s and gradually, belatedly, won some concessions from the government. In 1976, President Gerald Ford rescinded ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 18,2015 )
The Obamas by Kantor Jodi
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kantor, Jodi [Kantor, Jodi]

PERHAPS THE STRANGEST THING ABOUT the relationship between the president, the first lady, and the advisers was the sheer expansion it measured in the Obama union. That was the singular ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 17,2015 )
Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli by Ted Merwin
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Ted Merwin [Merwin, Ted]

The Rise of Ethnic Food With the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the rise of the civil rights movement, and the involvement of the country in Vietnam, the carefree ...
( Category: State & Local December 14,2015 )
The American West: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Stephen Aron
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:Stephen Aron [Aron, Stephen]

Reconstructing races and rights Struggles over the place of Indians were entwined with broader debates about race, rights, and the relationship between individuals, states, and the federal government that convulsed ...
( Category: State & Local December 12,2015 )
Fodor's Washington, D.C. 2016 by Fodor's
epub |eng | 2015-10-01 | Author:Fodor's

Facilities You can assume that all rooms have private baths, phones, TVs, and air-conditioning, unless otherwise indicated. Breakfast is noted when it is included in the rate, but it’s not ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums December 10,2015 )
The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic by Ginger Strand
epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Ginger Strand [Strand, Ginger]

8 Out of the Blue Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, generous of smile, rotund of body, arrived at GE sporting his traditional fez. He was trailed by his brocaded, bejeweled ...
( Category: United States December 10,2015 )
Oh What a Slaughter by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 2005-12-04 | Author:Larry McMurtry

Bull Bear Of all the leaders of the southern Cheyenne, Black Kettle seemed the most sincere in his determination to live in peace with the whites. In fact he was ...
( Category: Native American December 5,2015 )
PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon
epub |eng | | Author:William Least Heat-Moon

In Kit Form: The Cottonwood Chapter Now: you are dreaming, walking in your dream, here in the hills, alone. If you continue you will find what I have hidden for ...
( Category: Americas December 5,2015 )
Hunting with Hemingway by Hilary Hemingway
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Hilary Hemingway

“Excuse me, but did Ernest ever offer a reason why he didn’t shoot the attacking dragon?” the professor inquired. “I wanted to ask him—but the moment for questions had passed. ...
( Category: Hunting December 5,2015 )
The Deep Dark by Gregg Olsen
epub |eng | 2005-02-28 | Author:Gregg Olsen

JOANNE STROPE REICHERT SPENT THE AFTERNOON PLAYING COUNTRY music records and puttering around the Big Creek house she shared with her common-law husband, Jack Reichert. For the first time, the ...
( Category: State & Local December 5,2015 )

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