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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Bill O'Reilly
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Bill O'Reilly [O'Reilly, Bill]

16 TRIER, GERMANY MARCH 13, 1945 MORNING George S. Patton is on the move. Finally. Sgt. John Mims drives Patton in his signature open-air jeep with its three-star flags over ...
( Category: World War II September 25,2014 )
The American Revolution of 1800 by Hartmann Thom Sisson Dan
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Hartmann, Thom, Sisson, Dan [Hartmann, Thom, Sisson, Dan]

NULLIFICATION MAKES ITS DEBUT Asserting this dire conclusion, the Kentucky legislature then went on to announce that “a nullification” doctrine was the “rightful remedy.” Reaffirming its own “principles” of 1798, ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding September 23,2014 )
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Crane

That’s like us.” “Lost a piler men, they did. If an’ ol’ woman swep’ up th’ woods she’d git a dustpanful.” “Yes, an’ if she’ll come around ag’in in ’bout ...
( Category: United States September 22,2014 )
Scorpions for Breakfast by Jan Brewer
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Jan Brewer

Chapter Four Nazis in the Desert Declaring that “the states will take the lead, and Arizona will take the lead among states,” an Arizona governor signs sweeping legislation enforcing federal ...
( Category: State & Local September 22,2014 )
The Book of Eleanor by Nat Burns
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Nat Burns [Burns, Nat]

Grey I saw dawn creep into my bedroom with jaundiced eyes. I had tried to sleep, tried hard, but every time I closed my eyes and drifted off, I would ...
( Category: Quilts & Quilting September 22,2014 )
Winged Warfare by William Avery Bishop
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:William Avery Bishop [Bishop, William A.]

Chapter XII The first few days in May we spent escorting machines taking photographs. It was rather exciting work, for several times we went very long distances into Hunland and ...
( Category: 20th Century September 22,2014 )
Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...
( Category: Nuclear September 22,2014 )
The Rush by Edward Dolnick
epub |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Edward Dolnick

High in the mountains, mission nearly accomplished, the gold-seekers paused for breath. Langworthy was drunk on scenery and accomplishment. “Bewildered and lost amidst the boundless expanse,” he gazed in awe ...
( Category: State & Local September 22,2014 )
Desperate Sons by Les Standiford
epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:Les Standiford

( 17 ) Trial of the Century Until the case of Captain Preston and his men went to trial in Boston in late 1770, the successful defense of the New ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding September 22,2014 )
38 Nooses by Scott W. Berg
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Scott W. Berg [Berg, Scott W.]

Meanwhile, the arrests accelerated among the remaining Dakota near Camp Release, a succession of moments that were terrifying for his Dakota charges and troubling, if no more, to Sibley himself, ...
( Category: Native American Studies September 22,2014 )
In Lust We Trust: Adventures in Adult Cinema by Lim Gerrie
mobi |eng | 2006-04-30 | Author:Lim, Gerrie [Lim, Gerrie]

Scorpio Rising Europeans were more acutely attuned to the emotional nuances that separated love and sex, I’d always thought, since they lacked the ridiculous cultural baggage of most Americans. Erotica ...
( Category: State & Local September 22,2014 )
Nine Lives of a Black Panther by Pharr Wayne
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Pharr, Wayne

13 BLOOD AND GUTS “Strap me up. I’ll do it,” I said fiercely as I stood up out of my chair. I got up quickly, and as I did, I ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 22,2014 )
Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Douglas Valentine

CHAPTER 17 Accelerated Pacification The election of Richard Nixon in November 1968 signaled a shift in U.S. policy in Vietnam. Reflecting the desire of most Americans, in the wake of ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage September 22,2014 )
The Notorious Bacon Brothers by Jerry Langton
epub |eng | 2010-01-21 | Author:Jerry Langton

The sudden shifts of alliances in the Lower Mainland's underworld were not limited to those gangs in league with the Hells Angels. The Bacon Brothers, perhaps sensing the impending legal ...
( Category: Organized Crime September 22,2014 )
Man of the Family by Ralph Moody
epub |eng | 2013-08-04 | Author:Ralph Moody [Moody, Ralph]

17 Hal Finds the Answer RIDING home, I planned to hitch Lady right to the wagon, and go back for a load of ties before lunch. But I didn’t do ...
( Category: West September 22,2014 )

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