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Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Fredrik Logevall [Logevall, Fredrik]

VI AT DIEN BIEN PHU ON JANUARY 25, EVERYONE IN THE ENTRENCHED camp waited with nervous anxiety. And waited. By nightfall, no attack had come. A Dakota circled above the ...
( Category: European November 7,2014 )
05 - Der Schatz im Silbersee by May Karl
epub |deu | 2011-01-17 | Author:May, Karl [May, Karl]

ELFTES KAPITEL In der Klemme Da, wo jenseits des Cumison River sich die Elk Mountains erheben, ritten vier Männer über ein Hochplateau, welches mit kurzem Gras bewachsen war und, so ...
( Category: State & Local November 7,2014 )
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
epub |eng | 2007-11-05 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

Three times Philip had avoided what seemed like certain capture, but he had been driven from his homeland. His original fighting force of approximately 250 warriors was down to 40, ...
( Category: Colonial Period November 6,2014 )
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Irving Washington
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Irving, Washington [Irving, Washington]

26. A retrogade move Channel of a mountain torrent—Alpine scenery—Cascades—Beaver valleys—Beavers at work—Their architecture—Their modes of felling trees—Mode of trapping beaver—Contests of skill—A beaver “up to trap”—Arrival at the Green ...
( Category: State & Local November 6,2014 )
Leonard Bernstein by Cott Jonathan
epub |deu | 2013-10-02 | Author:Cott, Jonathan [Cott, Jonathan]

4 Bis 2011 Cheftheaterkritiker der New York Times. 5 Geboren 1930, schrieb die Texte der West Side Story. 6 Sie wurden unter dem Titel »The Unanswered Question« [dt. Musik – ...
( Category: Classical November 6,2014 )
Lewis, Michael by The Big Short
epub |deu | 2010-11-03 | Author:The Big Short [Short, The Big]

* Als >stille Zweite< wird eine Zweithypothek bezeichnet, die beim Kauf eines Hauses eine bestehende erste Hypothek ergänzen soll. Still ist sie aber nur für denjenigen, der den ersten Kredit ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction November 6,2014 )
How Wars End by Gideon Rose
epub |eng | | Author:Gideon Rose

NO MORE VIETNAMS Bush administration policymakers had a number of contemporaneous reasons for not wanting to go to Baghdad. Reinforcing those, however—particularly for the uniformed military—was a specter from the ...
( Category: Arms Control November 4,2014 )
Krock & Co. by Friedrich Glauser
epub |deu | | Author:Friedrich Glauser [Glauser, Friedrich]

Langsam, ganz langsam faltete Studer den Brief wieder zusammen und steckte ihn in die Tasche. Er trat ans Bett, stützte die Fäuste in die Hüften und blieb in dieser Haltung ...
( Category: State & Local November 3,2014 )
Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Andrew Burstein [Burstein, Andrew; Isenberg, Nancy]

“River of Thieves” Jefferson’s handling of the Tripolitan War has to be one of the most instructive episodes in early U.S. foreign policy. Often seen as a diversion, the administration’s ...
( Category: National November 2,2014 )
Freedom in the Family by Tananarive Due
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-08 | Author:Tananarive Due [Due, Tananarive]

Seventeen PATRICIA STEPHENS DUE “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” —Bondei proverb I had just been arrested again when I heard about the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church ...
( Category: State & Local November 1,2014 )
The Imperial Cruise A Secret History of
epub | | | Author:James Bradley

( Category: Diplomacy October 31,2014 )
Pearl Harbor Christmas by Stanley Weintraub
epub |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Stanley Weintraub

Destroyer USS Peary. Naval Historical Center Seaman Lester Harris, the navigator, an old China hand who had seen Japanese mistreatment of women, looking up from the inland charts he had ...
( Category: State & Local October 31,2014 )
Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions by Gregory Leland
mobi |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Gregory, Leland [Gregory, Leland]

WOODROW WILSON WAS THE ONLY PRESIDENT WITH A PHD. HE EARNED IT FROM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY IN 1886. WHAT’S BUGGIN’ YA? In 1947, the U.S. Navy’s Mark II computer at ...
( Category: United States October 31,2014 )
Founding Myths by Raphael Ray
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Raphael, Ray [Raphael, Ray]

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A GLOBAL WAR The French navy and army that enabled the victory at Yorktown were no strangers to their British adversaries. The American Revolution marked the fifth ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 31,2014 )
Go West, Young Women! by Hilary Hallett
epub |eng | | Author:Hilary Hallett

CHAPTER 5 A Star Is Born Rereading the “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal Years before the press used bohemian extra-girls and perverse movie producers to capture the appealing threat the industry posed, ...
( Category: State & Local October 31,2014 )

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