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The Claws of the Bear: A History of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1917 To The Present by Brian Moynahan
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Brian Moynahan [Moynahan, Brian]

Part Four – The Mouth of the Cannon: Khrushchev and the Bomb Chapter Twenty-Eight – Armageddon: The Bomb The Russians were slow into the nuclear field. They had made little ...
( Category: Engineering March 3,2020 )
India After Naxalbari by Bernard D'Mello
epub |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:Bernard D'Mello

BIG BUSINESS AND POLITICS-AS-BUSINESS Basically, with the rise of a financial aristocracy, the distinction between the political and the economic, the “public” and the “private,” is increasingly blurred. Politics has ...
( Category: Asian March 3,2020 )
Titanic Lives by Richard Davenport-Hines
epub |eng | 2012-03-02 | Author:Richard Davenport-Hines

Dear Father and Mother, We arrived on board this morning after a nights rest at Southampton. We put up at an Hotel named Berrimans, the lady who owns it is ...
( Category: Historical March 3,2020 )
US Carrier War by Kev Darling
epub |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Kev Darling

Fire crews fight the flames aboard the USS Intrepid after the carrier has been hit by a kamikaze. Once the fire had been dealt with the carrier was quickly made ...
( Category: Asia March 3,2020 )
The Koh-i-noor Diamond by Iradj Amini
epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Iradj Amini [Amini, Iradj]

KOH-I-NOOR 1 Aurangzeb’s death was the beginning of the end of the Mughal empire. None of his successors, a series of weak, indolent kings, could match his stature. An Indian ...
( Category: Asia March 3,2020 )
Indian Realities In Bits and Pieces by Sham Lal
epub |eng | 2007-03-30 | Author:Sham Lal [Lal, Sham]

Ideologies and Intellectuals A man who deals with large political or social themes in his writings lays his character on a line. For he reveals his own fears and inhibitions ...
( Category: Asia March 3,2020 )
Pakistan by Noman ;
epub |eng | | Author:Noman,;

Part Three MILITARY RULE UNDER ZIA, 1977 — 1988 “Gen Zia introduced decency in politics and did not resort to victimisation. He set many healthy traditions in the country.” Nawaz ...
( Category: Economics March 2,2020 )
A Heavy Reckoning by Emily Mayhew
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Mayhew

And it is a dynamic ladder: pain is assessed in relation to what has gone before. (How is pain now? Is it better than before or worse that before?) Patients ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 2,2020 )
Japan by Paul Norbury
epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Paul Norbury [Norbury, Paul]

SPORTS Modern sports, too, have also grown enormously in the postwar years. Introduced in 1936, baseball today is a national game; it is played throughout the country and has a ...
( Category: Etiquette March 2,2020 )
The Eurasian Miracle by Goody Jack
epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:Goody, Jack.

7 Towards a knowledge society We have spoken of the circulation of information as well as of objects, but the former has further parameters. It depends on different forms of ...
( Category: Asia March 2,2020 )
I Still Remember a small town by O P Narula
epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:O P Narula [Narula, O P]

X X X Opana was now fifteen and a half years old but nobody had so far seriously thought of a career for him. This was quite common in the ...
( Category: Asia March 2,2020 )
A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan by Nelofer Pazira
azw3 |eng | 2005-09-30 | Author:Nelofer Pazira [Pazira, Nelofer]

“Give me a glass of water.” My father sits on the hallway sofa to untie his shoes. It is dark, close to nine o’clock. “I spent the last five hours ...
( Category: Historical March 2,2020 )
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: Covert Action and Internal Operations by Owen L. Sirrs
azw3, mobi |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Owen L. Sirrs [Sirrs, Owen L.]

Notes 1 H. Abbas, Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005, 365n20. 2 Ibid. 3 A. Jamal, Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir, Hoboken, NJ: ...
( Category: True Crime March 2,2020 )
A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

THE DEEP-SEA CABLES The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar— Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are. There is ...
( Category: British & Irish March 2,2020 )
My Only War by Bob Lynn
epub |eng | 2015-01-30 | Author:Bob Lynn [Lynn, Bob]

“Oh yes,” Willise replies, “You’re one hundred percent right “ I continue away – on a roll now, “How come I’ve got to sit in this office and defend myself ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 2,2020 )

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