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Well Done, Those Men by Barry Heard
epub |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Barry Heard

OPERATION BALLARAT KARDS, NOW OUT of hospital and well rested, was back with us, having recently returned to base camp carrying a slight limp but with his drinking prowess intact. ...
( Category: Military December 14,2017 )
For the Glory by Duncan Hamilton
epub |eng | | Author:Duncan Hamilton

CHAPTER TWELVE The Sharpest Edge of the Sword COUNTRY EVANGELISM WAS Eric Liddell’s forte. He had been born for it. Within six months, after his Chinese began to improve markedly, ...
( Category: Biographies December 14,2017 )
When Heaven & Earth Change Places by Le Ly Hayslip
epub |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Le Ly Hayslip [Hayslip, Le Ly]

MIDMORNING, APRIL 7, 1986: DANANG, SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Our approach and landing at the great Danang airport is smooth and uneventful, but the calm of the cabin belies the ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 14,2017 )
Red Fire by Red Fire
epub | | 2010-01-07 | Author:Red Fire [Fire, Red]

Now what? “Take a few strands of your blue hair and wrap it about the scroll as a sign that the words are from you.” As always the voice was ...
( Category: Asia December 11,2017 )
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-19 | Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]

By 989 Basil had been Emperor for twenty-nine of his thirty-one years. For sixteen he had been a minor; for nine a puppet; while for the last four he had ...
( Category: Europe December 11,2017 )
0857249118 by Julian Go
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Julian Go [Go, Julian]

The Tea Party in the Age of Obama 129 Fig. 1. Public Support for Tea Party and Out-Group Attitudes. Source: 2010 Multistate Survey on Race and Politics Pilot Study. 130 ...
( Category: Sociology December 11,2017 )
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Barbara Demick [Demick, Barbara]

CHAPTER 11 WANDERING SWALLOWS Boys at a North Korean market. IN HER FREQUENT VISITS TO THE CHONGJIN TRAIN STATION, Mrs. Song probably crossed paths with a boy wearing an indigo ...
( Category: Asia December 11,2017 )
Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Saburo Sakai [Sakai, Saburo]

How? How to overcome the frantic urge to go to sleep, not to succumb to it all, to forget everything in the wonderful peace of slumber? It felt so good, ...
( Category: Military December 10,2017 )
Not a Good Day to Die by Sean Naylor
epub |eng | 2005-09-11 | Author:Sean Naylor [Naylor, Sean]

BACK at the site of the attack on Harriman’s convoy, the scene was one of devastation. One of Ziabdullah’s fighters lay dead and another dozen had been wounded, one mortally. ...
( Category: Military December 9,2017 )
A Geek in China: Discovering the Land of Alibaba, Bullet Trains and Dim Sum by Christensen Matthew B
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Christensen, Matthew B. [Christensen, Matthew B.]

SHOPPING AS A SPORT Shopping in China has been likened to a sport. The younger generation, in particular, are crazy about clothes, shoes and accessories. Nearly every large city has ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 8,2017 )
Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants by Chen Guidi & Wu Chuntao
epub |eng | 2007-04-23 | Author:Chen Guidi & Wu Chuntao [Guidi, Chen & Chuntao, Wu]

contradictory stories, were up to no good. Why not show their IDs? Why run away, leaving their van behind? Convinced that their uniforms were fake, they villagers gave the three ...
( Category: Asia December 8,2017 )
For the Glory: Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr by Duncan Hamilton
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Duncan Hamilton

CHAPTER TWELVE THE SHARPEST EDGE OF THE SWORD COUNTRY EVANGELISM was Eric Liddell’s forte. He had been born for it. Within six months, after his Chinese began to improve markedly, ...
( Category: Individual Sports December 7,2017 )
The Fall of Japan by William Craig
epub |eng | | Author:William Craig

THIRTEEN The Rebellion Early on the evening of the fourteenth, Major Kenji Hatanaka’s search for supporters brought success. Jiro Shiizaki, a colleague at the Ministry, had always supported him. Another ...
( Category: Military December 6,2017 )
Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 by Lee Hong Yung; Sorensen Clark W.; Lee Hong Yung
epub |eng | | Author:Lee, Hong Yung; Sorensen, Clark W.; Lee, Hong Yung

(1) The question of korean independence will have no occasion to appear in the Peace Conference. (2) There is no power in Europe or America which will be so foolish ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 6,2017 )
Among the Dead Cities by A. C. Grayling
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:A. C. Grayling

Next to this passage must be placed one from a speech broadcast by Truman on the radio that same day: The world will note that the first atomic bomb was ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )

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