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Bones by Elaine Dewar
epub |eng | 2001-11-27 | Author:Elaine Dewar [Dewar, Elaine]

15 Brazilian Edens The Sheltered Finds of Minas Gerais I LOOKED AT THE MAP and down at the ground. I was an hour as the plane flies northeast of São ...
( Category: Asia September 26,2017 )
War at the End of the World by James P. Duffy
epub |eng | 2015-11-12 | Author:James P. Duffy

CHAPTER 12 Pincers Around Lae Although located on the island of New Britain, Rabaul had been the capital of all New Guinea until 1937, when it was partially buried under ...
( Category: Asia September 25,2017 )
Combat Camera by Christian Hill
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Christian Hill [Hill, Christian]

* Daily Telegraph (online), 4th April 2010: ‘Murder at Blue 25: British Soldier Speaks of Betrayal in Afghanistan’. * Afghanistan has one of the highest rates of illiteracy in the ...
( Category: Asia September 25,2017 )
Mumbai Fables by Prakash Gyan;
epub |eng | 2010-09-25 | Author:Prakash, Gyan;

DREAMING RED A collective identity forged from the neighborhood ties of village, caste, and kin did not automatically translate into a proletarian mobilization against capital. It was one thing to ...
( Category: Asia September 25,2017 )
Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom by Carl Crow
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-09-24 | Author:Carl Crow

XII Two missionaries and two soldiers “Each cup of wine and each bite of meat is destined from aforetime.” There was something just the least bit suspicious about the enthusiasm ...
( Category: Historical September 24,2017 )
Lyndon Johnson's War by Larry Berman
epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Larry Berman

IX The Tet Offensive War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war is ...
( Category: Military September 23,2017 )
Scorched Earth, Black Snow by Andrew Salmon
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Andrew Salmon

* For the day’s work, Butler won a US Silver Star; Denness, an MC. * Murray was awarded the George Medal for his actions that night. * The jeep was ...
( Category: Asia September 23,2017 )
Ripcord by Keith Nolan
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Keith Nolan [Nolan, Keith]

CHAPTER 18 Piling On The strength of the enemy positions on Hill 1000 and the ferocity of the attacks on Hill 805 came as a revelation to Colonel Harrison. Contact ...
( Category: Military September 23,2017 )
Mourning Headband for Hue by Ca Nha Dror Olga
epub |eng | | Author:Ca, Nha, Dror, Olga

This chapter is the voice of a young man named Lê who hid in the underground shelter in Phan Bội Châu’s ancestor-worshipping house in Từ Đàm hamlet, on the edge ...
( Category: Military September 23,2017 )
In Search of My Homeland by Er Tai Gao
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Er Tai Gao

TWENTY-TWO Initiation When the National Research Institute for Dunhuang Art was established in 1944, the first director was the famous painter Chang Shuhong. In 1950, the second year of the ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 22,2017 )
Beyond Belief by V.S. Naipaul
epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:V.S. Naipaul [Naipaul, V. S.]

And then, beyond an iron-barred door, we were in the quiet of the manuscript room, and among old things of great beauty. So that, abruptly, after the disorder of the ...
( Category: Memoirs September 22,2017 )
Where They Lay by Earl Swift
epub |eng | | Author:Earl Swift

An episode later in the afternoon suggests that despite his resolute bearing, Barker had questions himself about the wisdom of returning. Lt. Col. William N. Peachey, the major’s former battalion ...
( Category: Military September 20,2017 )
A History of China by Morris Rossabi
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-05 | Author:Morris Rossabi

NOTES 1 Peter Bol, “Government, Society, and State: On the Political Visions of Ssu-ma Kuang and Wang An-shih” in Robert Hymes and Conrad Shirokauer, eds., Ordering the World: Approaches to ...
( Category: Asia September 20,2017 )
The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China by Huan Hsu
azw3 |eng | 2015-03-24 | Author:Huan Hsu [Hsu, Huan]

UNTIL I SAW those shards in the Pottery Workshop’s coffee shop, I had seen no indication of such abundance. The Jingdezhen I had experienced appeared paved over and far removed ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 20,2017 )
Last Crusade, The by Cliff Nigel
epub |eng | | Author:Cliff, Nigel [Cliff, Nigel]

Having delivered his public history lesson, Cabral was to convey another message in private. He was to request the Zamorin to banish every last Muslim from his harbors; the Portuguese ...
( Category: Europe September 20,2017 )

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