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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 )
1948 - Roman by Aufbau
epub |deu | 2013-11-04 | Author:Aufbau

12 Bet Yuba – ein Phantasiename (und aus Taktgefühl und wegen meiner Zuneigung zu dem Mann, von dem ich jetzt erzählen möchte, ändere ich auch seinen Namen und nenne ihn ...
( Category: Management & Leadership November 5,2014 )
Claudius Bombarnac by Jules Verne
epub |deu | 2011-10-01 | Author:Jules Verne [Verne, Jules]

Vierzehntes Capitel. Hatten die Russen 1870 vergeblich versucht, in Taschkend eine Messe einzurichten, die mit der von Nischni-Novgorod wetteifern könnte, so sollte das zwanzig Jahre später von besserm Erfolge begleitet ...
( Category: Classics November 4,2014 )
Kaiten by Michael Mair
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Michael Mair

CHAPTER 16 Rescue I felt sick seeing these men screaming from pain and covered with oil. —Lieutenant Milford Romanoff, officer of the deck, USS Lackawanna In Lackawanna’s gig, Jim Factor ...
( Category: Naval November 3,2014 )
The Wonder that was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims by Basham A
mobi |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Basham, A. [Basham, A.]

The Evolution of the Great Vehicle It is never claimed in the Pali scriptures that the Buddha was in any way supernatural. His supreme insight was gained by his own ...
( Category: India November 1,2014 )
Cambodia's Curse by Joel Brinkley
epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Joel Brinkley [Brinkley, Joel]

CHAPTER TEN When the government delivered some emergency food assistance, three hundred residents of Dang Rung village rioted. Some of them saw the sacks of free rice, scores of them, ...
( Category: Asian November 1,2014 )
The Imperial Cruise A Secret History of
epub | | | Author:James Bradley

( Category: Diplomacy October 31,2014 )
VS Naipaul
epub | | | Author:A House for Mr Biswas

( Category: Criticism & Theory October 31,2014 )
Lion of Jordan by Avi Shlaim
epub |eng | 2003-10-30 | Author:Avi Shlaim

16 The October War All diplomatic activity to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict was suspended in the second half of 1972. Israel had no real interest in negotiating with any of ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 31,2014 )
Memoirs of a geisha a novel by Arthur Golden
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Arthur Golden [Golden, Arthur]

Chapter nineteen That startling month in which I first came upon the Chairman again-and met Nobu, and Dr. Crab, and Uchida Kosaburo-made me feel something like a pet cricket that ...
( Category: Biographical October 29,2014 )
Danger Close by Colonel Stuart Tootal
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Colonel Stuart Tootal [Tootal, Colonel Stuart]

Forty-eight hours later swirling pillars of sand were kicked up by the rotor blades of the two Chinooks that also carried us east. As we flew fast and low over ...
( Category: Afghan War October 28,2014 )
The Wrong Enemy by Carlotta Gall
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Carlotta Gall

Taliban prisoners in Shiberghan prison, in northern Afghanistan, after the mass surrender at Kunduz, December 2001. Among them were foreign fighters and survivors of the battle of Qala-i-Janghi. Alan Chin ...
( Category: Afghan War October 27,2014 )
Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton
epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:Doug Stanton

After dropping off Dean’s team, the helicopter lifted into the air and pushed about ten miles east to deliver Major Mark Mitchell and Lieutenant Colonel Bowers, and the rest of ...
( Category: Afghan War October 27,2014 )
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Suki Kim [Kim, Suki]

12 THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE END OF the summer semester were a jumble. There was much picture taking and sporting competition, as though the incessant activities would distract ...
( Category: North October 27,2014 )
The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture by Euny Hong
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Euny Hong [Hong, Euny]

THE GANGNAM CHAINSAW MASSACRE The adulation of K-pop stars had a bit of a dark side: it inevitably gave rise to legions of fans who were willing to go to ...
( Category: South October 27,2014 )

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