Asia
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]
* The author is indebted to H. Arthur “Hal” Lamar, flag lieutenant to Nimitz, and Loren F. “Sonny” Paulus, the admiral’s bodyguard, for these personal insights. * The instructors at ...
( Category:
World War II
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:John Geoghegan [Geoghegan, John]
* According to some accounts, it took almost twice as long to prep the third Seiran. † Robert Mikesh says seven minutes were required to launch each of the first ...
( Category:
World War II
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-07-01 | Author:Robert Leckie [Leckie, Robert]
Three flares burst over Kakazu Ridge during the early darkness of April 12. Two were red, the first signaling, “Commence artillery fire,” and the other, “We are attacking with full ...
( Category:
Japan
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Laurence Rees [LAURENCE REES]
Above A Japanese officer brandishing a sword (right) leads his soldiers in an attack on the Chinese in November 1941. This bloody, racist war against the Chinese would continue in ...
( Category:
World War II
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Perry Anderson
1 Judith Brown, Nehru: A Political Life, New Haven 2003, p. 87. 2 An Autobiography, London 1936, pp. 72, 374, 84–85, 370–371, 507–508, 591; Brown, Nehru, p. 133. 3 An ...
( Category:
Asian
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-05-08 | Author:Frances W. Pritchett [Pritchett, Frances W.]
But it is by no means the only effective strategy, for implication (kinayah) is also a basic technique. Hall asserts that "implication is always more eloquent than straightforwardness." 17 Here ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Sanyal, Sanjeev [Sanyal, Sanjeev]
Sadly for Delhi, Akbar shifted the capital south to Agra and then to a newly built city called Fatehpur Sikri. The latter took fifteen years to build but it was ...
( Category:
Human Geography
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Winchester
The elegant copperplate and exquisitely courteous tone of Consul Cameron’s lengthy Krakatoa dispatch to Lord Granville, in London. The error is understandable. Kennedy had in fact been consul in Sumatra, ...
( Category:
Volcanology
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1996-07-02 | Author:Cao Xueqin [Xueqin, Cao]
Chapter XXX * Pao-ch'ai avails herself of the excuse afforded her by a fan to administer a couple of raps. While Ch'un Ling traces, in a absent frame of mind, ...
( Category:
China
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Gavin Menzies [Menzies, Gavin]
After establishing the settlements, the junks would have set sail. How desolate the crew and concubines left ashore must have felt, watching the great red sails unfurl and fill with ...
( Category:
Expeditions & Discoveries
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]
As he left, Broadfoot told the General about his own anxieties: he had tried to get the smiths and armourers in the city to manufacture some mining tools to be ...
( Category:
Asia
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:David Isby [Isby, David]
Land and Water Conflicts over land and water rights underlie a lot of Afghanistan’s internal strife, including those relating to corruption and even terrorism. Arable land and water are both ...
( Category:
History of Technology
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Sir Rodric Braithwaite [Braithwaite, Sir Rodric]
The road starts in the fertile plains of the north, and then winds its way up increasingly bleak mountains to Pul-i Khumri, which is about the halfway point. It then ...
( Category:
Europe
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Vine, David
THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTOM Arriving in Mauritius and the Seychelles, islanders like Rita found themselves in positions vulnerable to ethnic and racial discrimination, as Chagossians and as Afro-Mauritians. Their ...
( Category:
Asian
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-02-23 | Author:Steve Coll [Coll, Steve]
BY THE AUTUMN OF 1997 persistent lobbying against the Taliban by the Feminist Majority had influenced the two most important women in the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton. ...
( Category:
Asian
March 26,2014 )
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