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Shadow of the Sword: A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption by Jeremiah Workman & John Bruning
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Jeremiah Workman & John Bruning [Workman, Jeremiah & Bruning, John]

Big hair and all, they got that one right. I light the smoke and take a deep breath. It’s after ten and I’ll need to take my meds soon. That’ll ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior by Rorke Denver & Ellis Henican
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Rorke Denver & Ellis Henican [Denver, Rorke & Henican, Ellis]

It was the final challenge in an elaborate port-security exercise at Roosey Roads. They had plenty of warning. The Navy’s ship’s commanders knew we were on our way. They were ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
Embedded by Gray Wesley R
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gray, Wesley R. [Gray, Wesley R.]

Insurgent Snipers Attack After three hours of dreamless sleep, I awoke to the sound of roaring generator engines and the sight of an Iraqi civilian snooping outside the building. Instinctively ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
The Deserter's Tale by Joshua Key
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Joshua Key

6 al-Habbaniyah NEAR THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST 2003, THE 43RD combat Engineer Company left Ramadi and moved about ten miles east to al-Habbaniyah. It was a small, dusty town of ...
( Category: Iraq March 26,2014 )
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat by Hampton Dan
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Hampton, Dan [Hampton, Dan]

Photo Section Undergraduate Pilot Training graduation, 1987. Welcome to the USAF. TopGun clipping. All fighter wings have these competitions, and this was my first win. Germany, 1990. Every bachelor fighter ...
( Category: Iraq War March 26,2014 )
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Wilfred Thesiger

9. From Salala to Mukalla A leisurely journey with the Rashid to Mukalla completes my survey of this part of Arabia. I stayed at Salala for a week. I was ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism by Michael Burleigh
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Michael Burleigh

III DELIVERING CHAOS If all Irish terrorists were psychopathic criminals like Murphy, there would be no demonstrable ebb and flow to the violence, or shifts in how it was used ...
( Category: Radicalism March 25,2014 )
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasr
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Vali Nasr

On the campaign trail, Obama had said that Iraq was a misguided enterprise, a needless and costly war of choice that had tarnished America’s image. So it was not a ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
Tea with Hezbollah by Ted Dekker
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-09 | Author:Ted Dekker

Hezbollah Sheik Nabil Qaouk We left the coffee shop with firm handshakes and much more discussion. In another place and another time, not all might have been so congenial, but ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The Devil We Know by Robert Baer
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Robert Baer

Oil reserve estimates are based on data provided by oil-producing countries and oil companies. They’re not independently audited, and the numbers are impossible to corroborate. The higher reserves an OPEC ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken
mobi |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Matthew Bracken

**** Even while they were talking, internet news forum devotee Liddy Mosby was scheming and planning ways to post everything that she had just learned on FreeAmericans without compromising Jasper. ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
The Babylonian Codex
mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:C.S. Graham

CHAPTER THREE It’s not true that I’m always thinking of H. Work and conversation make that impossible. But the times when I’m not are perhaps my worst. For then, though ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
Dreams and Shadows by Robin Wright
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-02-01 | Author:Robin Wright

The ultimate redline for politics in Damascus is religion. It is another of Syria’s ironies. On Easter weekend, I visited the Umayyad Mosque. It is one of the most magnificent ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-11 | Author:Dave Eggers

YOUR MOTHER AND I I TOLD YOU about that, didn’t I? About when your mother and I moved the world to solar energy and windpower, to hydro, all that? I ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-30 | Author:Dave Eggers

We were at the car. Hand had dragged me off the ground and now he rested his palms on the roof, and his chin on the backs of his hands, ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )

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