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King Philip's War by Eric B. Schultz & Michael J. Tougias
epub |eng | 1999-01-29 | Author:Eric B. Schultz & Michael J. Tougias

This image of Philip appears to use Revere’s engraving as its model, right down to the designs on the sachem’s belt and crown. (Courtesy of the Collections of the Library ...
( Category: Americas January 29,2018 )
The Red Circle by Brandon Webb
epub |eng | | Author:Brandon Webb

SEVEN WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED In the late summer of 2000 our platoon embarked on a trans-Pacific run, headed for the Persian Gulf by way of Hawaii, Australia, and points west. ...
( Category: Military January 29,2018 )
Growing Up Patton by Benjamin Patton & Jennifer Scruby
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Benjamin Patton & Jennifer Scruby [Patton, Benjamin]

EIGHT Jim Dozier AT 5:30 P.M. on December 17, 1981, the doorbell rang at Major General James Dozier’s penthouse apartment in Verona, Italy. This was unusual—visitors were supposed to call ...
( Category: Memoirs January 29,2018 )
War is a racket by Smedley D. Butler
epub |eng | 1935-01-01 | Author:Smedley D. Butler [Butler, Smedley D.]

«All men are enamored of decorations… they positively hunger for them». So by developing the Napoleonic system —the medal business— the government learned it could get soldiers for less money, ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 28,2018 )
Nashville 1864 by Mark Lardas & Adam Hook
epub |eng | 2017-06-26 | Author:Mark Lardas & Adam Hook

It was only 50 miles from Corinth to Tuscumbia. Heavy rains were now falling across Tennessee and northern Mississippi and Alabama, turning roads into muddy bogs. His men had spent ...
( Category: Americas January 27,2018 )
300 Days of Sun by 300 Days of Sun -
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:300 Days of Sun - [-, 300 Days of Sun]

ii It occurred to Alva that the rich in the palace hotels of Estoril, bathing and dressing and drinking cocktails in the warm summer evenings, were doing very much what ...
( Category: Memoirs January 27,2018 )
Forgotten - The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War by Linda Hervieux
epub |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Linda Hervieux [Hervieux, Linda]

PART III CHAPTER 8 The Greatest Hour If a Nazi bird nestles in my lines—he won’t nestle nowhere else. —CLEVELAND HAYES, 320TH BARRAGE BALLOON BATTALION SOMEWHERE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL ...
( Category: Americas January 27,2018 )
Victory in the East by John France
epub |eng | 1994-07-14 | Author:John France [France, John]

Fig. 8 Siege of Antioch, October 1097 – February 1098 The reason for this debate was quite simply the scale of the problem which they now faced. Antioch was no ...
( Category: Military January 27,2018 )
The Secret Cold War by John Blaxland
epub |eng | 2016-10-26 | Author:John Blaxland

Other priorities of the royal commission Beyond the high drama associated with the Combe–Ivanov proceedings, Hope addressed a wide range of substantive issues concerning Australia’s security and intelligence organisations. Richard ...
( Category: Military January 27,2018 )
The 10 Biggest Civil War Blunders by Edward H. Bonekemper III
epub |eng | 2017-12-28 | Author:Edward H. Bonekemper III

General Henry W. Halleck. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Responding to Grant’s September 30 letter, Halleck wrote obliquely on October 11 that a decision had been made in Washington ...
( Category: Americas January 27,2018 )
Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron by Ronald Utt
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Ronald Utt

II Panicked by the news of armed Indians routing their militia, settlers throughout southern Alabama began to fortify their villages and build stockades, to which they flocked for security and ...
( Category: Americas January 27,2018 )
Hell Upon Water by Paul Chamberlain
epub |eng | 2018-01-27 | Author:Paul Chamberlain

Comprehensive lists were compiled by the Transport Office giving full descriptions of all officers who had given their parole and been permitted to return to their own country. These lists ...
( Category: Military January 27,2018 )
The Future of Violence by Benjamin Wittes
epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin Wittes [Wittes, Benjamin; Blum, Gabriella]

DIVISION OF LABOR—STATE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PRIVATE VIOLENCE So maybe, some commentators have argued, the answer to gaps in and competition over jurisdictional power lies in state accountability for private individuals’ ...
( Category: World January 25,2018 )
Consequence by Eric Fair
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Fair

6.2 In Fallujah, living quarters are cramped. We are housed in an Iraqi military compound that was used by Saddam’s most trusted military officers for retreats and conventions. There are ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 25,2018 )
100 Years by Unknown
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

-10- I pulled up at home and saw Jeremy’s Jeep parked on the street. When I drove by, I noticed that he wasn’t sitting in it. I pulled up to ...
( Category: Almanacs & Yearbooks January 25,2018 )

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