Military
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Susan Ronald [Ronald, Susan]

21 THE POSSE YEARS While Man’s desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust Impending war inevitably led to the squirreling-away of art treasures ...
( Category: True Crime November 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-23 | Author:Primo Levi

It was already night. Contrary to what the sergeant had led us to believe, the most sumptuous abundance reigned inside the barracks; there were lighted stoves, candles and acetylene lamps, ...
( Category: World November 28,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:Nha Ca [Ca, Nha]

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 November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Mindy Weisel [Weisel, Mindy]

November 1990 I began work on a show. At first, performing embarrassingly bad Polish jokes in a Lower East Side shopfront/theatre, friends advised me to dig more deeply, to find ...
( Category: World November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Andrew Carroll [Carroll, Andrew]

Pfc. Richard Cowan, Just Before the Battle of the Bulge, Writes a Profound Letter to His Mother About Ethics and Morality & Pfc. DeWitt “Chick” Gephart Informs His Parents He ...
( Category: Military November 28,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1993-01-27 | Author:James L. Stokesbury [Stokesbury, James L.]

The Americans were more ambitious. In its first orders to Esek Hopkins, Congress directed him to take his squadron, all eight ships with less than a hundred little popguns, and ...
( Category: Americas November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Annie Jacobsen [Jacobsen, Annie]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Biological Weapons On December 11, 1991, a mysterious forty-one-year-old Soviet scientist named Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov arrived in Washington, D.C., one of a thirteen-man Soviet delegation. The group was ...
( Category: Military November 28,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1995-05-01 | Author:William H. Mcraven

Notes 1. Charles Whiting, Skorzeny (New York: Ballantine, 1972), 17. 2. Glenn B. Infield, Skorzeny: Hitler’s Commando (New York: Military Heritage, 1981), 230. 3. Testimony of Otto Skorzeny at Nuremberg, ...
( Category: Military November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Paul Bracken [Bracken, Paul]

NATIONALISM: THE “HOT” SIDE OF ASIAN DEFENSE Giving atomic missiles to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is not like deploying jets in the British air force. An irrational politics of rage ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Bruce Henderson

Hunters ROTC officer Gustavo Ingles. Courtesy Ingles family. Ingles’s extended journey of punishment and torture began in a dank basement with a burly Japanese guard asking: “Geriray ka?” (Are you ...
( Category: Asia November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-09 | Author:Donald L. Miller [Miller, Donald L.]

The Black Hole of Wauwilermoos Daniel Culler feared the unknown. Growing up in insular Syracuse, Indiana, he had never wandered more than thirty miles from home. Yet now all he ...
( Category: Military November 27,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Hugh Thomas

So the journey went on, under Mt. Aztacuemecan, and past several menacing villages. Sometimes grass was the only food. The Castilians kept going, often travelling very few miles a day, ...
( Category: Americas November 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Clinton Romesha

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Alamo Position ONE OF THE strangest hallmarks of combat is that it is so chaotic that sometimes the turmoil it engenders in the mind never fully resolves. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:Stephen Budiansky

A cartoon from the NSA newsletter; the “Meademobile,” parked at Arlington Hall, provided employees information about the Fort Meade area in advance of the agency’s move there in 1957. To ...
( Category: Military November 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Moore [Moore, Kate]

33 Orange, New Jersey Summer 1928 For those five New Jersey dial-painters who had triumphed over their former firm, life was sweet. From her award, Katherine gave her father, William, ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 27,2017 )