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Failures of the Presidents by Thomas J Craughwell
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Thomas J Craughwell

NATIONAL REGRET A movement for redress gathered force in the late 1960s and early 1970s and gradually, belatedly, won some concessions from the government. In 1976, President Gerald Ford rescinded ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 18,2015 )
The 900 Days by Harrison Salisbury
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Harrison Salisbury [Harrison E. Salisbury]

In these conditions to talk of mounting a counteroffensive was impossible. The best Voroshilov had been able to do was to carry out local counterattacks. Voroshilov’s presentation was accurate. It ...
( Category: Asian December 18,2015 )
The Auschwitz Kommandant by Barbara Cherish
epub |eng | 2010-12-17 | Author:Barbara Cherish [Barbara U. Cherish]

Childhood fantasies and Stories told Were of Angels and Cherubs to behold, These Angelic forms with extended wings Forever back to my childhood brings, These words still echo, so few ...
( Category: Fascism December 18,2015 )
Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch by Ben Thompson
mobi |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Ben Thompson [Thompson, Ben]

So Colonel Chamberlain, a schoolteacher in his regular life (kind of like Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan), completely out of ammo and with the entire fate of the Civil ...
( Category: Humor December 17,2015 )
The Western Front 1915 by Peter F Batchelor
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Peter F Batchelor

Battle of Festubert After sixty hours – the longest artillery bombardment of the war to date – the battalion, having moved up to its assembly positions during the night, prepared ...
( Category: Veterans December 17,2015 )
Somme 1916 by Gerald Gliddon
epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Gerald Gliddon

On 8 August Coury was made a full lieutenant, but he had decided to transfer to the RFC and on 28 August joined No. 13 Squadron at Savy Aubigny, north-west ...
( Category: General December 17,2015 )
The First Day on the Somme by Martin Middlebrook
epub |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [Middlebrook, Martin]

As the morning drew to a close, the battlefield lost some of the noise and violence of the early, intense fighting. Where an attack had been successful, the troops rested ...
( Category: World War I December 17,2015 )
Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )
The Three Trillion Dollar War by Linda J. Bilmes & Linda J. Bilmes
epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Linda J. Bilmes & Linda J. Bilmes

Global Peace and Security THE DREAM OF the U.S. invaders was to create a stable, prosperous, and democratic Middle East. But America’s intervention in Iraq is laying the foundations for ...
( Category: Economic Policy December 16,2015 )
Women who Spied for Britain by Walker Robyn
epub |eng | 2014-05-18 | Author:Walker, Robyn

5 Diana Rowden (1915–44) Code Name: Paulette Late in the afternoon of 6 July 1944, four women arrived at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, the only German extermination camp known to ...
( Category: European December 16,2015 )
A Good Place to Hide by Peter Grose
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Peter Grose

11 Smugglers The money that was smuggled to the Plateau from Switzerland appears to have been delivered by a relay team rather than a single courier. As already mentioned, one ...
( Category: Holocaust December 15,2015 )
Outpost of Occupation by Barry Turner
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-12 | Author:Barry Turner

12 RESISTANCE AND RETALIATION The first response to bravery is to praise it. Marie Ozanne and the Reverend Clifford Cohu died for their beliefs and for the right to free ...
( Category: World War II December 15,2015 )
Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945 by Hartmann Christian
epub |eng | 1945-12-14 | Author:Hartmann, Christian

ILLUSTRATION 6. Soviet prisoners of war take a journey into captivity from which many of them would never return At first, ‘only’ two groups of prisoners were explicitly condemned to ...
( Category: Great Britain December 15,2015 )
Last Man Off by Matt Lewis
epub |eng | 2015-04-09 | Author:Matt Lewis

14 15:55 SATURDAY, 6 JUNE 1998 Where were the officers of the Sudur Havid as we were abandoning? I thought someone would yell orders, co-ordinate a safe evacuation, act as ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 14,2015 )
Hell from the Heavens by John Wukovits
epub |ara | 2015-02-17 | Author:John Wukovits

Admiral Ugaki made certain of that. The commander had been placed in charge of the 6th Air Army for the third kikusui, scheduled for April 16. The optimistic admiral thought ...
( Category: Japan December 14,2015 )

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