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War Letters from the Living Dead Man by Elsa Barker
epub | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Elsa Barker [Barker, Elsa]

Letter 26 A Master of Mind Tonight, the seventeenth of April, nineteen hundred and fifteen, there passed along the battle line of one of the nations at war a great ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality December 27,2014 )
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust by Gilbert Martin
epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Gilbert, Martin [Gilbert, Martin]

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS are British sovereign territory, but the largest island, Jersey, is only fifteen miles from the coast of France, and seventy-five miles from Britain. In June 1940 the ...
( Category: Holocaust December 27,2014 )
The Last Magazine by Michael Hastings
epub |eng | 2014-05-21 | Author:Michael Hastings

PART V Homecoming 21. Morning, Monday, January 12, 2004 Unbundling, I sit down in my cubicle. It’s either the coldest January in New York on record, or I’m getting old. ...
( Category: Coming of Age December 27,2014 )
Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1933-1945 by Kahn David
epub |eng | 1998-12-26 | Author:Kahn, David

Britain’s target: an Enigma cipher machine of the German navy. The Enigma put German messages radioed to U-boats into secret form; an identical machine, identically set up, reconverted the ciphertext ...
( Category: Espionage December 27,2014 )
Krueger's Men by Lawrence Malkin
epub |eng | 2008-03-23 | Author:Lawrence Malkin [MALKIN, LAWRENCE]

As the pressure of producing more pounds slacked off, and apprehension rose about progress toward acceptable replicas of dollars, the prisoners amused themselves and even satirized their jailers in a ...
( Category: Holocaust December 27,2014 )
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton
epub |eng | 2003-05-02 | Author:Doug Stanton [Stanton, Doug]

The rafts of marine private McCoy and Captain McVay drifted ahead of what remained of the other groups. McCoy and McVay were about eight miles apart, and each was about ...
( Category: Naval December 27,2014 )
Great Train Crimes: Murder and Robbery on the Railways by Oates Jonathan
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Oates, Jonathan [Oates, Jonathan]

Yet, as in earlier cases, this type of remark went unheeded. Perhaps the desire for privacy overcame concerns for security. There was controversy over the verdict in this murder case ...
( Category: History December 27,2014 )
In Good Company by Gary McKay
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Gary McKay

Figure 1. Extended lay-out of bunker system Figure 2. ‘X’-type bunker formation. An assault from any direction brought cross-fire from at least two other bunkers. Figure 3. Cross-section of typical ...
( Category: Vietnam War December 27,2014 )
Into the Blizzard by Michael Winter
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Michael Winter [Winter, Michael]

BEES IN CELLOPHANE I bicycled back to Beaumont-Hamel. The trees appeared on the horizon and I coasted down the quiet paved road towards them. I turned in at the now ...
( Category: 20th Century December 27,2014 )
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Stangneth Bettina
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Stangneth, Bettina [Stangneth, Bettina]

In Argentina in 1957, Eichmann and Alvensleben were bound by more than just a shared admiration for Heinrich Himmler. As they fled Germany, they had both used identity papers produced ...
( Category: Germany December 27,2014 )
Demon Camp by Jennifer Percy
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Percy

PART IV THE WAR ON TERROR IN BIBLICAL TERMS Bobby says he was bullied in elementary school, middle school, and high school. He has a sweet, singsongy voice. He says ...
( Category: Veterans December 27,2014 )
Deliver Us From Darkness by Ian Gardner
epub |eng | 2012-02-23 | Author:Ian Gardner

8 “No time to bleed” Hell’s Highway – September 21–October 1, 1944 By September 21 the German 107th Armored Brigade had joined forces with two other fighting groups and turned ...
( Category: Veterans December 27,2014 )
The Bookseller of Kabul
epub |eng | | Author:Asne Seierstad

The three boys have been driving for a couple of hours when they catch up with the backlog of pilgrims. The queue is immovable. It has started to snow. Fog ...
( Category: Operation Desert Storm December 27,2014 )
The Victory Season by Robert Weintraub
epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Robert Weintraub [Weintraub, Robert]

The loss in Grodzicki’s debut was one of the few in the 8–3 run that the Cards were on when Brooklyn came to Missouri for a four-game set on July ...
( Category: World War II December 27,2014 )
Kidnap in Crete by Rick Stroud
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Rick Stroud

See Notes to Chapter 14 15 The Waiting In the afternoon Micky and Ilias Athanassakis arrived from Heraklion. They brought more black market food and two German uniforms. A resistance ...
( Category: World War II December 27,2014 )

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