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Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Asselin Pierre
epub |eng | | Author:Asselin, Pierre

THE COUP AGAINST DIEM The climatic episode that would push Hanoi into a definitively militant strategy in the South came in the fall, when the political landscape there changed suddenly ...
( Category: Asian December 27,2014 )
Between Flesh and Steel by Richard A. Gabriel
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Richard A. Gabriel

France The French medical corps was outdated, disorganized, and still suffered from the organizational and political effects of the army’s defeat at Waterloo. The political suspicions accompanying the Restoration compounded ...
( Category: History December 27,2014 )
Around the World Submerged by Edward L. Beach
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward L. Beach

Official U.S. Navy Photo Lieutenant Milton R. (“Whitey”) Rubb was our custodian of sea water. From each of the seven seas we gathered separate samples, and in one bottle we ...
( Category: Travel December 27,2014 )
Climb to Conquer by Peter Shelton
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Shelton

CHAPTER 10: Belvedere Time deals out many kinds of hours,” David Brower wrote in Remount Blue, a combat history of his 3d Battalion, 86th Mountain Regiment: There is the microscopic ...
( Category: Military December 27,2014 )
Going Back
epub |eng | 2007-10-31 | Author:Gary McKay

Chapter 6 LONG TAN: THE CROSS The Long Tan Memorial Cross was first erected on the site of the massive battle in the Long Tan rubber plantation not far from ...
( Category: Veterans December 27,2014 )
Hunting Che by Mitch Weiss & Kevin Maurer
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Mitch Weiss & Kevin Maurer

* * * On a Sunday night in late August, Mario Salazar was getting ready for the dance. Every weekend, the Bolivian men gathered around a small band in the ...
( Category: Bolivia December 27,2014 )
Weller's War by George Weller
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:George Weller [Weller, George]

XI The Defense of Australia By his own admission, Weller arrived in Australia scared and filled with “guilt about the people left behind.” (At least one colleague “escaped and went ...
( Category: Nuclear December 27,2014 )
After Lincoln by A. J. Langguth
epub |eng | | Author:A. J. Langguth

Ulysses S. Grant CHAPTER 13 ULYSSES S. GRANT (1869) JULIA GRANT HAD BEEN RELIEVED when Andrew Johnson escaped conviction in the Senate. She sympathized with those who thought Johnson’s light ...
( Category: Civil War December 27,2014 )
Female Tommies by Elisabeth Shipton
epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Elisabeth Shipton

… I felt like screaming, like beating myself against the wall with agonised suspense. I was in a terrible quandary; against my will I had become a spy for friend ...
( Category: World War I December 27,2014 )
Pacific Alamo by John Wukovits
epub |eng | 2004-07-05 | Author:John Wukovits [Wukovits, John]

“We’ll Make Our Stand Here” “Shells Came Shrieking Like a Thousand Demons” While Takano’s men swarmed ashore on Wilkes, the other Japanese contingents, among whom was Sub-Lieutenant Ozeki, silently approached ...
( Category: Naval December 27,2014 )
The Battle of Hastings by Jim Bradbury
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Jim Bradbury

Kings of Denmark. Kings of Norway. Now Hardrada began to interest himself in the situation in England. The Scandinavians all had some links with that country, through Cnut and his ...
( Category: England December 27,2014 )
Someday You Will Understand by Nina Wolff Feld
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Nina Wolff Feld

* Yiddish for “miserable Jews.” CHAPTER 9 It Is Your Moral Duty: DPs Among the Ruins in Austria and Germany Finito, my father’s puppy. While my father was en route ...
( Category: Holocaust December 27,2014 )
Edith Cavell by Diana Souhami
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Diana Souhami

Such letters worried Mrs. Cavell. She wrote anxiously to Sergeant Doman asking how risky the whole business was. He tried to reassure her: Referring to it being risky for her ...
( Category: World War I December 27,2014 )
Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare: Strategy, Weapons, Commanders, and Ships: 1190 BC - Present by Dickie Iain & Jestice Phyllis & Jorgensen Christer & Rice Rob S. & Dougherty Martin J
mobi |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Dickie, Iain & Jestice, Phyllis & Jorgensen, Christer & Rice, Rob S. & Dougherty, Martin J. [Dickie, Iain]

Deadly Melee Hawke’s 100-gun flagship, the Royal George, bore down on the 70-gun Superbe and sank it with a single, massive broadside at the waterline. It sank with all hands, ...
( Category: Conventional December 27,2014 )
The Little Blitz: The Luftwaffe's Last Attack on London by John Conen
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:John Conen [Conen, John]

The damage suffered to the overhead wires, high tension cables, and gas and water mains in Chiswick High Road disrupted bus and trolleybus services for over a month. Earlier in ...
( Category: World War II December 27,2014 )

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