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The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai
epub |eng | | Author:Mae Ngai

During the early 1910s, Mary Tape made a few trips to the Pacific Northwest to visit Mamie in Portland and Frank in Seattle. Joseph does not seem to have accompanied ...
( Category: Ethnic & National December 9,2018 )
Armies of the East India Company 1750-1850 by Stuart Reid
epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Stuart Reid

1846: Rifle and Light Infantry officers in full dress, by Ackerman. One of the European units on each establishment was formally designated as Light Infantry, as were a number of ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
Japanese Army in World War II by Gordon Rottman
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon Rottman

Small-unit tactics in the Philippines A number of characteristics of Japanese small-unit tactics were noted in the Philippines. Attacks would often begin at dusk with infiltration through gaps between units ...
( Category: Asia December 9,2018 )
In a Far Country by John Taliaferro
epub |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:John Taliaferro

The Bear had spent most of September and the beginning of October policing the tumult of gold miners and supplies at St. Michael, now nicknamed Fort Get There. The revenue ...
( Category: Americas December 9,2018 )
Pogrom in Gujarat by Ghassem-Fachandi Parvis; Ghassem-Fachandi Parvis;
epub |eng | 2012-12-08 | Author:Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis; Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis;

ASSIMILATING LACK Like many of his peers, Bharat does not speak English well, and his lack of marked improvement while living with me led others to attribute his slow progress ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 9,2018 )
Ordeal by Ice by Rorke Bryan
epub |eng | | Author:Rorke Bryan

Figure 8.15 SY Polaris built at Sandefjord in 1911 for the De Gerlache-Christensen consortium and subsequently sold to Sir Ernest Shackleton and renamed Endurance. (COURTESY OF THE DE GERLACHE ARCHIVES) ...
( Category: Polar Regions December 9,2018 )
Who Knew? by Jack Cooper
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Jack Cooper

________________ 1. Quoted in Anton Rippon, Hitler’s Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games (Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword, 2006), 17; see also Jewish Virtual Library, “The ...
( Category: World December 9,2018 )
Masters of Chaos by Linda Robinson
epub |eng | 2011-02-27 | Author:Linda Robinson

CHAPTER 9 WESTERN IRAQ The Battle of the War Pigs What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy. —SUN TZU ON MARCH 19, as soon ...
( Category: Engineering December 9,2018 )
Self-Defense for Gentlemen and Ladies by Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery
epub |eng | | Author:Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery

At the words “One” and “Two” the distance is gained; at the word “Three” the blow is delivered, as the right foot touches the ground. Single and double advance and ...
( Category: World December 9,2018 )
The the Cathars by Sean Martin
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Sean Martin

The Inquisition While French troops reduced the Languedoc to the sort of barren wasteland we might more readily associate with Arthurian myth or the nightmares of Bosch and Breughel, a ...
( Category: World December 9,2018 )
The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland by Logan Marshall
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Logan Marshall

HOW THE ST. LAWRENCE GULF AND RIVER ARE GUARDED BY WIRELESS STATIONS The black dots represent government owned and operated wireless stations under the station name. The “N. M.’s” and ...
( Category: Americas December 9,2018 )
Men of Fire by Jack Hurst
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Hurst

I was surprized to hear that you were to be left behind—and so was Gen Grant . . . He left to Gen McClernand and Gen Smith the [question of ...
( Category: Americas December 9,2018 )
The Catholics by Roy Hattersley
epub |eng | | Author:Roy Hattersley

CHAPTER 19 The Most Jacobinical Thing If a Catholic ploughman, homeward plodding his weary way in any part of Britain, felt passionately engaged in the struggle for complete and unqualified ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
The SBS in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Gavin Mortimer

Friday 10 March was a ‘lovely day’, according to Milner-Barry. The weather was dreamy, Stefan Casulli arrived back from the Turkish port of Bodrum with fresh meat and vegetables, and ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
Monty's Men by John Buckley
epub |eng | | Author:John Buckley

Crocker was not the only British commander to grumble about the Canadians. In early September Major General ‘Bubbles’ Barker, commanding 49th Division, complained about how the British role in First ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )

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