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The Desert and the Sea by Michael Scott Moore
epub |eng | 2018-07-23 | Author:Michael Scott Moore

XV Somebody unearthed an antique meat grinder from the bowels of the ship, and Sosan set to work on a three-day project to clean and reassemble it. He let the ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 11,2018 )
Bones of My Grandfather by Clay Bonnyman Evans
epub |eng | 2018-06-21 | Author:Clay Bonnyman Evans

Contrary to some later reports, my grandfather was never idle during the Battle of Tarawa. Sometime during the day on November 21, Maj. George R.L. Cooper committed the sixty men ...
( Category: Military October 10,2018 )
The Modern Prince by Carnes Lord
epub |eng | 2018-10-09 | Author:Carnes Lord

XV EDUCATION AND CULTURE Opinion polls in the United States show that education is regularly seen by the general public as a political issue of the highest priority, and politicians—particularly ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 10,2018 )
On Revolution by Hannah Arendt & Jonathan Schell
epub |eng | 2006-09-25 | Author:Hannah Arendt & Jonathan Schell [Arendt, Hannah]

CHAPTER FIVE FOUNDATION II: NOVUS ORDO SAECLORUM Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. —Virgil 1 Power and authority are no more the same than are power and violence. We have ...
( Category: Philosophy October 10,2018 )
Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor
epub |eng | 2018-10-09 | Author:Norman F. Cantor

codification. The results were not encouraging, for even Henry’s scholars were unable to synthesize a comprehensive system out of the welter of Germanic, feudal, and ecclesiastical traditions. The social need ...
( Category: Europe October 10,2018 )
The Story of Christianity: Volume 1 by Justo L. Gonzalez
epub |eng | 2018-10-09 | Author:Justo L. Gonzalez

( Category: History October 10,2018 )
Muhammad by Juan Cole
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:Juan Cole

EVENTS IN THE Hejaz likely mirrored geopolitical struggles. The end of formal hostilities with Iran did not relieve the Romans of anxieties about the possibility of renewed Sasanian aggression. Constantinople ...
( Category: Middle East October 10,2018 )
Traveling with Che Guevara by Alberto Granado
epub |eng | | Author:Alberto Granado

Huambo, 14 April 1952 Today we saw the other part of the hospital, the patients’ section. If we got a sorry impression of where the staff work, the area where ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 10,2018 )
The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 1, Global War by Jay Winter
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Jay Winter [Winter, Jay]

28 John Gooch, The Plans of War: The general staff and British Military Strategy c.1900–1916 (London: Routledge, 1974), pp. 323–30. 29 Dan Todman, ‘The Grand Lamasery revisited: General Headquarters on ...
( Category: Military October 10,2018 )
The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, Civil Society by Jay Winter
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Jay Winter [Winter, Jay]

Mobilising bodies and minds We should nevertheless remember that the intellectual did not suddenly emerge as the social type best prepared for war. Stereotypes to which a level of Europe-wide ...
( Category: Military October 10,2018 )
Boko Haram by Brandon Kendhammer
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:Brandon Kendhammer [Kendhammer, Brandon]

Figure 2. “Wanted poster” showing Boko Haram’s suspected leadership in mid-2015 Most important, however, was Shekau’s own ideology of takfir and support of violence. In July 2014, Shekau recorded a ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 9,2018 )
Killing the SS by Bill O'Reilly
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Bill O'Reilly

16 MAY 31, 1962 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA LATE EVENING Zvi Aharoni may soon confront the Angel of Death. The Israeli spy nervously fingers his passport, just moments away from entering ...
( Category: World October 9,2018 )
The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Robert Kagan

* * * — The decade of the 2000s delivered a series of powerful blows both to the liberal order and to the United States, and the United States inflicted ...
( Category: Americas October 9,2018 )
Fidel Castro Reader by Fidel Castro
epub |eng | | Author:Fidel Castro [Deutschmann, David; Shnookal, Deborah]

7.THE OCTOBER MISSILE CRISIS After a US spy plane photographed Soviet missiles in Cuba on October 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced a total naval blockade of Cuba. The crisis peaked ...
( Category: Americas October 8,2018 )
Beyond the Pale by Vron Ware
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Vron Ware

Annette Ackroyd (1842–1929) with her pupils in March 1875 Her personal story is useful because it reveals some of the complexities of a Victorian feminist’s response to questions of race, ...
( Category: Sociology October 8,2018 )

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