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Brits: The War Against the IRA by Taylor Peter
epub |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:Taylor, Peter [Taylor, Peter]

Chapter Twenty The Iron Lady and the Iron Men March 1976—October 1981 There were two great watersheds for the ‘Brits’ during the thirty-year ‘war’. One was ‘Bloody Sunday’ in 1972, ...
( Category: Europe July 5,2018 )
The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein by Taylor Peter
epub |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:Taylor, Peter [Taylor, Peter]

Chapter Fifteen Reassessment In his New Year message for 1978, Roy Mason declared that ‘the tide has turned against the terrorists and the message for 1978 is one of real ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 5,2018 )
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
epub |eng | 2018-07-03 | Author:Paul Thomas Chamberlin

13 The Cambodian Nightmare 1975–1979 As dawn came to Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, white sheets fluttered from windows throughout the city. Government leaders had ordered their forces to ...
( Category: Military July 5,2018 )
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-07 | Author:John Dickie [Dickie, John]

Prohibition meant bootlegging, and bootlegging brought the toughest and brightest of the multi-ethnic youth gang members to the fore. Viewed from a broader perspective than was available to Nick Gentile, ...
( Category: True Crime July 5,2018 )
Unknown Soldiers by Neil Hanson
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Neil Hanson

14 GOING OUT LIKE CANDLES On 18 June 1918, just a week after his wedding, Paul Hub parted from his new wife and family and returned to his unit on ...
( Category: Military July 5,2018 )
The World Crisis, Vol. 1 (Winston Churchill's World Crisis Collection) by Winston S. Churchill
mobi |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Winston S. Churchill

CHAPTER XIII ON THE OCEANS ‘Coastwise—cross-seas—round the world and back again, Where the flaw shall head us or the full Trade suits— Plain-sail—storm-sail—lay your board and tack again— And that’s ...
( Category: Europe July 5,2018 )
Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels by Anne Garrels
epub |eng | 2004-08-12 | Author:Anne Garrels [Garrels, Anne]

BRENDA BULLETIN: MARCH 17, 2003 A most welcome call this afternoon. Brenda is well, on her toes, thinking smart, and moving fast, if only to stay a jump ahead of ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides July 5,2018 )
Lusitania by David Ramsay
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:David Ramsay

In another section of his narrative he recounts how he went down to his stateroom on B deck to recover some documents. As he was returning to the boat deck ...
( Category: Military July 5,2018 )
The Roar of the Lion by Toye Richard
epub |eng | 2013-07-04 | Author:Toye, Richard

7 ‘Throwing a Temperament Like a Bloody Film Star’ In terms of his speech-making, 1943 had not posed very severe challenges for Churchill. With the war—at last—going pretty successfully for ...
( Category: Military July 5,2018 )
The Promise of the Grand Canyon by John F. Ross
epub |eng | 2018-07-02 | Author:John F. Ross

* * * On July 6, Thompson reported that the Major “had decided to go on ahead to Uintah as he says, but to Salt Lake as I believe.” By ...
( Category: Americas July 5,2018 )
The Monarchy of Fear by Martha C. Nussbaum
epub |eng | | Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

* * * Now let’s turn to gays, lesbians, and transgender people. Here again, there is a thread of bodily disgust running throughout the political propaganda against equal rights, which ...
( Category: Americas July 5,2018 )
When in Germany, Do as the Germans Do by Hyde Flippo
epub |eng | 2018-07-03 | Author:Hyde Flippo

Related Web links: bundestag.de—German parliament (E, G); bundesregierung.de—German government (E, G) Norman Foster’s new glass dome atop the Reichstag is open to the public. Alexander von Humboldt, the Famous German ...
( Category: Europe July 4,2018 )
We Are the Clash by Mark Andersen
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Mark Andersen

chapter six got to get a witness Joe Strummer in Granada, October 1984, wearing an Out of Control hat. (Photo by Juan Jesús Garcia.) I’ve often lost myself, in order ...
( Category: Arts & Literature July 4,2018 )
Lincoln and the Jews: A History by Jonathan D. Sarna & Benjamin Shapell
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Jonathan D. Sarna & Benjamin Shapell [Sarna, Jonathan D.]

I MYSELF HAVE A REGARD FOR THE JEWS The self-proclaimed “Prophet” Henry Wentworth Monk, here depicted in 1858 by William Holman Hunt, shared a conversation with Lincoln about restoring Jews ...
( Category: World July 4,2018 )
The Legacy of Chernobyl by Zhores Medvedev
epub |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Zhores Medvedev

There were hundreds of dead birds and most of the animals were blind. Most pets, particularly dogs, were later killed by special teams of soldiers. Dogs and cats have the ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 4,2018 )

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