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Defending the Rock by Nicholas Rankin
epub |eng | 2017-09-16 | Author:Nicholas Rankin [Nicholas Rankin]

Field Security was a good billet for the quick-witted and worldly wise in the Second World War. Geoffrey Household and Norman Lewis, who served separately in different Field Security posts ...
( Category: Military September 16,2017 )
Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman
mobi |eng | 2011-06-08 | Author:Barbara Tuchman

Courtesy the Royal Archives, The Hague British delegation to The Hague, 1899. Front row, from left to right: Ardagh; Fisher; Pauncefote; Sir Henry Howard, Minister to The Hague. Arthur Peel ...
( Category: Military September 16,2017 )
The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman
mobi |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Barbara Tuchman

In summary, Britain’s follies were not so perverse as the Popes’. Ministers were not deaf to rising discontent, because they had no chance to be; expressed by their equals, it ...
( Category: World September 16,2017 )
Woodwork Joints / How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
epub |eng | 2007-05-19 | Author:William Fairham [Fairham, William]

Fly Rail.—Fig. 243 is a sketch of a small table with the top removed. A revolving fly rail is shown pivoted upon a piece of 1⁄4-in. wire. The object of ...
( Category: Home Improvement & Design September 16,2017 )
Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh by Joyce Tyldesley
epub |eng | 1998-01-28 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley [Tyldesley, Joyce]

Fig. 5.2 Tree being transported from Punt Five Egyptian sailing ships equipped with oars are shown arriving at Punt where the sailors disembark into small boats, unload their cargo and ...
( Category: Middle East September 16,2017 )
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom & Elizabeth Sherrill & John Sherrill
mobi |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Corrie ten Boom & Elizabeth Sherrill & John Sherrill [ten Boom, Corrie]

But—I hadn’t planned a drill for today! Who in the world—unless—unless it wasn’t a drill. Eusie dashed past me, white-faced, his pipe rattling in the ashtray that he carried in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 15,2017 )
Manifesto Comunista by Friedrich Engels
epub |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Friedrich Engels [Engels, Friedrich]

Se isso fosse verdade, há muito que a sociedade burguesa teria sucumbido à ociosidade, pois que os que no regime burguês trabalham não lucram e os que lucram não trabalham. ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism September 15,2017 )
Run the Gauntlet - The Channel Dash 1942 by Ken Ford
epub |eng | 2017-05-17 | Author:Ken Ford [Ford, Ken]

There was some later criticism of this radio silence, but the RAF responded with its reasons for insisting on reconnaissance patrols sticking to the policy: ‘This prohibition in normal circumstances ...
( Category: Military September 15,2017 )
In the Shadows of the American Century by Alfred W. MCCoy
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Alfred W. MCCoy

Part III Dynamics of US Decline Chapter Seven Grandmasters of the Great Game Washington’s moves, whether in Asia, the Greater Middle East, Europe, or for that matter space, and its ...
( Category: Americas September 15,2017 )
Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 by David Browne
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:David Browne [Browne, David]

Paul and Linda McCartney contemplate life in semi-exile on their farm outside Campbeltown, Scotland, January 1970. (Evening Standard/Getty Images) Ringo and Maureen Starr at London’s Heathrow Airport during the promotion ...
( Category: Music September 15,2017 )
My Italian Adventures by Lucy de Burgh
epub |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Lucy de Burgh

19 A Journey of Discovery C rossing the Tiber at the ancient Ponte Milvio, we branched right, up Route 3 for Florence, via Perugia. Our first stop was Assisi, where ...
( Category: World September 15,2017 )
The World of Caffeine by Weinberg Bennett Alan Bealer Bonnie K
epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Weinberg, Bennett Alan, Bealer, Bonnie K. [BENNETT ALAN WEINBERG & BONNIE K. BEALER]

Sundblom Santa advertisement for Coca-Cola. This is one of many Sundblom paintings that created the American icon of Santa Claus. The fat, red-nosed, red-cloaked, jolly Coca-Cola-drinking version of Santa Clause ...
( Category: World September 15,2017 )
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:David Brion Davis [Davis, David Brion]

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND RUNAWAY SLAVES The celebration and romanticizing of the Underground Railroad has at best been a way of publicly recognizing the humanity of slaves and the dehumanizing ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 15,2017 )
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution From the Rights of Man to Robespierre by Jonathan Israel
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Jonathan Israel [Israel, Jonathan]

CHAPTER 17 The Summer of 1793 OVERTURNING THE REVOLUTION’S CORE VALUES It took time for the victors to consolidate their dictatorship. There could be no immediate imposition of repressive measures. ...
( Category: Philosophy September 15,2017 )
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by Jeffrey J. Kripal
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Jeffrey J. Kripal

The Present Technology of Folklore: Computer Technology and Remote Viewing in the Psychic Underground Vallee had very good reasons to end his book on a note suggestive of both government ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality September 15,2017 )

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