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Images of War [00] The Soviet-Afghan War by Anthony Tucker-Jones
epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Anthony Tucker-Jones [Tucker-Jones, Anthony]

This guerrilla is evidently a full-time RPG operator as the pack on his back is for spare grenades. He is wearing a Soviet tank crew helmet, which was probably atrophy ...
( Category: Asia August 19,2017 )
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Leslie T. Chang

Soon after they started dating, Chunming sensed he wasn’t right for her. He frequently borrowed money from his parents and lacked her gift for hard work. “He couldn’t accomplish the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup Against Salvador Allende, September 11, 1973 by Guardiola-Rivera Oscar
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar [Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar]

They were never really council meetings. Instead, Allende would give us a pep talk. He would tell us that national security was in peril because of the CIA and other ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Small Wars, Faraway Places by Michael Burleigh
epub |eng | 2013-08-10 | Author:Michael Burleigh

Revealed Realities On 14 October Eden met with Albert Gazier, the acting French Foreign Minister, and General Maurice Challe, Chief of the French General Staff. Challe outlined a bold plan: ...
( Category: Military August 19,2017 )
Syrian Notebooks by Jonathan Littell
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Littell

_______________ 37 In Spanish, little stuffed patties. 38 Note to the Verso edition: until Syrian rebels from the surrounding countryside stormed, in July 2012, over half the city of Aleppo, ...
( Category: Middle East August 19,2017 )
Inside Syria by Reese Erlich
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Reese Erlich

We are committed not to work toward developing and producing a nuclear bomb. As enunciated in the fatwa issued by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, we strongly believe that the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia by Malia Martin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-06-30 | Author:Malia, Martin

THE COLD WAR Externally the Patriotic War brought the Soviet Union an empire, but internally it set her back almost to where she had been a decade earlier. Thus, if ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Stalin and His Hangmen by Donald Rayfield
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Donald Rayfield

When Kamenev and Zinoviev were charged with Kirov’s murder, the new edition of Machiavelli was stopped, and the volume with Kamenev’s foreword was pulped. Weeks passed before Zinoviev and Kamenev ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2017 )
The World Was Going Our Way by Christopher Andrew
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-08-05 | Author:Christopher Andrew [Andrew, Christopher]

At the elections of February 1971 Mrs Gandhi won a landslide victory. With seventy seats more than the undivided Congress had won in 1967, her Congress (R) had a two-thirds ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2017 )
A Death in Washington by Gary Kern
epub | | | Author:Gary Kern [Kern, Gary]

28 IN HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE Life for Krivitsky was pure calculation. The world was a battleground of competing ideologies, governments and intelligence agencies. Every individual, if not an enemy, was ...
( Category: True Crime August 19,2017 )
Russia by Philip Longworth
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip Longworth [LONGWORTH, PHILIP]

The besetting imperial dilemma of St Petersburg’s bureaucrats at that time was whether to devolve power in the Empire or to centralize it. Should governors be accorded the freedom to ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2017 )
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Jan Morris [Morris, Jan]

1 Whose grandson, the third baron, now lives at 7, Lord Sinha Road, Calcutta. 2 ‘Because the great Harcourt Butler Sahib is taking care of us,’ Indian mothers were alleged ...
( Category: Europe August 19,2017 )
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, From Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister by John Campbell & David Freeman
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:John Campbell & David Freeman

(2) SDI-related deployment would, in view of treaty obligations, have to be a matter for negotiations; (3) The overall aim is to enhance, not undercut deterrence; (4) East – West ...
( Category: World August 19,2017 )
The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt by Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick & Hannelore Brenner
epub |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick & Hannelore Brenner [Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick & Hannelore Brenner]

( Category: World August 19,2017 )
Infidels by Andrew Wheatcroft
epub |eng | 2004-08-19 | Author:Andrew Wheatcroft [Wheatcroft, Andrew]

Then Lazar himself declared, I’d rather shed my blood Than draw near to or bow down To the cursed and evil Murderer, Hagar.13 The traditional language used about Islam since ...
( Category: Theology August 19,2017 )

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