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Secret Life of Bletchley Park by McKay Sinclair
mobi |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:McKay Sinclair

18 1942: Grave Setbacks and Internal Strife ‘You mustn’t think that it was all harmony at BP,’ says one veteran. ‘There were some pretty ferocious internal squabbles too.’ As 1942 ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
The Battle of Britain by Richard Overy
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-12-14 | Author:Richard Overy

A VICTORY OF SORTS I think we have managed to avoid losing this war. But when I think how on earth we are going to win it, my imagination quails. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Anne Applebaum

We consumed the half pint of barley coffee we received for breakfast, the soup and vegetable we got for lunch and the vegetable served us as dinner standing on the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
The fracture zone: a return to the Balkans by Simon Winchester
mobi |eng | 1999-12-15 | Author:Simon Winchester

The frontier with Montenegro is half an hour’s drive from the outskirts of Dubrovnik. From the main road it is possible to see—impossible to avoid, in fact—the zigzag track that ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Timothy Snyder

Home to much of the Polish educated classes and to Europe’s largest society of Jews, Warsaw was a metropolis that had no place in the Nazi worldview. As of spring ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Tony Judt

The Sixties ended badly everywhere. The closing of the long post-war cycle of growth and prosperity dispelled the rhetoric and the projects of the New Left; the optimistic emphasis on ...
( Category: Adult & Continuing Education March 25,2014 )
Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Peter FitzSimons

The three men get onto the raft in the mid-morning with such possessions as they have and wave goodbye to those who farewell them on the shore, waves that continue ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Victor Cha

We have some problems with this. This comment by the DPRK Six-Party negotiator on a U.S. draft of a verification protocol of the North’s nuclear declaration started the cycle back ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
The Cleanest Race by B. R. Myers
mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:B. R. Myers

† I say “current,” because the myths have changed over the decades. It was not until the mid-1960s, for example, that the Text began claiming Kim Il Sung had defeated ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Barbara Demick

CHAPTER 11 WANDERING SWALLOWS Boys at a North Korean market. IN HER FREQUENT VISITS TO THE CHONGJIN TRAIN STATION, Mrs. Song probably crossed paths with a boy wearing an indigo ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 25,2014 )
Unit 731 by Gold Hal
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Gold, Hal [Gold, Hal]

Soviet demands that Emperor Hirohito face trial for war crimes caused the Japanese great distress, as this recently (1995) released note from the Foreign Ministry to SCAP shows. Pingfang's double ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights With Japan's Next Generation by Karl Taro Greenfeld
mobi |eng | 1995-08-10 | Author:Karl Taro Greenfeld

“Hello, uh, this is Takehiro Hashimoto speaking, may I please speak with Keiko Nakagami?” “That is me.” “Uh. Thank you very much for coming to lunch with my family and ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Husain Haqqani
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-15 | Author:Husain Haqqani

Ansari’s description shows a Zia ul-Haq who believed that his policies of Islamization at home would strengthen Pakistan against those conspiring to move Pakistan away from Islam. By codifying Islamic ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Instant City by Steve Inskeep
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Steve Inskeep

10 EMERGENCY NUMBERS This is where we last encountered Dr. Seemin Jamali, the “Incharge” of the emergency department at Jinnah hospital. On February 5, 2010, an argument was boiling at ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
When China rules the world: the rise of the middle kingdom and the end of the western world by Martin Jacques
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-25 | Author:Martin Jacques

CHINA’S NEW TURN At the beginning of the 1990s China, with the reform era already a decade old, still existed for the most part in a state of splendid isolation, ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )

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