Specific Topics in Politics & Government
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Richard Bassett

CHAPTER NINE KEEPING THE EMPIRE AFLOAT I would rather have three or four teeth extracted than go through that again. HITLER 1 On 19 September 1939, Churchill had recommended to ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Jay Bahadur [Bahadur, Jay]

While pirate gangs have proven remarkably adept at outmanoeuvring the international naval armada, they have no monopoly on the ability to adapt tactics. The Panamanian-flagged cargo ship Almezaan had been ...
( Category: African March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Gordon Thomas [Thomas, Gordon]

The first suicide bomber had struck in Israel on a warm spring day in April 1993. Others soon followed, killing hundreds and wounding thousands. Men, women, and children had died ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Simpson, Paul [Simpson, Paul]

10 THE EMPIRES STRIKE BACK The first half of the eighties was a time of mounting tension. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan had led to the US and others boycotting ...
( Category: World March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Avner, Yehuda [Avner, Yehuda]

It was Ezer Weizman, his defense minister, and I gathered from what was being said that there had been two Katyusha rocket attacks by the PLO, from southern Lebanon into ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Andrew Cook [Cook, Andrew]

ELEVEN FINAL CURTAIN Instead of heading for New York as scheduled, the captain of the SS Olympic docked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 21 April, due to propeller trouble.1 Although ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:REZA KAHLILI

17 THE TORCH IS PASSED INSIDE MEHRABAD AIRPORT’S terminal, echoing voices competed with loudspeaker flight arrival and departure announcements. Somaya and Omid were waiting at the gate outside customs. I ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Antonio J. Mendez & Matt Baglio [Mendez, Antonio J. & Baglio, Matt]

9 HOLLYWOOD I met Jerome Calloway for the first time during the early 1970s, on the set of a spy-themed TV show. The show was popular in the late 1960s ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Brendan I. Koerner [Koerner, Brendan I.]

FLIGHT 364 WAS now so close to Maison Blanche Airport that Holder could make out the beaches along the Mediterranean, still full of bathers soaking up the day’s last rays ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-12-01 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

16 Net Force HQ Quantico, Virgina It was getting late, well past quitting time, and Thorn was ready to head home, when he looked up to see Marissa Lowe standing ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |rus | 2011-11-07 | Author:Yu Hua [Hua, Yu]

In the 1990s, as the tide of economic development swept over China, a similar situation began to reappear. In the fields surrounding one large steel plant in eastern China, backyard ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Andrew P. Napolitano

What Could Have Been: Two Fewer Days of Remembrance? As the previous statistics prove, these bans do not help protect you. In fact, you are worse off with gun prohibitions ...
( Category: Specific Topics in Politics & Government March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:MacKinnon, Rebecca [MacKinnon, Rebecca]

CHAPTER 10 Facebookistan and Googledom In May 2010, Hong Kong–based university professor and communications scholar Lokman Tsui decided to delete his Facebook account. In a blog post explaining his decision, ...
( Category: Social Aspects March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Rebecca MacKinnon

CHAPTER 10 Facebookistan and Googledom In May 2010, Hong Kong–based university professor and communications scholar Lokman Tsui decided to delete his Facebook account. In a blog post explaining his decision, ...
( Category: Social Aspects March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Mark Mazzetti

12: THE SCALPEL’S EDGE “We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours.” —President Ali Abdullah Saleh The meeting was set up for a surrender, a symbolic gesture of peace ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )