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SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden by Chuck Pfarrer
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Chuck Pfarrer

Zawahiri had become Osama’s puppet master. The doctor encouraged Osama to expand the base at the Lion’s Den, and dig increasingly intricate tunnels, bunkers, and air raid shelters. There was ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy by Mark M. Lowenthal
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Mark M. Lowenthal

THE ASSASSINATION BAN: A MODERN INTERPRETATION In August 1998 the United States launched a cruise missile attack on targets in Afghanistan associated with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The ...
( Category: National & International Security March 25,2014 )
Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier by Tom Clancy
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-02-01 | Author:Tom Clancy

E-2C Hawkeye AEW aircraft on the deck of the USS George Washington (CVN-73). They generally parked alongside the island structure, on a spot called “the Hummer Hole.” JOHN D. GRESHAM ...
( Category: Military Technology March 25,2014 )
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:Simon Sebag-Montefiore

THE OUD- PLAYER: WASIF JAWHARIYYEH Wasif Jawhariyyeh started to learn the lute – or oud – as a boy, and soon he was the best oud-player in a town that ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Hannah Arendt

X Deportations from Western Europe– France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Italy “Ruthless toughness,” a quality held in the highest esteem by the rulers of the Third Reich, is frequently characterized in ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Bravo two zero by Andy McNab
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-10-15 | Author:Andy McNab

9 They must have been thousand-pounders. We heard several explosions; the area was getting severely hammered. The pressure waves hit us and the car rattled. The guards cursed. The vehicle ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Robert Fisk

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Planet Damnation . . . war began, that is, an event took place opposed to human reason and to human nature. Millions of men perpetrated against one another ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Albert Hourani

PART IV THE AGE OF EUROPEAN EMPIRES (1800–1939) The nineteenth century was the age when Europe dominated the world. The growth of large-scale factory production and the changes in methods ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

Chapter XI THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHINESE POWER At the end of his famous article “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Mackinder has a disturbing reference to China. After elucidating why the ...
( Category: Human Geography March 25,2014 )
Secret Societies by John Lawrence Reynolds
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-23 | Author:John Lawrence Reynolds

EIGHT THE MAFIA AND COSA NOSTRA WISE GUYS AND BUSINESSMEN NOTHING DISTINGUISHES THE MAFIA FROM OTHER SECRET societies more than omerta, its rigid code of silence. And nothing more clearly ...
( Category: Freemasonry March 25,2014 )
Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Stephanie Coontz

Chapter 13 Making Do, Then Making Babies: Marriage in the Great Depression and World War II In September 1929, twenty-year-old Cora Winslow was not worrying about the future of marriage. ...
( Category: Marriage & Family March 25,2014 )
A History of the World by Andrew Marr
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Andrew Marr

And Yet It Moves A day in August 1609: in one of the most gorgeously decorated rooms in the world, the Hall of the College in the Doge’s Palace in ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
Gig by John Bowe
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-17 | Author:John Bowe

I did it because I loved it. And, in addition, I got special perks and privileges, such as lots of drugs. HEAVY METAL ROADIE Thomas B. I set up my ...
( Category: Interviewing March 25,2014 )
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Niall Ferguson

5 Safe as Houses It is the English-speaking world’s favourite economic game: property. No other facet of financial life has such a hold on the popular imagination. No other asset-allocation ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
This Sceptred Isle by Lee Christopher
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Lee, Christopher [Lee, Christopher]

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE 1721–6 Robert Walpole (1676–1745) was a short, stout, ruddy-faced Norfolk farmer who hunted most of the season. In 1721 he became Britain’s first Prime Minister – a title ...
( Category: General Broadcasting March 25,2014 )

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