epub |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Ian Crofton [Crofton, Ian]

Deterrence Deterrence is the doctrine that if a country has sufficiently strong armed forces and a mighty arsenal of weaponry, no other country will dare to attack it or to ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2008-12-14 | Author:Iain M. Banks [Banks, Iain M.]

“Wake up!” Horza kicked Wubslin’s leg as he swung back into his chair. Aviger was sitting in the third seat in the flight deck, looking anxiously at the screens and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-13 | Author:Sinclair McKay

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 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Wilde

* * * *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE SOUL OF MAN *** This file should be named slman10.txt or slman10.zip Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-20 | Author:Alexander Rose

Migraine-inducing it might have been, but Roosevelt adored the Springfield Model 1903. So pleased was he with it that on November 17, 1903, just five months after the new service ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2012-02-05 | Author:David Aaronovitch

Henry Lincoln and the TV Quest for the Holy Grail At around the same time as the trial in London was closing, the movie of The Da Vinci Code was ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James M. Anderson [Anderson, James M.]

PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS The best doctors were almost always to be found in cities, and, with their superior university background, physicians were considered much more distinguished than surgeons. Medical courses ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Winder, Simon [Winder, Simon]

Carving up the world Being a monarch was by any conventional measure not all fun. But if one had to pinpoint the absolute summit of the fun monarchical experience, then ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joseph P. Byrne [Byrne, Joseph P.]

Crowds of plague-stricken people are coming here, and it is impossible to stem the tide of pestilence with inexpert people who are not used to witnessing death, and it will ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Neil M. Heyman [Heyman, Neil M.]

GETTING CAPTURED Military men fell into the hands of the enemy in a variety of ways. Airmen shot down over hostile territory became captives if they survived a crash or ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James M. Anderson [Anderson, James M.]

OCCUPATIONS Many household items were sold by itinerant vendors from door to door. From them the lady of the house could purchase candles, wood, ceramic or copper candleholders, candle snuffers, ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Guerber, H. A. [Guerber, H. A.]

CHAPTER LVII The Earthquake CIMON, as you have already seen, was very wealthy, and as generous as he was rich. Besides spending so much for the improvement of the city, ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ann Jefferson [Jefferson, Ann]

5 - WORK AND LABOR INTRODUCTION The main impulse behind colonization of the Americas was the desire for wealth, shared by whites at every level from the kings and nobility ...

epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Gregory S. Aldrete [Aldrete, Gregory S.]

GLADIATORS On some holidays, the state provided public entertainment, of which there were two broad categories. The first was ludi, meaning “games.” These took many forms, including theatrical performances, dances, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Archer, Liam [Archer, Liam]

Elizabeth I March 1534, Anne Boleyn fell pregnant again. Sometime between then and January the following year, she had the fatal miscarriage. The King’s confidence in his wife’s ability to ...