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Author: Leo D. Stapleton
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1987-07-01
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780380703272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Boston Fire Commissioner describes firefighting procedures since the 1950s, recounts major fires, and describes some of the problems firefighters face
Author: C. V. Wedgwood
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 1681371235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEurope in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.
Author: Mark Draisey
Publisher:
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780857042118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection was taken at a time just prior to major changes in the boarding house conditions and the general modernisation of facilities at many of the schools, brought about by a more competitive market, plus the introduction of girls into these once male dominated institutions. This title is a unique insight into the life within 25 of Britain's leading boy's public schools just before they changed forever.
Author: John Rizzo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-01-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1451673930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the intersection of politics, law and national security--from "protect us at all costs" to "what the hell have you guys been up to, anyway?"--A lawyer's life in the CIA. Under seven presidents and 11 different CIA directors, Rizzo rose to become the CIA's most powerful career attorney. Given the agency's dangerous and secret mission, spotting and deterring possible abuses of law, offering guidance and protecting personnel from legal jeopardy was, and remains, no easy task. The author accumulated more than 30 years of war stories, and he tells most of them.
Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780195060843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war.
Author: John Matusiak
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2018-09-07
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0750989696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu, 'is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men'. Yet the prelate's mournful observation scarcely begins to encapsulate the full complexity and unspeakable horror of the greatest man-made calamity to befall Europe before the twentieth century. Claiming far more lives proportionately than either the First or Second World Wars, it was a contest involving all the major powers of Europe, in which vast mercenary armies extracted an incalculable toll upon helpless civilian populations as their commanders and the men who equipped them frequently grew rich on the profits. Swedish troops alone are said to have destroyed some 2,000 German castles, 18,000 villages and 1,500 towns, while other vast armies in the pay of Spain, France, the Holy Roman Emperor and a host of pettier princelings brought death to as many as 8 million souls. Rarely has such a perplexing tale been more in need of a new account that is both compelling and informed, and no less comprehensible than comprehensive.
Author: Gary Warner
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 1998-07-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786863679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow, for the millions of fans of ABC's "One Life to Live", comes its anniversary scrapbook, which beautifully and definitively captures 30 years of the popular soap's intrigue, fantastic plot twists, and so much more! Includes a complete wedding album and a genealogy of Llanview's illustrious residents. 350 photos, many in full color.
Author: Sigrun Haude
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-30
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9004467386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt its core, Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) explores how people tried to survive the Thirty Years’ War, on what resources they drew, and how they attempted to make sense of it. A rich tapestry of stories brings to light contemporaries’ trauma as well as women and men’s unrelenting initiatives to stem the war’s negative consequences. Through these close-ups, Sigrun Haude shows that experiences during the Thirty Years’ War were much more diverse and often more perplexing than a straightforward story line of violence and destruction can capture. Life during the Thirty Years’ War was not a homogenous vale of gloom and doom, but a multifaceted story that was often heartbreaking, yet, at times, also uplifting.
Author: Thomas F. Pendel
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1557099235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe autobiographical story of the White House doorkeeper from the Lincoln presidency to the administration of Theodore Roosevelt.
Author: Zachary Twamley
Publisher: When Diplomacy Fails Publishing
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 1919629815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApril, 1622. Matthew Lock arrives in The Hague, determined to learn the truth about the brutal murder of his parents. To survive a terrifying conspiracy, and to save his family, Lock must lean on years of training in the musket drill. But with Europe on the brink of the Thirty Years' War, following his father's guidance will not be easy. He must confront his painful past. He must fight his innermost demons. He must become a legend. Matthew Lock must become Matchlock. Matchlock and the Embassy is the first instalment in a new historical fiction series, brought to you by Zachary Twamley, host of When Diplomacy Fails Podcast.
