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After the carnage of WWI, the world turned away from that horror: the next war would be fought in the air. That decision changed the fates of the next generation. This is a story of their love, courage, passion, survival and mercy in the Bomber War over Europe in 1942 and 1943.

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Substantially revised, the Ninth Edition of Heritage of Western Civilization provides a rich and complex picture of Western history. New editors John Reisbord and Mita Choudhury have included fourteen new selections in the Ninth Edition, six of which are authored by women. In addition, revised introductions and new questions for consideration provide the New to the Ninth Edition Volume I:• Esarhaddon, "Second Inscription of Esarhaddon"• Xenoph...

Excerpt from To the Readers of Coin's Financial School: An Answer When two metals may be used concurrently as a medium of exchange, both endowed with the legal tender quality and open to free and unrestricted coin age, there is a force affecting them as invariable in its operation and effect as the law of gravitation. It is known as Gresham's law, and declares that bad money or cheap money will always drive dearer or better money out of circu...

Excerpt from McKinleyism as It Appears to a Non-Partisan Abraham Lincoln had broad and statesman-like views concerning our trade and commerce. We could learn much as the result of his example. I have been interested to note how ignorant many self-appointed champions of our industries are of the land-marks the fathers planted. Much criticism has been aimed at the policy which proposed more liberal trade relations with Canada, and some well int...

Excerpt from McLean: A Romance of the War While crossing a level, sandy tract two of the prisoners sprang forward, threw up the crossed bayonets of the guards, and leaped from the train. They had scarcely struck the ground when the sharp reports of two muskets were heard, succeded by shots from a dozen others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com ...

Excerpt from The Citizen-Soldier: Or Memoirs of a Volunteer In the lifetime of all who arrive at mature age, there comes a period when a strong desire is felt to know more of the past, especially to know more of those from whom we claim descent. Many find even their chief pleasure in searching among parish records and local histories for some knowledge of ancestors, who for a hundred or five hundred years have been sleeping in the grave. Long...

Excerpt from Uncle Peter SkedYoung men go a-courting in Cranberry, just as they do in more ostentatious sections of the country, and they sometimes get the girls they like best and sometimes do not, and occasionally in these little com petitions for the favor of the fair sex, they maul each other with their fists, and so by a sort of counter irritation process, obtain relief from the intense sore ness and aching of their hearts. And then again...

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22. Arrived in Bellaire at 3P.M. There is trouble in the neighborhood of Grafton..." Thus begins the extraordinary journals of a modest, humble man. John Beatty (1848-1914) left his work and his home to join the Ohio volunteers in 1861. He began as most do, as a lowly private, but rose through the ranks to become a Brigadier General by 1862. Beatty faithfully recorded his daily life and experiences in what has become one of the best resources ...

A classic account of the Civil War from a Union Army Infantry officer In 1861 John Beatty raised a company of Ohio Volunteers to take their part in the great conflict between the states. From this time, as an officer of the 3rd Ohio Volunteer regiment he faithfully kept an almost daily journal of life in a Union Infantry regiment. As the campaign in West Virginia began Beatty recorded the events of army life on the march, around the campfir...

A classic account of the Civil War from a Union Army Infantry officer In 1861 John Beatty raised a company of Ohio Volunteers to take their part in the great conflict between the states. From this time, as an officer of the 3rd Ohio Volunteer regiment he faithfully kept an almost daily journal of life in a Union Infantry regiment. As the campaign in West Virginia began Beatty recorded the events of army life on the march, around the campfir...

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