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War & Military

547

Smedley Butler - War Is a Racket

Army Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, “I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of my time being...

John Greenman 1 hour

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Biography & Autobiography

617

Albert Bigelow Paine - Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III

This work has been considered the «go-to» bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain....

John Greenman 23 hours 10 minutes

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Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places

Travel & Geography

467

William Caruthers - Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places

William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to stories told by the inhabitants of Death Valley. This 1951 book collects those stories; the printed version has many interesting pictures....

David Wales 7 hours 35 minutes

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War & Military

547

Heywood Broun - Our Army at the Front

During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by notable New York Tribune war correspondent, Heywood Broun. Although Broun better...

Delmar H Dolbier and 9 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake

Technology & Engineering

501

William Henry Irwin - San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake

As all but Martians know (and who knows, perhaps even they), the city of San Francisco, California, was destroyed by massive earthquake and unquenchable fire in April, 1906. Will Irwin was a sometime San Franciscan...

David Wales 50 minutes

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Night The Mountain Fell; The Story Of The Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake

Nature

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Edmund Christopherson - Night The Mountain Fell; The Story Of The Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake

A severe earthquake, centered in the vacation area of West Yellowstone, Montana, shook the ground and its inhabitants and visitors on August 17, 1959, at 11.37 pm. A mountainside fell, a lake formed, roads and houses...

David Wales 1 hour 55 minutes

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Citizen's Almanac - Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the United States

Culture & Heritage Fiction

500

United States of America - Citizen's Almanac - Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the United States

New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet when they became citizens. The Citizen's Almanac contains information on the history, people, and events that have brought us where we are today as a beacon...

Beau Wood and 5 more 2 hours 49 minutes

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War & Military

470

Bruce Bairnsfather - Bullets & Billets

A front-line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front in the early part of 1914-1915. Told by Lieutenant (later Captain) Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, whose Alf, Bert, and Old Bill were forerunners to Bill...

DrPGould 4 hours 26 minutes

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Law

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Unknown - Tales Of The Royal Irish Constabulary

The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the armed police force of the United Kingdom in Ireland from the early nineteenth century until 1922. About seventy-five percent of...

David Wales 7 hours 41 minutes

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War & Military

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Franklin D. Roosevelt - Fireside Chats

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thirty radio addresses made throughout his terms as President of the United States between 1933 and 1944. The speeches are snapshots of American life during the turbulent decade...

Maria Kasper and 10 more 9 hours 2 minutes

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Martyrdom Of Belgium; Official Report Of Massacres Of Peaceable Citizens, Women And Children By The German Army; Testimony Of Eye-Witnesses

War & Military

526

George Cooreman - Martyrdom Of Belgium; Official Report Of Massacres Of Peaceable Citizens, Women And Children By The German Army; Testimony Of Eye-Witnesses

The title says it all. World War I narratives of German activities in Belgium after the German invasion of this neutral country. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 1 hour

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*Non-fiction

491

Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Mob Rule In New Orleans

Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and one of the founders of...

Holly Jenson 2 hours 27 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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