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  The Good Fight - From Bullets to...

  Jim McDowell

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  The year is 1969. The start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Jim McDowell, a rookie reporter, it was the beginning of a life at the heart of one of world's most notorious and bitter conflicts.
  His gripping memoir reveals what it was like to live under constant fear of attack and delves into Northern Ireland's criminal underworld, including Jim's tense encounters with infamous terrorist drug dealers and killer gang godfathers like Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair and Billy 'King Rat' Wright.
  McDowell's career spanned 45 years as he rose to become northern editor of Ireland's Sunday World, facing down threats, beatings and the murder of one of his reporters, Martin O'Hagan, to expose the stories that needed to be told. Always fighting the good fight.
  'Those stories – even the ones that put my life in danger – had to be told. That was my job. That was what I did. It is what I do. And this, now, is my story.'
  45 years. 21 death threats. Over 2,000 front pages. This is Jim's story.

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  Thomas Jefferson

  Henry Moscow

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  President Thomas Jefferson wrote America's Declaration of Independence, but he also was an anthropologist, architect, astronomer, botanist, diplomat, farmer, inventor, lawyer, mathematician, and musician. He spoke French, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. He founded the University of Virginia and today's Democratic Party. During his eight years in office, he doubled the country's size.Public schools, the denominations of American coins, and many of the liberties citizens of the United States take for granted are, in one way or another, the work of the man who was born on April 13, 1743, in a simple, four-room house in Shadwell, Virginia.

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  Summary of Lawrence Wright's The...

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of Lawrence Wright's The Terror Years is a collection of Wright’s essays from The New Yorker and other venues about radical Islamic terror in the 2000s. 
  Terrorist activities are shaped by the experiences, ideology, and choices of terrorist leaders. The wave of international terrorism in the 1990s and 2000s came about in part because of the partnership of Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon. Al-Qaeda’s increased brutality and its escalating attacks on Muslims were the result of the rise in influence of convicted Jordanian criminal Musab al-Zarqawi, who gained control of al-Qaeda operations in Iraq. Conversely, when Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, also known as Dr. Fadl, an important Egyptian theorist of violent terrorism, renounced indiscriminate violence in 2007, it had a splintering effect on the Islamic terrorist movement and reduced the threat of violence, especially in Egypt. 
  US counterterrorism officials…

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  51 Inspiring Stories Behind The...

  Hymnsify

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  Brace Yourself for a Transformative Experience. 
  Have you ever been curious about the captivating stories behind your favorite hymns? In this book, prepare to embark on a journey of discovery as you unravel the uplifting, authentic narratives behind 51 of the most-loved hymns of the Christian faith. 
  This timeless collection of classic hymn stories goes beyond mere familiarity. It will help you see worship in a new light as you read about the stories and people behind these hymns that have anchored the Christian faith for centuries. Brace yourself for a transformative experience that will deepen your devotion, inspire and challenge you in your worship and walk with the Lord.On these pages, you will find:51 Short, fascinating stories and historical events that provide context for each hymn.Thoughtful questions for personal reflections.The original lyrics of each hymn.6 Reasons we should sing hymns 
  This devotional book on the histories of some of the most well-known hymns you sing in worship is something you'll cherish whether you're new to hymns or have loved them for a long time. It is excellent for personal or family devotions. It is also a valuable source of illustrations for pastors, song leaders, and music ministers.Some Hymns Stories Included:Chapter 1: Amazing GraceChapter 2: Abide with MeChapter 3: Alas, and Did My Savior BleedChapter 4: All Hail the Power of Jesus’ NameChapter 5: All Things Bright and BeautifulChapter 6: Are You Washed in the Blood?Chapter 7: Be Still My SoulChapter 8: Be Thou My VisionChapter 9: Blessed Assurance, Jesus is MineChapter 10: Come, Thou Font of Every BlessingChapter 11: Count Your Blessings

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  Unofficial History -...

  William Slim

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  A career soldier, veteran of both World Wars, and British war hero remembers the campaigns he fought—and his worthy foes.     Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Field Marshal Sir William Slim came to admire “all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me.” Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India’s Northwest Frontier. In 1920, Slim took part in a retaliatory raid on an obscure village. It was an unusually easy victory over the canny Wazirs, whom the British took by surprise and escaped from with scant loss. Afterwards, in the casual frontier way, the British sent a message to the Wazirs, expressing surprise at the enemy’s unusually poor shooting. The Wazirs replied in courtly fashion that their rifles were Short Magazine Lee-Enfields captured in previous fights with the British, and that they had failed to sight the guns to accord with a new stock of ammunition. Now, having calculated the adjustment, they would be delighted to demonstrate their bull’s-eye accuracy any time the British wanted. “One cannot help feeling,” Slim says, “that the fellows who wrote that ought to be on our side.” Slim genuinely enjoyed his virtually blood-free skirmishes with such foes as the Turks, the Wazirs and the Italians in 1940 Ethiopia.   “An attempt to depict the lives of ordinary men in and out of combat. The accounts are written with style, wit and exceptional humanity.”—Tom Hall

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  Jackie Kennedy Onassis - The...

  Michael W. Simmons

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  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was, for much of her life, the most famous woman in the world. First as the chic, sophisticated wife of President John F. Kennedy, she was the woman who brought Paris to its heels and turned the White House into the living museum of American history that it is today. After her husband’s assassination, she served as a symbol of strength to Americans reeling from the tragic events of November 22, 1963. The black-veiled widow who presented a stoic face to the world during Kennedy’s funeral procession seemed capable of doing no wrong. 
  But in her private life, Jackie was tormented by the Kennedy assassination to a degree that few people outside her immediate circle ever realized. After the assassination of her brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy, she stunned the world, and her own closest relations, by marrying Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who was twenty-three years older than her. Suddenly vilified by the press as a fortune seeker who had turned her back on the American people, she would spend the rest of her life struggling to gain the one thing that she had been denied in her life of immense privilege: control over her own destiny.

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