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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Vintage Pre-1923 Edition (improved March 2012)

Overview The classic reference work, in an edition first published before 1923. As a Word document, the file is over 14,000 pages long. We have added over 6,000 links to help you navigate to the word you want. (Searching for a word would take you to any instance of that word in definitions, not the word you want defined). With this version, you click on the first letter, then the first two letters, then on the word that's closest to to the one you want (like the guide words at the heads of pages in a printed dictionary). Product Details ISBN-13: 9781455427444 Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express Publication date: 4/7/2012 Sold by: Barnes & Noble Format: eBook Sales rank: 65.999 File size: 41 MB Note: This product may take a few minutes to download. APP

WOLF PACK:

Overview In early June 1945, nine American submarines slipped beneath the waves of the Tsushima Strait, picked their way through a dense minefield using state-of-the-art sonar, and entered the Sea of Japan, Emperor Hirohito’s "private pond." Over the next few weeks, these relentless hunters would decimate what remained of the Japanese merchant fleet, already driven to near extinction by coordinated submarine attack groups. It was the culmination of one of World War II’s most successful naval strategies–the wolf pack. In Wolf Pack,Steven Trent Smith, the acclaimed author of The Rescue, traces the development of the pack from its origins at the end of the First World War, through its devastating use by the Nazis against British convoys, to the key role it played in America’s victory in the Pacific. Drawing from personal letters and journals, ships’ logs, official reports, interviews, and thousands of top secret documents only recently declassified, Steven