Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:J.R.A. [J.R.A.]

THEY were fired on in front of Doc Savage’s skyscraper headquarters. The firing was done with a high-powered rifle, evidently equipped with telescopic sights and a machine rest, for the ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-23 | Author:Jilly Cooper [Cooper, Jilly]

It might appear that the average soldier spent more time fighting his camel than the enemy. But the poor beast can be excused his cantankerousness, when one considers how dreadfully ...
( Category: Military Technology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson [Hanson, Victor Davis]

On the Brink (December 1950–January 1951) On Christmas Day 1950, six months after the North Korean invasion of the south, Matthew Ridgway landed in Japan. In just half a year, ...
( Category: Military Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-02-15 | Author:Andy McNab [McNab, Andy]

I took the threat seriously. He had just confirmed my worst fears. They would give us both a good kicking, then take us off and slot us. Good, I thought, ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

In Caspar David Friedrich’s 1819 Monastery Graveyard in the Snow (Cloister Cemetery in the Snow), winter scenes recall ancient ones — snow opens the door unto a lost, mystical, medieval ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-21 | Author:Tad Friend [Friend, Tad]

______ SPORTS WERE the Shipley boys’ vehicle for advancement. David Hunt, an intense and meticulous young man who rubbed his forehead wearily when problems arose, was our leader. I was ...
( Category: Journalists March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Shakespeare

( Category: Drama March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Shakespeare

1 MURDERER. 'T is, my good lord. SUFFOLK. Away! be gone. [Exeunt Murderers.] [Sound trumpets. Enter the KING, the QUEEN, CARDINAL BEAUFORT, SOMERSET, with attendants.] KING. Go, call our uncle ...
( Category: Drama March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1961-01-01 | Author:Ernle Bradford [Bradford, Ernle]

Chapter 17 The fall of St Elmo Through the narrowstreets of Birgu, the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem went in solemn procession to the Conventual ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1974-03-25 | Author:Christopher Hibbert

The first thing that I want to impress upon you is that you ought to be grateful to God, remembering always that it is not through your merits, or your ...
( Category: Italy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Davies

The Commonwealth’s treatment of Ireland was infinitely more ‘thorough’ than anything that Strafford might have dreamed of. It cemented the Protestant Ascendancy that was to last until the twentieth century. ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-29 | Author:Chris Peers [Peers, Chris]

Offa’s Pedigree So who was this Offa? The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle follows its usual practice with prominent rulers by breaking off its narrative to insert a long genealogy. Offa’s father, we ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Charles Glass [Glass, Charles]

Although a Gestapo officer, he planned to return to Yonkers as soon as the war ended. After the suitcases had been cleared, Senegalese men, probably prisoners of war, carried them ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

There was an unusual condition of the weather that materially affected the life and nature of the Thames in previous centuries. The river had a propensity to freeze at the ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-03-25 | Author:Simon Winchester

( Category: Travel Writing March 26,2014 )