Biographies & Memoirs
epub, azw3 |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Annie Dillard [Dillard, Annie]

Softly, very softly, we turned to Tiziano and asked, "If you were in India, what would you be saying?" And softly, very softly, Tiziano Terzani, stirring sugar into his coffee ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

As he left, Broadfoot told the General about his own anxieties: he had tried to get the smiths and armourers in the city to manufacture some mining tools to be ...
( Category: Asia March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:James Patterson & Martin Dugard [Patterson, James & Dugard, Martin]

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( Category: Egypt March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...
( Category: Greece March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

Part III THE SIEGE In sieges, as in all undertakings, it is necessary [and] timely to consider every . . . circumstance that may happen during the execution of the ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-06-06 | Author:James M. McPherson [McPherson, James M.]

15 Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues I In May 1862, prospects for the Confederacy's survival seemed bleak. Most of the Mississippi Valley had fallen to the enemy. In Virginia, McClellan's army ...
( Category: Civil War March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Gordon S. Wood [Wood, Gordon S.]

When someone as aristocratic as William Byrd could write of the natural equality of all men, even those of different nations and races, and conclude that “the principal difference between ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-03 | Author:Nancy Rubin Stuart [Stuart, Nancy Rubin]

Hopes for a son’s tales about Yorktown for another generation of the Washingtons were crushed when George and Martha’s son, Jackie, died on November 5 from “putrid fever.” Struck by ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kurt Eichenwald

BOOK THREE THE THREAT 12 Three Yemeni men emerged from a five-story building in a Karachi housing project and walked across the street toward an outdoor food stall. A detachment ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1979-11-30 | Author:Abraham Lincoln [Lincoln, Abraham]

* * * End Project Gutenberg's Etext of Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address
( Category: Study & Teaching March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

In a survey of college admissions officers, Punahou was ranked among the ten best secondary schools in the nation. Mrs. Lucille Finlayson was reminded of that status almost every day ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-23 | Author:James Bradley [BRADLEY, JAMES]

* * * IN 1873, EMULATING COMMODORE PERRY’S mission, Japanese diplomats sailed west in an American-made warship across the Yellow Sea to open uncivilized Korea to Western ways. They brought ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Tim Weiner [Weiner, Tim]

In retrospect, you see, I really do not believe that an intelligence organization in this government is able to deliver an honest analytical product without facing the risk of political ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

It is, from Kissinger's own record and recollection, as well as from the record of the subsequent official inquiry, quite easy to demonstrate that he did have advance knowledge of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:J.R.A. [J.R.A.]

Chapter X. CAPTURE THEY flew out of the rain into bright sunlight two hours later. In a place or two over the mountains in Pennsylvania, they saw traces of snow, ...
( Category: Self-Help March 26,2014 )