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The Train to Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell
epub |eng | | Author:Jan Jarboe Russell

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The False Passports On the morning of January 20, 1945, while Ingrid was still at sea on the MS Gripsholm, a fourteen-year-old girl, Irene Hasenberg, slept on a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 11,2020 )
Casanova: Paris and Prison (World Classic) Volume 2 by Giacomo Casanova
epub |eng | 2016-06-17 | Author:Giacomo Casanova

CHAPTER XVIII Visit to the Convent and Conversation With M. M.—A Letter from Her, and My Answer—Another Interview At the Casino of Muran In the Presence of Her Lover According ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 11,2020 )
Storms and Dreams by John Dunmore
epub |eng | 2015-03-10 | Author:John Dunmore

On 5 November, Bougainville set off for Paimboeuf with Lemoyne. Nassau-Siegen stayed a little longer in Nantes ‘where he had friends with whom he was enjoying a merry time’.9 Louis ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2020 )
Josephus's The Jewish War by Martin Goodman;
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-08-09 | Author:Martin Goodman;

FIGURE 4.3. Masada. The site of the mass suicide of Sicarii according to book 7 of the Jewish War. Photo, courtesy of Andrew Shiva. If the site of Masada struck ...
( Category: Rome March 11,2020 )
Famous Men of Ancient Times by S.G. Goodrich
epub |eng | | Author:S.G. Goodrich

ALEXANDER, KING OF MACEDON. .................. IT IS NOW SOMEWHAT MORE than two thousand years since this warrior flourished; yet his image continues to stand out from the page of history ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2020 )
Arawata Bill by Ian Dougherty
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Dougherty

Long-lost brothers Jack (left) and Bill O’Leary visiting the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in Wellington, 1940. The eight O’Leary children had gone their separate ways. This was the first time ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2020 )
Hanging Captain Gordon by Ron Soodalter
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Ron Soodalter

The list of supplicants who visited Lincoln included the librarian of Congress, the president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the governor of Massachusetts, former postmaster general Montgomery Blair, and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 11,2020 )
When It Was Grand by LeeAnna Keith
epub |eng | | Author:LeeAnna Keith

Having seized his highbrow booty, Higginson and his black regiment took pains to cover their retreat, consigning the town of St. Mary and several outlying plantations to the flames.24 Montgomery ...
( Category: Political Parties March 11,2020 )
The Incredible Life Story of Frederick Douglass (3 Autobiographies in One Edition) by Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:Frederick Douglass [Douglass, Frederick]

CHAPTER XIII. THE VICISSITUDES OF SLAVE LIFE Table of Contents Death of old Master's son Richard speedily followed by that of old Master--Valuation and division of all the property, including ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Swinburne
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Algernon Swinburne [Swinburne, Algernon]

* * * THOMAS MIDDLETON If it be true, as we are told on high authority, that the greatest glory of England is her literature and the greatest glory of ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 11,2020 )
The English Governess at the Siamese Court by Anna Leonowens
epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Anna Leonowens

XX. AMUSEMENTS OF THE COURT. Of all the diversions of the court the most polite, and at the same time the most engrossing, is the drama. In a great sala, ...
( Category: Women March 11,2020 )
Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie
epub |eng | 2017-01-30 | Author:Fawn M. Brodie [Fawn M. Brodie]

Published by New Word City, Inc. For more information about New Word City, visit our Web site at NewWordCity.com Copyright © 2017 by American Heritage Publishing. All rights reserved. American ...
( Category: Irish March 11,2020 )
A World Erased by Noah Lederman
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Noah Lederman [Lederman, Noah]

* * * * Most likely, when she says “river,” Grandma is referring to one of the canals that the four hundred Jewish boys and men imprisoned in Karczew had ...
( Category: World War II March 11,2020 )
Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War by Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Frederick Douglass

II. THE CIVIL WAR How to End the War TO OUR mind, there is but one easy, short and effectual way to suppress and put down the desolating war which ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 11,2020 )
QUEEN EMMA AND THE VIKINGS by HARRIET O'BRIEN
epub |eng | 2010-08-22 | Author:HARRIET O'BRIEN

CHAPTER NINE Image and Empire There was, the old monk recalls, much hushed respect, even a sense of awe. Everyone who had gathered at the Church of Christ was very ...
( Category: Women in History March 10,2020 )

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