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Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz
epub |eng | 2006-07-22 | Author:Abel Paz [Abel Paz]

CHAPTER XXV Toward the “Popular Front” The time that Durruti spent going in and out of jail did not undermine his optimism or change the direction of his thought, but ...
( Category: Canadian February 15,2020 )
Interrupted Life - Etty Hillesum by Etty Hillesum
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Etty Hillesum [Hillesum, Etty]

Letters from Westerbork Westerbork Monday, 1:00 P.M., in the Mahlers’ cubbyhole, where Eichwald is at this moment making me porridge. 1 My dear people,2 I really am going to send ...
( Category: Holocaust February 14,2020 )
Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig Symonds
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Craig Symonds [Symonds, Craig]

8 “I Shall Have to Cut This Knot” Lincoln as Adjudicator IT WAS NOT ALL BAD NEWS. Though the reports from the Army of the Potomac were devastating, those from ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 14,2020 )
George IV by Stella Tillyard
epub |eng | 2019-07-03 | Author:Stella Tillyard

4 Regent of Style Under the terms of the act that enabled the Regency, George III was suspended from carrying out his royal functions and the Prince of Wales, as ...
( Category: Great Britain February 14,2020 )
When the Flagpoles Bloomed by Vera Oredsson
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-11-30 | Author:Vera Oredsson

Heidi Lauban fall/winter 1941/42. Lauban: a small town in Schlesien, an idyllic place with smaller rows of houses, where the streets are lined with hostels and lanes that blended into ...
( Category: Europe February 14,2020 )
Breverton's Phantasmagoria: A Compendium of Monsters, Myths and Legends by Breverton Terry
epub |eng | | Author:Breverton, Terry

* * * Recent Sightings of the Flying Dutchman The ensign on watch on the iron-clad screw frigate HMS Inconstant made an entry in the ship’s log on the night ...
( Category: Mythology & Folklore February 14,2020 )
The Three-Cornered War by Megan Kate Nelson
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Megan Kate Nelson

* * * Clark had been back from the Mogollon expedition for two months when a letter arrived in Santa Fe, detailing the discoveries that Joseph Reddeford Walker’s adventurers had ...
( Category: American Civil War February 14,2020 )
Franklin & Washington by Edward J. Larson
epub |eng | 2019-11-26 | Author:Edward J. Larson

Book III Working Together and Apart Six Rendezvous in Philadelphia WITH CIVIC BOOSTERS INTENT on turning Philadelphia into the commercial, financial, and perhaps political capital of the newly independent states, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 14,2020 )
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson
epub |eng | 2020-02-11 | Author:Kate Winkler Dawson

* * * — When police asked Schwartz’s wife to identify his body, she had recognized his watch, a sure sign that the man on the table was her husband. ...
( Category: Women in History February 13,2020 )
Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington by Lachlan Markay & Asawin Suebsaeng
epub |eng | 2020-02-15 | Author:Lachlan Markay & Asawin Suebsaeng

* * * — WHEN the Daily Mail contacted the White House to request comment on its initial Porter story, the West Wing quickly went into a defensive posture. The ...
( Category: Political February 13,2020 )
Incidents Of Travel In Yucatan by John L. Stephens
epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:John L. Stephens [Stephens, John L.]

Early in the morning we set out for the ruins of Zayi, or Salli. At a short distance from the rancho we saw in an overgrown milpa on our left ...
( Category: Travel Writing February 13,2020 )
Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon by Lesley Adkins
azw3 |eng | 2004-12-12 | Author:Lesley Adkins [Adkins, Lesley]

Thirteen: An Irish Intruder A whole month of digging at Nineveh produced only a few fragments of sculpture and cuneiform inscriptions, and so Layard decided to return to Nimrud, employing ...
( Category: Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer February 13,2020 )
The Private Life of the Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
epub |eng | | Author:John Lewis-Stempel

If the hare is a symbol of spring, of dawn, of fertility, the creature truly belongs to the moon. The ambivalent, inexplicable hare is the lunar animal sans pareil. Like ...
( Category: Natural History February 13,2020 )
Mobituaries by Mo Rocca
epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Mo Rocca

They named their group the Washington Temperance Society after George Washington—apparently unaware that the first president lived out his retirement at Mount Vernon running a thriving rye distillery. The Washingtonians ...
( Category: United States February 13,2020 )
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation by David Edgerton
epub |eng | 2018-05-25 | Author:David Edgerton

CARS AND SHIPS Textiles were clearly a dying industry, but there were many industries which were extraordinarily successful. The British motor car industry was very large and fast-growing, and rapidly ...
( Category: Economic History February 13,2020 )

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