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The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany by Helga Schneider
epub |eng | 2007-09-27 | Author:Helga Schneider [Schneider, Helga]

There was a discreet bush telegraph between the cellars in our district. Strange rumours were circulating about the Führer: there was a theory, for example, that he had escaped abroad ...
( Category: Military February 21,2019 )
The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew G. McCabe
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:Andrew G. McCabe

5 Benghazi to Boston RELIVING THE HORROR, AGAIN AND AGAIN No Red Lines Try to hit the alligator closest to the boat. In 2011, when I returned to headquarters from ...
( Category: Historical February 20,2019 )
The Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart
epub |eng | 2003-02-18 | Author:Andrea Stuart

By the end of April 1798 the secret plans for the Egyptian campaign were complete. On 4 May the Bonapartes – travelling in separate vehicles – left Paris. Five days ...
( Category: Europe February 19,2019 )
Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Baier Bret & Whitney Catherine
azw3 |eng | 2018-05-14 | Author:Baier, Bret & Whitney, Catherine [Baier, Bret]

REAGAN WAS NERVOUS. It had been the hardest year of his presidency, weighted down by scandals and staff upheavals. His poll numbers had dipped by more than twenty points, and ...
( Category: Americas February 18,2019 )
Life in the Middle Ages by Richard Winston
azw, epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:Richard Winston [Winston, Richard]

The merchants were an anomaly in the medieval scheme of things. They did not belong to the three great classes that supposedly made up the whole society: those who fight, ...
( Category: Europe February 16,2019 )
Great American Lives by Benjamin Franklin
epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin Franklin

ORGANIZATION CHARTS—UNION AND CONFEDERATE UNION ARMY ON THE RAPIDAN, MAY 5, 1864. [COMPILED.] LIEUTENANT-GENERAL U. S. GRANT, Commander-in-Chief. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE G. MEADE, Commanding Army of the Potomac. MAJ.-GEN. W. S. ...
( Category: Historical February 16,2019 )
Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen & Heather Dune Macadam
epub |eng | 1996-08-14 | Author:Rena Kornreich Gelissen & Heather Dune Macadam [Gelissen, Rena Kornreich & Macadam, Heather Dune]

"Where is your God now?" My spirit withers . . . I do not know. "What's wrong, Rena?" I have been staring at nothing for days, going through the motions ...
( Category: World February 15,2019 )
Warwick the Kingmaker by Michael Hicks
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Michael Hicks [Hicks, Michael]

NOTES 1. Harriss, ‘Struggle’, 44–7. The commissioners included Fauconberg, Sir Edmund Mulsho, Osbert Mountford, Richard Whetehill and John Proud, ibid. 46n. 2. Paston L & P ii. 143, 148; E ...
( Category: Europe February 14,2019 )
The Kennedy Brothers: The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby by Richard D. Mahoney
epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Richard D. Mahoney [Mahoney, Richard D.]

December 29, 1962 Miami, Florida During the height of the Cuban missile crisis, Bobby Kennedy had instructed CIA director John McCone to halt all covert operations aimed at Cuba. When ...
( Category: Historical February 14,2019 )
Up from Slavery: an autobiography by Booker T. Washington
epub |eng | 2000-10-01 | Author:Booker T. Washington [Washington, Booker T.]

Chapter XI. Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them A little later in the history of the school we had a visit from General J.F.B. Marshall, the Treasurer ...
( Category: Ethnic & National February 13,2019 )
Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival by Clara Kramer & Stephen Glantz
epub |eng | 2010-04-19 | Author:Clara Kramer & Stephen Glantz [Kramer, Clara & Glantz, Stephen]

Beck didn’t say anything. He grabbed the bottle of vodka that he and Klara were drinking from and sat on the bed, calm as buttered toast now. Patrontasch wrapped his ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2019 )
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Massie Robert K
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Massie, Robert K. [Massie, Robert K.]

On October 18, 1963, the cover of Life, the nation’s most prominent and widely read weekly magazine, displayed a picture of Nicholas II’s five children. The headline was “THE CASE ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2019 )
Andersonville a Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy
epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:John McElroy [McElroy, John]

CHAPTER XLVI. SURLY BRITON--THE STOLID COURAGE THAT MAKES THE ENGLISH FLAG A BANNER OF TRIUMPH--OUR COMPANY BUGLER, HIS CHARACTERISTICS AND HIS DEATH--URGENT DEMAND FOR MECHANICS--NONE WANT TO GO--TREATMENT OF A ...
( Category: Americas February 13,2019 )
Bornstein, Ernst Israel - The Long Night: A True Story by Bornstein Ernst Israel
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Bornstein, Ernst Israel [Bornstein, Ernst Israel]

1. The sick bay consisted of a barrack block with a criminal in charge. He had doctors and medical orderlies from among the prisoners at his disposal. Only those with ...
( Category: Memoirs February 13,2019 )
Death Dealer by Rudolf Hoss
epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Rudolf Hoss

Your Daddy You, my dear, good children! Your daddy has to leave you now. For you, poor ones, there remains only your dear, good Mommy. May she remain with you ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2019 )

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