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The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger
epub |eng | 2017-09-11 | Author:Scott S. Greenberger

In the issue of Harper’s Weekly published the day Arthur and Conkling left Albany, cartoonist Thomas Nast drew the vice president of the United States as a bootblack in an ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People February 3,2019 )
1014: Brian Boru and the Battle for Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
epub |eng | 2019-02-01 | Author:Morgan Llywelyn [Morgan Llywelyn]

CHAPTER EIGHT THE DRAGONS ARE COMING True to his word, Sigurd the Stout recruited a number of Viking princes to join his invasion fleet. The Western Isles contributed a great ...
( Category: Military February 3,2019 )
17 Carnations: The Windsors, the Nazis and the Cover-Up by Andrew Morton
epub |eng | 2019-02-01 | Author:Andrew Morton [Andrew Morton]

Many sharp and unfriendly ears will be pricked up to catch any suggestions that Your Royal Highness takes a view about the war, or about the Germans, or about Hitlerism, ...
( Category: Historical February 3,2019 )
Brave Companions by McCullough David
epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:McCullough, David [McCullough, David]

CHAPTER EIGHT The Treasure from the Carpentry Shop EARLY IN 1969, because a bit of hardware on the Brooklyn Bridge had begun to show signs of wear after nearly ninety ...
( Category: Americas February 2,2019 )
The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I by Davenport Tim; Walters David;
epub |eng | 2019-01-09 | Author:Davenport, Tim; Walters, David;

( Category: Politics & Government February 2,2019 )
Martin Luther King Jr. by Angela Farris Watkins
epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Angela Farris Watkins

Martin Luther King Jr. holding his niece Angela Farris. Angela Farris Watkins in front of the statue of her uncle at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People February 1,2019 )
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison by Jason Rezaian
mobi |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Jason Rezaian

I PONDERED THOSE DAYS NOW, KNOWING THAT IF I COULD SURVIVE THEM, I COULD GET THROUGH this. But I was feeling hopeless. For months, from where I sat it had ...
( Category: Historical January 31,2019 )
George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis [Gaddis, John Lewis]

On the official level I have been asked to give advice only on the particular problem of Soviet reaction to various possible approaches. But there is one thing I should ...
( Category: Historical January 31,2019 )
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR The story of my experiments with truth by M. K. Gandhi
epub |eng | | Author:M. K. Gandhi

The house was built after the Western model and the rooms rightly had no outlets for dirty water. Each room had therefore chamber-pots. Rather than have these cleaned by a ...
( Category: Asia January 31,2019 )
Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors by R. D. Rosen (2015-08-04) by R. D. Rosen
epub |eng | 1863-12-15 | Author:R. D. Rosen [Rosen, R. D.]

PART TWO THE GATHERING STILL HIDING In 1989, Carla Lessing, the mother of two grown children and a social worker in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, heard about a lecture on child ...
( Category: World January 31,2019 )
Two Rings: A Story of Love and War by Millie Werber (2012-03-27) by Millie Werber;eve Keller
epub |eng | 1628-12-15 | Author:Millie Werber;eve Keller [Keller, Millie Werber;eve]

8 THE WORST PART WAS THE RATS. I WAS PETRIFIED THAT they were going to eat my eyes. Several days after the Noremburskys’ escape, a man I knew came into ...
( Category: World January 31,2019 )
Love in a World of Sorrow: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoirs by Fanya Heller
epub |eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Fanya Heller [Heller, Fanya]

. . . 23 . Sidor was kneeling by the bed in front of the crucifix saying his Paternoster. Illiterate, he garbled words he had learned by hearing them over ...
( Category: World January 31,2019 )
Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome by Richard A. Billows
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-08 | Author:Richard A. Billows [Billows, Richard A.]

( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 31,2019 )
Searching for Schindler: A Memoir by Thomas Keneally
epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Thomas Keneally [Keneally, Thomas]

Ten * * * Even in 1981, the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was considered mildly dangerous, transporting people through former battlefields where the wreckage of tanks and trucks ...
( Category: Historical January 31,2019 )
Roses From the Earth: The Biography of Anne Frank by Carol Ann Lee
epub |eng | 2000-03-30 | Author:Carol Ann Lee [Lee, Carol Ann]

Chapter Six ‘I am afraid of prison cells and concentration camps…’ Anne Frank, Diary, 12 March 1944 Whilst the Frank family were in hiding, the expulsion of the Netherlands’ Jewish ...
( Category: World January 31,2019 )

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