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Gallipoli to the Somme by Alexander Aitken
epub |eng | 2018-12-10 | Author:Alexander Aitken

17 Flanders to Picardy: Citernes NEXT MORNING WE MARCHED THE FIVE MILES TO RAILHEAD AT Steenwerck, meeting further Scottish battalions on their way to Armentières. They were, I think, the ...
( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
Lafayette in Two Worlds by lloyd s. kramer
epub |eng | 2018-07-20 | Author:lloyd s. kramer

( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
Elfrida: The First Crowned Queen of England by Norton Elizabeth
epub |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth

7. A highly romanticised nineteenth-century depiction of the first meeting between Elfrida and Edgar, demonstrating the way in which their marriage continued to attract interest centuries after their deaths. (Elizabeth ...
( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
The Mapmaker's Wife by Robert Whitaker
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Whitaker [Whitaker, Robert]

Samuel Fritz’s Map of the Amazon, 1707. By permission of the British Library. FROM THE BEGINNING of the French expedition, there had been some talk that the group, as a ...
( Category: South America December 11,2018 )
From Pole to Pole by Garth James Cameron
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Garth James Cameron

Chapter Ten Learning to Fly: Ciampino February–March 1926 Riiser-Larsen was the only one of the Norwegians qualified to fly an airship, and even he had limited experience of the N1 ...
( Category: World December 11,2018 )
Gorbachev by Mikhail Gorbachev
epub |eng | 2011-12-11 | Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

For me, as president of the country, the chief criterion in assessing this document is to what extent it corresponds to the interests of our citizens’ security and to the ...
( Category: Russia December 11,2018 )
A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys by John Buchan
epub |eng | 2018-07-17 | Author:John Buchan

( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
Captivity of the Oatman Girls by Royal B. Stratton
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Royal B. Stratton

INDIAN SKULKING TO HEAR THE CONVERSATION OF THE GIRLS This daughter of the chief was a beautiful, mild, and sympathizing woman. Her conduct and behavior toward these Apache captives bespoke ...
( Category: Americas December 11,2018 )
Spymaster by Tennent H. Bagley
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Tennent H. Bagley

Eleven: Richard Sorge Redux IT IS RARE and perhaps unique that a single spy could be said to have saved his country from defeat in war. It is barely thinkable, ...
( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
My Longest Night by Genevieve Duboscq
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:Genevieve Duboscq

Friday, June 9, 1944 Yesterday the birds didn’t sing. Will it be the same today? I looked out the attic window at the endless expanse of water that surrounded us. ...
( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement by Pelka Fred
epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Pelka, Fred

David Oaks “Forward goes the vanguard of the lunatic fringe.” David Oaks was born in September 1955, and grew up on the South Side of Chicago. “All of my grandparents ...
( Category: Americas December 10,2018 )
University Builder by John B. Boles George Rupp
epub |eng | 2018-07-10 | Author:John B. Boles, George Rupp

( Category: Schools & Teaching December 10,2018 )
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
epub |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Nelson Mandela

Tons and tons of love and a million kisses Your loving Tatavi Miss Makaziwe Mandela, Elukhanyisweni, P.O. Alice. P.S. Send me your latest photo of not more than 15 x ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 10,2018 )
Reluctant Warrior: A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam by Hodgins Michael
epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Hodgins, Michael

CHAPTER SIX VALHALLA 12 APRIL-10 MAY 1970 The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) We made the ...
( Category: Military December 10,2018 )
Delta Epiphany by Ellen B. Meacham
epub |eng | 2018-12-09 | Author:Ellen B. Meacham

Robert Kennedy and his aide, Peter Edelman (in glasses behind Kennedy) visited several homes in Cleveland and found “awfully bare cupboards.” Credit: Dan Guravich. Just outside, in front of the ...
( Category: Americas December 10,2018 )

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