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Crow Killer, New Edition by Thorp Raymond W. Jr.; Bunker Robert; Bender Nathan E
epub |eng | 2015-10-08 | Author:Thorp, Raymond W., Jr.; Bunker, Robert; Bender, Nathan E.

1. Doc Carver confirms Johnson’s friendship with Phillips (Carver mss., p. 17): “I ran into a fellow at Fort McPherson who had been an Indian scout in the north; his ...
( Category: Americas October 9,2018 )
Shadow of the Titanic by Andrew Wilson
epub |eng | 2018-10-05 | Author:Andrew Wilson

( Category: Transportation October 8,2018 )
Empress by Ruby Lal
epub |eng | 2018-06-21 | Author:Ruby Lal

Jahangir’s father had built a sturdy stone palace-fort in Srinagar on a hill called the Hari Parbat, overlooking the lovely Dal Lake, approximately four miles long and three miles wide, ...
( Category: Historical October 7,2018 )
Presidents by Carter Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Carter Smith

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Following graduation, she worked in a Chicago law firm where she met ...
( Category: Historical October 6,2018 )
My Darling Winston by David Lough
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:David Lough

WINSTON WROTE his next letter to his mother after his detachment of troops had passed Korosko, 120 miles south of Aswan. Their next stop would be seventy miles further up ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 5,2018 )
Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Ramachandra Guha

Gandhi printed large chunks of the letter in Harijan, leaving out, however, the references to Gokhale, Bernard Shaw et al., as well as the (even more telling) sentence pointing out ...
( Category: Asia October 4,2018 )
The Skripal Files by Mark Urban
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Urban

13 THE FATEFUL LETTER On a chilly January morning, the Guardia Civil prison bus dropped its passengers outside the Audiencia Provincial. Just two men descended, walking up towards the shiny ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 3,2018 )
I Am Dynamite! by Sue Prideaux
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:Sue Prideaux [Sue Prideaux]

Notes 1 Andreas-Salomé, Looking Back, p. 45. 2 Lou Salomé, writing as Lou Andreas-Salomé, Nietzsche, trans. Siegfried Mandel, University of Illinois Press, 2001, pp. 9, 10. 3 Andreas-Salomé, Looking Back, ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 3,2018 )
At the Heart of the Reich by Gerhard Engel
epub |eng | 2016-10-02 | Author:Gerhard Engel

23 May 1941 Visited Field Marshal v Kluge.340 Kluge more or less confirmed scenario. Russians were marching up and massing near border. Numerous grass airstrips in immediate proximity to frontier. ...
( Category: Military October 3,2018 )
The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Skaife

17 SPEAKING IN RAVENISH Yes, I talk to the ravens. And yes, they talk to me. Or at least, I imitate them, and they imitate me. I’m not exactly Doctor ...
( Category: Field Guides October 3,2018 )
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World by Guha Ramachandra
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-09-26 | Author:Guha, Ramachandra [Guha, Ramachandra]

IV Gandhi read The Annihilation of Caste soon after it was published. Meeting a deputation of the Depressed Classes in Bangalore on 10 June, he remarked that ‘when Dr. Ambedkar ...
( Category: Historical October 1,2018 )
Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs by Greg King & Penny Wilson
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Greg King & Penny Wilson

PART III CHAPTER THIRTEEN Rudolf’s interment did nothing to stop the onrush of escalating rumors about events at Mayerling. Within twenty-four hours of his funeral, newspapers had managed to ferret ...
( Category: True Crime September 30,2018 )
A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes by Louise Miller
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Louise Miller [Miller, Louise]

Chapter 13 Breakthrough 1918 By early September preparations were well under way for an attack spearheaded by the Serbs. The plan, devised by General Živojin Mišić, the Serbian Chief-of-Staff, had ...
( Category: Military September 29,2018 )
Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance by Christian Goeschel
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Christian Goeschel [Goeschel, Christian]

III In public, both leaders thus maintained their closed ranks to project the Axis. This did not go unnoticed by the international press. On 7 August 1941, Mussolini’s son Bruno ...
( Category: Historical September 29,2018 )
Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn': John Howard and the House of York by John Ashdown-Hill
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Elizabeth Lambert For the sake of clarity we had perhaps better establish that Edward IV’s last known mistress, Elizabeth Lambert, is the person who still frequently masquerades under the pseudonym ...
( Category: Historical September 28,2018 )

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