Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Michael Schmidt [Schmidt, Michael]
Poor in his youth, Solon travelled to make his fortune, Plutarch says. In his age a person of good family could work for gain without a stigma attaching to him. ...
( Category:
Poetry
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Susan Brind Morrow
In May of 1963 1 met Robert Sands Shallenberger for the first time in a bar on University Avenue in Berkeley. He talked about the subtle and complex structure of ...
( Category:
Regional U.S
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Phil Ball [Ball, Phil]
* Pseudonym. Chapter 10 Hot LZ, Friendly Fire Early morning on July 17, 1968, the troop lift began. As we nervously awaited our turn, I saw young Marines writing letters ...
( Category:
Military
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-23 | Author:Kenneth A. Alford & Theodore P. Savas [Alford, Kenneth A. & Savas, Theodore P.]
Hirschfeld took the opportunity to carry out Gretl’s wishes by visiting the Fegeleins one last time the next afternoon. This time the agent reversed the tables and used the daughter-in-law’s ...
( Category:
Military
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:John Boyko [Boyko, John]
Kennedy had recently read The Guns of August, the sorry tale of miscalculations that tripped Europe into the First World War. He feared that the superpowers would do it again, ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:B. H. Liddell Hart [Hart, B. H. Liddell]
CHAPTER XV A “REGULAR” CAMPAIGN January–February, 1918 To aid Allenby, the Arabs operate against the corn-belt east of the Bead Sea which feeds the Turkish Armies—The Turks reacting, fell into ...
( Category:
Travelers & Explorers
September 24,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Danielle A. Dahl [Dahl, Danielle A.]
Chapter Eighteen One afternoon, after Pépé Vincent’s funeral, I drifted to the hallway where Maman sat, holding Mireille between her knees while tending to her earache. The wide-open front door ...
( Category:
Africa
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-02 | Author:Jonathan Clements
10 Port Arthur Tōgō’s journey home was not without incident. He took a zig-zag route across the Bohai Gulf to Zhifu and back towards Korea, seemingly patrolling the old demarcation ...
( Category:
Asia
September 24,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Michael Prestwich [Prestwich, Michael]
VIII. The Crown Revenue The financial history of Edward I’s reign has been described as ‘a highly complicated and rather repellent subject’.[625] But complex subjects have their fascination, and it ...
( Category:
Europe
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Alistar Urquhart
6 Bridge on the River Kwai The Japanese put us straight to work. This section of railway, further north, would eventually join up with that of our earlier handiwork at ...
( Category:
Memoirs
September 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Judyth Baker
— CHAPTER 16 — THE OFFICE Friday, May 17, 1963 My new alarm clock went off. I got up, got dressed and headed for the Magazine Street bus, hoping Lee ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
September 22,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hettie Jones
I was still looking several days later when a flash of new color caught me, a morning I was late for work and running. Overnight the wide, dim window of ...
( Category:
Arts & Literature
September 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Geraldine Brooks [Brooks, Geraldine]
Earlier that month I had finally walked through the big stone gates of Sydney University. I’d arrived there brimming with confidence, proud of good exam results. But the exhilaration didn’t ...
( Category:
Travelers & Explorers
September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-02 | Author:David Levering Lewis
CHAPTER 9 EXCEPTIONALISM AT WORK 1943 Detroit Riot reenacted, Willkie and team. Courtesy the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. To a Forty-Eighter descendant, the dividend of immigration was obvious ...
( Category:
Historical
September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Bill W.
A FEMININE VICTORY To my lot falls the rather doubtful distinction of being the only “lady” alcoholic in our particular section. Perhaps it is because of a desire for a ...
( Category:
Addiction & Recovery
September 19,2018 )
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