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China by Adeline Yen Mah
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Adeline Yen Mah [Mah, Yen Adeline]

Kublai Khan taking part in a hunting expedition SIEGE BY SEESAW In 1268, Kublai ordered the construction of an enormous river feet of 500 boats and laid siege to the ...
( Category: Asia September 4,2018 )
Eisenhower by Carlo D'Este
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Carlo D'Este

Indeed, Patton was clearly still stunned over the airborne disaster and Eisenhower’s stinging criticism, and Bradley’s conclusion that he felt “certain that Patton believed that if he caused a ruckus ...
( Category: Military September 4,2018 )
The Reluctant Billionaire by Tom Quinn
epub |eng | 2018-09-02 | Author:Tom Quinn [Tom Quinn]

The army seems to have provided some outlet for the less serious side of the young earl and then the older duke – he always said he loved the camaraderie ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 3,2018 )
The Strawberry Statement by James Simon Kunen
mobi |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:James Simon Kunen [Kunen, James Simon]

Wednesday, July 17: I was reading the Manhattan phone book this morning. Sometimes I read the phone book when I get tired of listening to the correct time tape going ...
( Category: Memoirs September 3,2018 )
747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation by Joe Sutter
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joe Sutter [Sutter, Joe]

7 — Willing to be Fired In the late summer or early fall of 1967, I stood at the front of the BCA Management Control Center—a corporate war room—facing Boeing’s ...
( Category: Historical September 3,2018 )
Genghis Khan by Frank McLynn
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Frank McLynn

13 The Twilight Years THE HISTORY OF Genghis Khan and the Mongols can sometimes seem no more than an endless recital of massacres with pyramids of skulls. Yet Genghis and ...
( Category: Asia September 3,2018 )
Trumpets from the Steep by Diana Cooper
epub |eng | 2018-04-05 | Author:Diana Cooper

The two great ships were forgotten by people in the street who looked unconcerned, and careless of the huge shadows cast. There was faith too in the inhabitants’ loyalty (true, ...
( Category: Europe August 31,2018 )
First Family: Abigail and John by Joseph J. Ellis
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]

ETIQUETTE AND EMULATION “We are most delightfully situated,” Abigail explained to her sister. “The prospect around us is Beautiful in the highest degree, it is a mixture of sublime & ...
( Category: Americas August 31,2018 )
Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War by Marianne Monson
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Marianne Monson [Monson, Marianne]

The irony that a nation founded on the principles of freedom would continue to justify the institution of slavery long after much of the rest of the world had abolished ...
( Category: Americas August 30,2018 )
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by John Julius Norwich
epub |eng | 2014-03-19 | Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]

1 Michael Wardell, Manager of the Evening Standard. 2 Sir Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897–1977). Foreign Secretary 1935–8, 1940–5 and 1951–5; Prime Minister 1955–7. 3 Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940), ...
( Category: Historical August 30,2018 )
The Nightingale’s Song by Robert Timberg
epub |eng | 2014-03-09 | Author:Robert Timberg [Timberg, Robert]

( Category: Americas August 30,2018 )
The Impostor by Javier Cercas & Frank Wynne
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Javier Cercas & Frank Wynne

* * * — The C.N.T.’s self-destruction didn’t come about because of the contradictions within it, but because of mistakes it made which made those same contradictions irreconcilable. The first, ...
( Category: World August 30,2018 )
How to Cuss in Western by Michael P. Branch
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Michael P. Branch

WHY AM I, a confirmed desert rat, about to offer a paean to cutting trees—to cutting them first down and then up? The answer may be found in the intimate ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 29,2018 )
Scarface and the Untouchable by Max Allan Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Max Allan Collins

Although pleased that Judge Wilkerson had thrown out the devil’s bargain, Eliot Ness knew that when it came to bootlegging, Capone could be convicted only on conspiracy charges. The next ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2018 )
Napoleon Bonaparte by Alan Schom
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Alan Schom [Schom, Alan]

Chapter Twenty-Five – The Marches of Empire ‘Your Holiness [Pope Pius VII] is sovereign of Rome, but I am its emperor.’ Napoleon’s return from Austerlitz had been triumphant. As he ...
( Category: Historical August 27,2018 )

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