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Muskets and Applejack by Mark Will-Weber
epub |eng | 2017-07-11 | Author:Mark Will-Weber

THE FORT PILLOW MASSACRE: WHISKEY ON THE WALLS Perhaps one of the most controversial incidents of the war involved CSA cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest and the so-called “Fort Pillow ...
( Category: Americas August 27,2018 )
Becoming Madison by Michael Signer
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Signer [Signer, Michael]

ON MARCH 5, JOHN MARSHALL TOLD MADISON THAT HENRY, WHOSE “opinions have their usual influence,” was preparing for war against the new Constitution. He was publicly threatening that he would ...
( Category: Historical August 27,2018 )
Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen by Amy Licence
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Amy Licence

6 MOTHERHOOD, 1486–7 I love the rose both red and white Is that your pure perfect appetite? To hear talk of them is my delight! Joyed may we be Our ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 27,2018 )
Orbán by Paul Lendvai
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Paul Lendvai

( Category: Europe August 26,2018 )
The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley
epub |eng | 2016-12-09 | Author:Aidan Hartley

The media had covered famine in Africa repeatedly since the catastrophe of Biafra in 1968 and the hunger story had become a separate news genre. TV broadcasts aimed to stimulate ...
( Category: Africa August 26,2018 )
Radical Son by David Horowitz
epub |eng | | Author:David Horowitz

BETTY THE EVENT TO WHICH I TOOK ABBY WAS A SUNDAY-MORNING SERVICE AT the Son of Man Temple, a secular church of Huey’s invention housed in the auditorium of the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 26,2018 )
The Last Englishmen by Deborah Baker
epub |eng | 2018-08-25 | Author:Deborah Baker [Baker, Deborah]

Victoria Station, London, Wednesday, September 28, 1938, 2:00 p.m. “I am so glad I’m here,” Stephen Spender had said, standing by the stove on the opening day of the 1938 ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2018 )
Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss & Evelyn Julia Kent
epub |eng | 2010-02-22 | Author:Eva Schloss & Evelyn Julia Kent [Schloss, Eva & Kent, Evelyn Julia]

24 October 1944 Aachen captured by US First Army Feeling totally deserted, I was now losing the courage and hope that had kept me alive. I knew I had lost ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2018 )
Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England by Nigel Cawthorne
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Nigel Cawthorne [Cawthorne, Nigel]

On her deathbed, Queen Caroline begged her husband not to take another wife. As he wiped the tears from his eyes, he replied: ‘No, I shall have mistresses.’ Lady Deloraine ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2018 )
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Philippe Girard
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Philippe Girard [Girard, Philippe]

The last official act of Roume’s predecessor, Hédouville, before leaving Saint-Domingue had been to denounce Louverture as a “rebel” and encourage André Rigaud, the commander of the southern region, to ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 25,2018 )
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams
epub |eng | 1951-08-24 | Author:William Carlos Williams

Chapter 34 Paris Again On our return by train to Paris our first stop was at Salzburg. It was May first, and the Communists were parading with a red flag ...
( Category: Memoirs August 25,2018 )
Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg (2013-04-09) by Felix Weinberg
epub |eng | 1853-12-15 | Author:Felix Weinberg [Weinberg, Felix]

8 The Longest Walk, the Coldest Train Journey Once again I had no concept of where I was or where we were heading until I searched through the documentation now ...
( Category: World August 25,2018 )
Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries by Gyles Brandreth
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Gyles Brandreth [Brandreth, Gyles]

MONDAY 16 JANUARY 1995 Small lunch with the PM at No. 10. I sat immediately opposite him. He was in good form, feels the year’s got off to the right ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2018 )
Bogart: In Search of My Father by Stephen Humphrey Bogart
epub |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Stephen Humphrey Bogart [Bogart, Stephen Humphrey]

* * * 6 Bogie was the most professional actor I have ever worked with. But his contract said he was off duty at six o’clock, and if it was ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 25,2018 )
Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Günter Grass [Grass, Günter]

THE THIRD HUNGER FROM AN EARLY age it was impossible to deal with, whether by practising ascetic moderation and limiting myself to black-and-white or by yielding to the addiction and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 25,2018 )

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