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Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900–1941 by Röhl John C. G
epub |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Röhl, John C. G. [Röhl, John C. G.]

( Category: Historical July 26,2018 )
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
epub |eng | 2011-07-24 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

And we were an outrage to the Spanish-Mexicans and they in their turn on the Indians. Could that be why the sequoias make folks nervous? Those natives were grown trees ...
( Category: Travel Writing July 25,2018 )
The Pacific by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
epub |eng | 2018-06-19 | Author:Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

Cook’s second voyage was underpinned by one thing – ambition. And the thing about ambition is that it’s not at all unusual for it to be frustrated, not to mention ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers July 25,2018 )
Jesse James by T.J. Stiles
epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:T.J. Stiles [Stiles, T. J.]

IT TOOK TEN years of peace to reveal the true scale of the Civil War. Not the grand scale—that was obvious, perhaps too obvious. The massive clash of armies had ...
( Category: Specific Groups July 25,2018 )
When the United States Spoke French by Francois Furstenberg
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Francois Furstenberg [Furstenberg, Francois]

Throughout the 1790s the trans-Appalachian West remained bitterly contested among Native Americans, the British and Spanish empires, and the new nation rising up along the coast. U.S. sovereignty barely stretched ...
( Category: Historical July 24,2018 )
Jacqueline Kennedy by Caroline Kennedy & Michael Beschloss
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Caroline Kennedy & Michael Beschloss [Kennedy, Caroline & Beschloss, Michael]

Less than a hundred. Less than a hundred. But he said that in all—and I think he said it all through his Senate campaign.27 He certainly said it all through ...
( Category: Americas July 23,2018 )
Beyond Obsession by Richard Hammer
epub |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Richard Hammer

* Remarks delivered to the American Psychoanalytic Society in 1938 and published in 1942 in English as “Some Forms of Emotional Disturbance and Their Relationship to Schizophrenia” in Psychoanalytic Quarterly. ...
( Category: True Crime July 22,2018 )
1918 by Gregor Dallas
epub |eng | | Author:Gregor Dallas

All of Rathenau’s subsequent writings are controlled by these ten thoughts. He told Count Harry Kessler on his return to Berlin that the private struggle within him since childhood was ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2018 )
The Way of a Ship by Derek Lundy
epub |eng | 2013-07-21 | Author:Derek Lundy

Historians have lately become more interested in Jack Tar, some as part of the rise of social history during the last half of the twentieth century. The traditional approach of ...
( Category: Water Sports July 22,2018 )
Hot Springs by Robert K. Raines
epub |eng | | Author:Robert K. Raines

Courtesy of Historical Attractions Inc. On June 18, 1936, Luciano was sentenced to 30 to 50 years at the maximum-security Dannemora Prison in New York. It was the longest sentence ...
( Category: Americas July 22,2018 )
Winston Churchill by John Keegan
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:John Keegan

By 1923 Churchill was out of office, indeed out of Parliament. Since the general election of 1918 Lloyd George had led a coalition in which Conservatives greatly outnumbered members of ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2018 )
The La Follettes of Wisconsin by Bernard A. Weisberger
epub |eng | | Author:Bernard A. Weisberger [Bernard A. Weisberger]

“History will hold us accountable” The small peace movement in the United States was a loose alliance of organizations well supplied with eloquent progressive leaders—people like Jane Addams, Frederic Howe, ...
( Category: Americas July 21,2018 )
The Civil War Generals by Robert I. Girardi
epub |eng | 2013-04-20 | Author:Robert I. Girardi [Girardi, Robert I.]

General Winfield Scott and staff in 1861, photographed by Mathew Brady. JOHN SEDGWICK Major general. West Point (1837). Seminole and Mexican War veteran. Brigade, division, and corps commander, Army of ...
( Category: Historical July 21,2018 )
The Conquest of Gaul (Classics) by Julius Caesar
epub, azw3 |eng | 1982-12-09 | Author:Julius Caesar [Caesar, Julius]

2 The second crossing of the Rhine (53 B.C.) 9. After marching from the country of the Menapii to that of the Treveri, Caesar determined to cross the Rhine for ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 21,2018 )
Bonaparte in Egypt by J. Christopher Herold
epub, pdf |eng | 1962-01-02 | Author:J. Christopher Herold [Herold, J. Christopher]

III While Bonaparte faced the plague just as he faced the Porte’s declaration of war—with fortitude and blinkers—he still had to seek some means to counteract the continuing diminution of ...
( Category: Europe July 21,2018 )

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