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FIRST WORLD FLIGHT - The Odyssey of Billy Mitchell by Spencer Lane
epub |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Spencer Lane [Lane, Spencer]

SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1924 4:00 A.M. LAKE WASHINGTON Major Martin assisted Sgt. Harvey in pulling their World Cruiser to the dock on the quiet lake. The other crews were also ...
( Category: Military July 13,2018 )
Jeremy Paxman by On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families
mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families

I have gradually come to realize that my entire life so far has been motivated by a desire to heal - to heal the dismembered landscape and the poisoned soil; ...
( Category: Europe July 12,2018 )
Caligula: Divine Carnage by Stephen Barber Jeremy Reed
epub |eng | 2016-01-23 | Author:Stephen Barber, Jeremy Reed [Barber, Stephen & Reed, Jeremy]

4. HELIOGABALUS: BLACK SUN RISING “Myth and utopia: the origins have belonged, the future will belong to the subjects in whom there is something feminine” —Roland Barthes “We are all ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 12,2018 )
Bali: Heaven and Hell by Phil Jarratt
epub |eng | 2014-08-21 | Author:Phil Jarratt

A couple of months after the Kimbala limped into Benoa Harbour, a tall Englishman of patrician good looks landed at Ngurah Rai International for the very first time and approvingly ...
( Category: Sociology July 12,2018 )
Raoul Wallenberg by Ingrid Carlberg
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ingrid Carlberg

Raoul Wallenberg Square, January 2010 The snow is falling thickly and settling like balls of cotton over Raoul Wallenbergs torg, a square in central Stockholm. Those assembled there are huddled ...
( Category: Historical July 12,2018 )
A Pickpocket's Tale by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
epub |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Michael Riordan’s attack on George Appo made the headlines of the New York Tribune. Lexow Committee investigators quickly determined that this version of the events was fabricated. For the first ...
( Category: Historical July 12,2018 )
The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia by Rick Porrello
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Porrello

CHAPTER SEVEN The Ascendancy of the Mayfield Road Mob On June 30, 1930, Joe Porrello’s desire to attain the political power he lacked was well on its way to fulfillment. ...
( Category: True Crime July 11,2018 )
Caesar by David Grace
epub |eng | 2014-03-19 | Author:David Grace [David Grace]

Politics His foothold now well established in Gaul, Caesar again turned his attention to the business of governing his province with a vigor perhaps unexpected of a soldier just removed ...
( Category: Historical July 11,2018 )
George I by Tim Blanning
epub |eng | 2017-09-17 | Author:Tim Blanning

5 The Sinews of Power and Foreign Policy George came from an electorate whose economy was modestly prosperous but torpid. In England he encountered a dynamic kingdom well on the ...
( Category: World July 10,2018 )
The Quest for Corvo by A. J. A. Symons
epub |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:A. J. A. Symons

MALEDICTORY I wish I could have spelt it with a V! It came about thus. I never heard much of Rolfe’s dealings with Stanhope Sprigge, but I understood he had ...
( Category: Arts & Literature July 10,2018 )
The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-07-09 | Author:Seymour Hersh [Seymour Hersh]

The president’s technique in superpower confrontations would become ingrained by the Cuban missile crisis in late 1962. The president would speak with resolve to his aides and in public, but ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 10,2018 )
Wind from the North by Ernle Bradford
epub |eng | 1959-12-31 | Author:Ernle Bradford

15 It is difficult for a man to be completely dedicated to a dream, or to an idea, without sacrificing something of his humanity. In Prince Henry’s attitude and conduct ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers July 10,2018 )
Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion by Harold Holzer
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Harold Holzer [Holzer, Harold]

But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt for the scandal. When, late in September, the persistent “Chevalier” brazenly petitioned the president for a pass to accompany a naval ...
( Category: Americas July 10,2018 )
Cnut by Ryan Lavelle
epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Ryan Lavelle

5 Into Realms Beyond Is Cnut in Hell? In a profound investigation into the motivations of an early tenth-century usurpation, the historian Geoffrey Koziol asked the same question of the ...
( Category: World July 9,2018 )
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:William L. Shirer [Shirer, William L.]

As darkness settled over Europe on the evening of August 31, 1939, and a million and a half German troops began moving forward to their final positions on the Polish ...
( Category: Europe July 9,2018 )

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