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Full Circle: A Homecoming to Free Poland by Sikorski Radek
epub |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Sikorski, Radek [Sikorski, Radek]

POTULICE WHAT MUST IT FEEL LIKE to live near Dachau or Auschwitz today, to farm the fields fertilized with human ash? Foreign tourists and journalists who come to Poland are ...
( Category: Historical June 19,2018 )
Zhou Enlai by Gao Wenqian
epub |eng | | Author:Gao Wenqian

ON THE DEFENSIVE Mao Zedong had hoped that his nationwide criticism of Liu Shaoqi would unify all the new mass organizations that had sprung up after he’d dismantled the formal ...
( Category: Historical June 18,2018 )
Jassim the Leader by Mohamed Althani
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Mohamed Althani

The Ottoman arrival In December 1871, the Ottoman authorities at Hasa finally sent a detachment of 100 troops and a field gun to Bida, under the command of Major Omer ...
( Category: Historical June 18,2018 )
To the Mountaintop by Stewart Burns
epub |eng | | Author:Stewart Burns

SHORTLY AFTER THE HISTORIC election SNCC held a retreat in Waveland, Mississippi. In a turbulent atmosphere belied by the Gulf of Mexico’s calm waters, weary activists grappled with pressing internal ...
( Category: Historical June 18,2018 )
Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
epub |eng | 2010-12-02 | Author:Duff Cooper [Duff Cooper]

8 In February 1812 Talleyrand was appointed one of the Commission of Inquiry into the conduct of General Dupont in the matter of the capitulation of Baylen. He was much ...
( Category: Europe June 18,2018 )
Mexico by George W. Grayson
epub |eng | | Author:George W. Grayson

Table 7.3 States and Municipalities with Military Men in Senior Public-Safety Posts Source: Jésica Zermeño, “Toman Generales Mandos Policiacos,” Reforma, February 15, 2009; Zermeño et al., Optan estados por mando ...
( Category: Americas June 18,2018 )
Inside the Battle of Algiers by Drif Zohra; Brahimi Lakhdar; Farrand Andrew G
epub |eng | 2017-06-16 | Author:Drif, Zohra; Brahimi, Lakhdar; Farrand, Andrew G.

Couriers for the Cause All throughout the last week of October 1956, the colonial press gloated that, after the five officials’ abduction, the FLN was done for. We wanted to ...
( Category: World June 16,2018 )
LBJ by Phillip F. Nelson
epub |eng | | Author:Phillip F. Nelson

Notes *Ronald Reagan, the president elected at the next cycle, 1980, managed to break the pattern, but just barely. 1. O’Donnell, Kenneth, Life magazine, August 7, 1970, p. 47; Johnny ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 16,2018 )
Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care by Scott McGaugh
epub |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:Scott McGaugh [McGaugh, Scott]

8 GETTYSBURG “I turned away and cried.” Grit and sweat coated many of Jonathan Letterman’s surgeons as they marched with approximately 95,000 men northwest across Maryland in late June 1863. ...
( Category: Americas June 16,2018 )
With the Beatles by Alistair Taylor
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Alistair Taylor [Alistair Taylor]

The Beatles hated filming Help! early in 1965. All the endless hanging around waiting for a couple of minutes’ work bored them to tears. A Hard Day’s Night had been ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 15,2018 )
Et Tu, Brute? by Jason Novak
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Jason Novak

IF THIS BOOK shares anything with the literary tradition of ancient Rome, it would be through satire and farce, which thrived during the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. Roman ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 14,2018 )
Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier by W. B. (Bat) Masterson
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:W. B. (Bat) Masterson

CHAPTER IV BILL TILGHMAN Nothwithstanding the discovery of gold in California in 1849, and at Pike’s Peak, Colorado, ten years later, the civilizing of the West did not really commence ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2018 )
To Tell the Truth Freely by Mia Bay
epub |eng | 2009-06-13 | Author:Mia Bay

Two ladies are represented sitting under a tree at Reigate, and, after some preliminary remarks on the terrible subject of lynching, Miss Willard laughingly replies by cracking a joke. And ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 13,2018 )
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina by Eugenia Russell & Eugenia Russell
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Eugenia Russell & Eugenia Russell

Fig. 36: The town and harbour of Vathi, Ithaka from The Ionian Islands: twelve plates London, 1821 by Joseph Cartwright. With any attempts to prise Parga from the British falling ...
( Category: Middle East June 11,2018 )
The Man Who Stole Himself by Gisli Palsson
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Gisli Palsson [Palsson, Gisli]

EBENEZER HENDERSON The Scottish minister Ebenezer Henderson (1784–1858) met Hans Jonathan in 1814. Henderson spent much of his career with the British and Foreign Bible Society, traveling widely and distributing ...
( Category: Ethnic & National June 11,2018 )

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