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Sitting Bull by Robert M. Utley
epub |eng | | Author:Robert M. Utley

17 FORT BUFORD IN CLOSENESS TO Sitting Bull, no man surpassed One Bull, his nephew and adopted son. Following the parley and skirmish with Bear Coat in October 1876, his ...
( Category: Ethnic & National June 5,2018 )
Hunting Charles Manson by Lis Wiehl
epub |eng | 2018-04-30 | Author:Lis Wiehl

Barbara, the seventeen-year-old runaway, woke up one morning in September at Myers Ranch to hear Sadie and Ouisch talking. Sadie mentioned that “Tate” was the last one to die, calling ...
( Category: Americas June 5,2018 )
The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager
epub |eng | 2008-09-09 | Author:Thomas Hager [Hager, Thomas]

What Fritz has achieved in these eight years, I have lost—and even more. And what’s left fills me with the deepest dissatisfaction. . . . [E]ven if external circumstances and ...
( Category: Chemistry June 5,2018 )
The Crusader by Paul Kengor
epub |eng | 2006-06-04 | Author:Paul Kengor [Paul Kengor]

BORN MARCH 2, 1931 IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA, Mikhail Gorbachev, like Ronald Reagan, came from humble origins. He was raised a peasant on a collective farm during ...
( Category: Historical June 4,2018 )
From Broken Glass by Steve Ross
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Steve Ross

Chapter 15 Intervention South Boston February 6, 1962 Whitey’s bar smelled of urine and vomit. It reminded me of the barracks at Budzyn. I hesitated at the doorway as if ...
( Category: Sociology June 3,2018 )
Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang by Paul R. Kavieff
epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Paul R. Kavieff

James “Jimmy” Carson was the brains behind the Carson-Kozak mob. A former Great Lakes sailor, Carson drifted into crime in the mid-1920s. Carson and another member of the gang once ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 3,2018 )
Richard I by Thomas Asbridge
epub |eng | 2017-12-09 | Author:Thomas Asbridge

4 The Warrior King When King Richard left the Near East in early October 1192, he most likely expected to be back in England by the start of the New ...
( Category: Europe June 3,2018 )
The Sisters of Battle Road by J.M. Maloney
epub |eng | 2017-03-09 | Author:J.M. Maloney

CHAPTER 6 Christmas Tear Anne (centre) is flanked by Kath (left), and Pat. Feeling pretty in the dresses Mary made for them. IN THE RUN-UP to Christmas, back in Bermondsey, ...
( Category: Family Relationships June 3,2018 )
The Gourmands' Way by Justin Spring
epub |eng | | Author:Justin Spring

ELEVEN “A Dreamer of Wine” Alexis Lichine’s business empire expanded rapidly during the mid-1950s, but by 1957, signs of strain were beginning to show everywhere, and his decades-long correspondence with ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 2,2018 )
A Time to Speak by Helen Lewis
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Helen Lewis

Chapter 11 We arrived from Terezín on 20 May 1944. Until that day, we knew nothing of extermination camps or of gas chambers. We had been told that we were ...
( Category: World June 2,2018 )
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness From Romanov Russia by Michael Farquhar
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Michael Farquhar [Farquhar, Michael]

* * * *42 While her son disdained all the ceremony and glitter of sovereignty, and opted to live quietly, his haughty, cold, and categorical mother, Dowager Empress Maria, reveled ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 1,2018 )
Communism by Richard Pipes
epub |eng | 2001-11-06 | Author:Richard Pipes

No moral onus was attached to stealing state property. Indeed, a popular saying encouraged it by telling Soviet citizens, “If you don’t steal from the government, you are stealing from ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 1,2018 )
1968 by Robert C. Cottrell & Blaine T. Browne
epub |eng | 2018-04-15 | Author:Robert C. Cottrell & Blaine T. Browne

8 “You Say You Want a Revolution” Radical Politics and the Counterculture During the summer of 1968, the American counterculture increasingly grappled with the possibility of revolution. Appropriately enough, discussion ...
( Category: Americas May 31,2018 )
How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America by Brion McClanahan
epub |eng | 2017-09-07 | Author:Brion McClanahan

Nor does the opinion of the unconstitutionality and consequent nullity of that law remove all restraint from the overwhelming torrent of slander which is confounding all vice and virtue, all ...
( Category: Americas May 30,2018 )
Destiny by Kōji Takazawa
epub |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Kōji Takazawa

He went on to summarize the Japanese student movement of the past: Our movement did not gain the sympathy of the Japanese people, nor were we successful in turning it ...
( Category: Asia May 30,2018 )

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