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Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
epub |eng | 2006-02-01 | Author:David Hackett Fischer [Fischer, David Hackett]

The Death of General Hugh Mercer, a sketch by John Trumbull (1786). The defiant American leader refused British orders to surrender and was bayoneted on the battlefield. Here again Trumbull’s ...
( Category: Americas May 6,2018 )
The Age of Eisenhower by William I Hitchcock
epub |eng | | Author:William I Hitchcock

VII Just as Eisenhower began to despair about the Middle East, terrible news arrived from Hungary. The Soviets were invading again, and this time they meant to win. The Soviet ...
( Category: Americas May 6,2018 )
Diary of a Wartime Affair by Doreen Bates
epub |eng | 2016-11-03 | Author:Doreen Bates

SUNDAY 17 APRIL Wyndham is home with acute rheumatism in his back. It is very painful to move and he was reduced to staying in bed all the time. THURSDAY ...
( Category: World May 6,2018 )
Lucullus by Lee Fratantuono
epub |eng | 2017-09-29 | Author:Lee Fratantuono [Неизв.]

The Sixth of October 69 BC It was 6 October 69 B.C. – a day that was destined to enter the annals of the great victories of the Roman military ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations May 5,2018 )
Outlaws and Peace Officers by Stephen Brennan
epub |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Stephen Brennan

CHAPTER VIII. THE DALTONS By Emerson Hough What is true for Texas, in the record of desperadoism, is equally applicable to the country adjoining Texas upon the north, long known ...
( Category: Historical May 5,2018 )
Hannibal by Baker G. P
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Baker, G. P. [Baker, G. P.]

communication, he might have prevented this catastrophic decision. As it was, he probably never even heard of it until expostulation was too late. But the chance had slipped before it ...
( Category: Africa May 5,2018 )
A Chill in the Air by Iris Origo
epub |eng | 2017-05-05 | Author:Iris Origo [Iris Origo]

SEPTEMBER 28TH A bad day yesterday: the Russo-German “treaty of friendship and interests” and the imposition of the pact on Estonia. Considerable uneasiness and much speculation as to whether, if ...
( Category: Europe May 5,2018 )
The Empire by John Dizon
epub |eng | 2018-01-11 | Author:John Dizon [Dizon, John]

CHAPTER FIVE A ndromeda Aries graduated from the Cetan Starfleet Academy four years after new recruit Gravas Drachna. It was after the Civil War, and the Emperor had been exiled ...
( Category: Americas May 5,2018 )
In The Footsteps of Stamford Raffles by Nigel Barley
epub |eng | | Author:Nigel Barley

* * * ‘Rice,’ said Aneka. ‘All my childhood, my dreams were full of rice. I used to dream about Bung Karno’s rice coming every month.’ ‘You were hungry?’ I ...
( Category: Asia May 5,2018 )
Edward I: War, Politics and Finance by Michael Prestwich
epub |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Michael Prestwich [Prestwich, Michael]

VIII. The Crown Revenue The financial history of Edward I’s reign has been described as ‘a highly complicated and rather repellent subject’.[625] But complex subjects have their fascination, and it ...
( Category: Europe May 5,2018 )
Left Bank by Agnès Poirier
epub |eng | | Author:Agnès Poirier

CHAPTER NINE LOVE, STYLE, DRUGS, AND LONELINESS HUSBANDS, LOVERS, AND FRIENDS The tall, handsome, and brooding Nelson Algren, of Jewish, Swedish, and German descent, whom Simone de Beauvoir had briefly ...
( Category: Historical May 5,2018 )
Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father by Peter Stark
epub |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Peter Stark

Part Three Chapter Fifteen JAMES SMITH WAITED ANXIOUSLY AT FORT DUQUESNE ALL that afternoon. The battered eighteen-year-old captive hoped to hear that General Braddock’s army had decimated the French and ...
( Category: Americas May 4,2018 )
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe by David I. Kertzer
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:David I. Kertzer

Yet food was growing short, and the French had cut off the ancient Roman aqueducts, so fresh water had become scarce. Amid the deprivation and fear, many Romans were beginning ...
( Category: Catholicism May 4,2018 )
President's Fact Book Revised and Updated!: The Achievements, Campaigns, Events, Triumphs, and Legacies of Every President from George Washington to Barack Obama by Matuz Roger
epub |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Matuz, Roger

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 8, 1841. At the age of sixteen, he began attending Harvard University, where he wrote ...
( Category: Historical May 4,2018 )
Daughter of the Cold War by Grace Kennan Warnecke
epub |eng | | Author:Grace Kennan Warnecke

CHAPTER 7 New Waters My new single life in San Francisco was jolted by a telephone call from John Wasserman, the funny and outrageous music critic of the San Francisco ...
( Category: Historical May 4,2018 )

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