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Shostakovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Solomon Volkov

In this innermost episode of the symphony, Shostakovich seems to be overcoming personal pain. Here is the parallel with Jesus and with Pushkin, when the poet was dying of the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 14,2018 )
Iris Origo by Caroline Moorehead
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Caroline Moorehead [Caroline Moorehead]

CHAPTER NINE Only man is mad All through the 1930s, while Iris was coming and going between Italy and England and the United States, Fascist rule and Fascist customs were ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 14,2018 )
Doctor Sócrates by Andrew Downie
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Downie [Downie, Andrew]

( Category: Soccer March 14,2018 )
Priest of Nature by Rob Iliffe
epub |eng | 2017-05-10 | Author:Rob Iliffe

2. Mede’s World In applying his synchronisms to history, Joseph Mede drew on the work of these writers though he also proclaimed that the interpretations he offered were the fruits ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
Crossing the River Kabul by Kevin McLean
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Kevin McLean

In September, as the country spiraled out of control, Taraki traveled to Moscow at Russia’s insistence. In his absence his deputy prime minister, Hafizullah Amin, seized control of the government. ...
( Category: Middle East March 14,2018 )
The Audacity of Inez Burns by Stephen G. Bloom
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen G. Bloom

Pat announced that he personally was committed to providing the Shannons with around-the-clock police protection when they returned to San Francisco (whether they needed it or not). For her part, ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
A Prairie Girl's Faith by Stephen W. Hines
epub |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Stephen W. Hines

Songs in the Night I picked a wild sunflower, and as I looked into its golden heart, such a wave of homesickness came over me that I almost wept. I ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century by G. Pascal Zachary
azw3 |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:G. Pascal Zachary [Zachary, G. Pascal]

* * * The most curious aspect of the rapid selector was its hybrid nature; though Bush did not advertise the fact, the machine was part digital. Photographic images—microfilm images—were ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 14,2018 )
Soldier's Woman by Unknown
epub | | 2010-02-13 | Author:Unknown

The next morning Sera woke up and felt like she had a lead weight on her chest. She looked down at her body to realize that Nigel had an arm ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2018 )
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall
azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-03-13 | Author:Joshua Kendall [Kendall, Joshua]

Having obtained a situation in an Infirmary is of itself a degree of success, and will be considered so by the world: and the celebrity that is attained in a ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 13,2018 )
Eugene de Kock by Anemari Jansen
epub |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Anemari Jansen

On 12 December 1986 there were discussions in General [Johan] Van der Merwe’s office about September Machinery, an Umkhonto we Sizwe unit in Swaziland that was giving the Security Branch ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2018 )
Bruce Goff: Architecture of Discipline in Freedom by Arn Henderson
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-27 | Author:Arn Henderson [Henderson, Arn]

Ruth and Albert (Sam) Ford House, Aurora, Illinois. Plan drawing by OU College of Architecture, Design and Research Center. Courtesy College of Architecture, University of Oklahoma. Ford House, construction, 1947–50. ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2018 )
Street Gang by Michael Davis
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Michael Davis

On the Sunday night before the Sesame Street premiere, Tim and Joan Cooney took in the movie Funny Girl at the Ziegfeld Theater, just to kill some time until the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 13,2018 )
To hell and back by Audie Murphy
mobi, epub |eng | 1949-09-01 | Author:Audie Murphy [Murphy, Audie]

12 SPRING comes to the beachhead, and on the ruined land new green glistens in the sunlight. When the guns are quiet, we can hear the song of birds; mate ...
( Category: Military March 13,2018 )
Bernard Shaw by Holroyd Michael;
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Holroyd, Michael; [Holroyd, Michael]

* Beatrice had wished for closer intellectual intimacy with Shaw through the New Statesman. But his ‘big brain’, she became convinced, had been spoilt by Mrs Patrick Campbell. ‘He is ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 13,2018 )

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