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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Robert Dallek [Dallek, Robert]

CHAPTER 12 Faux Neutral That Europe was again at war left people across the continent bewildered and horrified. Whether in France or Britain or Italy or in any of Europe’s ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2018 )
Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies by Andrew Joynes
epub, pdf |eng | 2001-05-02 | Author:Andrew Joynes [Joynes, Andrew]

The Ghost of Beaucaire Part III, Chap. CIII It often happens that we have to endure the mockery of many people when we tell them about infernal punishment. For them, ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal March 13,2018 )
Hitler, Stalin and I by Heda Margolius Kovály
epub |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:Heda Margolius Kovály

Liberating Russian soldiers shake the hands of residents after driving the Germans out of Prague, 1945. Courtesy Česká televize. In the morning the announcer called me and said: “You know, ...
( Category: World March 13,2018 )
Astrid Lindgren by Jens Andersen
epub |eng | | Author:Jens Andersen

The Danish Connection The first five years of Astrid Lindgren’s career as an author were an explosion of artistic and commercial success. Three trilogies were launched: Pippi Longstocking, The Children ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 13,2018 )
Time Pieces by John Banville
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:John Banville

*1 Maurice Craig doubts the suggestion that the White House in Washington is a copy of Leinster House. However, the architect of the White House, James Hoban, was born in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 13,2018 )
Gandhi and Churchill by Arthur Herman
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Herman

Chapter Nineteen CONTRA MUNDUM 1931–1932 The loss of India will be the death blow of the British Empire. WINSTON CHURCHILL, april 1931 ON A CHILLY WET DAY IN mid-September 1931 ...
( Category: Asia March 13,2018 )
The Lost Book of Alexander the Great by Andrew Young
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Andrew Young

He then seized Bessus and departed; but sent a messenger on before to ask Alexander how he was to conduct Bessus into his presence. Alexander ordered him to bind the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 13,2018 )
Portrait of Camelot by Richard Reeves
epub |eng | 2010-03-18 | Author:Richard Reeves

December 27 Among the holiday season visitors to Palm Beach was Golda Meir, once a schoolteacher in Milwaukee and now the foreign minister of Israel. December 29 The Kennedys board ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 13,2018 )
Frederick Douglass by D. H. Dilbeck
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:D. H. Dilbeck

Riot in Tremont Temple, Boston, 3 December 1860. From Harper’s Weekly, 15 December 1860. Although the raid on Harpers Ferry failed to incite mass slave insurrection, Douglass still saw in ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 13,2018 )
Lucia by Andrea di Robilant
epub |eng | 2008-01-22 | Author:Andrea di Robilant

The trumpets blare, The proud horseman Enters the arena. He has a natural instinct for battle: He stiffens his chest, his arms and feet, And firmly holds his steed. The ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2018 )
Nine Irish Lives by Mark Bailey
epub |eng | 2018-02-11 | Author:Mark Bailey

THE DIRECTOR Rex Ingram (1893–1950) BY PIERCE BROSNAN I write this from my home in Los Angeles—Malibu, more specifically. I’ve spent the morning painting. I like to paint every morning ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 13,2018 )
Elizabeth Regina by Alison Plowden
epub |eng | 2011-08-08 | Author:Alison Plowden

6 A VERY GREAT PRINCESS Love wing’d my Hopes and taught me how to fly Far from base earth, but not to mount too high: For true pleasure Live in ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2018 )
The Woman Who Fought an Empire by Gregory J. Wallance
epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:Gregory J. Wallance [Wallance, Gregory J.]

On April 19 Aaron, Sarah, Yosef, and Liova arrived in Cairo. Sarah and Aaron went to the Grand Continental Hotel while Yosef and Liova checked in to the Metropole Hotel. ...
( Category: World March 13,2018 )
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach
epub |eng | 2017-11-29 | Author:Annette Dumbach

THIRTEEN ALTHOUGH Sophie had some grounds for rejoicing in the early days of October 1942, she seemed to remain depressed. The good news was that Robert Scholl, after serving two ...
( Category: World March 13,2018 )
L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz by Katharine M. Rogers
epub |eng | 2002-10-08 | Author:Katharine M. Rogers [Rogers, Katharine M.]

CHAPTER 11 WHAT HAPPENED TO SHAGGY The Grand Dining Room of the castle was brilliantly lighted by three huge crystal chandeliers. Each of the chandeliers flamed with more than a ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 13,2018 )

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