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Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation by Benjamin Franklin Martin
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Benjamin Franklin Martin [Martin, Benjamin Franklin]

Chapter 8 DISCOMFITED AFTER THE GERMANS TOOK control in Nice during the fall of 1943, their security apparatus began hunting down the usual targets: Jews, Communists, active members of the ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2018 )
The Year I Was Peter the Great by Marvin Kalb
epub |eng | | Author:Marvin Kalb

I had asked myself when I arrived in this historic city whether twentieth-century Samarkand could somehow match the allure of fifteenth-century Samarkand. My answer was no. The beauty of old ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 12,2018 )
Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner
epub |eng | | Author:Wallace Stegner

Sometime during that roundup they may have had a day of decent weather, but it seemed to Rusty it was a procession of trials: icy nights, days when a bitter ...
( Category: Literary March 12,2018 )
Wrestling with the Devil by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
epub |eng | 2018-02-24 | Author:Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

4 Makhan Singh was a communist. He said so both before and after his detention and imprisonment. As such, he was opposed to capitalism. J.M. Kariũki was a nationalist. He ...
( Category: Africa March 12,2018 )
The Lost War Horses of Cairo by Grant Hayter-Menzies
epub |eng | 2017-12-18 | Author:Grant Hayter-Menzies

7. Going Home Those that were past enjoyment of any sort were put down at once. But at least they pass on to the sound of an English voice, speaking ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 12,2018 )
The White Horse King by Benjamin R. Merkle
epub |eng | 2015-10-01 | Author:Benjamin R. Merkle

With the battle of Edington won and the army of Guthrum decisively conquered, it would seem that the time for Alfred to begin his celebrations had come. Surely this hard-won ...
( Category: Theology March 12,2018 )
The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor Roper
epub |eng | | Author:Hugh Trevor Roper [Trevor-Roper, Hugh]

It was not in this cloud-cuckoo-land that the affairs of Germany were being, or would be, decided. All this time the evacuation of ministries from Berlin was continuing; but Hitler ...
( Category: Europe March 12,2018 )
The Vanishing Velázquez by Laura Cumming
epub |eng | | Author:Laura Cumming

( Category: Arts & Literature March 12,2018 )
The Bishop's Boys by Tom D. Crouch
epub |eng | 2003-04-17 | Author:Tom D. Crouch [Crouch, Tom D.]

“There is absolutely no evidence to support the alleged statements of the Wright brothers,” Santos told the newsmen. “They may have flown, but there is nothing in any report of ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2018 )
Through the Children's Gate by Adam Gopnik
epub |eng | 2006-03-12 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

Once I sensed the nature of his predicament, I began to feel more sympathetic toward Charlie Ravioli. I got to know him better, too. We learned more about what Ravioli ...
( Category: Americas March 12,2018 )
Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist by Yossi Klein Halevi
epub | | 2016-11-07 | Author:Yossi Klein Halevi

FIVE Crossing the Border 1. THE EXODUS ended. In August 1972 the Kremlin imposed a “ransom tax”: Would-be émigrés had to reimburse the government for their state-sponsored education. Few Soviet ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2018 )
Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship by Martin Gilbert
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Martin Gilbert [Gilbert, Martin]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ‘THESE VILE CRIMES’ On 21 June 1941 the armed might of Germany turned against the Soviet Union. As the German Army advanced, SS killing squads began the systematic ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2018 )
Sandringham Days by John Matson
epub |eng | 2013-05-30 | Author:John Matson

The Duchess had married into a family which for years had been self-sufficient, a family which the Princess’s genius for affection had turned into something that was certainly a closely-guarded ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2018 )
A Man Most Driven by Peter Firstbrook
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Peter Firstbrook

The backwaters of the Chickahominy River in winter (photo by Peter Firstbrook) Kendall had already come under scrutiny when he and Wingfield had crossed each other some weeks previously. Rumours ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2018 )
The League of Outsider Baseball by Gary Cieradkowski
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Cieradkowski

* * * * * * JAKE POWELL Unscripted and Unforgiven * * * * * * When the Yankees sent Ben Chapman to the Senators they got Jake Powell ...
( Category: Biographies March 11,2018 )

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