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Il Duce and His Women by Roberto Olla
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Roberto Olla [Olla, Roberto]

The reality was very different. The squads who had got used to overrunning towns and rural areas more or less with impunity, since the police forces rarely intervened, now saw ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 4,2018 )
The Commanders by Robert M. Utley
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Robert M. Utley [Utley, Robert M.]

CHAPTER SIX EDWARD O. C. ORD Edward Ord was an individualist, his character and personality not entirely in harmony with military structure. An impulsive, restless nonconformist, he often ran afoul ...
( Category: Americas March 4,2018 )
Movie Nights with the Reagans by Mark Weinberg
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Weinberg

11 BACK TO THE FUTURE Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd Directed by: Robert Zemeckis Viewed by the Reagans: July 26, 1985 The Film That Left Us Speechless At 11:28 ...
( Category: Americas March 4,2018 )
Killer Clown by Terry Sullivan & Peter Maiken
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Terry Sullivan & Peter Maiken [Sullivan, Terry]

To the amazement of observers, every day the policemen ate a hearty lunch. As Genty said, there is nothing worse than dealing with something yucky on an empty stomach. For ...
( Category: True Crime March 4,2018 )
Stalin’s Englishman by Andrew Lownie
epub |eng | 2015-08-16 | Author:Andrew Lownie [Andrew Lownie]

( Category: Historical March 4,2018 )
Russia's Dead End by Andrei A. Kovalev
epub |eng | 2017-06-05 | Author:Andrei A. Kovalev [Kovalev, Andrei A.]

Postscript to an Epoch of Hope In the process of dismantling Soviet totalitarianism, colleagues who shared my democratic ideals and I tried to get rid of sticky, omnipresent spiderwebs. At ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 4,2018 )
Putin--His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash by Richard Lourie
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Lourie

PART FIVE NORTH- AND EASTWARD … With escalating terrorist threats at home, including in the Chinese heartland, and Uighur militants working with extremist groups like the Pakistani Taliban and the ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 4,2018 )
I Didn't Do It for You by Michela Wrong
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Michela Wrong

In December 1960, two weeks after the Emperor had left Addis on an extended tour of South America, his Imperial Bodyguard took control of the airport, rounded up the royal ...
( Category: Africa March 3,2018 )
One and Only by Gerald Nicosia
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Gerald Nicosia

Neal Cassady, no date. (Photo courtesy of Anne Marie Santos.) PART FIVE 1949 was a year when great changes were beginning in America—the Cold War was deepening; the Korean War ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 3,2018 )
Tried by War by McPherson James M
epub |zho | 2008-10-06 | Author:McPherson, James M. [McPherson, James M.]

THE TIMING OF Lincoln’s public letters turned out to be fortuitous. Within a few days of their publication Union victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson lifted the pall of ...
( Category: Americas March 3,2018 )
Genius of Place by Justin Martin
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Justin Martin

Just to get to his new job was no easy task. Olmsted elected to take the Panama route, one of several options for getting to the West Coast in those ...
( Category: Historical March 3,2018 )
Downtown: My Manhattan by Pete Hamill
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Pete Hamill [Hamill, Pete]

And so my present as a newspaperman was always accompanied by the past. Bennett and Greeley, Pulitzer and Hearst hovered near me as I was taught my craft. There was ...
( Category: Historical March 3,2018 )
Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Leavy

Chapter 14 THE SIXTH INNING CLAUDE OSTEEN WAS LYING in his shorts on a training table in the clubhouse listening to Jerry Doggett tout the virtues of Royal “76” Premium ...
( Category: Judaism March 3,2018 )
Best Russian Short Stories by Unknown
epub |eng | 2004-09-11 | Author:Unknown

"No, mate, I will not forget. It is too late. See! He struck me in the face, drew blood. So long as I live I will not forget. I will ...
( Category: Historical March 3,2018 )
Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story by Marilyn June Coffey
epub |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Marilyn June Coffey [Coffey, Marilyn June]

Marriage liberated Teresa. Ever since she came to Kansas, no matter where she lived, she always feared that, like Albert, she would be told to leave. Counting orphanages, she’d lived ...
( Category: Historical March 3,2018 )

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