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King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War by Catrine Clay
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-11-26 | Author:Catrine Clay [Clay, Catrine]

12 Uncle Bertie and his Two Nephews THE NEWSPAPERS WERE extravagant in their praise of the new King, all but The Times, which took a high moral tone, reminding its ...
( Category: Historical December 30,2017 )
Bill O'Reilly by Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
mobi |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

16 TRIER, GERMANY MARCH 13, 1945 MORNING George S. Patton is on the move. Finally. Sgt. John Mims drives Patton in his signature open-air jeep with its three-star flags over ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 30,2017 )
Four Days in November by Vincent Bugliosi
epub |eng | 2007-12-30 | Author:Vincent Bugliosi

11:00 a.m. Robert Oswald arrives at the Hotel Adolphus and finds that room 906 is a suite. A stranger answers his knock. “I’m Robert Oswald. Is my mother here?” “In ...
( Category: Americas December 30,2017 )
Len, A Lawyer in History: A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass by Smith Michael Steven
azw3 |eng | 2016-12-15 | Author:Smith, Michael Steven [Smith, Michael Steven]

( Category: Historical December 30,2017 )
Caracalla by Ilkka Syvanne
epub |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:Ilkka Syvanne

‘The enchantments of the enemy had made Antoninus frenzied and beside himself; at any rate, some of the Alamanni, on hearing of his condition, asserted that they had employed charms ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 30,2017 )
Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain by Philip Matyszak
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Philip Matyszak

Having suffered this major setback, Manlius pulled back to his own province. A fragment which has survived from a text by the historian Sallust suggests that Hirtuleius did not let ...
( Category: Historical December 30,2017 )
Now You Know Canada by Doug Lennox
epub |eng | 2017-05-09 | Author:Doug Lennox

What teams were involved in the world’s first hockey championship? In 1883 at Montreal’s inaugural Winter Carnival, the world’s first hockey championship was held, pitting three teams against one another: ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games December 29,2017 )
Party of One by Michael Harris
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Michael Harris [Harris, Michael]

twelve FORKED TONGUE On July 5, 2013, a report marked “Secret” landed on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s desk. The document was written by his special envoy on West Coast energy ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 29,2017 )
Five Presidents by Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin
epub |eng | | Author:Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin

EARLIER IN THE day, Youngblood informed me that President Johnson was considering an intensive campaign trip when he returned to the United States to support Democratic candidates in the upcoming ...
( Category: Americas December 28,2017 )
Echoes in the Darkness (1987) by Wambaugh Joseph
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-23 | Author:Wambaugh, Joseph [Wambaugh, Joseph]

18 June Call 23 June P.W.P. moderator's workshop. Reservations G. W. Motor Lodge One of the most puzzling notations was the "ring to courier." After the telephone records of everyone ...
( Category: True Crime December 28,2017 )
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War by Flood Charles Bracelen
mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Flood, Charles Bracelen [Flood, Charles Bracelen]

During the time that Sherman was conducting what became known as the Meridian Campaign, Grant wrote a brief letter to Julia. In it he said, “It now looks as if ...
( Category: Americas December 28,2017 )
Childhood at Court, 1819-1914 by John Van der Kiste
epub |eng | 2016-01-17 | Author:John Van der Kiste [Kiste, John Van der]

5 ‘Dreadfully wild, but I was just as bad’ A new generation of royal children was growing up at court, overlapping with the old. Princess Beatrice was twenty-one months old ...
( Category: Historical December 28,2017 )
Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt by Arthur T. Vanderbilt
epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Arthur T. Vanderbilt [Vanderbilt, Arthur T.]

2. Even after his marriage, Mrs. Astor continued to fawn over Harry Lehr. “Kind motherly Mrs. Astor,” Bessie noted, “would smile her approval: ‘So nice to see young people so ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 28,2017 )
The Five of Hearts by Patricia O'Toole
epub |eng | 2008-12-28 | Author:Patricia O'Toole

John La Farge struggled valiantly to do the impossible: Capture the grace of Samoan dancers on paper.ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM, BOSTON For La Farge, the graceful dancers furnished as many ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 28,2017 )
The Queen Mother by Lady Colin Campbell
epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Lady Colin Campbell

Chapter Nine Compulsion and Abdication There was a third woman at that skating party at Virginia Water. Her name was Wallis Simpson, but she was regarded by the others as ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 27,2017 )

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