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The First Muslim The Story of Muhammad by Lesley Hazleton
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Lesley Hazleton

Seventeen A s any reasonably astute political observer can testify, political leaders under pressure domestically can always bolster their popularity with an aggressive foreign policy. It’s a strategy that’s been ...
( Category: Islam December 9,2017 )
Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni [Goodman, Rob]

When the Germans heard a noise behind them and saw that their families were being slain, they fled out of the camp, throwing away their arms and abandoning their standards, ...
( Category: Historical December 9,2017 )
Call the Midwife 03 - Farewell to the East End by Jennifer Worth
epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Jennifer Worth [Worth, Jennifer]

Julia went to Poplar early in the morning. She wanted to get there before the Master’s Arms opened. The tram rattled on its rails to an area she had not ...
( Category: Memoirs December 9,2017 )
Leon Trotsky by Paul Le Blanc
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Le Blanc

Destruction of the Soviet Oppositionists In 1937 small groups of dissident Communist heroes and heroines, the men and women of the Left Opposition, waged their final struggle against the bureaucratic ...
( Category: Historical December 9,2017 )
The Civil War (Classics) by Caesar Julius
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Caesar, Julius

4. The last stages 26. Meanwhile, Mithridates of Pergamum, a man of high standing at home, skilled and courageous in war, and a loyal and esteemed friend of Caesar’s, had ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 8,2017 )
The Red Baron: A History in Pictures by Norman Franks
epub |eng | 2016-10-14 | Author:Norman Franks

A rearwards view of Manfred’s Albatros, serial number 4693/17. Richthofen’s Albatros being salvaged from the field. Already the top wing has been removed together with the wing V-struts and the ...
( Category: Military December 8,2017 )
The Black Book of the American Left by David Horowitz
epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:David Horowitz

But when all the posturing and self-dramatization was over, there was no plan, no idea about how to replace what had been destroyed. Schizophrenic to its core, the era was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 8,2017 )
Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian & B. H. Liddell Hart & Constantine Fitzgibbon
epub |eng | 2009-11-06 | Author:Heinz Guderian & B. H. Liddell Hart & Constantine Fitzgibbon

HITLER shouted: ‘That is not true. The Quartermaster-General informed me that the winter clothing had been issued.’ I: ‘I dare say it has been issued but it has never arrived. ...
( Category: Military December 8,2017 )
For the Glory: Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr by Duncan Hamilton
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Duncan Hamilton

CHAPTER TWELVE THE SHARPEST EDGE OF THE SWORD COUNTRY EVANGELISM was Eric Liddell’s forte. He had been born for it. Within six months, after his Chinese began to improve markedly, ...
( Category: Individual Sports December 7,2017 )
Careless People by Sarah Churchwell
epub |eng | 2014-01-23 | Author:Sarah Churchwell

Zelda tended to hear the ripple of music throughout life; her memories were often washed deep in musical images. “Paul Whiteman played the significance of amusement on his violin,” she ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 7,2017 )
Shostakovich by Fay Laurel;
epub |eng | 2000-12-07 | Author:Fay, Laurel;

14 1966–1969 Jubilees he new year 1966 got off to a productive start. While reports of his ostensible progress on the opera The Quiet Don continued to appear in the ...
( Category: Music December 7,2017 )
Hitler's Hangman by Gerwarth Robert
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gerwarth, Robert. [Gerwarth, Robert.]

AT W A R W I T H T H E W O R L D 211 whether the Jewish question should be treated as a ‘policing issue’, thus fal ...
( Category: Europe December 6,2017 )
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Paula Byrne [Byrne, Paula]

Do not be in a hurry; depend upon it, the right Man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years, meet with ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 6,2017 )
The Last Patrician by Michael Knox Beran
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Knox Beran

12 In November 1962, James Baldwin published “Letter from a Region in My Mind” in The New Yorker. In it he told of ghettos where the wages of sin were ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 6,2017 )
How Lincoln Learned to Read by Daniel Wolff
epub |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:Daniel Wolff

HELEN It’s a classic American moment, a classic moment in American education. Helen Keller and her teacher are standing by the water pump; Helen can’t speak, or see, or hear. ...
( Category: Historical December 6,2017 )

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