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Young Stalin by Montefiore Simon Sebag
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Montefiore, Simon Sebag [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

PART THREE When the luminary full moon Drifts across the vault of the sky And its light, shining out, Begins to play on the azure horizon; When the nightingale’s whistling ...
( Category: Historical December 6,2017 )
Heroes by Paul Johnson
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Johnson

The body part seemed so little to me…I had no idea it could mean so much to her…Quarter of a century passed before I found out how wrong I was, ...
( Category: World December 6,2017 )
Collected Essays by George Orwell
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

Last updated on Thu Jul 26 09:56:26 2007 for eBooks@Adelaide. George Orwell Collected Essays MARK TWAIN—THE LICENSED JESTER (1943) Mark Twain has crashed the lofty gates of the Everyman library, ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 5,2017 )
The Age of Genius by A. C. Grayling
epub |eng | 2015-12-05 | Author:A. C. Grayling

The story of Rosicrucianism is the end-point of what is arguably the gestation period of the modern mind, the period in which enquiry began to enjoy increasing freedom from the ...
( Category: Constitutional Law December 5,2017 )
Bligh by Rob Mundle
epub |eng | 2013-01-19 | Author:Rob Mundle

Gales and very squally weather with a high breaking sea, so that we are miserably wet and suffer great cold in the night. In the morning at day break I ...
( Category: Historical December 4,2017 )
The President's Husband by Michael Murphy
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-29 | Author:Michael Murphy

QUITE EARLY on Sunday morning, David received a call from Gray. He answered it on the first ring, since he had been waiting for the call. Not only that, but ...
( Category: Political December 4,2017 )
The 9/11 Wars by Jason Burke
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Jason Burke [Burke, Jason]

Nowhere was this more clear than in Multan, once simply a sleepy provincial town famous for its shrines but in November 2007 a city with a population swollen to nearly ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )
The Survival of the Princes in the Tower by Matthew Lewis
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Matthew Lewis

Here we have Henry’s riposte to Richard’s pretension: the king claims that the youth is a native of Tournay, the son of a boatman and that his true name is ...
( Category: Historical December 4,2017 )
The Last Roman - Romulus Augustulus by Adrian Murdoch
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Adrian Murdoch [Adrian Murdoch]

One day, as Saint Severinus was reading in his cell, he suddenly closed the book and began to sigh deeply and to weep. He ordered those around him to run ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 4,2017 )
Alison Weir by Katherine Swynford
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Katherine Swynford [Swynford, Katherine]

Philippa and Katherine now had much in common: both were essentially femmes soles, both had dedicated a daughter to God, both were rearing sons called Thomas who were of similar ...
( Category: Europe December 3,2017 )
America's queen : the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Bradford Sarah 1938-
epub |eng | 2000-12-03 | Author:Bradford, Sarah, 1938-

Jackie spent her days reading, painting, resting for the birth of her baby and planning, just as she had in 1960, in the weeks before the birth of John Jr., ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 3,2017 )
Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman
epub |eng | 1968-12-03 | Author:Douglas Southall Freeman

CHAPTER / 15 Discomfort, chill and misgiving attended the birth of 1780 at Morristown. In the absence of furloughed Generals, the business of the Army took so much of Washington’s ...
( Category: Historical December 3,2017 )
Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel by Butler Daniel Allen
epub |eng | 2015-07-19 | Author:Butler, Daniel Allen [Butler, Daniel Allen]

Considerable controversy has occurred . . . as to whether Rommel was right in calling off the attack on Tobruk in order to deal with the enemy offensive first. Our ...
( Category: Europe December 3,2017 )
The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves
epub |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

And he nearly assumed a royal diadem then and there, doing away with the pretence that he was merely the chief executive of a republic. However, after his courtiers reminded ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 3,2017 )
CRAZY HORSE by Kingsley M Bray
epub |eng | 2011-11-19 | Author:Kingsley M Bray [Bray, Kingsley M]

20 TO KEEP MY COUNTRY For three weeks, Crazy Horse disappeared into the bleak hills east of Powder River, straddling the modern Wyoming-Montana boundary. Only one eyewitness account exists from ...
( Category: Historical December 3,2017 )

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