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Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

It is the medieval equivalent of an old apothegm. Those that can, do; those that cannot, write. Since these lines were probably composed a little after the time of Cecily ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 29,2017 )
Abraham Lincoln by James M. McPherson
epub |eng | 2008-12-12 | Author:James M. McPherson [McPherson, James M.]

Another matter bound up with Lincoln’s powers as commander in chief, but involving many other considerations as well, was slavery. Lincoln’s decision in 1862 to issue an emancipation proclamation freed ...
( Category: Americas November 29,2017 )
Daughter of Destiny by Benazir Bhutto
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Benazir Bhutto [Bhutto, Benazir]

10 TWO MORE YEARS ALONE IN SUB-JAIL Familiarity. Comfort. Home. Leaving aside the fact that the paramilitary Frontier Forces were once more posted inside the compound walls and a prison ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 28,2017 )
The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation by Elizabeth Letts
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Elizabeth Letts [Letts, Elizabeth]

15 New Challenges Westport, Connecticut, 1958 Joe “the Pollack” Keswyzk and Jim Troutwell had an ongoing wager with Harry. Not that Harry wanted to bet against his own horse, but ...
( Category: Memoirs November 28,2017 )
King of the Godfathers by Anthony M. Destefano
epub |eng | 2008-06-01 | Author:Anthony M. Destefano [Destefano, Anthony M.]

CHAPTER 16 By the Numbers “What do you think is going on?” asked FBI Director Louis Freeh. Though he was based in Washington, D.C., Freeh kept abreast of crime news ...
( Category: Historical November 28,2017 )
Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

Chaplin was even now thinking of his next film. The Idle Class is not in the same inspired category as The Kid but his dual roles in the picture, of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 28,2017 )
The Ingenious Mr. Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy by Henry Hemming
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Henry Hemming [Hemming, Henry]

PYKE HUNT, PART 4 On 19 March – the day that Combined Operations agreed to go ahead with the Plough scheme – Special Branch filed a new report casting Pyke ...
( Category: Europe November 28,2017 )
Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard [O'Reilly, Bill & Dugard, Martin]

John Hinckley Jr. being tackled by Secret Service agents and other onlookers after his attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan, March 30, 1981 As Hinckley is subdued, three men are fighting ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 28,2017 )
Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures by Susan Ronald
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Susan Ronald [Ronald, Susan]

21 THE POSSE YEARS While Man’s desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust Impending war inevitably led to the squirreling-away of art treasures ...
( Category: True Crime November 28,2017 )
If This Is a Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
mobi |eng | 2014-01-23 | Author:Primo Levi

It was already night. Contrary to what the sergeant had led us to believe, the most sumptuous abundance reigned inside the barracks; there were lighted stoves, candles and acetylene lamps, ...
( Category: World November 28,2017 )
The Life of Samuel Johnson by David Womersley & James Boswell
azw3 |eng | 1790-01-01 | Author:David Womersley & James Boswell

( Category: Historical November 28,2017 )
Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968 by Nha Ca
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:Nha Ca [Ca, Nha]

This chapter is the voice of a young man named Lê who hid in the underground shelter in Phan Bội Châu’s ancestor-worshipping house in Từ Đàm hamlet, on the edge ...
( Category: Military November 28,2017 )
Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg
epub |eng | 2002-11-04 | Author:Eugenia Ginzburg [Ginzburg, Eugenia]

This is no fantasy of a mad producer Or something dreamed by Edgar Allan Poe. As it dies away, I really hear The tread of my jailors' boots. In their ...
( Category: Historical November 28,2017 )
Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
epub |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:William Tecumseh Sherman [Sherman, William Tecumseh]

Major-General MCPHERSON, commanding Army of the Tennessee, Sugar Valley, Georgia. GENERAL: I received by courier (in the night) yours of 5 and 6:30 P.M. of yesterday. MAP N°1 ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. ...
( Category: Americas November 28,2017 )
Ben-Gurion: A Political Life (Jewish Encounters Series) by Shimon Peres
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Shimon Peres

He put the issue to the vote: Declare the state in two days’ time as planned, or wait? By a vote of six to four the ministers of the Provisional ...
( Category: World November 28,2017 )

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