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Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag by Karl Tobien
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Karl Tobien

Fourteen BUREPOLOM Our introduction to this transitional camp was rough indeed. We were put to work immediately and left to fend for ourselves among the camp’s most violent members. Because ...
( Category: Historical November 13,2017 )
Nixon Agonistes by Garry Wills
epub |eng | 2017-04-06 | Author:Garry Wills

9. Making It “First we see him as a small boy, light of foot, fishing for bullheads in the Rat River of Vermont … Then he leaves for the big ...
( Category: Historical November 13,2017 )
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

MADONNA OF THE YARNWINDER Friar Pietro, in one of his letters to the persistent Isabella, described a painting that Leonardo was doing at the request of Louis XII’s secretary, Florimond ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 13,2017 )
Mystery of the Magi by Dwight Longenecker
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Dwight Longenecker

they were clearly already in a process of metamorphosis [from a nomadic to a settled civilization] for they had acquired possessions that were not easily transported in a nomadic life. ...
( Category: History November 13,2017 )
Out in the Army: My Life as a Gay Soldier by James Wharton
epub |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:James Wharton [Wharton, James]

Later: Eventually we moved to a location near to where we would be meeting with the convoy, just behind some large mounds and quite out of sight, but news came ...
( Category: LGBT November 13,2017 )
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Peirce Leslie
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Peirce, Leslie [Peirce, Leslie]

While the foundation’s users doubtless took care to conduct themselves with circumspection, the Haseki complex was rarely silent. In warm weather, the voices of children reciting their lessons might waft ...
( Category: Middle East November 13,2017 )
Indira by Katherine Frank
epub |eng | 2001-11-13 | Author:Katherine Frank [Frank, Katherine]

In America, five days after Indira was sworn in, she appeared on the cover of Time magazine in full colour, complete with red rose and white-streaked hair, under the banner ...
( Category: Asia November 13,2017 )
First Fighter Ace: In the Cockpit with a World War II Fighter Pilot (Stackpole Military History Series) by Stanisław Skalski
azw3 |eng | 2017-08-01 | Author:Stanisław Skalski [Skalski, Stanisław]

( Category: Historical November 13,2017 )
First Fighter Ace: In the Cockpit With a World War II Fighter Pilot by Stanisław Skalski
epub |eng | 2017-08-01 | Author:Stanisław Skalski [Skalski, Stanisław]

( Category: Historical November 13,2017 )
Devil May Care by Unknown
mobi |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Unknown

CHAPTER ELEVEN 11 April of the Year our Lord God, 1518 Dearest Kat, Do not fret. I am honored by your news. John will think the babe is his, but ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 13,2017 )
1776: The American Revolution by David McCullough
epub |eng | 2006-06-27 | Author:David McCullough [McCullough, David]

On a day such as this, on the eve of battle, they would have given close attention to all the particulars of their arms and accoutrements, and each man to ...
( Category: Americas November 12,2017 )
Gandhi's Passion by Wolpert Stanley;
epub |eng | 2001-11-12 | Author:Wolpert, Stanley;

16 Imprisoned Soul of India GANDHI NEVER despaired behind bars. Adversity only cheered his passionate nature and intensified his resolve. The 1932-33 prison interlude brought the purifying rays of his ...
( Category: Asia November 12,2017 )
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
epub |eng | 2008-03-17 | Author:Daoud Hari [Hari, Daoud]

14. Once More Home You have met broadcast news filmmaker Philip Cox, who saved my dear head from being shot by calling a commander on the phone. Philip had been ...
( Category: Historical November 12,2017 )
The Twelve Little Cakes by Dominika Dery
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Dominika Dery

THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS were spent in an uproar. My mother was furious at my sister’s “immorality,” and our family dinners were tense and formal affairs. My dad’s cheerful ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 11,2017 )
The Tudors by Richard Rex
epub |eng | 2009-12-12 | Author:Richard Rex [Rex, Richard]

Edward VI’s ‘devise for the succession’ of June 1553. There are six paragraphs in the Devise, which is entirely in the handwriting of the youthful king. The ‘s’ in ‘L. ...
( Category: Europe November 11,2017 )

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