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A Bold and Dangerous Family by Caroline Moorehead
epub |eng | 2017-06-15 | Author:Caroline Moorehead

Nello and his second daughter, Paola Maria with Paola and Silvia Though Marion had dreaded the moment when she would have to abandon Carlo, they had always known that, given ...
( Category: Europe October 21,2017 )
Goebbels by Peter Longerich
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Peter Longerich

RESTORING HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HITLER In the autumn of 1940 it appeared as if Goebbels’s hard work in the field of war propaganda was going to be rewarded in another ...
( Category: Historical October 20,2017 )
Meet the Beatles by Steven D. Stark
epub |eng | 2006-05-17 | Author:Steven D. Stark [Stark, Steven D.]

The Yellow Submarine was first proposed by the Beatles, who taught us a new style of song. It was launched by hip pacifists in a New York harbor, and then ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 20,2017 )
Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson
epub, pdf |eng | 2001-09-30 | Author:Charles Henderson [Henderson, Charles]

"7th Marines. Just talk and the regimental CP will answer." While Hathcock spoke with an operations officer at the regimental command post, Captain Land talked with the 1st Marine Division's ...
( Category: Military October 20,2017 )
From the Imjin to the Hook: A National Service Gunner in the Korean War by James Jacobs
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-10 | Author:James Jacobs [Jacobs, James]

Following Operation Commando, 170 Battery had just one month to serve in Korea before we sailed for Hong Kong. I eagerly awaited details of where the battery would be stationed ...
( Category: Military October 20,2017 )
Churchill's Legacy by Alan Watson
epub |eng | 2016-10-15 | Author:Alan Watson

PART V EUROPE RESTORED 16 Zurich ‘I am now going to say something that will astonish you . . .’ As with his Fulton speech, Churchill’s second great intervention of ...
( Category: Military October 20,2017 )
Turner by Franny Moyle
epub |eng | 2016-10-11 | Author:Franny Moyle

15. The overturner July 28th. ‘Papa, Mama, Sally and Sophy dined at Cassiobury. Mr Eden there and Turner. Mr Capel passed by . . .’1 Dr Thomas Monro’s son Edward ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 19,2017 )
Wounds by Fergal Keane
epub |eng | 2017-08-09 | Author:Fergal Keane

IV At night they listened to the sounds of the barracks: shouts, the clatter of boots, engines growling. A town waiting. Denis Quille, IRA volunteer and neighbour of the Keanes, ...
( Category: Military October 19,2017 )
Man of the Hour by Jennet Conant
epub |eng | | Author:Jennet Conant

CHAPTER 16 * * * One Fell Stroke The essence of war is not slaughter but impressing your will upon the enemy. —JBC to Vannevar Bush As the Anglo-American high ...
( Category: Americas October 19,2017 )
Empress of the East by Leslie Peirce
epub |eng | 2017-09-01 | Author:Leslie Peirce

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: World October 19,2017 )
Elizabeth and Leicester by Sarah Gristwood
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Sarah Gristwood

12 ‘Our estate requireth a match’ 1570-1572 FOR ELIZABETH TOO, THE NEW DECADE OPENED ONTO THE FAINT rumours of change. One way or another, the possibility of the Queen’s linking ...
( Category: Historical October 19,2017 )
One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper by Davenport-Hines Richard; Sisman Adam;
epub |eng | 2014-09-19 | Author:Davenport-Hines, Richard; Sisman, Adam; [Davenport-Hines, Richard; Sisman, Adam;]

On the morning of Saturday 23 April, the very morning that Trevor-Roper’s article announcing the discovery of the Hitler diaries was published in The Times, he spoke by telephone to ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 19,2017 )
Robert Frost by Jay Parini
epub |eng | | Author:Jay Parini

15 BUILDING SOIL 1931–1934 All experience ever is is confirmation anyway. —FROST TO THEODORE MORRISON, JUNE 27, 1930 “I am just starting to write letters again, letters or anything else, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 19,2017 )
To the Castle and Back by Vaclav Havel
epub |eng | 2007-10-19 | Author:Vaclav Havel [Havel, Václav]

(June 10, 2001) 1) Thank you for the briefing note for Brussels. The next time I would welcome it if they were a bit more comprehensible. A small example: “There ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 19,2017 )
The Boy Nevada Killed by Janice Oberding
epub |eng | 2017-10-19 | Author:Janice Oberding

Floyd Loveless as a youngster. Photo courtesy of Robert Kay Loveless. Not everyone in Reno was eager to help Floyd stay out of the gas chamber. Constable A.H. Berning was ...
( Category: Photography & Video October 19,2017 )

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