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A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:John Preston [Preston, John]

22 Things Fall Apart When Bessell returned to England at the start of December 1973, he had been so preoccupied with his problems that he hadn’t paid much attention to ...
( Category: True Crime October 15,2017 )
Hitler's Last Secretary by Traudl Junge
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Traudl Junge [JUNGE, TRAUDL]

V We were sitting together at lunch again; this was the end of August [1944]. Hitler’s manner to me was very strange. He seemed almost unfriendly. He never said a ...
( Category: Military October 15,2017 )
Love in the Tempest of History by Aude Yung-de Prévaux
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Aude Yung-de Prévaux [Prévaux, Aude Yung-de]

( Category: Historical October 15,2017 )
Marcus Agrippa: Right-hand Man of Caesar Augustus by Lindsay Powell
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-02-28 | Author:Lindsay Powell [Powell, Lindsay]

At times it seems as though they were competing to see who could be the more generous of the two. As they passed through cities on their journey through Asia ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2017 )
Mother and Me by Julian Padowicz
epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Julian Padowicz

A few days later, Mrs. Rokief came to our door looking for Mother. Everyone was out except Fredek, me, and Sonya. I was the only one Mrs. Rokief knew or ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2017 )
Of a Fire on the Moon (9780553390629) by Mailer Norman
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Mailer, Norman [Mailer, Norman]

VI Long before, almost two and a half days before, not a half hour after the third stage had completed its five and a half minute burn and pushed Apollo ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 15,2017 )
Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild by Novella Carpenter
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Novella Carpenter [Carpenter, Novella]

My parents at the infamous A-frame in Crescent, Oregon. Mom five months pregnant, 1971. Eight We were on the road, headed East from Orofino, to visit friends and go to ...
( Category: Specific Groups October 15,2017 )
The Nemesis File - The True Story of an SAS Execution Squad by Bruce Paul
azw3 |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Bruce, Paul [Bruce, Paul]

CHAPTER SEVEN That weekend the fury of the Catholic backlash erupted in Newry. Not since the policy of internment had been introduced in August, three months earlier, had the mass ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 15,2017 )
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn & Petra Couvée
epub |eng | 2014-06-17 | Author:Peter Finn & Petra Couvée [Finn, Peter & Couvée, Petra]

( Category: Arts & Literature October 15,2017 )
Canada by Mike Myers
epub |eng | 2016-10-22 | Author:Mike Myers [Myers, Mike]

Specifically, the world’s tallest building, the CN Tower. In 1973, the Canadian National Railway, or CN, began building a tower on its property in downtown Toronto, for the purpose of ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 15,2017 )
Coolidge: An American Enigma by Robert Sobel
epub |eng | 2012-04-01 | Author:Robert Sobel [Sobel, Robert]

9 President When I became president it was perfectly apparent that the key by which the way could be opened to national progress was constructive economy. Only by the use ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2017 )
Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively
epub |eng | 2006-10-15 | Author:Penelope Lively

Chapter Five I did not go to school in Egypt. I could have done – there were English schools, but they were in Cairo so there would have been a ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2017 )
The Boleyns by David Loades
epub |eng | 2013-01-18 | Author:David Loades [Loades, David]

It could hardly have been a more composed or orthodox departure, and even Chapuys was impressed. The formalities were quickly completed, and her body was committed for burial beside that ...
( Category: Europe October 15,2017 )
The Cradle King: The Life of James VI and I, the First Monarch of a United Great Britain by
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:

CHAPTER FOURTEEN A Terrible Blow FIVE YEARS AFTER the Gowrie Plot, in 1605 James unearthed another conspiracy against his life, although this one was undoubtedly real.1 The Gunpowder Plot seems ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 15,2017 )
1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb
epub |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Suzannah Lipscomb [Lipscomb, Suzannah]

CHAPTER 13 Henry VIII’s Theology Henry VIII’s theology seems to have situated itself somewhere between the later identities of Protestant and Catholic, and even somewhere between the contemporary beliefs of ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2017 )

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