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Diana: Story of a Princess by Tim Clayton & Phil Craig
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Tim Clayton & Phil Craig [Clayton, Tim & Craig, Phil]

* * * James Hewitt had been trying to forget Diana and had not spoken to her for more than a year. He was still based in Germany when the ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Lady Colin Campbell
epub |eng | 2013-10-30 | Author:Lady Colin Campbell [Campbell, Lady Colin]

Notes 1: Shawcross, p258 2: News Chronicle, 13 April, 1953 3: Michael Thornton 4: Wheeler-Bennett, p230 5: Harry Batterbee to Lord Stamfordham – 26 May 1927 – Royal Archives 6: ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver by Scott Stossel
epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Scott Stossel [Stossel, Scott]

Shriver was forced to agree to scale back the military’s role significantly. Liberals also objected to the role Shriver proposed for private corporations in administering the Job Corps camps. But ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
Blood Royal: The Story of the Spencers and the Royals by John Pearson
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:John Pearson [Pearson, John]

Chapter 9 Reform and After John Charles, third Earl Spencer (1782-1845) and Frederick, fourth Earl Spencer (1798-1857) Apart from his mother, almost everyone who came in contact with John Charles, ...
( Category: Europe September 27,2017 )
Roads to Berlin by Cees Nooteboom
epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Cees Nooteboom [Nooteboom, Cees]

XIII Quedlinburg, Stolberg, the Germany of picture postcards. A lick of paint and then the coach parties can come. Some places were built for tourism centuries ago—timbers in the walls, ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 27,2017 )
John Brown by Raymond Lamont Brown
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-21 | Author:Raymond Lamont Brown

CHAPTER FOUR ALL THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE Queen Victoria trusted John Brown to be discreet, as she said, with ‘all the secrets of the universe’, her daily routines, highs ...
( Category: Military September 27,2017 )
The Man Called Brown Condor by Thomas E. Simmons
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Thomas E. Simmons

Chapter 16 Audience with the Emperor THE SUN BROKE THROUGH THE THINNING CLOUDS TO CHEERFULLY brighten the morning. John took it as a good omen on the day he was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Lincoln Unbound by Rich Lowry
epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Rich Lowry

Chapter 5 “A Great Empire”: Lincoln’s Vision Realized I chant the new empire grander than any before . . . My sail-­ships and steam-­ships threading the archipelagoes, My stars and ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
Femme Fatale by Pat Shipman
mobi |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Pat Shipman

13 Maelstrom FROM SEPTEMBER 7, 1916, the day that Vadime left Vittel to return to the front, until the day of her death on October 15, 1917, Mata Hari was ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen [Jaaskelainen, Pasi Ilmari]

Ella followed Winter up the stairs. He was puffing like a steam engine. “I assume I can keep the gift basket? Because if I can, I’ll be less upset. This ...
( Category: Fantasy September 27,2017 )
A Wind From the North by Ernle Bradford
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-20 | Author:Ernle Bradford [Bradford, Ernle]

15 ❖ It is difficult for a man to be completely dedicated to a dream, or to an idea, without sacrificing something of his humanity. In Prince Henry’s attitude and ...
( Category: World September 27,2017 )
The Incredible Tito: Man of the Hour by Howard Fast
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Howard Fast

THE PARTISANS FIGHT—AND GROW FORTUNATELY, this piece of business came to light through an English captain, an officer attached to Mikhailovich by the British, who happened to be at Tito’s ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
Between the Bylines by Doug Krikorian
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Doug Krikorian

Chapter 20 I couldn’t believe what was happening to me. My feelings for Gillian kept getting stronger after each trip I took to England in 1996 instead of subsiding. I ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
First Ladies by Caroli Betty
epub |eng | 1987-09-27 | Author:Caroli, Betty

That tolerance for difference served Bess Truman well when the time came to introduce her successor to the White House. After giving Mamie Doud Eisenhower (1953–1961) the traditional tour, Bess ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
A Writer's House in Wales by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 2002-09-27 | Author:Jan Morris

Who art thou, visitor? If friend, welcome of the heart to thee: If stranger, hospitality shall meet thee: If enemy, courtesy shall imprison thee. Whoever wrote them, I like to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 27,2017 )

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