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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin
epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-08-15 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

Giant Bobby Thomson swings for a home run against Dodger Ralph Branca to make the “shot heard round the world” and win the 1951 National League pennant. The Giants mob ...
( Category: Biographies September 19,2017 )
Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier by Tom Kizzia
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Tom Kizzia [Kizzia, Tom]

Papa was happier than anyone could remember, persecuted and on the run with disciples. He renamed his followers Naomi and Ruth. Rose and the youngest children hid with their guests ...
( Category: True Crime September 19,2017 )
The Brothers Robidoux and the Opening of the American West by Robert J. Willoughby
epub |eng | | Author:Robert J. Willoughby

In late 1829 Antoine gave a deposition before Juan Rafael Ortiz regarding one such robbery. “Today I present to this court, how it's related to the accusation that has been ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 19,2017 )
One Dog at a Time by Farthing Pen
epub |eng | | Author:Farthing, Pen

CHAPTER TEN Lift Off ITRIED TO SPEND as long with the dogs as I could over the next few days. I even missed out on some opportunities to sleep so ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care September 19,2017 )
Eva's Story by Eva Schloss
epub |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:Eva Schloss [Schloss, Eva]

24 October 1944 Aachen captured by US First Army Feeling totally deserted, I was now losing the courage and hope that had kept me alive. I knew I had lost ...
( Category: Historical September 19,2017 )
Thatcher by Clare Beckett
epub |eng | | Author:Clare Beckett

Howe’s Resignation Speech, November 13 1990 ‘The second thing that happened was, I fear, even more disturbing. Reporting to this House, my right hon. Friend almost casually remarked that she ...
( Category: World September 19,2017 )
The Tinkerers by Alec Foege
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Alec Foege

CHAPTER 6 WHEN TINKERING VEERS OFF COURSE THE BRITISH SCIENCE WRITER MATT RIDLEY famously and provocatively wrote in 2010 that “for culture to turn cumulative, ideas need to meet and ...
( Category: Technology September 19,2017 )
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst by Whyte Kenneth
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-01 | Author:Whyte, Kenneth [Whyte, Kenneth]

Halstead soon learned that the Inglaterra stood in stark relief to much of its surroundings. Havana was a squalid city with crumbling infrastructure and a dispirited, frightened population. At all ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 19,2017 )
Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance (A Memoir) by Charles Novacek
epub |eng | 2012-10-25 | Author:Charles Novacek [Novacek, Charles]

five The Time Between I was born near a border and crossing others became common. Sometimes the crossing was an arduous journey, through treacherous mountains protected by fierce dogs and ...
( Category: Military September 19,2017 )
Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich by Joanne D Gilbert
epub |eng | 2014-08-06 | Author:Joanne D Gilbert [Gilbert, Joanne D]

I have one more story that I want to tell you about brave Jewish fighters. Especially females. For almost seventy years, whenever I speak about the Holocaust, I make sure ...
( Category: Memoirs September 19,2017 )
Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance by Freya von Moltke
epub |eng | 2010-07-23 | Author:Freya von Moltke

Marion Yorck and I traveled from Berlin to Kreisau on 25 January 1945. Edith and Henssel took us to the train. They had the nicest sandwiches for us, and Marion ...
( Category: Historical September 19,2017 )
Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening: Growing Up in Nazi Germany, 1933-1946 by Eycke Strickland
epub |eng | 2014-05-10 | Author:Eycke Strickland [Strickland, Eycke]

Every day at lunchtime, Ivan came in from the barn, took off his ratty cap, hung it on a hook, spit in his hands, and slicked down his hair. He ...
( Category: Historical September 19,2017 )
Diary of a Man in Despair (New York Review Books Classics) by Friedrich Reck
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Friedrich Reck [Reck, Friedrich]

September 1941 This is how we live in Germany today. . . . Monday, a gigantic victory is announced. Tuesday, not a soul can remember what it was. Huge numbers ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 19,2017 )
The Past is Myself & The Road Ahead Omnibus: When I Was a German, 1934-1945 by Bielenberg Christabel
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Bielenberg, Christabel [Bielenberg, Christabel]

PETER’S RETURN (Winter 1945) HOW DID THE day start? I must try to get it all quite straight. Things were not ordinary because Nicky had tonsillitis and I had brought ...
( Category: Medicine September 19,2017 )
The True German: The Diary of a World War II Military Judge by Mueller-Hill Werner Otto
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Mueller-Hill, Werner Otto [Mueller-Hill, Werner Otto]

Freiburg September 23, 1944 From now on until the end of the war, we will get to read every day about what our enemies plan to do with us after ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 19,2017 )

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