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Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin by American Prometheus: The Triumph;Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:American Prometheus: The Triumph;Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “He Couldn’t Understand Why He Did It” He told me that his nerve just gave way at that moment. . . . He has this tendency when things ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 18,2017 )
Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America by Turner Christopher
epub |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Turner, Christopher [Turner, Christopher]

“What did you get out of it?” the anarchist Paul Mattick asked when Goodman told him he’d just had a session in an accumulator. “Nothing, nothing,” said Goodman, as if ...
( Category: Historical September 18,2017 )
The Patton Papers by Blumenson Martin
epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:Blumenson, Martin [MARTIN BLUMENSION]

Mr. McCloy asked me what I thought of Monty. I said first that I preferred not to answer, and then on being pressed, I said I thought Monty was too ...
( Category: Military September 17,2017 )
Allende Isabel by El zorro
epub |eng | 2014-02-01 | Author:El zorro

Perdona, hermano, soy muy egoísta, no es el momento de majadearte una vez más con mis fantasías de amor, sino de hablar de ti. Durante estos años me he divertido ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2017 )
A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Thomas Buergenthal [BUERGENTHAL, THOMAS]

( Category: Memoirs September 17,2017 )
Victoria & Abdul by Shrabani Basu
epub |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Shrabani Basu

My dear good Abdul, The Dss. of Roxburghe who goes away quite early on Thursday morning will come with me tomorrow morning at about 12 – she is very good ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2017 )
Royal Sisters by Anne Edwards
epub |eng | | Author:Anne Edwards

Footnote * Although Princess Elizabeth and her husband were generally referred to as the Edinburghs, technically the Princess had become a Mountbatten on her marriage. See footnote page 360. 14 ...
( Category: Europe September 17,2017 )
Che Wants to See You by Ciro Bustos
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Ciro Bustos

Part Four Bolivia 24 ‘Che Wants to See You’: January 1967 When I first lived in Salta, I shared a house with my friend Ramiro Dávalos in a town called ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2017 )
One Hot Summer by Rosemary Ashton
epub |eng | | Author:Rosemary Ashton

Disraeli tames the Thames Now that a parliamentary committee had been formed to inquire into the state of the Thames and to come up with a plan to improve it, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 17,2017 )
Lake Effect by Rich Cohen
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Rich Cohen

Part Two In the fall of 1986, I arrived in New Orleans. I had left a gray, sober, Germanic city and all at once found myself in a drunken, weedy ...
( Category: Americas September 17,2017 )
A Life Half Lived by Andrew MacLeod
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-14 | Author:Andrew MacLeod [MacLeod, Andrew]

 8. Pakistani Military: Building Bridges With My Father I got on particularly well with two of Farooq’s children – his son Ibrahim and his daughter Rasti. I first met ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 17,2017 )
A View From The Foothills by Mullin Chris
mobi |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Mullin, Chris [Mullin, Chris]

Wednesday, 3 April In the afternoon I called on the local drugs action team. They are swamped – five years ago they had 46 referrals for heroin addiction; last year ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2017 )
Long Journey Home: A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust by Lucy Lipiner
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-12-07 | Author:Lucy Lipiner [Lipiner, Lucy]

25 Kibitka, Our Hut Late in 1941, before the winter rains turned the hot, dusty streets into mud, Papa found us a place of our own—a hut, or kibitka, with ...
( Category: World September 17,2017 )
The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black Legend of the Dudleys by Derek Wilson
epub |eng | 2013-07-25 | Author:Derek Wilson [Wilson, Derek]

IV THE LOVER 12 De Profundis In a first floor room of the Beauchamp Tower within the Tower of London visitors can still see, among the various carved graffiti which ...
( Category: Europe September 17,2017 )
Brownies and Kalashnikovs by Fadia Basrawi;
epub |eng | 2014-09-25 | Author:Fadia, Basrawi; [Basrawi, Fadia]

1944: My father’s first day of work as an Aramco employee. 1949: My father embarking an Aramco flight from Dhahran Airport to his first orientation year at the American University ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2017 )

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