Historical
azw3 |eng | 2007-05-04 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

As far as the rebels were concerned, the 9 July attack on the British was certainly the most successful yet. But expectations in both the Palace and the city had ...
( Category: Asia September 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Payne, Robert & Romanoff, Nikita [Payne, Robert]

1 Ivan Cheliadnin owned vast estates—in the province of Beloozero alone he owned 120 villages. On every estate there were men trained for military duty who were called up in ...
( Category: Historical September 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-12-01 | Author:John Steinbeck

The hay in the little barn was sweet. Rabbits in a cage against the wall rustled and nibbled in the dark. On the other side of the mud wall a ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Aung San Suu Kyi [Suu Kyi, Aung San]

II The people of Burma view democracy not merely as a form of government but as an integrated social and ideological system based on respect for the individual. When asked ...
( Category: Historical September 14,2017 )
epub | | 2014-09-13 | Author:Christo Brand, Barbara Jones [Christo Brand and Barbara Jones]

Estelle didn’t tell me about the letter but she began to press me to take up degree courses. I reasoned with her that I already had to study criminal law ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Dreier

Saul Alinsky (1909–1972) CREDIT: Associated Press AFTER RIOTS erupted in the Rochester, New York, ghetto in the summer of 1964, an interracial group of clergy approached organizer Saul Alinsky to ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1979-01-02 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

Gonzo 1 - The Great Shark Hunt PART 3 Traveler Hears Mountain Music Where It's Sung Renfro Valley, Ky.-- The Bluegrass country is cold and brown in the winter. Night ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Humphrey Carpenter & J. R. R. Tolkien [Carpenter, Humphrey & Tolkien, J. R. R.]

Part Five 1925-194900: The Third Age Enter Mr Baggins Really that missing piece had been there all the time. It was the Suffield side of his own personality. His deep ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-01-15 | Author:Alex Haley [Haley, Alex]

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-11 | Author:Solomon Northup [Northup, Solomon]

Ten years I toiled for that man without reward. Ten years of my incessant labor has contributed to increase the bulk of his possessions. Ten years I was compelled to ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Katy Tur [Tur, Katy]

March 8. Seven days before the Florida and Ohio primaries, seven days for Trump’s rivals to sideline his rise. It’s midafternoon in Jupiter, Florida, and I’m in the backseat of ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:David Mccullough [Mccullough, David]

He could not vouch that these were the exact words, Adams cautioned in his letter to Jay, for the King's manner of speaking had been so odd and strained. (It ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:Robert O. Paxton [Paxton, Robert O.]

From Persuasion to Constraint: The Emerging Police State The National Revolution has boiled down to the social advancement of the gendarmerie. —Anatole de Monzie173 NO ONE EXPECTED THE ARMISTICE REGIME ...
( Category: Europe September 12,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Sasson, Jean & bin Laden, Omar & bin Laden, Najwa [Sasson, Jean]

Chapter 17 A Far, Far Country NAJWA BIN LADEN In Khartoum we waited in uneasy suspense for four long months, left to our lonesome selves to wonder what was going ...
( Category: Memoirs September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:jefferson davis

1861] THE POLICY TO PROTECT OUR OWN SOIL. 339 "I also believe this force consists exclusively of Kentuckians, having their camp in the immediate vicinity of their own homes, and ...
( Category: Americas September 11,2017 )