Historical
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Ben Macintyre [Macintyre, Ben]

EIGHTEEN Bootless Footpads Worth had successfully escaped the clutches of the law, but the same could not be said of most of his colleagues, thanks, in large measure, to the ...
( Category: Historical September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Robert L. O'Connell [O'Connell, Robert L.]

Chapter VIII BANDS OF STEEL 1 WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN’S central historical importance is derived from his role in the physical consolidation of transcontinental America. But it was chance that tilted ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-21 | Author:Valerie Plame Wilson [Wilson, Valerie Plame]

I turned over in bed, restless, kicked the sheets around, and realized Joe wasn’t next to me. The illuminated clock on the bedside table read 2:30 A.M. Joe liked to ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone [Goldstone, Lawrence and Goldstone, Nancy]

IT “WAS AFTER 6A.M. when the jailer's wife got up and made the rounds of the cells. She noticed immediately that Dr. Villeneuve was missing. She ran and got her ...
( Category: Europe September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Peraino, Kevin [Peraino, Kevin]

Lincoln believed that defining America’s place in the world was at the core of the Union’s mission. The “central idea” of the Northern effort, he explained, was to prove “that ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Suki Kim [Kim, Suki]

12 THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE END OF the summer semester were a jumble. There was much picture taking and sporting competition, as though the incessant activities would distract ...
( Category: Memoirs September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-01 | Author:Joshua Wolf Shenk [Shenk, Joshua Wolf]

Emancipation threw oil on the fire of Lincoln’s northern opposition, the antiwar Democrats, or Copperheads, who began to actively oppose a war that they argued, with increasing success, was really ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Zeitz, Joshua [Zeitz, Joshua]

CHAPTER 13 Breadwinners The house that Amasa Stone built for his daughter and son-in-law on Euclid Avenue was a lasting monument to his family’s wealth. Fashioned out of sandstone, it ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-14 | Author:Carol Ann Lee

Most reviews of Het Achterhuis hailed it as an outstanding book. De Groene Amsterdammer praised ‘the intelligence, the honesty, the insight with which she observed herself and her surroundings, and ...
( Category: World September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-05 | Author:Elisabeth Rose

Hugh spent most of the afternoon wondering what had happened at Annie’s lunch. Half a dozen times he pulled out his phone to call her then changed his mind and ...
( Category: Historical September 5,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Guy, John [Guy, John]

At the beginning of 1567, Mary had been at the height of her powers and about to reach a final political accord with Elizabeth on mutually agreed terms. Two months ...
( Category: Historical September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Paul Moorcraft

He said that he offered the CIA the bin Laden files in mid-1997. The Mukhabarat had watched his every move, literally. Equally important were the details of the many Islamists ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Colm Toibin [Colm Toibin]

Among the audience that night was the twenty-seven-year-old James Joyce, home briefly from Trieste, and he published an account of the whole business in Il Piccolo ella Serda in Trieste. ...
( Category: Historical September 5,2017 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Roberts, Cokie [Roberts, Cokie]

AFTER THE 1856 campaign, when the first nominee of the Republican Party, the dashing explorer John C. Frémont and his alluring wife Jessie garnered such enthusiastic public attention, the couple ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-01 | Author:unknow

22 “I’m looking for Jazmin Morningstar,” Anna told the hospital receptionist. She yanked her sliding purse strap back onto her shoulder. “She was brought here by ambulance. I was told ...
( Category: Historical September 5,2017 )