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Lady Byron and Her Daughters by Julia Markus
epub |eng | 2015-09-05 | Author:Julia Markus

THE DAUGHTER in the best of circumstances had returned to her scientific studies the year before Lady Byron traveled to France and four months after the birth of her third ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 5,2017 )
The File by Timothy Garton Ash
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Timothy Garton Ash [Ash, Timothy Garton]

VII IMB “SMITH” CONTRIBUTES A SARTORIAL CRITICISM. He says I “make a pretty casual impression (open collar, which requires a tie, but no tie …).” He places me, accurately enough, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 4,2017 )
Avenue of Spies by Alex Kershaw
epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Alex Kershaw

FOURTEEN THE COUP: JULY 20, 1944 KLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG, a tall and handsome thirty-seven-year-old German colonel, stood alone in a bathroom inside Adolf Hitler’s Prussian headquarters—the so-called Wolf’s Lair. It ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )
America's Bank by Roger Lowenstein
epub |eng | 2015-10-08 | Author:Roger Lowenstein

It is not like the tariff, about which opinion has been forming long years through. There are almost as many judgments as there are men. To form a single plan ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 4,2017 )
Traveler of the Century by Andrés Neuman
epub |eng | 2012-03-23 | Author:Andrés Neuman

( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )
Alex Haley by Robert J. Norrell
epub |eng | 2015-09-18 | Author:Robert J. Norrell

8 The Black Family Bible Lisa Drew handed Haley the copyedited manuscript of Roots on January 23, 1976. Promising to return it with the editor’s queries answered a week later, ...
( Category: Americas September 4,2017 )
Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor by Yong Kim & Suk-Young Kim
epub |eng | 2009-06-19 | Author:Yong Kim & Suk-Young Kim [Kim, Yong & Kim, Suk-Young]

A close-up satellite image of Camp No. 14. It features the National Security Agency headquarters where Kim Yong was brought upon his arrival in 1993. Also featured is an entrance ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 4,2017 )
The Bletchley Park Codebreakers by Michael Smith
epub |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:Michael Smith [Ralph Erskine and Michael Smith]

Network diagram showing the number and flow if messages passing between a headquarters and its outstations on a Stern (star) radio net. Figure 15.2 Network diagram showing the number and ...
( Category: Europe September 4,2017 )
The Danube by Nick Thorpe
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Thorpe

Skadarska Street intersects with Francuska Street in Belgrade, home to the Serbian Writers's Union and a restaurant with traditional Serbian food. The nineteenth-century villa is a well-established nest of nationalists ...
( Category: Europe September 4,2017 )
The Rival Queens by Nancy Goldstone
epub |eng | 2015-06-23 | Author:Nancy Goldstone [Goldstone, Nancy]

13 A Royal Hostage Men commit injuries either through fear or through hate. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince THE FIRST WEEKS WERE THE most difficult, as Margot soon realized that Henri ...
( Category: Europe September 4,2017 )
The Rejected Son (The Coming Out Series) by Green John
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Green, John [Green, John]

Chapter 10 After a few months of prostituting myself, I met Dirk. Dirk was only twenty-seven, and six-foot three. He had an athletic body, with pretty defined muscles from his ...
( Category: Family Saga September 4,2017 )
The Romanov Sisters (Four Sisters) by Helen Rappaport
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Helen Rappaport [Rappaport, Helen]

Chapter Fourteen SISTERS OF MERCY N When Russia went to war in the summer of 1914, it was faced with a desperate shortage of nurses. With massive losses of almost ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )
Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
epub |eng | 1999-09-04 | Author:Catherine Gildiner [Gildiner, Catherine]

Roy rubbed his hands together and shivered. “Now that was one long time ago — and I can still smell the new rubber wheels on that wagon, and I can ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 4,2017 )
Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian by Bernard Lewis & Buntzie Ellis Churchill
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-30 | Author:Bernard Lewis & Buntzie Ellis Churchill

8. The Neighborhood From the time when I began to read classical Arabic and later other Islamic texts, I was struck, and fascinated, by the rich vein of humor in ...
( Category: Middle East September 4,2017 )
Witness by Chambers Whittaker
epub, pdf | | 1978-07-24 | Author:Chambers, Whittaker [Chambers, Whittaker]

XXV The last debris of Don’s Japanese apparatus drifted into New York. Keith arrived, trailing two or three others until then unknown to me. One of them was a former ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 4,2017 )

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