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The Gamblers by John Pearson
epub |eng | 2017-08-20 | Author:John Pearson

10 ‘Tyger, Tyger…’ ONE MORNING IN the spring of 1970, Annabel Birley took her three children off on a secret excursion. They were in the middle of the Easter holidays ...
( Category: Europe August 20,2017 )
Queen of Spies by Paddy Hayes
epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Paddy Hayes [HAYES, PADDY]

On 24 November a combination of threats, bribery and bullying by Britain and the United States resulted in the United Nations General Assembly voting by fifty-three votes to twenty-four to ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 20,2017 )
Warrior Queens by Fraser Antonia
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

( Category: Specific Groups August 20,2017 )
Washington's Spies by Alexander Rose
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Alexander Rose [Rose, Alexander]

At the same time as the Culper Ring was resurrecting itself in the late summer of 1780, Sir Henry Clinton was poised to spring a trap. Clinton’s goal in this ...
( Category: Americas August 20,2017 )
Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson (Library of Religious Biography) by Edwin S. Gaustad
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-02 | Author:Edwin S. Gaustad

Jefferson took two copies of the New Testament in the King James Version and cut out those verses from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John that - in ...
( Category: History August 20,2017 )
King Arthur Conspiracy: How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero by Stirling Simon Andrew
mobi |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Stirling, Simon Andrew [Stirling, Simon Andrew]

Next were the three Offensive Knights: Morfrân, Sandde and Glewlwyd. Morfrân the Speckled, also known as Morfryn the Skilful, was the father of Menw or Myrddin. He survived Arthur’s last ...
( Category: Historical August 20,2017 )
King Arthur Conspiracy: How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero by Simon Andrew Stirling
epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Simon Andrew Stirling [Stirling, Simon Andrew]

Next were the three Offensive Knights: Morfrân, Sandde and Glewlwyd. Morfrân the Speckled, also known as Morfryn the Skilful, was the father of Menw or Myrddin. He survived Arthur’s last ...
( Category: Historical August 20,2017 )
The Guardian of Mercy by Terence Ward
epub |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:Terence Ward

The painter turns to a waiting young man dressed in the costly finery of a knight and gestures to him. “Please, it’s your moment. Walk slowly by this poor man.” ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 20,2017 )
The Encounter by Jacey Holbrand
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jacey Holbrand [Holbrand, Jacey]

Chapter Six Repeating the careful steps he took to get to the site, Zen made his way to his truck, thinking back to his time in the military. Thanks to ...
( Category: Historical August 20,2017 )
Gay as a Grig by Ellen Bowie Holland
epub |eng | | Author:Ellen Bowie Holland

PLATE 17. Ellen Morland Bowie (Mrs. Barney Holland) in White Castle. PLATE 18. The Bowie home in Weatherford. PLATE 19. Colonel George Morland Bowie. PLATE 20. The courthouse and the ...
( Category: Historical August 20,2017 )
Four Scraps of Bread by Hollander-Lafon Magda; Fuller Anthony T.;
epub |eng | 2016-08-20 | Author:Hollander-Lafon, Magda; Fuller, Anthony T.;

INTUITION During my deportation I did not try to understand what was happening to me. I instinctively slipped into the situation by listening to my intuition. Intuition is the intelligence ...
( Category: World August 20,2017 )
Mao by Jung Chang
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Jung Chang [Chang, Jung]

38 UNDERMINING KHRUSHCHEV (1956–59 AGE 62–65) WITHIN MONTHS of denouncing Stalin, Khrushchev had run into trouble. In June 1956, protests erupted in Poland at a factory suitably named “the Stalin ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 20,2017 )
Tesla - Man out of Time by Margaret Cheney
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Margaret Cheney [Cheney, Margaret]

16. RIDICULED, CONDEMNED, COMBATTED As the “wonder tower” lifted its airy spars ever higher, Tesla drove himself and a large staff without mercy. He sent money to Germany for radio ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 20,2017 )
Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag by Janusz Bardach
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Janusz Bardach [Bardach, Janusz]

Welcome to Kolyma Stalin’s face was plastered everywhere—on billboards, ware house buildings, even the cliff sides. His deep-set eyes, bushy eye brows, mustache, and gray army tunic appeared wherever I ...
( Category: World August 20,2017 )
Marlborough by Richard Holmes
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Holmes [Richard Holmes]

6 The Lines of Brabant Ripples of Victory It took the hard-riding Dan Parke eight days to reach London, and Sarah immediately sent him on, hot-hoofed, to Windsor. When he ...
( Category: Historical August 20,2017 )

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