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In Exile From the Land of Snows by John Avedon
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:John Avedon [Avedon, John]

IV 9 Tibet Enslaved 1959–1965 The following order is hereby proclaimed. Most of the kalons of the Tibet local government and the upper-strata reactionary clique colluded with imperialism, assembled rebellious ...
( Category: Asia August 16,2017 )
Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah by Llewellyn-Jones Rosie
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-08-01 | Author:Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie [Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie]

5 AT GARDEN REACH Life in the Bengal palaces, as Wajid ‘Ali Shah recreates the vanished world of Lucknow. He is wildly extravagant and continually in debt, which is made ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange by Jan Jarboe Russell
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Jan Jarboe Russell [Russell, Jan Jarboe]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The False Passports On the morning of January 20, 1945, while Ingrid was still at sea on the MS Gripsholm, a fourteen-year-old girl, Irene Hasenberg, slept on a ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan
epub |eng | 1999-08-16 | Author:Fred Kaplan

In spring 1957 Sam Zimbalist, appalled at the awful script he had for the remake of Ben-Hur, sounded out his young writing star about doing a thorough revision. Drastic changes ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
Gulag by Anne Applebaum
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Anne Applebaum

Hunger for Love: male prisoners peering over the fence into the women’s zone—a drawing by Yula-Imar Sooster, Karaganda, 1950 Such letters, remembered Leonid Sitko, were written on tiny pieces of ...
( Category: Russia August 15,2017 )
Royal Renegades by Linda Porter
epub |eng | 2016-12-01 | Author:Linda Porter [Porter, Linda]

Her brothers Charles and James have been criticized for failing to visit her tomb but the seventeenth century did not have our modern preoccupation with public outpourings of grief and ...
( Category: Europe August 15,2017 )
Tommy by Richard Holmes
epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

This quotation tells us much, and not just about trench-digging. Harry Ogle, an educated man who had joined up as a private, was now a corporal, and would end the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 15,2017 )
Trotsky by Robert Service
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Service [Service, Robert]

32. THE LEFT OPPOSITION Practically nobody in mid-1923, not even his friends, appreciated that Trotsky lacked a firm desire to be the leader. With Lenin he was routinely mentioned as ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 15,2017 )
The Untold Journey by Natalie Robins
epub |eng | | Author:Natalie Robins

Carroll Beichman died on January 8, 2013, in Palm Springs, California, when a van struck her as she was crossing a darkly lit street. * This assumption is supported by ...
( Category: World August 15,2017 )
The Father of Spin by Larry Tye
epub |eng | | Author:Larry Tye

7 At the OFFICE To his clients Eddie seemed the epitome of propriety. His uniform was a three-piece suit, a soft-collared white shirt, and black shoes. The style may have ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 15,2017 )
Stanton by Walter Stahr
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Walter Stahr [Stahr, Walter]

Lincoln nominated Chase to be chief justice on December 6, 1864, and the Senate confirmed the nomination on the same day. Stanton’s aide Dana, writing to a friend a week ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 15,2017 )
England to Me: A Memoir by Hahn Emily
azw3 |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Hahn, Emily [Hahn, Emily]

Slowly, with longing for the departed night, the little white street woke up. It was still so early that in the valley beneath, where the side of the road dropped ...
( Category: Historical August 15,2017 )
Bobby Kennedy by Larry Tye
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-07-05 | Author:Larry Tye

Had he ended on this emotional high point it would have been enough. It also would have had the world speculating—as many did anyway—whether, if JFK was the dead hero ...
( Category: Historical August 15,2017 )
The Quartermaster by Robert O'Harrow
epub |eng | | Author:Robert O'Harrow

CHAPTER 25 “Vast in Quantity” Events now offered conflicting evidence about which side was winning. Confederate armies dominated battle after battle through grit, sacrifice, superior leadership, and daring. The brash ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
Humboldt's Cosmos by Gerard Helferich
epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Gerard Helferich

Eight: Cuba WHEN it was founded in 1764, the principal city of the Orinoco Delta was christened Santo Tomé de la Nueva Guayana. But the official designation proved cumbersome, and ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 15,2017 )

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