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Lincoln's Lieutenants by Stephen W. Sears
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen W. Sears

Fredericksburg splintered the political as well as the military landscape. Even as the Committee on the Conduct of the War was taking the generals’ testimony at Falmouth, Senate Republicans of ...
( Category: American Civil War April 26,2017 )
J. D. Bernal by Brown Andrew;
epub |eng | 2005-04-24 | Author:Brown, Andrew;

14 Rebuilding Bernal’s wartime contact with Birkbeck College was slight and somewhat peevish. Breams Buildings had closed after being hit by incendiary bombs in September 1940, but reopened the following ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2017 )
Poetical Dust by Prendergast Thomas A.;
epub |eng | 2015-04-24 | Author:Prendergast, Thomas A.;

We have seen, again how extremely unequal and uncertain is the commemoration of our celebrated men. It is this which renders the interment or notice within our walls a dubious ...
( Category: Historical April 25,2017 )
Bloody Engagements by John R. Kelso
epub |eng | | Author:John R. Kelso

7. A Defeat and a Victory May to July 1862 After our return from Linn Creek, we again remained in camp training. We were then ordered to Neosho, a large ...
( Category: American Civil War April 24,2017 )
Deep Undercover by Jack Barsky & Cindy Coloma
epub |eng | 2017-03-23 | Author:Jack Barsky & Cindy Coloma

When I awoke the next morning, feeling rested and refreshed after a peaceful night’s sleep, I contemplated my next move. After breakfast at a diner just around the corner from ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage April 23,2017 )
Franklin & Lucy by Joseph E. Persico
epub |eng | 2008-04-28 | Author:Joseph E. Persico

Chapter 25 “CLOSE TO BEING A WIFE” THERE WAS NEVER A COMPLETE BREAK between Franklin and Lucy. Given distance and long separations, the signal might become faint at times, but ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 12,2017 )
Athelstan by Tom Holland
epub |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Tom Holland

4 Angelcynn One year before the great durbar at Cirencester, while leading his army northwards against the King of the Scots, Athelstan arrived beside the River Wear. Here he halted ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2017 )
Charles II by Clare Jackson
epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Clare Jackson

5 Words The Wildean adage that ‘Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life’ might well have been written with Charles II’s reign in mind as the turbulent excesses ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2017 )
The Strange Death of Vincent van Gogh by Ted Morgan
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Ted Morgan [Ted Morgan]

Published by New Word City LLC, 2014 www.NewWordCity.com © American Heritage All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers April 6,2017 )
Delphi Complete Works of Cicero by Cicero
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

( Category: Architecture April 6,2017 )
16 Dead Men by Anne-Marie Ryan
epub |eng | | Author:Anne-Marie Ryan

Seán Heuston John Joseph Heuston (known as Seán) was born in Dublin on 21 February 1891. His family lived at 24 Gloucester Street and later moved to Jervis Street. Both ...
( Category: Irish April 6,2017 )
1916 in 1966 by Mary E. Daly
epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Mary E. Daly

COMMUNAL MEMORY Whyte’s aforementioned supposition that new forms are built out of elements already present on the scene of construction is accompanied by his assertion that this idea only applies ...
( Category: Feminist April 6,2017 )
Lincoln's Battle with God: A President's Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America by Mansfield Stephen
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Mansfield, Stephen [Mansfield, Stephen]

Lincoln’s first full day in the nation’s capital was a Sunday—February 24—and he already had an invitation to church. Senator William Seward, newly named as secretary of state, had invited ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 5,2017 )
Rebel Hearts by Kevin Toolis
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kevin Toolis

4 INFORMERS A local woman out for an evening walk with her dog found him lying on the verge at the Coach Road junction, about a mile and a half ...
( Category: Europe April 5,2017 )
Dark History of the Roman Emperors (Dark Histories) by Michael Kerrigan
epub, azw |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Michael Kerrigan [Kerrigan, Michael]

TORTURE AND TRUTH * * * Today, if torture is frowned upon, it is not only on humanitarian grounds, but also because we distrust the kind of information it supplies. ...
( Category: Rome March 30,2017 )

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