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Stanley - The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Tim Jeal [Jeal, Tim]

King Leopold II of Belgium Stanley first met the king in Brussels on 10 June 1878, having been brought from the railway station in central Brussels to his palace at ...
( Category: Journalists March 13,2016 )
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
mobi |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:M. Stanton Evans

TWO final suspects in this roster of midlevel McCarthy cases may be handled rather briefly. One was Prof. Frederick Schuman, who, despite a record of Communist-front affiliation exceeding that of ...
( Category: United States March 11,2016 )
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

Déjà j’entends l’orage du tambour, De cent heros je vois briller la rage, Déjà je vois envahir cent états Et tant d’humains moissonnés avant l’âge. This may not have been ...
( Category: France March 11,2016 )
The Private Heinrich Himmler by Katrin Himmler
epub |eng | | Author:Katrin Himmler

Sofia, 7.5.419 Dear Mami! I spent the night here and toured the city. Now I am off to Athens. I am very well. To you and Püppi many affectionate greetings ...
( Category: Germany March 10,2016 )
Radical Son: A Generational Oddysey by Horowitz David
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Horowitz, David [Horowitz, David]

BETTY THE EVENT TO WHICH I TOOK ABBY WAS A SUNDAY-MORNING SERVICE AT the Son of Man Temple, a secular church of Huey’s invention housed in the auditorium of the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 9,2016 )
Peacerunner by Penn Rhodeen
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:Penn Rhodeen

Keep in mind, the world was focused on Bosnia and I had tried to get the allies early in ‘93 to agree to have NATO take action there. Warren Christopher ...
( Category: European March 9,2016 )
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Lynne Olson [Olson, Lynne]

CHAPTER 18 “WELL, BOYS, BRITAIN’S BROKE” At the moment Roosevelt was celebrating his election victory at Hyde Park, Luftwaffe bombers were returning to their bases in France after their fiftieth ...
( Category: World War II March 9,2016 )
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror by Michael V. Hayden
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Michael V. Hayden [Hayden, Michael V.]

THIRTEEN GOING HOME PITTSBURGH, PA, 1945–2014 In the 1997 hit film Grosse Pointe Blank, John Cusack plays an assassin back in town for his high school’s ten-year reunion. Searching for ...
( Category: United States March 8,2016 )
Roger Bacon by Brian Clegg
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

Looking at Bacon’s plight through modern eyes, it can be difficult to understand why his work was so disliked. We have seen that the man himself, like many other obsessives, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 8,2016 )
Let the People Rule by Geoffrey Cowan
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Cowan

Chapter Thirteen For anyone who understood politics, power, and the parliamentary realities of nominating conventions, the outcome should have been clear by the time the 1912 Republican Convention opened on ...
( Category: Elections March 7,2016 )
The Profiteers by Sally Denton
epub |eng | | Author:Sally Denton

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The Hydra-Headed American Giant “Bechtel arrived in Iraq quietly,” wrote Dahr Jamail, among the relatively few unembedded journalists to report from occupied Iraq during the war and its ...
( Category: Business March 7,2016 )
PICKING TOMATOES WHEN THE SKY WAS IN FLAMES by Fischer Smith Ursula Anna
mobi |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Fischer Smith, Ursula Anna

Dangerous Games, 1945 Chapter 31 At dawn our street was deserted as we said goodbye to Father and Alfred when they left for the train station. Train schedules were unpredictable ...
( Category: Germany March 6,2016 )
DANCE ON THE VOLCANO: A Teenage Girl in Nazi Germany by Zerner Renata
mobi |eng | 2010-02-23 | Author:Zerner, Renata [Zerner, Renata]

Now, three years later in Bad Wildungen, I was faced with having to tell Erika a lie. I did not know her well enough to trust her with the truth, ...
( Category: Europe March 6,2016 )
Boy with a White Flag by Strick Karl Heinz & Strick with Frances L
mobi |eng | 2011-08-20 | Author:Strick, Karl Heinz & Strick, with Frances L. [Strick, Karl Heinz]

Dear Anne & Andreas, We are leaving to be with Christine; so, two less people for you to worry about. Best of luck, Gretchen We slipped out the front gate ...
( Category: Historical March 6,2016 )
The Wonder of Their Voices:The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder (Oxford Oral History Series) by Rosen Alan
mobi |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Rosen, Alan [Rosen, Alan]

The ascription of “strangely disembodied” to audio recorded testimony and the voices that it conveys has them lose exactly what Boder had hoped they would gain. This is true in ...
( Category: Holocaust March 6,2016 )

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