Historical
epub |eng | | Author:Eunsun Kim

12 Through the windows, I watched as the Chinese countryside passed before my eyes. On the seat of the taxi, Mom was worrying herself sick. We didn’t have even one ...
( Category: North November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

Over a decade after the Treaty of Alliance was signed, in the early days of the French Revolution, a forlorn Louis XVI would answer a letter from his Indian ally ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Graves, Donald E.

Training Company: 500 men (75% ‘Magen’ personnel) all aged over 35 Convalescent Company: Approximately 150 men During the preceding few months, personnel of these companies underwent a fairly thorough training ...
( Category: Germany November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Kathryn Canavan

Booth escaped over the Navy Yard Bridge into Maryland. Credit: National Archives Gurley said, “I will speak to God.” Stanton replied, “Do it just now.”32 Gurley dropped to his knees ...
( Category: Civil War November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-22 | Author:Sam Kashner [Kashner, Sam]

28. Saint Petersburg One morning in the middle of the fall semester, Peter came over early to wash my face—he said I didn’t do it right. He wore a white ...
( Category: West November 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Mark S. Smith [Smith, Mark S.]

The escapees’ chances of success that day were impeded by the Küttner incident, which triggered the premature start of the uprising. This provided the SS with more daylight to hunt ...
( Category: Holocaust November 19,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Urschel

The Courier-Journal got a similar note of appreciation from the Bureau’s director. While Hoover was accepting the praise for his department and ramping up its publicity machine, the hunt for ...
( Category: United States November 18,2015 )
epub |ara | 2015-09-19 | Author:Adolf Hitler [Hitler, Adolf]

VOLUME : II —————————— THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT Chapter 1 Weltanschauung and Party ___________________________ On February 24th, 1920, the first great mass meeting under the auspices of the new movement ...
( Category: Fascism November 18,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Kitchen

CHAPTER ELEVEN DEFEAT SPEER INSPECTED THE Western Front from 26 September to 1 October 1944.1 He travelled with his adjutant, Manfred von Poser, Willy Liebel and his assistant, SS-Standartenführer Karl ...
( Category: Germany November 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-23 | Author:Pond Eyley, Claudia; Salmon, Dan & Dan Salmon

CHAPTER 11 Media relations Politicians are fair game, and Helen Clark was the subject of more than her share of satire, including even a semi-affectionate play, On the Conditions and ...
( Category: Leadership November 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:Shelley Emling

Since Marie’s last visit to America, Meloney had been one busy lady. In 1926, The Delineator magazine had merged with another Butterick Publishing Company publication, The Designer, with Meloney continuing ...
( Category: France November 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Jon Meacham

The last two sentences of Bush’s remarks endure in popular memory. Revealing, too, were his parting words: “I’ve got to go. I have to go to work. I’ve got to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:John Pearson

TEN Organized Crime Just eight weeks after Reggie emerged from Wandsworth, all three Kray brothers were in trouble with the Law. First Reggie – he was accused of petty house-breaking ...
( Category: England November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ben Mezrich

* * * I. Used with permission of The Associated Press Copyright © 2014. All rights reserved. CHAPTER TWENTY * * * June 15, 2000, Alexandrovka Dacha BEREZOVSKY’S WORLD HAD ...
( Category: Europe November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Wladyslaw Szpilman

11 ∼ ‘Marksmen arise!’ I had moved house once more, the latest of I don’t know how many moves since we were living in Śliska Street and the war broke ...
( Category: Europe November 12,2015 )