Historical
epub |eng | 2006-10-09 | Author:H.W. Brands [Brands, H.W.]

Jackson had nothing personal against Zuñiga, who seemed an honorable enough character. But he couldn’t help interpreting the governor’s cooperativeness as further sign of Spain’s pitiful weakness on the southern ...
( Category: United States October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Fatima Bhutto [Bhutto, Fatima]

I was born in Kabul under curfew around 3.45 on the morning of 29 May 1982. Labour started around seven or eight in the evening and Fowzia was taken into ...
( Category: India & South Asia October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Ian F. Beckett

When Rommel returned to the headquarters of the newly renamed Deutsch-Italienische Panzerarmee on the evening of 25 October, he was confronted with a mass of bad news. 15th Panzer Division’s ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Tim Milne [Tim Milne]

Notes 1. A classical scholar and Greek papyrologist who later became director of Oxford University Press. He published The Codex in 1954, subsequently expanded into The Birth of the Codex, ...
( Category: Great Britain October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Lyndall Gordon [Gordon, Lyndall]

A week after Godwin had tea with ‘Wolstencraft’, his diary notes that ‘Imlay calls’ on Friday 22 April 1796 and that the following day he, in turn, called on ‘Imlay’. ...
( Category: Great Britain October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-13 | Author:Frischauer, Willi [Frischauer, Willi]

Chapter XIII WAR London was under a hail of German bombs; I escaped from the falling shrapnel of the barrage into King’s Cross Underground Station, where hundreds of people patiently ...
( Category: World War II October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Anya Von Bremzen [Bremzen, Anya Von]

Mom and I never did recover our intimate idyll. In 1961 the Supreme Soviet of the USSR had passed a law branding as “parasites” any citizens who refused to engage ...
( Category: Russian October 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Filip Bondy [Bondy, Filip]

16 The Ninth “I wanted that pitch to be buried in his neck. He beat me. I don’t know how he got the barrel of his bat on that ball.” ...
( Category: United States October 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Hattersley [Hattersley]

CHAPTER 24 THE PATRIOT Politicians who want to avoid war have always taken refuge in wishful thinking. Speaking at the Mansion House banquet on 17 July 1914 - three weeks ...
( Category: Leadership October 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Chang, Jung [Chang, Jung]

20 A Plot to Kill Cixi (September 1898) WILD FOX KANG had been hatching plots to kill Cixi for some time, knowing that she stood between him and supreme power. ...
( Category: China September 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Peter Dornan

C H A P T E R E L E V E N Operation AVALANCHE The war was not going well for the Italians. On 25 July 1943, the Fascist ...
( Category: World War II September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Kitty Kelley [Kelley, Kitty]

While the President was angry at Look for publishing the photos without consent he apparently liked the Caroline story, at least as related to Stanley by Ted Sorensen, who said ...
( Category: Photo Essays September 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Corbett

So that winter I went down to Kaladhungi armed with a rifle, and without any anxiety about ammunition. The rifle the good Sergeant-Major had selected for me was dead accurate, ...
( Category: India & South Asia September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Corbett

And so on round the deck until 1 came to the last man on the left. This man, 1 told Crosthwaite, was an oldfriend of mine. the father of one ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-06 | Author:Katherine Frank [Frank, Katherine]

Indira did not consult Kamaraj, the Congress President, about the ‘strong medicine’ of devaluation, knowing that he was vehemently opposed to it. As were a number of cabinet ministers when ...
( Category: India & South Asia September 8,2015 )