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Last Stalinist : The Life of Santiago Carrillo by Preston Paul
epub |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Preston, Paul

I now see Fernando in a new light, as a pessimistic sceptic, without beliefs, who doubts everything, who doubts the capacity for struggle of the working class, who doubts the ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal September 6,2015 )
The Life of Ian Fleming by John Pearson
epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:John Pearson [Pearson, John]

I went to London for two days to see Osbert given the ‘Sunday, Times’ [literary] prize – but two days was quite enough for me. The luncheon party at the ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers September 5,2015 )
Whitey by Dick Lehr
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Dick Lehr [Lehr, Dick]

In this combustible atmosphere, Whitey Bulger may have backed off from street violence but he hardly retreated. Like most hard-liners in Southie, he brimmed with disdain for the Boston Globe, ...
( Category: State & Local September 5,2015 )
The Story of the Lost Child by Ferrante Elena
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Ferrante, Elena

77. Lila had made lunch. She knew that Dede and Elsa adored orecchiette with tomato sauce and she announced this, creating a rowdy scene of enthusiasm. That wasn’t all. She ...
( Category: Family Saga September 4,2015 )
Blood and Roses by Helen Castor
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Helen Castor [Helen Castor]

They were inept with money, he said, whether because they were incompetent at collecting it or foolish in spending it (‘either you gather shrewdly or else you spend lewdly’).35 Not ...
( Category: England September 1,2015 )
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir & Damien Lewis
epub |eng | 2008-09-09 | Author:Halima Bashir & Damien Lewis [Bashir, Halima & Lewis, Damien]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Rumors of War I knew how valuable my qualifying as a doctor would be for the people of our village. That gave me the strength and fortitude to ...
( Category: Africa August 27,2015 )
April Queen by Douglas Boyd
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Douglas Boyd

Was this Henry’s grand design? 1. Young Henry and Marguerite. 2. Princess Matilda and Henry of Saxony. 3. Re-attachment of Toulouse/Prince John and Alix de Maurienne/the Crown of Lombardy. 4. ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2015 )
Edward II: The Unconventional King by Kathryn Warner
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-12 | Author:Kathryn Warner

12 Tyranny, Miracles and an Escape The year 1322 marked the beginning of Edward II’s tyranny. The Vita comments, ‘The harshness of the king has today increased so much that ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2015 )
Robert Bruce: Our Most Valiant Prince, King and Lord by McNamee Colm
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:McNamee, Colm [McNamee, Colm]

The English spent the night at Falkirk, and on the Sunday 23 June ‘after dinner’ they came within sight of the Torwood. They were anxious to reach Stirling Castle either ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2015 )
Washington's God by Michael Novak
mobi |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Michael Novak

THE PROVIDENTIAL NATION Finally, a word must be said about the tradition of seeing Providence in the affairs of the American colonies. This tradition was as old, of course, as ...
( Category: United States August 21,2015 )
Suleiman the Magnificent by André Clot
epub |eng | | Author:André Clot

9 The Greatest City of East and West The capital of the Byzantine Empire for fifteen centuries, Constantinople – Istanbul1 – naturally became the Ottomans’ capital as soon as they ...
( Category: Asia August 20,2015 )
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad by Lesley Hazleton
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Lesley Hazleton

Thirteen News of Muhammad’s arrival spread fast. People ran out to greet him as he rode in, begging him to stop and accept their hospitality, but he turned everyone down. ...
( Category: Islam August 19,2015 )
Leon Trotsky by Joshua Rubenstein
epub |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Joshua Rubenstein

5 Out of Power THE SUCCESSION WAS not decided at the moment of Lenin’s death. Kamenev and Zinoviev remained allied with Stalin, though both looked down on him. They were ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2015 )
J.R.R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter
epub, mobi |eng | 1982-08-17 | Author:Humphrey Carpenter [Carpenter, Humphrey]

Lewis and Tolkien continued to see much of each other. Tolkien read aloud to Lewis from The Silmarillion, and Lewis urged him to press on and finish writing it. Tolkien ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 18,2015 )
George Marshall by Debi Unger
epub |eng | | Author:Debi Unger

CHAPTER 9 JAPAN-CHINA The three months between the two “V-Days” were fraught with challenges for Marshall. But foremost, of course, was how to defeat Japan. By mid-1945 the end was ...
( Category: World War II August 15,2015 )

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