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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Kinzer Stephen
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Kinzer, Stephen [Kinzer, Stephen]

8 THE SELF-INTOXICATED PRESIDENT Rarely has a head of state anticipated a visit to the United States as eagerly as President Sukarno of Indonesia. American history fascinated him. As a ...
( Category: Executive Branch February 15,2015 )
American Jezebel by Eve LaPlante
epub |eng | | Author:Eve LaPlante

11 AN UNEASY AND CONSTANT WATCH “The prisoner,” as John Winthrop took to calling Anne Hutchinson that winter, saw little of her children during her house arrest. One-year-old Zuriel; Susan, ...
( Category: State & Local February 13,2015 )
King Rufus by Emma Mason
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Emma Mason

NOTES 1 On the terrain, see W.E. Kapelle, The Norman Conquest of the North. The Region and its Transformation 1000–1135 (Croom Helm, London, 1979), pp.6-9. 2 A.P. Smyth, Warlords and ...
( Category: England February 13,2015 )
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Bill Browder [Browder, Bill]

23 Department K Ivan and I took the 3:00 p.m. Eurostar back to London. We needed to talk out of earshot, and the only place available was between cars, where ...
( Category: Europe February 13,2015 )
Chaucer's Tale by Paul Strohm
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Paul Strohm

CHAPTER FIVE The Other Chaucer One can immerse oneself in the extensive Life-Records without learning that Chaucer was a writer at all. This does not mean that he wasn’t writing, ...
( Category: Medieval February 13,2015 )
Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:William Manchester

FOUR VORTEX ON the Saturday before Parliament’s Munich debate, Winston was at Chartwell, vigorously slapping bricks into place and awaiting a visitor, a twenty-six-year-old BBC producer, unknown then but destined ...
( Category: Great Britain February 13,2015 )
The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles
epub |eng | 2009-02-11 | Author:T.J. Stiles [Stiles, T. J.]

MANY MYSTERIES SURROUND the Harlem corner. How much stock did Vanderbilt really keep in the end? How much did he make? Who were his collaborators? Perhaps most important, who were ...
( Category: Business February 12,2015 )
The People of the Abyss
mobi |eng | 1999-03-01 | Author:Jack London

( Category: Communism & Socialism February 9,2015 )
Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-05 | Author:Heinz Guderian

I spent December 24th visiting a number of hospitals to see the Christmas festivities. I was able to bring a little good cheer to many a brave soldier. But it ...
( Category: World War II February 6,2015 )
Not I by Joachim C. Fest
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Joachim C. Fest [Fest, Joachim C.]

Father Johannes Wittenbrink, a neighbor and friend of the family, in a photo taken in the 1950s Around this time, I decided on my future profession. In Greek class Dr. ...
( Category: Germany February 6,2015 )
Wilfred Thesiger by Alexander Maitland
epub | | | Author:Alexander Maitland

similar, indeed, to the spiritual uplift inspired by height and space in a cathedral. As well as taking close-up portraits, Thesiger photographed Bait Kathir, Rashid and other nomadic Bedu tribes ...
( Category: Travel February 6,2015 )
Van Gogh: A Power Seething (Icons) by Julian Bell
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Julian Bell [Bell, Julian]

Towards the end of his busy summer tangling with pointillism in Asnières, Vincent had met up again with Émile Bernard, whose parents had a house there.36 The brainy ex-Cormon student ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers February 3,2015 )
The Radical King (King Legacy) by King Jr Martin Luther
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:King Jr, Martin Luther [King Jr, Martin Luther]

FOURTEEN MY TALK WITH BEN BELLA Originally published by the New York Amsterdam News on October 27, 1962, Dr. King’s conversation with Premier Ben Bella of the new Algerian Republic ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 3,2015 )
Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare by James H. Cone
epub |eng | 2012-06-07 | Author:James H. Cone [Cone, James H.]

And don't stop there. In fact, you won't be able to stop for long—his doormen are going to tell you "Move on!" But catch a subway and keep on downtown. ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 3,2015 )
The DiMaggios: Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream by Tom Clavin
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Tom Clavin [Clavin, Tom]

The spring of 1945 had found Joe as a physical training instructor in the Army Air Forces Redistribution Center in Atlantic City. Nearby, at Bader Field, that year’s edition of ...
( Category: Baseball February 2,2015 )

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