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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Chris Matthews

CHAPTER TWELVE CHARISMA How does Jack get them girls to squeal that way? —Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia Jack Kennedy’s singular personal appeal was recognized by Ken O’Donnell for the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 22,2014 )
The Fast Times of Albert Champion by Peter Joffre Nye
epub |eng | 2014-10-09 | Author:Peter Joffre Nye

As he recovered, he received lucrative offers. Desgrange hired him to race on the Parc des Princes against Bruni, Walthour, and others through the end of October. An offer—an appearance ...
( Category: France November 21,2014 )
Crown & Country: A History of England Through the Monarchy by Starkey David
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Starkey, David [Starkey, David]

Chapter 15 King and Emperor Henry VIII ON 24 JUNE 1509, HENRY VIII was crowned in front of the high altar at Westminster Abbey. The supreme symbol of the Tudor ...
( Category: England November 21,2014 )
There Was and There Was Not: A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond by Toumani Meline
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Toumani, Meline [Toumani, Meline]

13 How to Be a Turk My friend Ramazan took out a pen and grabbed a napkin. He scrawled a map of Turkey on it, drew a large X at ...
( Category: Middle Eastern November 21,2014 )
A Capitalist in North Korea by Felix Abt
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Felix Abt [Abt, Felix]

Pyongyang Onban (cooked rice served in chicken soup) is the traditional food for Chuseok, the Korean harvest holiday on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month in the traditional ...
( Category: North November 21,2014 )
Leaving India by Minal Hajratwala
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Minal Hajratwala

In December 1966, Bhanu bought her mother the first pair of shoes she had owned since traveling by ship from India: open-toed chappals, to wear to the physiotherapy graduation ceremony. ...
( Category: United States November 20,2014 )
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Boris Johnson [Johnson, Boris]

The Abdication Crisis. In the late autumn of 1936 it became widely known that the King, Edward VIII, was having an affair with an American divorcee by the name of ...
( Category: Great Britain November 20,2014 )
You Learn By Living by Roosevelt Eleanor
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Roosevelt, Eleanor [Roosevelt, Eleanor]

7 The Right to Be an Individual WE ARE facing a great danger today—the loss of our individuality. It is besieged on all sides by pressures to conform: to a ...
( Category: United States November 19,2014 )
The Gates of November by Chaim Potok
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-10-14 | Author:Chaim Potok [Potok, Chaim]

6 Journeys The change in Masha and Volodya began slowly. That it began at all was in part a consequence of experiences private and personal: Masha’s terrifying arrest by the ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 19,2014 )
MEIN KAMPF by ADOLF HITLER
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:ADOLF HITLER [HITLER, ADOLF]

They are coming to maturity in a great epoch, and they will fight against the evils which were due to the laziness and indifference of their fathers." Either the German ...
( Category: Germany November 19,2014 )
Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence by Jack Kelly
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Jack Kelly [Kelly, Jack]

Thirteen The Discipline of the Leggs 1778 “You might have tracked the army from White Marsh to Valley Forge by the blood of their feet,” George Washington wrote.1 A private ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 19,2014 )
Pythagorus by Kitty Ferguson
epub |eng | 2010-11-18 | Author:Kitty Ferguson

[2]The Romans continued to use this formation effectively through the years of their republic and in the expansion of their Empire. [3]Alcibiades’ reputation for lack of discipline and unscrupulousness was ...
( Category: Greece November 19,2014 )
Dinner With Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Cita Stelzer [Stelzer, Cita]

Menu for the Bermudians’ dinner honouring the British Delegation It should come as no surprise that Churchill left Bermuda still determined to arrange one more Big Three summit, a dream ...
( Category: World War II November 19,2014 )
My Battle Against Hitler by Dietrich von Hildebrand John Henry Crosby
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Dietrich von Hildebrand,John Henry Crosby [Hildebrand, Dietrich von]

Some years later, in 1938, Italy passed the first of its race laws, which severely restricted the rights of Jews. Even so, von Hildebrand means that racism was not intrinsic ...
( Category: Holocaust November 19,2014 )
Jacques the Fatalist (Classics)
azw3 |eng | 2006-07-26 | Author:Diderot, Denis [Diderot, Denis]

MARQUIS: Succeeded! I could not begin to tell you quite how much. Will you not take pity on me? Shall I not be indebted to you for the joy of ...
( Category: French November 19,2014 )

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