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John A by Richard J. Gwyn
epub |eng | 2008-08-23 | Author:Richard J. Gwyn

That Britain might, if not actually abandon Canada, then gently but firmly pull itself back from a close embrace in order to position itself nearer to the United States, challenges ...
( Category: Canada August 24,2014 )
John A: The Man Who Made Us by Richard J. Gwyn
azw3 |eng | 2009-03-18 | Author:Richard J. Gwyn

That Britain might, if not actually abandon Canada, then gently but firmly pull itself back from a close embrace in order to position itself nearer to the United States, challenges ...
( Category: 19th Century August 24,2014 )
The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-04 | Author:Patricia Nell Warren [Warren, Patricia Nell]

We fenced around for a while, trying to get them to see reason, to persuade them that they were meddling in an area that was none of their business. But ...
( Category: LGBT Genre Fiction August 24,2014 )
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
epub |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Candace Fleming [Fleming, Candace]

THE POINT OF NO RETURN By late 1916, Russia was reaching the point of no return. Hundreds of thousands of men continued to die in a war that now seemed ...
( Category: Russia August 24,2014 )
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

* W. Armstrong Davison, in The Casket Letters, advances the further theory that Darnley was already suffering from syphilis when Queen Mary nursed him, apparently for measles, in April 1565. ...
( Category: Great Britain August 24,2014 )
Marx: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Singer Peter
mobi |eng | 2000-10-11 | Author:Singer, Peter [Singer, Peter]

But once ‘interaction’ between the superstructure and the productive forces is admitted, is it still possible to maintain that production determines the superstructure, rather than the other way round? It ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism August 21,2014 )
Libya - The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi
epub |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Alison Pargeter [Pargeter, Alison]

Indeed, Qaddafi used the Lockerbie issue to portray himself as the wronged victim of Western aggression and the heroic champion of Arabs and oppressed peoples everywhere. There was no way ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State August 21,2014 )
Girl Sleuth by Melanie Rehak
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Melanie Rehak

The two sisters now running the Stratemeyer Syndicate, Mrs. Russell V. Adams of 48 North Terrace, Maplewood, and Mrs. C. Wesley Squier of Summit, have a full working day, watching ...
( Category: Children's Literature August 21,2014 )
The Man Who Saved the Union by H.W. Brands
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:H.W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

On March 29 Grant began moving. The rain had stopped and roads begun to dry. But the army was scarcely in motion when the skies opened again. “The heavy rains ...
( Category: Civil War August 20,2014 )
Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Bugliosi Vincent
mobi |eng | 2008-05-17 | Author:Bugliosi, Vincent [Bugliosi, Vincent]

Back at the Homicide and Robbery Bureau, Captain Fritz focuses his questions to Oswald once again on the time of the assassination. “Did you eat lunch with anyone yesterday?” he ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 20,2014 )
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:Shlomo Sand

REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING THE “PEOPLE OF THE LAND” “He shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant” (Dan. 11: 30)—the consoling prophecy of the prophet ...
( Category: Jewish August 19,2014 )
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine by Peled Miko
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-23 | Author:Peled, Miko [Peled, Miko]

My journey and my transformation were becoming more intense. Soon I had to face my moment of truth—although it turned out to be the first of many such moments, moments ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 19,2014 )
The Reign of Mary I by Tittler Robert Richards Judith
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tittler, Robert, Richards, Judith [Tittler, Robert, Richards, Judith]

Edwards, J. and Truman, R. (eds) (2005), Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor, Aldershot: Ashgate. Martin, J. W. (1989) Religious Radicals in Tudor England, London: Hambledon. Sharpe, K. ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2014 )
Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

If Irwin and his policemen thought Gandhi’s arrest might end their troubles, as it had done in 1922, they were sorely mistaken. Noncooperation intensified over the next ten months. The ...
( Category: India & South Asia August 19,2014 )
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Herbert P. Bix

12 THE ORDEAL OF SUPREME COMMAND Confronted with military strangulation by oil embargoes and the choice of admitting defeat in China, thereby abandoning a large part of his continental empire ...
( Category: Japan August 19,2014 )

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