Historical
epub |eng | 2013-09-14 | Author:Mary Burton [Burton, Mary]

Brody’s tie coiled around his neck extra tight as he took his seat on a white folding chair under the large tent. He and two dozen other Rangers and their ...
( Category: Murder June 6,2014 )
mobi | | 2010-03-06 | Author:Invisible Wife

`Oh no!' Sophia shrank from the suggestion, then, again wistfully, `Well, I should so enjoy it!' And you, Tania—I may call you Tania? —will join me? And—' she looked a ...
( Category: Religious Studies June 6,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1938-01-31 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

Chapter 8 - Page 173 MUTINY (2 April 1520 - 7 April 1520) Trapped up as they were in Port San Julian, which, though well sheltered, was a gloomy place ...
( Category: Historical June 5,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

BY ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN August 1914 [The Red Wheel / Knot I] Cancer Ward A Candle in the Wind Détente: Prospects for Democracy and Dictatorship East and West The First Circle ...
( Category: Biographical June 5,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-01-21 | Author:Antony Beevor [Beevor, Antony]

The Guards Armoured Division, originally delayed by the great storm, was by now ready to take part. Its officers were urged to visit the different fronts in Jeeps to pick ...
( Category: Military June 5,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Walter Isaacson

* * * * Apparently it was valid; when CIA station chief Tom Polger later showed him a similar copy captured by the Americans, Kissinger commented, “It has the odious ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-09 | Author:Charlie Chaplin

This may be eminently beautiful but I do not enjoy that kind of poetry in the theatre. Moreover, I dislike Shakespearean themes involving kings, queens, august people and their honour. ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers May 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-17 | Author:Neil Oliver [Oliver, Neil]

Mary had no such qualms and gamely set out to survey the field for a suitable husband. (This behaviour can only have added to Knox’s rage. While he was almost ...
( Category: Europe May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-27 | Author:Piers Brendon [Brendon, Piers]

This verdict was heard in other parts of Africa painted red on the map. Settler colonies in particular seemed bent on following the Boer example: one Cewa chief complained that ...
( Category: Great Britain May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]

THE MANNER in which the Farewell Address was actually composed, as it turned out, served as a nearly perfect illustration of its central message—the need to subordinate narrow interests to ...
( Category: Political May 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-02 | Author:Gregory A. Freeman [Freeman, Gregory A.]

Established in June 1942 as the country revved up for full-scale war with the Axis, the OSS was charged with collecting and analyzing strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs ...
( Category: Europe May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-03-01 | Author:Wallace Earle Stegner [Stegner, Wallace Earle]

The justifications for reform were extensive, for every condition of land and climate, and every successive land law except the Timber Culture Act of 1873 worked against the city mechanic, ...
( Category: Historical May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Robert Lacey [Lacey, Robert]

ELIZABETH - QUEEN OF HEARTS 1559 ELIZABETH I WAS CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER Abbey on 15 January 1559 — a date selected by her astrologer, Dr John Dee. Cheering crowds had ...
( Category: United States May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Nick Bunker [Bunker, Nick]

CONVOYS TO RUSSIA On October 20, 1621, boatmen on the Thames saw moored in the river five ships that had recently returned from the distant north. They came from the ...
( Category: Colonial Period May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Adrian Tinniswood [Tinniswood, Adrian]

Okeley’s master never recovered from the financial disaster of his last venture into piracy, and his debts mounted until they reached a point where he was forced to sell off ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy May 29,2014 )