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Americans in Paris: Life & Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass
epub |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Charles Glass [Glass, Charles]

Although a Gestapo officer, he planned to return to Yonkers as soon as the war ended. After the suitcases had been cleared, Senegalese men, probably prisoners of war, carried them ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 26,2014 )
Thames by Peter Ackroyd
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

There was an unusual condition of the weather that materially affected the life and nature of the Thames in previous centuries. The river had a propensity to freeze at the ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Wendy Moore [Moore, Wendy]

NINE ESTHER Wakefield, Yorkshire, 1775 Clever, amiable and wealthy, at twenty-three, Esther Milnes was popular with girlhood friends and male admirers alike. Having lost both her parents within a few ...
( Category: Women in History March 26,2014 )
1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Stephen Clarke

15 The Guillotine, a British Invention ‘There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.’ P. G. Wodehouse Before France ...
( Category: European March 26,2014 )
Forgotten Wars by Tim Harper & Tim Harper
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Tim Harper & Tim Harper

MALAYA’S FORGOTTEN REGIMENTS Among the forsaken of empire were the vast regiments of labourers on the rubber plantations of Malaya. In the words of Selangor trade unionist C. V. S. ...
( Category: Asia March 26,2014 )
Forgotten Armies by Tim Harper
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-06 | Author:Tim Harper

5 1943: Valleys of the Shadow of Death As the New Year of 1943 dawned, the British and the Americans looked to the future with restored confidence. In Britain the ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
The discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jawaharlal Nehru [Nehru, Jawaharlal]

attitude was necessary and no truck with nationalism and sedi- tion. The Aligarh College group had become the leaders of the new Moslem intelligentsia and influenced sometimes openly, more often ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

Part III THE SIEGE In sieges, as in all undertakings, it is necessary [and] timely to consider every . . . circumstance that may happen during the execution of the ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 26,2014 )
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Gordon S. Wood [Wood, Gordon S.]

When someone as aristocratic as William Byrd could write of the natural equality of all men, even those of different nations and races, and conclude that “the principal difference between ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
Defiant Brides by Nancy Rubin Stuart
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-03 | Author:Nancy Rubin Stuart [Stuart, Nancy Rubin]

Hopes for a son’s tales about Yorktown for another generation of the Washingtons were crushed when George and Martha’s son, Jackie, died on November 5 from “putrid fever.” Struck by ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
Barack Obama by David Maraniss
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

In a survey of college admissions officers, Punahou was ranked among the ten best secondary schools in the nation. Mrs. Lucille Finlayson was reminded of that status almost every day ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents: From Wilson to Obama by Steven F. Hayward
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Steven F. Hayward [Hayward, Steven F.]

JFK, Supply-Sider One of the ironies of Kennedy becoming the posthumous liberal hero is that many liberals distrusted him both as a candidate and while he was president, and Kennedy ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
The Outfit by Russo Gus
epub, mobi | | 2008-12-02 | Author:Russo, Gus [Russo, Gus]

Part Four Vegas (The New Booze III) 13. Cohibas and Carpet Joints The glitzy, high-stakes world of casino gambling was anything but alien to the bosses of organized crime at ...
( Category: Criminology March 26,2014 )
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Henry Kissinger

CHAPTER TWENTY Negotiating with the Communists: Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower In March 1952, before the Korean War had ended, Stalin made a diplomatic overture to settle the Cold War for ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter
epub |eng | | Author:Diane McWhorter

The Moment of Truth BY DAYLIGHT, the state troopers had reclaimed the picnic tables in Kelly Ingram Park and were drinking coffee and listening to the radio. A twenty-block area ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )

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