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Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Hampton Sides [Sides, Hampton]

AT THE LORRAINE Motel, a stunned and deeply sleep-deprived Ralph Abernathy started off the morning by giving a brief press conference in the motel parking lot, just below the now-infamous ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
The Devil's Gentleman by Harold Schechter
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-29 | Author:Harold Schechter

Signs of that change were everywhere—in the bouquets of flowers and gushing letters that arrived daily from female admirers; in the stares he drew from other prisoners whenever he stepped ...
( Category: Serial Killers March 26,2014 )
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2010-04-27 | Author:Hampton Sides [Sides, Hampton]

AT THE LORRAINE Motel, a stunned and deeply sleep-deprived Ralph Abernathy started off the morning by giving a brief press conference in the motel parking lot, just below the now-infamous ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie MAnsfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age by H. W. Brands
epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

New York receives the news of Fisk’s death with mixed emotions. Horace Greeley lectures Wall Street and America for having produced such a sorry specimen of humanity. “Fiction furnishes few ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Mary Tudor by Anna Whitelock
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Anna Whitelock [Whitelock, Anna]

NOW IN POSSESSION of her kingdom, Mary could begin the task of governing. She had won the throne at Framlingham with a small council of her household officers, including Robert ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
Magnificent Obsession by Helen Rappaport
epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Helen Rappaport [Rappaport, Helen]

Chapter Eleven ‘A Married Daughter I Must Have Living with Me’ In the spring of 1863 the British public resolutely shook off its gloom and enjoyed a few days of ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
Britain's Royal Families by Alison Weir
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

(a) Gospatrick He was born in c.1040. He was created Earl of Northumbria before 1071, possibly in 1068, but was deprived of this earldom in 1072, when he was created ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
The Kennedy Men : 1901-1963 by Laurence Leamer
epub |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Laurence Leamer [Leamer, Laurence]

Jack knew that this would be a close election, but after listening to Vice President Richard Nixon give his acceptance speech on July 28 at the Stockyards Amphitheater in Chicago, ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 26,2014 )
Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness by Eric Metaxas
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Eric Metaxas [Metaxas, Eric]

The events of the nine months Bonhoeffer spent in America had a profound effect on him, and when he returned to Germany in the summer of 1931, it was clear ...
( Category: Religious March 26,2014 )
Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis (Allen Lane History) by Ian Kershaw
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Kershaw [Kershaw, Ian]

IV Not lost, however, was the war against the Jews – in Hitler’s eyes, the authors of the entire world conflagration. As we noted, Hitler had agreed in June to ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
History Buff's Guide to the Presidents by Flagel Thomas R
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Flagel, Thomas R. [Flagel, Thomas R.]

He ran for office as an ardent anticommunist, and his inaugural address affirmed his oath to fight Marxism anytime, anywhere. After the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs, however, Kennedy ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce A. Tyldesley
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-08-25 | Author:Joyce A. Tyldesley [Tyldesley, Joyce A.]

In spite of her economic problems, Cleopatra found herself in a more secure position than ever before. With both her brothers dead, her sister in exile and their supporters removed, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White Jr
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Ronald C. White, Jr. [White, Ronald C.]

A People’s Contest / 419 Elmer Ellsworth, almost like a son to Abraham Lincoln, was the first Union officer to die in the Civil War. This illustration depicts the deed ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
Dreadnought, Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-01-07 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

Fisher's actual departure was done in bravura style. At noon, when a gun was fired, Renown slipped her mooring and steamed out of the Grand Harbor at sixteen knots "like ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Avner Yehuda
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Avner, Yehuda [Avner, Yehuda]

It was Ezer Weizman, his defense minister, and I gathered from what was being said that there had been two Katyusha rocket attacks by the PLO, from southern Lebanon into ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 26,2014 )

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