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The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:William Manchester [Manchester, William]

With the vote of censure behind him and the decision made in favor of Torch, Churchill’s attention turned to Egypt, and Stalin. Based on Ultra decrypts, he had prodded Auchinleck ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
In the Arena by Richard Nixon
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Nixon [Nixon, Richard]

21 POWER When we met with Mao Tse-tung in Beijing in 1972, Henry Kissinger remarked that he had assigned Mao’s writings to his classes at Harvard. With typical self-deprecation, Mao ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome by Everitt Anthony
epub, mobi |pol | 2009-08-31 | Author:Everitt, Anthony [Everitt, Anthony]

What was the actual offense of which they were accused? Two versions of the story have come down to us. According to the Historia Augusta, Nigrinus and the others planned ...
( Category: Rome March 26,2014 )
Julian Assange - WikiLeaks by Sophie Radermecker
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Sophie Radermecker

22 DDOS: DANIEL DOMSCHEIT-BERG OR SCHMITT December 29, 2007: 24C3, Twenty-Fourth Chaos Communication Congress This Berlin congress, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), has become Europe’s main hacker and ...
( Category: Journalists March 26,2014 )
Ace of Spies: The True Story of Sidney Reilly by Andrew Cook
epub |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Andrew Cook [Cook, Andrew]

ELEVEN FINAL CURTAIN Instead of heading for New York as scheduled, the captain of the SS Olympic docked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 21 April, due to propeller trouble.1 Although ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Mendez Antonio J
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Mendez, Antonio J. [Mendez, Antonio J.]

DESPITE THE GLARE of unflattering public scrutiny in the mid-1970s, important members of OTS and the Agency considered the HONOR case to be a breakthrough in the evolution of the ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage March 26,2014 )
The Lone Samurai by William Scott Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:William Scott Wilson

THE CONCEPT OF THE FIVE RINGS IN ESOTERIC BUDDHISM Traveling the backroads of Japan or wandering through the temple precincts there, one often finds five-tiered stone monuments called stupas. These ...
( Category: Eastern March 26,2014 )
The Gallic War and The Civil War (Illustrated) by Julius Caesar
epub |eng | | Author:Julius Caesar [Caesar, Julius]

XLIX.—Caesar, when he perceived that his soldiers were fighting on unfavourable ground, and that the enemy's forces were increasing, being alarmed for the safety of his troops, sent orders to ...
( Category: Rome March 26,2014 )
Tamerlane by Justin Marozzi
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Justin Marozzi [Justin Marozzi]

If the Bibi Khanum Mosque was Temur’s most extravagant religious building in Samarkand, the mausolea of Shah-i-Zinda (the Living King) was his holiest. The site itself, which lay beyond the ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
The Training Ground by Martin Dugard
epub |eng | 2008-06-15 | Author:Martin Dugard [DUGARD, MARTIN]

FARTHER TO THE right, Colonel Garland and an injured Major Mansfield were leading a frantic retreat from the outskirts of Monterrey. Those city streets had initially been a sanctuary after ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Ian Kershaw [Kershaw, Ian]

VI ‘Hitler is Reich Chancellor. Just like a fairy-tale,’ noted Goebbels.253 Indeed, the extraordinary had happened. What few beyond the ranks of Nazi fanatics had thought possible less than a ...
( Category: Germany March 26,2014 )
Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Sarah Bradford

She had completely misjudged him, he told her. Now think me false as much as you will, believe the truth as little as you please, but like it or not, ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
Lucrezia Borgia life, love and death in Renaissance Italy
epub | | | Author:Sarah Bradford

( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Iversen Kristen
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Iversen, Kristen [Iversen, Kristen]

THE INCINERATOR at our little old house in Arvada is long gone and turned into a garden planter by the new owners. We don’t have an incinerator at the house ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
The Temptress by Paul Spicer
epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Paul Spicer [Spicer, Paul]

Eight The Return to Happy Valley WHENEVER ALICE ARRIVED IN NAIROBI FROM EUROPE, it was her habit to go immediately to stay with Joss and Idina at Slains. But this ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )

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