Home > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical
Historical
Foundation (History of England Vol 1) by Ackroyd Peter
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

22 Birth and death The infant mortality rates of the medieval period were high, with over a third of boys and a quarter of girls dying at or soon after ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Timothy Snyder

Home to much of the Polish educated classes and to Europe’s largest society of Jews, Warsaw was a metropolis that had no place in the Nazi worldview. As of spring ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
The Last Manchu by Henry Pu Yi
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Henry Pu Yi

Two Emperors of the same Continent wish to be almighty and deserving of respect, While seven guests, passengers on the same ship, speak of Imperial coexistence. It is not an ...
( Category: China March 25,2014 )
Cicero by Anthony Everitt
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Anthony Everitt

8 THE IDEAL CONSTITUTION Writing about Politics: 55–43 BC Now that he was no longer able to play an active role in the conduct of affairs, Cicero decided to find ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
Caligula by Aloys Winterling
mobi, epub |ru | 2011-12-12 | Author:Aloys Winterling

RESHAPING THE EMPEROR’S ROLE The conspiracy of Agrippina, Livilla, and Lepidus had presented Caligula with the same threat in extreme form that had always been present under the rule of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History by Peter Heather
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Peter Heather

7 ATTILA THE HUN FOR OVER A DECADE, from 441 to 453, the history of Europe was dominated by military campaigns on an unprecedented scale – the work of Attila, ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain; Bill Mckibben
mobi |eng | 1883-01-02 | Author:Mark Twain; Bill Mckibben

CHAPTER XXXI A Thumbprint and What Came of It We were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas. So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines by Mark Stein
mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Mark Stein

TEXAS SAM HOUSTON The Man Who Lassoed Texas Speaker of the House: Samuel Houston, you have been brought before this House, by its order, to answer the charge of having ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
dam break in georgia by K. Neill Foster
mobi |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:K. Neill Foster

Chapter 14 Momma Starts to Pray Mike and Ruth Ann Moore had bought a new bed Saturday, November 5. They had been to town and splurged. That night they stayed ...
( Category: South March 25,2014 )
Thomas Paine Reader by Thomas Paine
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Thomas Paine

That men mean distinct and separate things when they speak of constitutions and of governments, is evident; or, why are those terms distinctly and separately used? A constitution is not ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S. Wood
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Gordon S. Wood

V Republicanism Amilitary victory over Great Britain may have been essential for the success of the Revolution, but for Americans it was scarcely the whole of the Revolution. Although the ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail by Tim McGrath
mobi |eng | 2010-05-18 | Author:Tim McGrath

Pursuit continued. By now both Alliance and the Duc had hoisted their colors, along with Alliance's signals for the Duc to “Shift for herself.” Despite her added cargo the Alliance ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
mobi |eng | 2003-10-30 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

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: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2004-03-31 | Author:Bob Woodward

ON NOVEMBER1, Powell brought the people who would head the U.N. weapons inspections teams to see Bush and Cheney. Rice and Wolfowitz also attended. They were Hans Blix, a cheery, ...
( Category: National & International Security March 25,2014 )
Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2010-09-27 | Author:Bob Woodward

19 It was the secretary of state’s turn at the October 9 meeting. “Mr. President,” Clinton began, “the dilemma you face …” On the back bench, press secretary Gibbs noted ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )

First Prev [631] [632] [633] [634] 635 [636] [637] [638] [639] [640] [641] Next Last