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Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce by John Piper & Jonathan Aitken
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:John Piper & Jonathan Aitken

AmazingGraceLWW.48754.i04.qxd 12/6/06 1:59 PM Page 43 A Multitude of Christlike Causes 43 only of the clergy. In a chance meeting with James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s biographer, he spent time into ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C White; Jr
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Ronald C White; Jr.

LINCOLN WAS NOT PREPARED to deal with the crisis of Fort Sumter at the beginning of his presidency. He had determined in Springfield to preserve the Union without war, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:S. C. Gwynne

Coho Smith captured Cynthia Ann as no one else has. Other people saw her as sullen, brooding, unresponsive, detached. Despondent. Even crazy, or at least so far sunk in savagery ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 by Niall Ferguson
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Niall Ferguson

Though primarily conpiracy theorists, writers like Drumont and Chirac were also preoccupied with the Rothschilds’ penetration of French high culture and society. In the second volume of Jewish France, Drumont ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 25,2014 )
The gates of November by Chaim Potok
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-10-15 | Author:Chaim Potok

6 Journeys The change in Masha and Volodya began slowly. That it began at all was in part a consequence of experiences private and personal: Masha’s terrifying arrest by the ...
( Category: Holocaust March 25,2014 )
The diary of a young girl: the definitive edition by Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-02-01 | Author:Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1944 Dearest Kitty, Bep’s been back for the last two weeks, though her sister won’t be allowed back at school until next week. Bep herself spent two ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-02-01 | Author:Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler

WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1944 Dearest Kitty, I (there I go again!) don’t know what’s happened, but since my dream I keep noticing how I’ve changed. By the way, I ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
Night by Elie Wiesel
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-12-04 | Author:Elie Wiesel

IN THE WAREHOUSE, I often worked next to a young French- woman. We did not speak: she did not know German and I did not understand French. I thought she ...
( Category: Holocaust March 25,2014 )
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli & Tibère Kremer & Richard Seaver
mobi, azw3 |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:Miklós Nyiszli & Tibère Kremer & Richard Seaver

XVIII IN MY ROLE OF SONDERKOMMANDO doctor, I was making my morning rounds. All four crematoriums were working at full blast. Last night they had burned the Greek Jews from ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
English Histories 01 - The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
mobi |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Alison Weir

No one was more delighted than the Queen when Mary signed her submission. Jane had worked for months towards a reconciliation, and she now looked forward to receiving her stepdaughter ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Alison Weir

When he arrived at Calais, Warwick began courting the friendship of Philip of Burgundy, whose ships he had recently so cheerfully plundered. The merchants of Calais and those in England ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

CHAPTER XXI I AM LIKE RIPE SHIT HEN Martin Luther proclaimed his theses at Wittenberg he was announcing, too, the triumph of his own self-awareness. The era of Protestantism, as ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
The Last Days of Richard III and the Fate of His DNA by John Ashdown-Hill
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill

12 ‘Here Lies the Body’1 When Henry VIII dissolved the religious houses of England, the fate of the burials within the monastic and conventual churches varied. Occasionally, surviving relatives took ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
Churchill by Paul Johnson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Paul Johnson

Chapter Five The Unregarded Prophet Now began the hardest, harshest period of Churchill’s life. He was lucky to have a safe seat where he was active, was much loved, and ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-07-08 | Author:Alison Weir

Northumberland was at King's College, Cambridge when, on the morning of 20 July, he heard that Mary had been proclaimed in London. In a desperate attempt to save his neck, ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )

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