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Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:David Caute [Caute, David]

Shelley remained true to the Jacobin-Republican ideal: it was as a Republican, and not as a patriot of the England of George III, that he greeted the fall of Napoleon, ...
( Category: Philosophers March 1,2016 )
Globe by Catharine Arnold
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Catharine Arnold

7 THE GREAT GLOBE ITSELF Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air ...
( Category: Great Britain February 22,2016 )
The House of Wittgenstein by Alexander Waugh
epub |eng | 2008-02-20 | Author:Alexander Waugh

Paul was indignant; facing me in real anger he told me it was irksome enough that I had brought Michael but that I should now make friends with his valet ...
( Category: Europe February 21,2016 )
Charles I (Penguin Monarchs): An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Mark Kishlansky [Kishlansky, Mark]

5 Reform and Rebellion The implications of the Scottish invasion sunk in slowly. Initially Charles believed that he could reinvigorate his forces and revive his cause. All he needed was ...
( Category: Europe February 15,2016 )
A Donkey in the Meadow by Derek Tangye
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Tangye

Jeannie, Penny and Fred set out across the stable 11 An eloquent feature of the donkeys was their stare; and we never succeeded in growing accustomed to it. It was ...
( Category: Great Britain February 15,2016 )
Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World by Martha Long
epub |eng | 2011-10-28 | Author:Martha Long [Martha Long]

20 * * * I woke up early, thinking something great is happening today. Me heart was lepping with excitement. I held me breath, waiting to remember what it was. ...
( Category: Great Britain February 15,2016 )
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy by Martha Long
epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Martha Long

CHAPTER 15 ‘Come in,’ Sister Eleanor said, smiling and waving me in the door. I crept around the door, putting me head in and bringing me suitcase after me. ‘This ...
( Category: Irish February 15,2016 )
Underground in Berlin by Marie Jalowicz Simon
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Marie Jalowicz Simon [Simon, Marie Jalowicz]

Unlike me, Eva Deutschkron had ration cards of her own. She told me how she had come by them when we were washing the dishes, and had been passing the ...
( Category: Holocaust February 15,2016 )
9781910981729 by Alexander Hammond
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Alexander Hammond [Hammond, Alexander]

THE TRUTH GAME They’d dated twice. Not even proper dates really, more like impromptu rendezvous. Even that had been a struggle. She was just so distant. Aloof, almost, but not ...
( Category: Greece February 15,2016 )
Correspondence 1943-1955 by Theodor W. Adorno & Thomas Mann
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Theodor W. Adorno & Thomas Mann

Appendix Adorno’s Notes and Sketches for Doctor Faustus Adorno’s Sketches for the Chamber Music of Adrian Leverkühn O: TS (carbon copy); Theodor W. Adorno Archive, Frankfurt am Main. For the ...
( Category: Germany February 13,2016 )
Correspondence 1925-1935 by Theodor W. Adorno & Wieland Hoban
epub |eng | 2014-09-13 | Author:Theodor W. Adorno & Wieland Hoban

81 BERG TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO SATTENDORF, 26.8.1928 Gut Berghof Post office: Sattendorf 9 26./8.28. Lake Ossiach Carinthia My dear friend, in sending me your ‘Four Songs’, you have fulfilled – nay, ...
( Category: European February 13,2016 )
1924: The Year that Made Hitler by Peter Ross Range
epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Peter Ross Range

Stenglein’s drastic move made headlines. “Hitler Trial Session Blown Up,” declared the Vossische Zeitung on its front page; “You’ve Gone Too Far,” headlined its columnist. Foreign newspapers were taking notice. ...
( Category: Holocaust February 12,2016 )
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin by Kirsty Corrigan
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Kirsty Corrigan [Corrigan, Kirsty]

Chapter Ten Prelude to Civil War August–November 44 BC Brutus Departs for Athens Plutarch narrates an anecdotal event which reportedly took place before Brutus’ departure from Italy, concerning his wife, ...
( Category: Rome February 12,2016 )
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:John Carey [John Carey]

21 Disaster With The Pyramid due to appear on 1 June 1967, Golding followed his usual plan of refusing to talk about the book, and staying out of the country ...
( Category: Authors February 8,2016 )
33 Days: A Memoir by Leon Werth
mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Leon Werth [Werth, Leon]

Aufresne is washing and polishing his unusable car, which has a leaky piston rod. He prunes a hedge. He knows how to kill a rabbit and turn its skin inside ...
( Category: World War II January 30,2016 )

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