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The First and the Last by Adolf Galland
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-29 | Author:Adolf Galland

18 The House Without a Roof The year 1943 saw Germany in retreat on all fronts. After the fall of Stalingrad the Red army went over to the attack at ...
( Category: World War II December 30,2019 )
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Nicholas Thompson [Thompson, Nicholas]

IT WAS THE MIDDLE of the night, probably two or three A.M., when the phone rang at the home of Kennan’s secretary, Constance Goodman. On the line was Donald Jameson, ...
( Category: Arms Control December 30,2019 )
LIZ by C. David Heymann
epub |eng | | Author:C. David Heymann

Chapter 18 On August 4, 1962, Roddy McDowall and John Valva arrived at Chalet Ariel, Elizabeth Taylor’s new residence in Gstaad. They had just celebrated the long-overdue completion of Cleopatra ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers December 21,2019 )
The Official Companion, Volume 2: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle, and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II (1956-1977) by Robert Lacey
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Robert Lacey

* * * — Episode 303’s account of the Aberfan disaster closely follows the dateline of 21 October 1966 and the other events reported through the days that followed, together ...
( Category: Television Performers December 18,2019 )
Man of the West by Anna Jeffrey
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Anna Jeffrey

Chapter 18 Pat awoke the next morning well after daylight with Suzanne’s tousled head resting on his chest under his chin. He was sore. He felt as if they had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 18,2019 )
Bess of Hardwick by Mary S. Lovell
epub |eng | 2005-12-16 | Author:Mary S. Lovell

I beseech you to appease my Lady’s mislike to me through this crooked misfortune, which was but ill luck…He fell, which amazed me greatly, for if ever in my life ...
( Category: United States December 17,2019 )
An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me About Love, Courage, and Survival by Françoise Malby-Anthony
epub |eng | | Author:Françoise Malby-Anthony

* * * I named the calf Tom in honour of my gentle chef, whose presence of mind in investigating a strange noise had saved the little one’s life. We ...
( Category: Wildlife December 17,2019 )
Hero by Michael Grant
epub |eng | 2019-08-25 | Author:Michael Grant

CHAPTER 23 Problems at Home SAM TEMPLE HAD never been the sort of person to spy on others. He was certainly not the sort of person who would spy on ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 17,2019 )
Return to the Reich by Eric Lichtblau
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Lichtblau

Hans, meanwhile, whiled away the late-winter days in an attic in Oberperfuss, waiting for news from Freddy to relay to OSS, now that his transmitter was finally working. Alois had ...
( Category: World War II December 17,2019 )
Thomas Jefferson's Education by Alan Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Alan Taylor

9 STUDENTS Virginia Randolph Cary (1786–1852), by Charles C. Ingham (Virginia Museum of History & Culture) WILSON MILES CARY grew up entangled in Jeffersons and Randolphs. His great-grandfather was Thomas ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 17,2019 )
Clausewitz by Donald Stoker
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Donald Stoker

Map 8.2. Clausewitz’s War in North Germany. To prepare for the renewal of hostilities, Wallmoden anchored his lines in the north at Ratzenburger, on the lake. He spread his cavalry ...
( Category: United States December 17,2019 )
The Mysterious Murder of JFK's Mistress by Ron Rosenbaum
epub |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Ron Rosenbaum [Rosenbaum, Ron]

THE ACQUITTAL LEFT the murder of Mary Meyer officially unsolved. But Washington police never reopened the investigation. They closed the towpath murder after the trial. “Without a full confession and ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem December 17,2019 )
His Secrets by Bishop K. M
epub |eng | 2019-09-25 | Author:Bishop, K. M.

* * * “You sure you don’t want more?” Blake shook his head no vigorously, with a big smile across his face. I laughed with delight as I tipped the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 17,2019 )
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
epub |eng | 2004-02-02 | Author:Richard Rodriguez

III Now. I go to mass every Sunday. Old habits persist. But it is an English mass I attend, a ritual of words. A ritual that seeks to feed my ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies December 17,2019 )
Sailing True North by Admiral James Stavridis USN (Ret.)
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.)

All quotations in this chapter are sourced from E. B. Potter, Nimitz (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976). CHAPTER VIII The Master of Anger Admiral Hyman Rickover BORN JANUARY 27, ...
( Category: Military December 17,2019 )

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