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Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany by Cohn Marthe & Holden Wendy
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Cohn, Marthe & Holden, Wendy [Cohn, Marthe]

An Unlikely Spy y work as the most unlikely of spies officially began on January 20, 1945. I was assigned to the Commandos d’Afrique, the first French unit to land ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 30,2019 )
Being Kendra by Kendra Wilkinson
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Kendra Wilkinson [Wilkinson, Kendra]

On the set of DWTS. Hmmm . . . wonder why I’m smiling? Hank and I had sex once in the trailer in the back of the studio lot during ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 30,2019 )
These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack With Jackie by Andersen Christopher
epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Andersen, Christopher [Andersen, Christopher]

BY MID-MAY, JACKIE FELT SHE had earned the right to flee to Virginia—ostensibly to indulge her true passion by competing in the Loudoun Hunt horse show. In truth, she was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 30,2019 )
High Society by Donald Spoto
epub |eng | 2009-01-30 | Author:Donald Spoto [Spoto, Donald]

BEFORE REAR WINDOW was completed in January, Grace gained a new and valuable friend. She had known Rita Gam in New York when they were both working as models and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 30,2019 )
Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm
epub |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Sarah Helm [Helm, Sarah]

I had to read the sentence twice to understand that the packed human beings were mentioned in this sentence only in a passive sense—in order to explain the process of ...
( Category: World January 30,2019 )
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England by Lynne Olson
mobi |eng | 2011-04-09 | Author:Lynne Olson

For the men of the British Expeditionary Force, which had been dispatched to France on September 10, it was also turning out to be a phantom conflict. The two BEF ...
( Category: Europe January 27,2019 )
Mark Twain and the Colonel by McFarland Philip;
epub |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:McFarland, Philip; [McFarland, Philip]

Figure 27.1. The Haymarket Riot, May 4, 1886. Pictured across the top are the slain policemen. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. To protest such terms, a general walkout was ...
( Category: Historical January 26,2019 )
Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power by Ernle Bradford
epub |eng | 1984-12-15 | Author:Ernle Bradford [Bradford, Ernle]

Civil War One legion was little enough with which to invade a country and attack an empire. There must have been those in Rome who, knowing the situation, felt confident ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 26,2019 )
The Man Called CASH by Steve Turner
epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Steve Turner

SCHOOL DAYS 1946-47 Dyess High Courtesy of Kathy Tittle Johnny Cash, age 15 Courtesy of House of Cash Cash's passport photo, early 1960s Courtesy of House of Cash Written by ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 26,2019 )
It's Good to Be the King by James Robert Parish
epub |eng | 2008-02-02 | Author:James Robert Parish [Parish, James Robert]

22 Flaunt It, Baby The best way to stay alive as a good writer is to run a bulldozer through your conditioned values, learn to live frugally—which I haven’t—and take ...
( Category: Movies January 26,2019 )
Nostradamus by Crouzet Denis Greengrass Mark
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Crouzet, Denis,Greengrass, Mark

17 All the Sins of the World All human affairs are subject to sudden reversals and one of Nostradamus’ aims is perhaps to catalogue, with or without astrological or prodigal ...
( Category: World January 24,2019 )
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
epub |eng | 2007-06-01 | Author:Immaculee Ilibagiza [Ilibagiza, Immaculee]

AS THE WAR DRAGGED ON, THE PASTOR BECAME INCREASINGLY worried about what he was going to do with us. “If the fighting lasts many months more, I’ll run out of ...
( Category: Memoirs January 23,2019 )
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Leonie Frieda

Chapter 13 A King Restored As her son progressed from despondency to despair and, ultimately, to near-death, Louise was doing her considerable best to ensure that the regency continued as ...
( Category: Europe January 23,2019 )
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough [McCullough, David]

But the letter is so plainly Theodore’s idea of humor—tall-tale humor out of the Wild West—that it suggests there was no “problem” as yet. That he would treat a subject ...
( Category: Historical January 22,2019 )
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children From the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. Mazzeo
epub |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:Tilar J. Mazzeo [Mazzeo, Tilar J.]

CHAPTER 12 Toward the Precipice Warsaw, 1943 A knock at three a.m. never meant anything but disaster, so the quiet tapping that startled Irena from her sleep one night in ...
( Category: World January 22,2019 )

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