Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | 1996-05-31 | Author:Gustaw Herling [Herling, Gustaw]

Only in the bath-house was it possible to examine the effects of hunger, for in the barracks the prisoners seldom undressed for the night. The small bath-hut was always, full ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cory Taylor

Violence and terror were powerful tools in postwar German politics. Militias attached to political parties on the left and the right used brute force to intimidate their political rivals. These ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Keith Dowman [Dowman, Keith]

I, a wandering Naljorpa, visited the Religious Centre of Lhasa, Where the hostesses were hoping for their guests’ gifts and favours. So fearing to become a base flatterer, I kept ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dwyer, Philip;

Preparations for the exhumation went ahead and were carried out on the night of 14–15 October, so that the coffin would be ready for opening by morning, exactly twenty-five years ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-22 | Author:Derrick Wolf [Wolf, Derrick]

June 8, 1876 Thursday Camp Buffalo Rapids Today very pleasant. Left the river this morning and crossed some very high bluffs where we struck Squaw Creek which we crossed several ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Abraham Lincoln [Lincoln, Abraham]

To Edward Bates Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 29, 1862. Hon. Attorney General My dear Sir: Few things perplex me more than this question between Gov. Gamble, and the War Department, ...
( Category: Americas August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Nicholas Dawidoff [Dawidoff, Nicholas]

THE INFORMATION BERG was sending to Washington from the top floor of 24 Dufourstrasse wasn’t as dramatic as his cables describing the meeting with Heisenberg, but intelligence work rarely manages ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-29 | Author:Goodwin, Doris Kearns [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

CHAPTER 16 “THE GREATEST MAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN” The President was in high spirits in the early days of 1943. At midnight, January 9, he was set to begin ...
( Category: Americas August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stacy Perman

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Game Over In November 1926, a year after his first surgery to remove the tumor, Ward’s cancer returned and he checked himself into the renowned Cleveland Clinic. For ...
( Category: Automotive August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-08-29 | Author:Malcolm MacPherson

9 * * * DON TABRON, THE 160TH SOAR'S AIR MISSION commander who had been seated in the cockpit's jumpseat handling the radios, pitched in to help with the fight. ...
( Category: Asia August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-26 | Author:Patrick Hennessey

The daily Baghdad SITREP cheerfully reported one morning that some 1,855 bodies have been delivered to the city morgues in July—a nice record high, up 300 on last month. The ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-30 | Author:Catherine Bailey [Bailey, Catherine]

Reaching for the fountain pen he kept in the breast pocket of his suit, Henry wrote a note to his wife: I think you ought to see this. R [Rutland] ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dennis McDougal

20 By 1982, Robert Blake had spread enough hubris around Hollywood to guarantee that no studio, production house or network would touch him. On November 13 of that year, when ...
( Category: True Crime August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-03 | Author:Arnold A. Dallimore [Dallimore, Arnold A.]

... if you were my own father you had no right of disposing me against my will. You say ye thought of parting with her ye Lord has made as ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Stanley Wort [Wort, Stanley]

Note: 1 Fandushi – Japanese loincloth. Naval dockyard, Hong Kong, circa 1930. (Author’s private collection) Hong Kong harbour, Stonecutters Island and Kowloon in background, circa 1930. (Author’s private collection) Class ...
( Category: Asia August 11,2018 )