Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | | Author:Anne de Courcy

CHAPTER 10 The Call of Europe Many of the ‘buccaneers’ wound up as the brides of European noblemen, if only for the reason that Americans were naturally drawn towards Europe. ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Astrid Holleeder

“How did it go?” Sonja, who’d been waiting for me at home, asked. “Was it a rat?” “No, she wasn’t a rat. She’s onto him,” I said. “Now what?” Sonja ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Richard A Gabriel

It must be borne in mind that Alexander did not just order these atrocities to be committed, but he was an enthusiastic participant in them. He enjoyed wading into the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 8,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sean Spicer

I had found my footing—many friends told me approvingly after the press briefing, “That’s the Sean Spicer I know”—but I still faced a media that reported rumor as fact and ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Ian Mortimer [Ian Mortimer]

Sunday 25th The siege had now been underway for a week, and the siege engines and cannon had continued bombarding the town, day and night. The author of the Gesta ...
( Category: Europe August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Joe Biden & Sarah McBride

When you’ve never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it’s almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home. As openly transgender people, we had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 8,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-07-27 | Author:Matt Margolis & Mark Noonan

157. Skipping the Paris Anti-Terrorism Rally George W. Bush famously said in his 2002 State of the Union Address, in which he laid out a vision for his response to ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Wendy Burden [Burden, Wendy]

For the first time since bearing them, our mother actually had to take care of her children. Will was mostly away, either at school or camp, or at our grandparents’, ...
( Category: Sociology August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Lucette Matalon Lagnado & Sheila Cohn Dekel [Lagnado, Lucette Matalon & Dekel, Sheila Cohn]

Isabel Ia The pictures Mengele sent home to Gunzburg and to Rolf showed a dapper gentleman, no longer young, to be sure, but still handsome. He was quite fit and ...
( Category: World August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Robert Holmes [Robert Holmes]

Conversely, Kisevalter was well aware that Americans were not universally liked. Talking about Soviets who might consider defecting to the United States, he rounded off his comments with this philosophical ...
( Category: Historical August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Wilkinson & Joan Bright Astley

While Gubbins had been fully engaged in discussing SOE’s future at the strategic level, there had been a series of operational disasters in North-West Europe, some of which have been ...
( Category: Historical August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Barthel

NINE Winchester Friday Afternoon We are so far safe tho’ our progress is so much slower than you expected—your turnpike road is to be sure a very rough one and ...
( Category: Historical August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Juliet Buck

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Hélène Rochas gave a dinner for Pamela Harriman and me, because, she said, “You are both American ambassadresses to France.” Well, she was. Pamela Harriman, who’d married Winston ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-14 | Author:Hilaire Belloc [Belloc, Hilaire]

4 WHEN THESE THINGS HAD BEEN DONE AND ORLEANS freed, the English host withdrew from the forts remaining, and next day set themselves out in battle on the plain. But ...
( Category: Catholicism August 8,2018 )