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Maxwell, The Outsider by Tom Bower
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-12-15 | Author:Tom Bower [Bower, Tom]

Within days, the report's existence was widely known, and pressure intensified, especially from the City, for its immediate release. Lord Shawcross even allowed himself to be named as one of ...
( Category: Historical April 23,2018 )
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Hampton Sides

Narbona’s sons believed the old man was already on the path. “You’ve gone away from us now,” they chanted. “You’ve gone away by yourself.” Having slaughtered the horses and left ...
( Category: Americas April 23,2018 )
Johnny Get Your Gun: A personal narrative of the Somme, Ypres and Arras by John F Tucker
epub |eng | 2015-02-28 | Author:John F Tucker [Tucker, John F]

At Brighton the day war was declared, 4th August 1914. First uniform, November 1914 The draft en route to Watford, early in 1915. The author is in the background, marked ...
( Category: Military April 23,2018 )
Way Out There In the Blue by Frances FitzGerald
epub |eng | | Author:Frances FitzGerald

AT GENEVA, Reagan and Gorbachev had agreed that there would be a summit in the United States in 1986, and one in the Soviet Union the following year. After his ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 23,2018 )
The Girl by Samantha Geimer
epub |eng | | Author:Samantha Geimer

CHAPTER 12 POLANSKI PLEADS GUILTY TO SEX CHARGE INVOLVING TEENAGED GIRL SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UPI): Film director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty Monday to “Unlawful sexual intercourse” with a 13-year-old girl ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 23,2018 )
Out in the Army by James Wharton
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:James Wharton [James Wharton]

I enjoyed being part of 1 Troop, but in the days that followed us being attacked in the desert, I was becoming increasingly stressed and agitated. Our return to Basra ...
( Category: Military April 23,2018 )
Walking with Giants: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Elmer L. Towns
epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Elmer L. Towns [Towns, Elmer L.]

Raising Money On the college’s fortieth anniversary, I received a $25,000 challenge from the M-P Foundation in Toronto, Canada. (“M” and “P” were McClintock and Pitts, two men who were ...
( Category: Memoirs April 22,2018 )
Seven Women by Eric Metaxas
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Eric Metaxas

Two triangles, King David’s star. No insult, this ancestral blazon. It indicates a noble way. It marks a chosen nation. May you, stamped by this seal, this star of David, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 22,2018 )
Getting Away With Murder by Richard D. Mahoney
epub |eng | 2004-04-22 | Author:Richard D. Mahoney

May 15, 2000 Madrassa al-Arabia Hassanni Kalan Surani, near Bannu, Pakistan As the prosecution and the defense prepared for trial in the first months of 2002, the journey of John ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 22,2018 )
Himmler's Diary 1945: A Calendar of Events Leading to Suicide by Stephen Tyas & Peter Witte
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Stephen Tyas & Peter Witte

Norbert Masur has given his own account of meeting Himmler at Kersten’s farm, Gut Hartzwalde, north of Berlin, on 21 April 1945: At exactly half past two we heard a ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 22,2018 )
The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton
mobi, epub |eng | 1981-11-03 | Author:Bruce Catton

4. The Circle of Fire THE SIEGE had been carried on in earnest, but it had been like a formalized ritual carried on between friends. The Federal soldiers in the ...
( Category: Americas April 22,2018 )
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters by Robert Schlesinger
mobi, pdf | | 2009-11-06 | Author:Robert Schlesinger

As Carter entered the fall election against Ronald Reagan, the speech-writers typically got little direction. “All the political dinners and all the road shows we did, we had to come ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 22,2018 )
Bloodline by John Turnipseed
epub |eng | | Author:John Turnipseed

20 THE SHOOTING OF LITTLE JOHNNY In 1992, while in jail for theft—I was in and out of jail a lot—I received a phone call in the middle of the ...
( Category: Memoirs April 22,2018 )
White King by Leanda de Lisle
epub |eng | | Author:Leanda de Lisle

18 EVIL WOMEN ON THE DAY of his death, 10 January 1645, the diminutive Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, dressed in his habitual black. Laud had been a chief supporter ...
( Category: Historical April 22,2018 )
The Writer, the Lover and the Diplomat by Beth Day Romulo
epub |eng | | Author:Beth Day Romulo

Sometimes I would think back to when I was a shy girl in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I was amazed at how far I had come—literally halfway round the world. This ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 22,2018 )

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