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Erich Von Manstein: Hitler's Master Strategist by Benoit Lemay
mobi |eng | 2010-07-27 | Author:Benoit Lemay [Lemay, Benoit]

XI MANSTEIN, THE ELEVENTH ARMY IN THE CRIMEA, AND THE FINAL SOLUTION At his trial held in Hamburg in 1949, Manstein was declared not guilty in relation to the issue ...
( Category: Historical April 12,2018 )
Spy of the Century by John Sadler
epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:John Sadler

Chapter 6 The ‘Ace of Spies’ Everything was peaceful. Vienna was sound asleep under the falling snow. The Emperor was asleep in the Hofburg and fifty million of his subjects ...
( Category: Military April 12,2018 )
Klop by Peter Day
epub |eng | 2014-04-12 | Author:Peter Day [Peter Day]

Klop also voiced concern that the chief of Portuguese police was often taken into their confidence even though they knew he was receiving huge bribes from German intelligence and inevitably ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 12,2018 )
Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret by Wharfe Ken & Jobson Robert
epub |eng | 2015-07-02 | Author:Wharfe, Ken & Jobson, Robert [Wharfe, Ken]

Although experience has taught me never to underestimate the British press, it never fails to amaze me how gullible journalists can be. True, some try harder than others to find ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 12,2018 )
Disraeli by Robert Blake
epub |eng | 2012-04-12 | Author:Robert Blake [Robert Blake]

This is the eternal cry of the diehard whether of the Right or the Left – that the way to his party’s political salvation is to adhere more rigidly than ...
( Category: Europe April 12,2018 )
Waiting for First Light by Romeo Dallaire
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Romeo Dallaire

*1 In October 1970, in response to the kidnapping of British trade commissioner James Cross and provincial cabinet minister Pierre Laporte by the Front de libération du Québec, Prime Minister ...
( Category: Memoirs April 12,2018 )
The State of Africa by Martin Meredith
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Meredith [Meredith, Martin]

In practice, Museveni’s ‘no-party’ system operated little differently from a ‘one-party’ system. Candidates supporting Museveni’s National Resistance Movement were helped at election times with government cash and cars; candidates known ...
( Category: Africa April 11,2018 )
Hurricane Street by Ron Kovic
epub |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Ron Kovic

Tuesday, February 19, 1974 Someone has put up a large number 6 on the window, and already the press seems to be everywhere. Both KNBC and KCBS are setting up ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
Brother Number One by David P Chandler
mobi |eng | 2011-04-22 | Author:David P Chandler

Tuol Sleng. Photo by Bruce Sharp. Copyright by Bruce Sharp. An interrogation room at Tuol Sleng. When Vietnamese troops arrived in Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, the bodies of ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
The Muslim 100: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History by Muhammad Mojlum Khan
mobi |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Muhammad Mojlum Khan [Khan, Muhammad Mojlum]

( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )
Frantz Fanon: A Biography by David Macey
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:David Macey

Three broken voices that surprise us Closer than ever Three living springs who did not see The light of day And who made us hear The anguished murmur Of subterranean ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )
Roses from the Earth by Carol Ann Lee
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Carol Ann Lee

Chapter Six ‘I am afraid of prison cells and concentration camps…’ Anne Frank, Diary, 12 March 1944 Whilst the Frank family were in hiding, the expulsion of the Netherlands’ Jewish ...
( Category: World April 11,2018 )
Franco (Text Only) by Paul Preston
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-14 | Author:Paul Preston

* * * * Moltke was to die in post from an acute appendicitis on 22 March 1943. † Unaware of these dealings, the ever naïve Hayes wrote confidently to ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White Jr
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Ronald C. White Jr. [Jr., Ronald C. White]

Russell, known to be disdainful of everything not English, left his first encounter with Lincoln “agreeably impressed with his shrewdness, humor, and natural sagacity.” The clock was running down at ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C White & Jr
epub |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Ronald C White & Jr. [Ronald C White & Jr.]

LINCOLN WAS NOT PREPARED to deal with the crisis of Fort Sumter at the beginning of his presidency. He had determined in Springfield to preserve the Union without war, and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )

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