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Operation Long Jump: Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Greatest Assassination Plot in History by Bill Yenne
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Bill Yenne [Yenne, Bill]

Mike Reilly had sensed that Cairo was filled with Axis agents, but he found Tehran teeming with NKVD agents and Soviet troops. A thousand-man contingent of NKVD agents flooded into ...
( Category: True Crime March 25,2018 )
Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld by Beate Klarsfeld & Serge Klarsfeld
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Beate Klarsfeld & Serge Klarsfeld [Klarsfeld, Beate]

ISRAEL NEWS OF MY arrest made very little impact in Israel, to begin with. Serge wrote to the Israeli embassy asking for an Israeli lawyer, but we waited in vain ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 25,2018 )
Bitter Harvest by Ian Smith
epub |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Ian Smith

17 The Internal Settlement of 4 March 1978 Over the next few weeks, in early 1977, there were many discussions with my cabinet and the security chiefs. Regrettably, there were ...
( Category: Africa March 24,2018 )
Burned Alive by Marie-Therese Cuny Souad
epub |eng | 2003-01-15 | Author:Marie-Therese Cuny Souad [Souad, Marie-Therese Cuny]

It’s a nightmare without end at night, lying flat on my back on this bed in the hospital. I am in total darkness, I see curtains around me; the window ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 24,2018 )
The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office by Jeremi Suri
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Jeremi Suri

THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR WAS NOT A TOTAL surprise to the president and his closest advisors, even if Roosevelt was horrified by the event itself. Like Lincoln in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 24,2018 )
Pretty Mess by Erika Jayne
epub |eng | | Author:Erika Jayne

9 GIVING THE LAYMAN’S OPINION Tom and I took our relationship public. Out at the country club or some other event, I would see some of the people I used ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 23,2018 )
Sliding Into Home by Wilkinson Kendra & Warech Jon
epub |eng | 2010-07-06 | Author:Wilkinson, Kendra & Warech, Jon [Wilkinson, Kendra & Warech, Jon]

After shopping I was pooped, but I wanted to enjoy L.A. a little bit. I was hoping some of the girls would want to go out and have fun at ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 23,2018 )
Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government by Dr. Larry Arnn
azw |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Dr. Larry Arnn [Arnn, Dr. Larry]

10 THE CONSTITUTIONALIST Churchill wrote that a Municipal Trust would be more dangerous than the Beef Trust. Something must be done, he thought, for the victims of the Beef Trust ...
( Category: Historical March 23,2018 )
Death in the a Shau Valley by Larry Chambers
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Larry Chambers

Military Payment Certificates (MPCs) It was early morning, July 15, 1969, and Miller was almost excited. He finally had a seat assignment on a “going home” flight out of Bien ...
( Category: Military March 23,2018 )
Arnold by Arnold Schwarzenegger
epub |eng | | Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

Fun at Venice Beach Competing with Reg Park for NABBA Mr. Universe, 1970 Posing with Frank Zane after winning my fifth Mr. Universe title I couldn’t believe it. Here I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 23,2018 )
Communist Insurgent by Doug Enaa Greene
epub |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Doug Enaa Greene

STUDENTS AND INTELLECTUALS By contrast, the Blanquists recruited some of their most dedicated and talented leaders from the students and the intellectuals. Those attracted to the Blanquist movement were generally ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 22,2018 )
True Colours by Adam Gilchrist
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Gilchrist

47 It was always challenging to keep the highs and lows in control, especially if, like me, you find it hard to manage your emotions. At one point I was ...
( Category: Biographies March 22,2018 )
Jack of All Trades by Ronald L. Beckett
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Ronald L. Beckett

CHAPTER 22 Going to Saigon Despite the war raging around it, Saigon was a beautiful and exciting city. Evidence of French influence was everywhere, from the wide boulevards, traffic circles, ...
( Category: Military March 22,2018 )
William Howard Taft by Jeffrey Rosen
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Rosen

5 “Popular Unrest”: The Election of 1912 and the Battle for the Constitution On February 21, 1912, after delivering a speech called “A Charter for Democracy” at the Ohio Constitutional ...
( Category: Historical March 22,2018 )
Disarmed by Izzy Ezagui
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Izzy Ezagui

DEALT A BAD HAND March 2009. Rehab's not all fun. My roommate, Benny, is a radio operator. He lost his legs. But the rocket took his balls, too. The entire ...
( Category: Motivational March 22,2018 )

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