Home > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People
Leaders & Notable People
Captivity by James Loney
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:James Loney [Loney, James]

I love it—the ability to cradle my head, swat mosquitoes with impunity, rest my hands on my chest or move them wherever I please. But I don’t sleep. I’m braced, ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 7,2017 )
Saturday's Child by Robin Morgan
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robin Morgan

On the Boardwalk I’ve written so often about what did and did not happen at that first protest that for those details I refer curious readers to The Word of ...
( Category: Memoirs December 7,2017 )
Hitler's Hangman by Gerwarth Robert
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gerwarth, Robert. [Gerwarth, Robert.]

AT W A R W I T H T H E W O R L D 211 whether the Jewish question should be treated as a ‘policing issue’, thus fal ...
( Category: Europe December 6,2017 )
The Proud Bastards: One Marine's Journey from Parris Island through the Hell of Vietnam by Helms E. Michael
epub |eng | 2004-02-20 | Author:Helms, E. Michael [Helms, E. Michael]

Saturday afternoon. Me, Morton, Beard and Larson are walking along the recreational beach area of Subic Bay, taking advantage of a base liberty. To our left, a short distance inland ...
( Category: Military December 6,2017 )
The Last Patrician by Michael Knox Beran
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Knox Beran

12 In November 1962, James Baldwin published “Letter from a Region in My Mind” in The New Yorker. In it he told of ghettos where the wages of sin were ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 6,2017 )
Young Stalin by Montefiore Simon Sebag
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Montefiore, Simon Sebag [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

PART THREE When the luminary full moon Drifts across the vault of the sky And its light, shining out, Begins to play on the azure horizon; When the nightingale’s whistling ...
( Category: Historical December 6,2017 )
Journey to Mindfulness by Gunaratana
epub |eng | | Author:Gunaratana

1954. At age twenty-seven, as a student at the Buddhist Missionary School in Colombo, just before leaving Ceylon for the first time to go to India. 1956. At age twenty-nine, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 6,2017 )
FATWA: Hunted in America by Pamela Geller
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-11-01 | Author:Pamela Geller [Geller, Pamela]

AFDI’s “Islamophobia?” Ad Campaign I rolled out a new campaign in November 2014 that was designed to show the absurdity of the mainstream media focus on “Islamophobia” amid growing jihad ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 6,2017 )
(AotP1) Mr Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton
epub | | 2010-07-19 | Author:Bruce Catton [Catton, Bruce]

And it was not just by accident that these men were so long in being called to the top spots. The radical bloc, demanding the kind of warfare which only ...
( Category: Americas December 6,2017 )
Goodbye Soldier by Spike Milligan
epub |eng | 1986-09-25 | Author:Spike Milligan [Milligan, Spike]

We pass an ice-cream kiosk and buy four cornets, “Quattro gelati”. In a leisurely fashion we stroll, all immersed in licking our ice-creams like schoolkids. In the chimpanzee cage, there ...
( Category: Humor December 5,2017 )
Everything I Learned About Life, I Learned in Dance Class by Abby Lee Miller
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Abby Lee Miller [Miller, Abby Lee]

* * * ABBY’S ULTIMATE ADVICE Three Key Points to Remember 1. Mother doesn’t always know best. In fact, chances are your dance instructor knows a lot more about dance ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 5,2017 )
1917 by Arthur Herman PhD
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Herman, PhD

AS THE FALL of 1917 moved on into winter, mobilization wasn’t moving anywhere. The U.S. Shipping Board had spent half a billion dollars but hadn’t built a single ship. A ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 5,2017 )
The 9/11 Wars by Jason Burke
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Jason Burke [Burke, Jason]

Nowhere was this more clear than in Multan, once simply a sleepy provincial town famous for its shrines but in November 2007 a city with a population swollen to nearly ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )
The Survival of the Princes in the Tower by Matthew Lewis
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Matthew Lewis

Here we have Henry’s riposte to Richard’s pretension: the king claims that the youth is a native of Tournay, the son of a boatman and that his true name is ...
( Category: Historical December 4,2017 )
Great Generals of the Ancient World by Richard A. Gabriel
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Richard A. Gabriel [Richard A. Gabriel]

Cannae: Final Phase Now Hasdrubal’s cavalry arrived in the Roman rear to block their retreat, completing the double envelopment of the Roman infantry. Having assured himself that the allied cavalry ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )

First Prev [414] [415] [416] [417] 418 [419] [420] [421] [422] [423] [424] Next Last