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Conscience of a Conservative by Jeff Flake
epub |eng | 2017-08-01 | Author:Jeff Flake

IN THE SPRING OF 2017, during the apex of our greatest political dysfunction, the secretary of defense, former marine general James Mattis, was asked by Dexter Filkins, a writer for ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 20,2017 )
Churchill's Legacy by Alan Watson
epub |eng | 2016-10-15 | Author:Alan Watson

PART V EUROPE RESTORED 16 Zurich ‘I am now going to say something that will astonish you . . .’ As with his Fulton speech, Churchill’s second great intervention of ...
( Category: Military October 20,2017 )
Man of the Hour by Jennet Conant
epub |eng | | Author:Jennet Conant

CHAPTER 16 * * * One Fell Stroke The essence of war is not slaughter but impressing your will upon the enemy. —JBC to Vannevar Bush As the Anglo-American high ...
( Category: Americas October 19,2017 )
Elizabeth and Leicester by Sarah Gristwood
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Sarah Gristwood

12 ‘Our estate requireth a match’ 1570-1572 FOR ELIZABETH TOO, THE NEW DECADE OPENED ONTO THE FAINT rumours of change. One way or another, the possibility of the Queen’s linking ...
( Category: Historical October 19,2017 )
Difficult Women by David Plante
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:David Plante

3 Sonia came back to London more and more often from Paris on what she called business trips, trips to see her lawyer about a lawsuit (or lawsuits) she would ...
( Category: Specific Groups October 19,2017 )
To the Castle and Back by Vaclav Havel
epub |eng | 2007-10-19 | Author:Vaclav Havel [Havel, Václav]

(June 10, 2001) 1) Thank you for the briefing note for Brussels. The next time I would welcome it if they were a bit more comprehensible. A small example: “There ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 19,2017 )
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill by Gretchen Rubin
epub |eng | 2004-05-11 | Author:Gretchen Rubin

This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and ...
( Category: Historical October 19,2017 )
Operation Mayhem by Steve Heaney MC
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-05-22 | Author:Steve Heaney MC [Heaney MC, Steve]

14 Bang on schedule that evening Mojo turned up with our bread delivery. He had some worrying news for us. ‘You need to come and speak to the chief. He ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 19,2017 )
With My Eyes Wide Open by Brian "Head" Welch & Carol Traver
epub |eng | 2016-04-01 | Author:Brian "Head" Welch & Carol Traver

( Category: Arts & Literature October 19,2017 )
Lillian Hellman by Dorothy Gallagher
epub |eng | 2014-10-19 | Author:Dorothy Gallagher

10 Lillian Hellman’s Analyst IN THE 1930s psychoanalysis was in high vogue in New York’s artistic circles. Many of Hellman’s friends were being analyzed by the fashionable Dr. Gregory Zilboorg. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 19,2017 )
The Young Hitler I Knew by August Kubizek
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:August Kubizek

Incidentally, Adolf obviously signed the application for his sister Paula, for the surname ‘Hitler’ in both signatures shows the same downward-sloping tendency which was so characteristic of his signature in ...
( Category: Europe October 19,2017 )
James Dean by Darwin Porter & DANFORTH PRINCE
epub |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:Darwin Porter & DANFORTH PRINCE

Arlene Sachs...betrayed by Jimmy’s cheating heart. Intrigued by her audacity, he agreed to meet her the following day for coffee at the rooftop café of the Museum of Modern Art. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 19,2017 )
Last Act by Craig Shirley
epub |eng | 2015-09-01 | Author:Craig Shirley

CHAPTER 7 ASSAULT ON JENKINS HILL “It enrages them still, which is why they’re so eager to diminish him, to peel him, even in death.” She told me that as ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 19,2017 )
Counting One's Blessings by William Shawcross
epub |eng | 2012-10-19 | Author:William Shawcross [Shawcross, William]

11 April 1944 to Queen Mary Sandringham Darling Mama I was so glad to receive your letter last week, and many thanks for writing. It is very sad to think ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 19,2017 )
Lou Reed by Anthony DeCurtis
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Anthony DeCurtis

14 GROWING UP IN PUBLIC AS THE SEVENTIES DRAINED into the eighties, a sense of cultural exhaustion permeated American society. President Jimmy Carter, an unpretentious man from rural Georgia who ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 19,2017 )

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