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Fidel Castro by Volker Skierka
epub |eng | 2014-08-07 | Author:Volker Skierka

The revolution devours its children In the late 1960s, after attempts to bring forth the “new man” in Cuba came to an end with the death of Che Guevara, the ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 17,2017 )
Harriet Tubman by Rosemary Sadlier
epub |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Rosemary Sadlier

I was almost in despair of continuing in Canada & thought seriously of seeking some other field & in fact had packed up my effects at Dawn to facilitate removal ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2017 )
Shadows of a Princess by Patrick Jephson
epub |eng | 2017-07-08 | Author:Patrick Jephson

TWELVE SPHINX Nelson Shanks’s image of unknown destiny was still several years in the future. At the beginning of 1992 no such doubt, theoretically, existed about the Princess’s long-term role. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 17,2017 )
Simon Bolivar by John Lynch
epub |eng | 2006-09-17 | Author:John Lynch [Lynch, John]

1 The Young Bolívar, anonymous artist, Madrid, c. 1802. 2 Simón Bolívar, engraved by W. Holt, from an engraving by M.N. Bate, London 1823–8. 3 Simón Bolívar, miniature on ivory ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 17,2017 )
Uncommon Youth by Charles Fox
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Charles Fox

Chace: We discussed our affairs. We didn’t know what was involved in Paul’s disappearance, if it was a genuine kidnapping. We had no ransom note. The boy had been missing ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 17,2017 )
A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger

3. AFRICA VS. EUROPE The problem of balancing the relative claims of our NATO allies and the new African states was always tricky. It especially affected our policy in the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 17,2017 )
Knock Wood by Bergen Candice
epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Bergen, Candice [Bergen, Candice]

While I never came to feel comfortable in Terry’s world, his political convictions—aided by the temper of the times, by all I saw around me—helped to forge a political conscience ...
( Category: Movies September 17,2017 )
Yeltsin by Timothy J. Colton
epub |eng | 2011-09-17 | Author:Timothy J. Colton

His medical issues, and his tendency not to look after them, dated back decades. The tonsil infection and rheumatic fever at UPI, when Yeltsin refused the bed rest prescribed, foretold ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 17,2017 )
In the Hands of the Taliban by Yvonne Ridley
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Yvonne Ridley [RIDLEY, YVONNE]

7 CAPTIVITY As the car drove away from the Pakistan border I became numb with fear and my whole body seemed to switch off. Maybe it was a defence mechanism, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 17,2017 )
The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made by Flora Miller Biddle
epub |eng | 2017-01-26 | Author:Flora Miller Biddle

Larry Tisch was our most powerful trustee in the financial world. Compact, with a disproportionately large, balding head, blue eyes, and a serious mien, he was soft-spoken and courteous. His ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions September 17,2017 )
The Duchess by Penny Junor
epub |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Penny Junor

23 Week of Waiting The first call alerting the family to the accident came through to Robin Janvrin, the Queen’s deputy private secretary, at one o’clock in the morning while ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 16,2017 )
Stalin by Ian Grey
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Ian Grey [Grey, Ian]

The First Five-year Plan was a program of production targets and slogans for Stalin’s assault on Russia’s backwardness. It came into operation in 1928 but was approved only in April ...
( Category: Russia September 16,2017 )
In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Rebecca Stott

10 I was, I am told, the baby who cried; the baby who refused to sleep. My mother followed the instructions given to young mothers in the 1960s, which were ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 16,2017 )
The Prince of Providence by Mike Stanton
epub |eng | 2003-08-05 | Author:Mike Stanton

JOSH FENTON KNEW that he had arrived as a member of the loyal opposition to Buddy Cianci when he started seeing the unmarked police cars outside his house. Elected to ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 16,2017 )
He's Got Rhythm: The Life and Career of Gene Kelly (Screen Classics) by Cynthia Brideson & Sara Brideson
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Cynthia Brideson & Sara Brideson [Brideson, Cynthia & Brideson, Sara]

14 Who Could Ask for Anything More? In 1950, Gene fell in love, a passion akin only to “art or faith; it can’t be explained, only felt.”1 The object of ...
( Category: Performing Arts September 16,2017 )

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