Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | 2005-01-30 | Author:Mary S. Lovell [Lovell, Mary S.]

I beseech you to appease my Lady’s mislike to me through this crooked misfortune, which was but ill luck…He fell, which amazed me greatly, for if ever in my life ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

Chapter 9 / VIETNAM “LBJ was great in domestic affairs,” elder statesman Averell Harriman once observed. “Harry Truman had programs, but none got through. Kennedy had no technique. FDR talked ...
( Category: Historical September 7,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2011-03-10 | Author:Hitler, Adolf [Adolf, Hitler,]

De grootheid van iedere geweldige organisatie op deze wereld, die de belichaming is van een idee, is gelegen in het religieuze fanatisme, waarmee zij zich zonder de minste verdraagzaamheid, tegen ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:Thomas C. Danisi

33. GILBERT RUSSELL TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, JANUARY 4, 1810, FORT PICKERING, CHICKASAW BLUFFS31 Concerning it a duty encumbered upon me to give the friends of the late Meriwether Lewis such ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

EXCHANGING PRISONERS ONCE AGAIN Despite the victory at Yorktown, there were still nearly a thousand of our brave fellows prisoners in England, and 200 in Ireland, who were destitute of ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-08 | Author:Jeffrey McGowan, Maj USA (ret.)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Daddy, I’ll Be Good The following afternoon we were told that our date of departure would be December 24, Christmas Eve, which meant, of course, that no one ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 6,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Bob Friel [Friel, Bob]

ONE OF THE PEOPLE Colt kept in touch with while he was on the lam was Josh, who remained behind the fence at Green Hill. “He started calling here, asking ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Archer, Jeffrey [Archer, Jeffrey]

12 noon Lunch. England are 200 for 3 and putting up a spirited fight. During the lunch interval I visit Sergio in his cell. He wastes no words, immediately informing ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-05 | Author:Gleeson, Janet [Gleeson, Janet]

Tho’ Sheridan with treacherous art Should strive t’ensnare my foolish heart, Tho’ William Lamb in prose and verse His growing passion should rehearse, Tho’ Rob Adair with tearful eyes Should ...
( Category: Europe September 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-22 | Author:Steven Heggings

Convinced that the traditional society in Dublin would reject his novel Ulysses, Joyce, with Ezra Pound’s help, sent it, in 1917, to the United States, where he thought the less ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 6,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-11-27 | Author:FDR [FDR]

NINETEEN ON THE BRINK What America does or fails to do in the next few years has a far greater bearing and influence on the history of the whole human ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 6,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Escape From the Land of Snows_The Young Dalai Lama's Flight to Freedom

After a few hours of exchanging gunfire with the Chinese at the transport station, Soepa realized the PLA was winning. “Their bullets were finding their mark and many were killed ...
( Category: Asia September 6,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Brandi Glanville & Leslie Bruce [Glanville, Brandi]

While I don’t remember much, I do remember that the recovery period was beyond what I’d imagined it would be. It was more painful than childbirth. It was absolute hell. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 6,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Del Quentin Wilber [Wilber, Del Quentin]

IN THE SITUATION Room, the secretary of state was becoming increasingly agitated. As other officials discussed how to properly calibrate the administration’s public statements or worried about the gunman’s potential ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2017 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2008-08-01 | Author:Marcus Luttrell

7 An Avalanche of Gunfire Down the mountain, from every angle. Axe flanked left, trying to cut off the downward trail, firing nonstop. Mikey was blasting away...shouting,...“Marcus, no options now, ...
( Category: Military September 6,2017 )