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The New Tsar by Steven Lee Myers
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Steven Lee Myers

CHAPTER 16 Kremlin, Inc. A week before the second runoff of Ukraine’s presidential election in December 2004, Russia dismantled Yukos Oil. In his public remarks ever since the affair began, ...
( Category: Russia November 10,2015 )
Call Me Dave by Michael Ashcroft & Isabel Oakeshott
epub |eng | 2015-10-04 | Author:Michael Ashcroft & Isabel Oakeshott [Ashcroft, Michael & Oakeshott, Isabel]

239 Osborne later denied that it was. 240 Janan Ganesh, p. 174. 241 Private information. 242 Ibid. 243 Tim Bale, p. 335. 244 Daily Mail, 29 August 2007. 245 Private ...
( Category: European November 10,2015 )
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:David Talbot [Talbot, David]

Part III 15 Contempt On Monday April 17, 1961, as over fourteen hundred CIA-trained anti-Castro exiles waded ashore at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs—an operation that would quickly become the biggest ...
( Category: Specific Topics November 9,2015 )
The Tunnels of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Tom Mangold [Mangold, Tom]

Let’s grow manioc plant all over the bomb craters and make them green. We kill the Americans with their own shells and bombs. We kill the enemy and increase our ...
( Category: Vietnam War November 5,2015 )
Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Philip Yancey
mobi |eng | 2002-11-14 | Author:Philip Yancey

Recent times have demonstrated the moral power of a single individual. Nelson Mandela calmly stepped into the leadership of a nation that nearly every observer expected to erupt into a ...
( Category: Religious November 4,2015 )
Tom Jones - The Life by Smith Sean
epub |eng | 2015-02-12 | Author:Smith, Sean

14 On Top of Miss World Dai Perry was having a pint in the Wheatsheaf when he took a call from his best mate Tom, inviting him to catch a ...
( Category: Popular November 4,2015 )
Spitfire Girl by Moggridge Jackie
epub |eng | | Author:Moggridge, Jackie [Moggridge, Jackie]

29 ‘Now what?’ asked Reg suspiciously some months later as I opened a large O.H.M.S. envelope. ‘I was thinking of joining the air force,’ I replied, meekly. ‘Oh. Is that ...
( Category: Aviation November 4,2015 )
Church of Lies by Flora Jessop & Paul T. Brown
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Flora Jessop & Paul T. Brown [Jessop, Flora & Brown, Paul T.]

11 Shauna I went back to my waitress job at Shoney’s and promptly met a customer who stole my heart. Terrel—everyone called him Terry—was tall, with long hair and tattoos. ...
( Category: Psychology November 2,2015 )
The Dalai Lama: A Life Inspired by Lynn M. Hamilton & Wyatt North
epub |eng | 2014-10-26 | Author:Lynn M. Hamilton & Wyatt North [Hamilton, Lynn M.]

However, the Dalai Lama has met informally with many world leaders, including United States presidents, often under the escort of a leading religious figure so that the meeting could be ...
( Category: Religious November 1,2015 )
Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Michael Shelden [Shelden, Michael]

XVIII SOUND AND FURY The tall, creamy stucco house at one end of Eccleston Square—Number 33—was in a quiet part of London in those days, a leafy enclave tucked between ...
( Category: Great Britain November 1,2015 )
Adams Vs. Jefferson : The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by Ferling John
epub |eng | 2004-10-31 | Author:Ferling, John

10 “The Boisterous Sea of Liberty” The Campaign of 1800 CAMPAIGNING IN 1796 had not begun until Washington announced his intention to retire, about a hundred days before election day. ...
( Category: Elections November 1,2015 )
Eternity's Sunrise by Leo Damrosch
epub |eng | 2015-10-30 | Author:Leo Damrosch

Apocalypse In Milton and Jerusalem, the culminating apocalypse—the breakthrough into Eternity when Albion awakens—is only briefly described, but in The Four Zoas it is described at great length. The chronology ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic October 31,2015 )
Owned 01 - Bound by Pleasure
epub |eng | 2013-06-15 | Author:Anitra Lynn McLeod [McLeod, Anitra Lynn]

Chapter 8 Kian was hoping to have a reprieve from pain long enough to get a good look at his Earthling. But just as he’d always known, there was no ...
( Category: Vehicle Pictorials October 31,2015 )
Camp Z by Stephen McGinty
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Stephen McGinty

While explaining that such rumour and speculation was only circulating by private conversation, Campbell explained that there was an ‘undefinable’ but widely held feeling of apprehension and uncertainty that was ...
( Category: Great Britain October 29,2015 )
Wild Bill Donovan by Douglas Waller
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:Douglas Waller

Chapter 25 The Plot DONOVAN WAS FINISHING dinner in his Georgetown home the night of July 20 with Lieutenant Colonel Hsiao Po and his wife when a servant whispered into ...
( Category: World War II October 28,2015 )

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