Leaders & Notable People
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Hindley, Geoffrey [Hindley, Geoffrey]

A dramatic monument to Saladin was erected in Damascus in the twentieth century. Non-Muslims often suppose that there is a Koranic injunction against the depiction of the human form and ...
( Category: Military August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Lisa Hilton [Hilton, Lisa]

CHAPTER 12 PHILIPPA OF HAINAULT ‘Good angel of Edward and of England’ Philippa of Hainault’s queenship had a difficult beginning. Her arrival in London in December 1327 was marred by ...
( Category: Women in History August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Cecil Lewis [Lewis, Cecil]

* In 1917 co-operative tactics in single-seater fighting were rudimentary. A combat was a personal matter. In a fight no pilot has time to watch others; he is too occupied ...
( Category: World War I August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 1996-08-22 | Author:DAVID KAHN

18 * ALTHOUGH SECRET WRITING appears in Russia in the simple letter-substitutions of 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts, akin to those of medieval France and Germany, political cryptography seems to have ...
( Category: World War I August 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin [Hill, Clint & McCubbin, Lisa]

Clint Hill in working attire, Ravello, Italy I had seen how these paparazzi operated, however, and I was not convinced they would follow the “rules.” The morning after our arrival, ...
( Category: Political August 21,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Donald J. Trump [J. Trump, Donald]

My father, Fred Trump, in a recent photograph. With my sisters and brothers in 1951. Left to right: me, Freddy, Robert, Maryanne, and Elizabeth. HENRY KERN PHOTOGRAPHERS At age twelve, ...
( Category: Entrepreneurship August 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Kevin Sites [Sites, Kevin]

While his observations, like this one, are loaded with pessimism and despair, they are at the very least, according to mental health experts, an effort at sharing the burden of ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars August 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Lesley Hazleton

Thirteen News of Muhammad’s arrival spread fast. People ran out to greet him as he rode in, begging him to stop and accept their hospitality, but he turned everyone down. ...
( Category: Islam August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Hunt, Amber,Batcher, David & David Batcher

Though Jackie seems to have had few illusions about Jack’s behavior, it still hurt and angered her. Though in the abstract she had a Continental acceptance of a “man’s nature,” ...
( Category: Political August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Joshua Rubenstein

5 Out of Power THE SUCCESSION WAS not decided at the moment of Lenin’s death. Kamenev and Zinoviev remained allied with Stalin, though both looked down on him. They were ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Debi Unger

CHAPTER 9 JAPAN-CHINA The three months between the two “V-Days” were fraught with challenges for Marshall. But foremost, of course, was how to defeat Japan. By mid-1945 the end was ...
( Category: World War II August 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:Gioia Diliberto

Volcano of Love While Lily recuperated in a clinic in Geneva, Diane flew to Japan on a business trip, taking her children and Olivier Gelbsman. Reeling from her mother’s breakdown, ...
( Category: Fashion Design August 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-09 | Author:Graham Allison;Robert D. Blackwill;Ali Wyne

Where do you produce your entrepreneurs from? Out of a top hat? ... There is a dearth of entrepreneurial talent in Singapore.... We have to start experimenting. The easy things-just ...
( Category: Asia August 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Jacob Weisberg

AS FAR AS ROVE was concerned, Bush’s reelection as governor was merely a warm-up drill for the presidential campaign that would begin immediately afterward. Victory was a foregone conclusion, so ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

Siegfried had not yet been in the trenches. I told him, in my old-soldier manner, that he would soon change his style. That night, the whole battalion went up to ...
( Category: World War I August 5,2015 )