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Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Khlevniuk Oleg V
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Khlevniuk, Oleg V. [Khlevniuk, Oleg V.]

THE STATE DEFENSE COMMITTEE Stalin’s actions during the war’s first days were frenetic, confused, and reactive. Even though he did not grasp the situation and was not qualified to manage ...
( Category: Russia June 4,2015 )
Queen Victoria by E. Gordon Browne
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-29 | Author:E. Gordon Browne

CHAPTER X: The Great Exhibition The idea of a "great exhibition of the Works and Industries of all Nations" was Prince Albert's. The scheme when first proposed in 1849 was ...
( Category: British & Irish June 4,2015 )
Book of God by Walter Wangerin Jr
mobi |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Walter Wangerin Jr.

III ISAIAH HAD CEASED to prophesy when King Ahaz refused to obey the commands of God. He wrote in a scroll all the prophecies he had uttered as a young ...
( Category: Christian Literature & Fiction June 2,2015 )
Mad Bulls, Skinny Dipping, and God: Experiences and Reflections of a Mennonite Boy Growing Up During World War II by Wiens A. Emerson
mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Wiens, A. Emerson [Wiens, A. Emerson]

(First Grade at New Hope Grade School; I’m in front of the teacher, brother Donald is in the second row, second from the right, and Doris is the tall girl ...
( Category: Religious June 2,2015 )
Onward, Dear Boys by Philippe Bieler
epub |eng | 2014-05-31 | Author:Philippe Bieler

Oncle Charles To organize these tours without publicity, without a manager, without the backing of a local committee, it was necessary to have everything at hand: correspondence, timetables, finances, and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 1,2015 )
Reagan: The Life by H.W. Brands
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:H.W. Brands [Brands, H.W.]

NOW AND THEN, however, Reagan spoke openly about religion. He had done so briefly at the Republican convention in 1980, and he did so at greater length in March 1983, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 1,2015 )
The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

12. THE FACULTY Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes et non de leurs maladies. MOLIÈRE Illness and death were very dreadful at Versailles. As soon as the breath ...
( Category: France June 1,2015 )
Clouds of Glory by Michael Korda
epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Michael Korda

CHAPTER 8 Triumph and Tragedy—Second Manassas and Sharpsburg “You must consider that no wars may be made without danger.” —Sir Roger Williams* to the Earl of Leicester, Siege of Sluys, ...
( Category: American Civil War June 1,2015 )
1858 by Bruce Chadwick
epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Bruce Chadwick [CHADWICK, BRUCE]

VICTORY The way out came during the first week of July. The kidnappers realized that they might go to prison for substantial periods of time if their trial was heard ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 1,2015 )
The Seven Storey Mountain: Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition by Merton Thomas
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-10-04 | Author:Merton, Thomas [Merton, Thomas]

V MY READING BECAME MORE AND MORE CATHOLIC. I BECAME absorbed in the poetry of Hopkins and in his notebooks—that poetry which had only impressed me a little six years ...
( Category: Inspirational June 1,2015 )
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
epub |eng | 1996-12-06 | Author:Dorothy Day [Day, Dorothy]

JOBS AND JOURNEYS □ I never regretted for one minute the step which I had taken in becoming a Catholic, but I repeat that for a year there was little ...
( Category: Political May 31,2015 )
The Wild Blue
mobi | | 2001-08-15 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER SIX - Learning to Fly in Combat THE AAF POLICY IN THE FALL OF 1944was to have the pilots fly their first five combat missions as co-pilots with a ...
( Category: World War II May 30,2015 )
I Lost My Love in Baghdad by Michael Hastings
epub |eng | 2008-05-26 | Author:Michael Hastings

CHAPTER13 August 2006 BAGHDAD Baghdad life is no longer new to me, it is just the routine. Wake up in the morning, feel your bed shake slightly, hear the windows ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars May 27,2015 )
It's a Long Story by Willie Nelson
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Willie Nelson

Even though the title—“What Can You Do to Me Now?”—seemed to invite trouble, the story was really about getting strong in the face of adversity. Like almost all my songs, ...
( Category: Country May 27,2015 )
Ashley's War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

A few weeks later Josh, Kate, their little daughter Evelyn, Bob, Brittany, and Debbie White said goodbye to Ashley in Fayetteville just before her deployment. Two days afterward, it was ...
( Category: Afghan War May 27,2015 )

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