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No Place to Hide-A Brain Surgeon's Long Journey Home from the Iraq War by W. Lee Warren
mobi |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:W. Lee Warren

“By published criteria, he’s unsalvageable,” I said, looking at 2185’s brain scan with Tim. We’d been working nonstop for three days, since the enemy was doing everything he could to ...
( Category: Iraq War December 19,2014 )
In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal by Richard Nixon
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Nixon

21 POWER When we met with Mao Tse-tung in Beijing in 1972, Henry Kissinger remarked that he had assigned Mao’s writings to his classes at Harvard. With typical self-deprecation, Mao ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 19,2014 )
At the Center of the Storm-My Years at the CIA by George Tenet
mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:George Tenet

Photographic Insert Being sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence by FBI Director Louis Freeh, July 11, 1997. Wife Stephanie Glakas-Tenet and son John Michael holding the bible. (Official FBI ...
( Category: Political December 19,2014 )
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-02 | Author:Deborah Feldman

6 Not Worth Fighting For “I don’t want to fight for anything. I want to just be and do, with no one saying they’re letting me.” —From The Romance Reader, ...
( Category: Women December 19,2014 )
Exodus: A Memoir by Deborah Feldman
mobi |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Deborah Feldman

V spirituality I may not have recognized myself in America, but on my very first trip to Europe I experienced the immediate, reverberating sensation of making contact with something old ...
( Category: Religious December 19,2014 )
Beyond Belief-My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill
mobi |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:Jenna Miscavige Hill

Photo Section I’m less than a year old in this photograph of my mother and me in New Hampshire. Behind us are the beginnings of the dream house my parents ...
( Category: Scientology December 19,2014 )
Inside Scientology-The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman
mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Janet Reitman

This is where the log ends. There are no other records for the remainder of December 3 or for December 4 or 5. However, the caretakers later testified that during ...
( Category: Religious December 19,2014 )
With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet by Linge Heinz
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Linge, Heinz [Linge, Heinz]

Chapter 12 Resolving the Polish Question: September 1939 DURING THE WAR HITLER was little more than a warlord, strategist and soldier. He isolated himself from ‘the world’ beyond policymaking and ...
( Category: World War II December 16,2014 )
Worn Stories by Emily Spivack
epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Emily Spivack [Spivack, Emily]

Dorothy Finger Life was very good until September 1, 1939. I was an only child, and my parents had a small department store in Chodorow, a part of Poland that ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 15,2014 )
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Tina Brown [Brown, Tina]

Chapter Fourteen Two Kinds of Love I have lain awake at night loving you desperately and thanking God for bringing you into my life. —Diana to Major Hewitt, August 1989 ...
( Category: Great Britain December 15,2014 )
Monty: His Part in My Victory by Spike Milligan
epub |eng | 1975-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

June 5th, Friday 1943 “There’s wild pigs, up the mountain,” the information was imparted by one Mahmoud, an Arab who came scrounging fags and whose head was therefore a mass ...
( Category: World War II December 8,2014 )
Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall by Spike Milligan
epub |eng | 1977-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

November 24, 1943 My diary: UP VERY EARLY TO CONTACT OUR GUN POSITION. RECEPTION STRENGTH 9, BUT THE OP STRENGTH 1. WILL TRY AND PUT UP VERY LONG AERIAL. Fildes’ ...
( Category: European December 8,2014 )
Where Have All The Bullets Gone? by Spike Milligan
epub |eng | 1984-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

- Transcribed newspaper cutting from the Union Jack, 1945 The compère for the contest is Captain Philip Ridgeway, the announcer. He is as informed on Dance Bands as Mrs Thatcher ...
( Category: Great Britain December 8,2014 )
1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII by Lipscomb Suzannah
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Lipscomb, Suzannah [Lipscomb, Suzannah]

CHAPTER 13 Henry VIII’s Theology Henry VIII’s theology seems to have situated itself somewhere between the later identities of Protestant and Catholic, and even somewhere between the contemporary beliefs of ...
( Category: England December 6,2014 )
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas & Alexandra by Rappaport Helen
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Rappaport, Helen [Rappaport, Helen]

Chapter Fifteen WE CANNOT DROP OUR WORK IN THE HOSPITALS In January 1915 an additional burden of concern was placed on the shoulders of the Romanov sisters when Anna Vyrubova ...
( Category: Russia December 5,2014 )

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