Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | 2007-07-31 | Author:Kate Braestrup [BRAESTRUP, KATE]

The body lay in a little hollow behind a rock. Her name was Betsy. She had short dark hair, and her eyes were closed as if she were sleeping on ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Ken Gire [Gire, Ken]

The most valuable knowledge we can have is how to deal with disappointments. All acts and facts are a product of spiritual power, the successful ones of power which is ...
( Category: Philosophers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Margaret Macmillan & Richard Holbrooke & Casey Hampton [Macmillan, Margaret & Holbrooke, Richard & Hampton, Casey]

2. Georges Clemenceau (center) and David Lloyd George (right ), prime ministers of France and Britain, walk past a guard of honor. (The gentleman with them may be Lord Beaverbrook.) ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Kershaw [Kershaw, Ian]

IV Not lost, however, was the war against the Jews – in Hitler’s eyes, the authors of the entire world conflagration. As we noted, Hitler had agreed in June to ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Flagel, Thomas R. [Flagel, Thomas R.]

He ran for office as an ardent anticommunist, and his inaugural address affirmed his oath to fight Marxism anytime, anywhere. After the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs, however, Kennedy ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-08-25 | Author:Joyce A. Tyldesley [Tyldesley, Joyce A.]

In spite of her economic problems, Cleopatra found herself in a more secure position than ever before. With both her brothers dead, her sister in exile and their supporters removed, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Ronald C. White, Jr. [White, Ronald C.]

A People’s Contest / 419 Elmer Ellsworth, almost like a son to Abraham Lincoln, was the first Union officer to die in the Civil War. This illustration depicts the deed ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Gianna Angelopoulos [Angelopoulos, Gianna]

I WASN’T HOME THE AFTERNOON THE PHONE CALL CAME. My secretary, Sannah, told me it was from Athens, but neither of us recognized the name of the caller—Andreas Fouras. Today ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander V . Pantsov & Steven I. Levine

27 SOCIALIST INDUSTRIALIZATION Stalin’s death facilitated Mao’s victory at the Conference on Financial and Economics Work. Only now could Mao accelerate the tempo of revolutionary transformation, in other words, the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Nixon [Nixon, Richard]

ZHOU ENLAI The Mandarin Revolutionary THE STORY OF China during the past half century is, to an extraordinary degree, the story of three men: Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Chiang ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:John Kiriakou [Kiriakou, John]

MEANWHILE, THE GRAND Canyon between my professional life and my personal life was taking on new contours. The former was reborn in the spring of 2001; the latter was a ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Scott C. Johnson

CHAPTER 13 Southern Iraq, 2003 In early February of 2003, Newsweek sent me to the Middle East. War with Iraq was brewing. I spent a quick ten days in Baghdad ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-01-07 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

Fisher's actual departure was done in bravura style. At noon, when a gun was fired, Renown slipped her mooring and steamed out of the Grand Harbor at sixteen knots "like ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Rielle Hunter [Hunter, Rielle]

Hey, Left you a message a little while ago. I wanted to talk with you because our last conversation left me with a weird feeling. I know this is the ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Avner, Yehuda [Avner, Yehuda]

It was Ezer Weizman, his defense minister, and I gathered from what was being said that there had been two Katyusha rocket attacks by the PLO, from southern Lebanon into ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 26,2014 )