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The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1789-1848 by Niall Ferguson
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Niall Ferguson [Ferguson, Niall]

However, when French troops were marching into Belgium to impose terms on the Dutch the following November, it was James’s turn to think twice when the Belgian minister approached him ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 26,2014 )
The House of Rothschild by Ferguson Niall
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ferguson, Niall

Though primarily conpiracy theorists, writers like Drumont and Chirac were also preoccupied with the Rothschilds’ penetration of French high culture and society. In the second volume of Jewish France, Drumont ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 26,2014 )
Clara's War by Clara Kramer
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Clara Kramer [Kramer, Clara]

It was our third sleepless night since the fight. We had run out of food and water. We sat in such lethargy that despite the heat we barely remembered to ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Brothers Emanuel by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Ezekiel J. Emanuel [Emanuel, Ezekiel J.]

Victor’s death was a sharp reminder of Israel’s status as a new and endangered country where conflicts over land and power were very real and everyone had a personal stake ...
( Category: Jewish March 26,2014 )
The railway man : a pow's searing account of war, brutality and forgiveness by Lomax Eric
epub |eng | 1995-10-10 | Author:Lomax, Eric [Lomax, Eric]

How many miles to Babylon? Three score and ten Can I get there by candlelight Yes, and back again. I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end the ...
( Category: Veterans March 26,2014 )
The Last Lion: Visions of Glory, 1874 - 1932 by William Manchester
epub |eng | 1983-05-30 | Author:William Manchester [Manchester, William]

Thus the rush of cataclysmic events came down to Tuesday, August 4, 1914, when at midnight Berlin time—11:00 P.M. in London—Grey’s ultimatum to Germany would expire. In Pear Tree Cottage, ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 26,2014 )
Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Thomas Murphy [Murphy, Paul Thomas]

*The narrow entry and exit gates still exist outside Cambridge House, now 94 Piccadilly. From 1866 until 1999, Cambridge House housed the Naval and Military Club, familiarly known as the ...
( Category: Violence in Society March 26,2014 )
Fifty Dead Men Walking by Martin McGartland
epub |eng | 2009-05-01 | Author:Martin McGartland [McGartland, Martin]

CHAPTER EIGHT THOUGH SPUD, MY NEW IRA BOSS, HAD WARNED ME to keep away from the IRA’s intelligence wing, Davy Adams still stayed in contact, asking me to carry out ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria by Julia P. Gelardi
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-02-24 | Author:Julia P. Gelardi [Gelardi, Julia P.]

For the normally indefatigable Marie of Romania, the task of rallying those around her proved daunting. In mid-December 1916, she confessed in her diary that many were coming to her, ...
( Category: Russia March 26,2014 )
Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Fortunately the King's strong constitution triumphed, and he was soon up and about again. He would never, however, be a fit man afterwards. The old wound on his leg had ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
M - Autobiography of Malcolm X by X Malcolm
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-21 | Author:X, Malcolm [Malcolm, X,]

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
The Black Count by Tom Reiss
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Tom Reiss [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:The Countess of Carnarvon [Carnarvon, The Countess of]

12 War Heroes After six months of listening to horror stories from the Western Front and tending desperate patients, the familiarity of the winter trip to Egypt must have felt ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
Mommywood by Tori Spelling
epub |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Tori Spelling [Spelling, Tori]

My red velvet cake was ready on the counter, and I set about decorating it with white frosting, blueberries, and strawberries to make an American flag on top. I knew ...
( Category: Motherhood March 26,2014 )
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny by Bob Newhart
epub |eng | 2007-10-02 | Author:Bob Newhart [Newhart, Bob]

Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it’s part of ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 26,2014 )

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