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First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

ETIQUETTE AND EMULATION “We are most delightfully situated,” Abigail explained to her sister. “The prospect around us is Beautiful in the highest degree, it is a mixture of sublime & ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-10 | Author:Margaret Thatcher

SDI President Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative, about which the Soviets and Mr Gorbachev were already so alarmed, was to prove central to the West’s victory in the Cold War. Although, ...
( Category: Leadership March 25,2014 )
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
mobi, epub |eng | 1980-09-11 | Author:Robert K. Massie

entrenched army. The rear of the new Russian camp overlooked the bluff of the Vorskla at a point where the bank was so steep and the river so broad and ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz by Denis Avey
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-12 | Author:Denis Avey

Chapter 12 Evening was approaching and I knew the British POWs would soon start to assemble fifty yards away from the stripeys for the march back to E715. I could ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C White; Jr
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Ronald C White; Jr.

LINCOLN WAS NOT PREPARED to deal with the crisis of Fort Sumter at the beginning of his presidency. He had determined in Springfield to preserve the Union without war, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli & Tibère Kremer & Richard Seaver
mobi, azw3 |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:Miklós Nyiszli & Tibère Kremer & Richard Seaver

XVIII IN MY ROLE OF SONDERKOMMANDO doctor, I was making my morning rounds. All four crematoriums were working at full blast. Last night they had burned the Greek Jews from ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Devil at My Heels by Louis Zamperini
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Louis Zamperini

ONE DAY THE commandant decided to stage a track meet, featuring me. It was weird. My muscles had atrophied; I couldn’t run. I entered the high jump instead, and won ...
( Category: Japanese March 25,2014 )
Churchill by Paul Johnson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Paul Johnson

Chapter Five The Unregarded Prophet Now began the hardest, harshest period of Churchill’s life. He was lucky to have a safe seat where he was active, was much loved, and ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:Laura Hillenbrand

Twenty-five B-29 ON ONE OF THE LAST DAYS OF OCTOBER 1944, LOUIE pushed a wheelbarrow over the Omori bridge, through the vilage at the bridge’s end, and into Tokyo. With ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Tom Reiss

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 25,2014 )
The Barefoot Bandit by Bob Friel
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Bob Friel

ONE OF THE PEOPLE Colt kept in touch with while he was on the lam was Josh, who remained behind the fence at Green Hill. “He started calling here, asking ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-02-13 | Author:Ishmael Beah

We arrived in the village with nightfall and sat against the walls of the army house. It was quiet, and as if we were afraid of silence, we began cleaning ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
Where have all the bullets gone? by Spike Milligan
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-06-26 | 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 ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-04-26 | Author:Anderson Cooper

“AMINU’S DEAD.” Charlie Moore, my producer, tells me when he gets back from the intensive care ward. Aminu was four. Yesterday he seemed better. Yesterday was a long time ago. ...
( Category: Television Performers March 25,2014 )
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Tobias Wolff

DOC MACLEOD AND I went into My Tho for some fish soup that evening. As we drove in from the airfield it started to mist up and by the time ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 25,2014 )

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