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Napoleon: A Political Life by Englund Steven
epub |eng | 2010-05-08 | Author:Englund, Steven [Englund, Steven]

XI The Empire—and Its Fissures (1807-1810) I love power … as a musician loves his violin, for the tones I can bring forth, for the chords and harmonies. —Napoleon I, ...
( Category: France December 29,2014 )
And We Go On by Will R. Bird
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Will R. Bird

CHAPTER VII In a German Trench We found a little estaminet between our village and Bourecq, a small house managed by a gaunt, bony-faced woman with eye sockets like a ...
( Category: World War I December 27,2014 )
Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Wolf Shenk

The will of God prevails—In great contests each party claims to act in accordence with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 27,2014 )
Lion of Liberty
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Harlow Giles Unger

Chapter 11 A Belgian Hare When the Virginia legislature reconvened in Richmond, British depredations had left fewer than 300 homes standing, and the depleted population was unable to offer legislators ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding December 27,2014 )
Thomas Cromwell: Servant to Henry VIII by Loades David
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Loades, David [Loades, David]

7 THE FALL OF THOMAS CROMWELL, 1539–1540 Master Cromwell … you are now entered into the service of a most noble, wise and liberal prince … you shall in your ...
( Category: England December 27,2014 )
The Marquis by Laura Auricchio
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Laura Auricchio [Auricchio, Laura]

CHAPTER 15 TRIUMPH Lafayette emerged victorious from a night that could well have been his last, but the time for celebration was not yet at hand. A seasoned general, he ...
( Category: France December 27,2014 )
Female Tommies by Elisabeth Shipton
epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Elisabeth Shipton

… I felt like screaming, like beating myself against the wall with agonised suspense. I was in a terrible quandary; against my will I had become a spy for friend ...
( Category: World War I December 27,2014 )
The Volunteer by Michael Ross
epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Michael Ross

While “Galaxy-Quest” and his suicidal predecessor were the source of much humor and U.S.-directed schadenfreude at the hands of the ISA, as luck would have it, the last joint-operation with ...
( Category: Military December 27,2014 )
Someday You Will Understand by Nina Wolff Feld
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Nina Wolff Feld

* Yiddish for “miserable Jews.” CHAPTER 9 It Is Your Moral Duty: DPs Among the Ruins in Austria and Germany Finito, my father’s puppy. While my father was en route ...
( Category: Holocaust December 27,2014 )
Edith Cavell by Diana Souhami
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Diana Souhami

Such letters worried Mrs. Cavell. She wrote anxiously to Sergeant Doman asking how risky the whole business was. He tried to reassure her: Referring to it being risky for her ...
( Category: World War I December 27,2014 )
Embattled Rebel : Jefferson Davis As Commander in Chief (9780698176348) by McPherson James M
mobi |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:McPherson, James M. [McPherson, James M.]

5. WE SHOULD TAKE THE INITIATIVE As commander in chief, Davis spent most of his time and energy on questions of strategy and command. But armies must be armed, fed, ...
( Category: American Civil War December 25,2014 )
Embattled Rebel : Jefferson Davis As Commander in Chief by McPherson James M
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:McPherson, James M. [McPherson, James M.]

5. WE SHOULD TAKE THE INITIATIVE As commander in chief, Davis spent most of his time and energy on questions of strategy and command. But armies must be armed, fed, ...
( Category: American Civil War December 25,2014 )
Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Peter Longerich [Longerich, Peter]

Phase II: Women and children With Hitler’s instruction of 16 July and the decision in principle it indicated about the structure of the civil administration, the moment had come for ...
( Category: Germany December 25,2014 )
Unbroken-A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | 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 village at the bridge’s end, and into Tokyo. With ...
( Category: World War II December 19,2014 )
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 )

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