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Robert Menzies by Troy Bramston
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Troy Bramston

IN February 1957, just a few months after he was elected deputy leader, Harold Holt wrote a 21-page paper for Menzies titled ‘The political situation’. The paper provided an inside ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian June 23,2019 )
Spoken from the Heart (2010) by Bush Laura
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Bush, Laura [Laura, Bush,]

George worked hard to reach out to Putin in spite of the philosophical divide between them. The next morning at the ranch, the four of us had breakfast and then ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 23,2019 )
The Crowded Hour by Clay Risen
epub |eng | | Author:Clay Risen

CHAPTER 11 “AN AMPHITHEATER FOR THE BATTLE” At about 4 a.m. on July 1, the nearly 17,000 men who comprised General Shafter’s Fifth Corps crawled from under their blankets and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 21,2019 )
Siege : Trump Under Fire (9781250253811) by Michael Wolff
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Wolff [Wolff, Michael]

* * * While Trump was disrupting—or acting out at—the NATO summit, Bannon teamed up with Hannity to go to London, hoping to catch a ride on Hannity’s plane. Bannon ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 20,2019 )
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense by Dan Abrams
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Dan Abrams

Both Roosevelt and Barnes rented “war rooms” in the luxurious Onondaga Hotel. Although it had opened only five years earlier, in 1915 it expanded to five hundred rooms, in addition ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 12,2019 )
Early Reagan by Anne Edwards
epub |eng | | Author:Anne Edwards

Reagan’s remaining scenes were given top priority for completion before his departure.* His major concern was money. In spite of Jack Warner’s patriotic bravado, players’ salaries were suspended the same ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 11,2019 )
The Grimaldis of Monaco by Anne Edwards
epub |eng | 2018-02-01 | Author:Anne Edwards

Footnote 1The Communards (members of the Commune of Paris) had been formed during the Revolution of 1792 and had virtually engineered the storming of the Tuileries. The Commune re-formed in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 11,2019 )
Frederick the Second by Kantorowicz Ernst; Jones Dan;
epub |eng | 2019-06-07 | Author:Kantorowicz, Ernst; Jones, Dan; [Kantorowicz, Ernst]

* The Hebrew scholars of Spain and of Provence with whom Frederick established relations, or whom he even brought to court, contributed rather to the astronomical and philosophical than to ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State June 9,2019 )
Churchill's Menagerie by Piers Brendon
epub |eng | | Author:Piers Brendon

F rom the lion rampant on the Marlborough coat of arms, via the lion’s roar emanating from Downing Street during the Second World War, to The Last Lion of William ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 5,2019 )
Siege by Michael Wolff
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Michael Wolff

* * * While Trump was disrupting—or acting out at—the NATO summit, Bannon teamed up with Hannity to go to London, hoping to catch a ride on Hannity’s plane. Bannon ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union June 5,2019 )
The Black Heavens by Brian R. Dirck;
epub |eng | | Author:Brian R. Dirck;

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, I have no taste for war; My joy is not in fire and fight, In cannon’s roar and bullet’s flight, And nasty pools ...
( Category: American Civil War May 28,2019 )
Putin by Richard Lourie
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Lourie

PART FIVE NORTH- AND EASTWARD … With escalating terrorist threats at home, including in the Chinese heartland, and Uighur militants working with extremist groups like the Pakistani Taliban and the ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union May 28,2019 )
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey
epub |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Robert Asprey [ROBERT B. ASPREY]

Notes 1 Bourrienne, I, 143. 2 Corr. IV. Nrs. 2858, Cairo, 27 July 1798; 2868, 2870, Cairo, 28 July 1798. 3 Corr. XXIX, 453. Eugène Beauharnais was sent to inform ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State May 28,2019 )
The Makers of Rome by Plutarch
epub |eng | | Author:Plutarch

8 BRUTUS [85–42 B.C.] 1. Marcus Brutus was a descendant of that Junius Brutus in whose honour the ancient Romans erected a statue of bronze and placed it in the ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
Germanicus by Lindsay Powell
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Lindsay Powell

The discovery of the use of black magic would reinforce the impression of the couple’s wicked intentions. The little room of horrors may even have been stage-managed by friends of ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )

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