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Leaders by Richard Nixon
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 )
The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Avner Yehuda
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 )
In the Arena by Richard Nixon
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Nixon [Nixon, Richard]

21 POWER When we met with Mao Tse-tung in Beijing in 1972, Henry Kissinger remarked that he had assigned Mao’s writings to his classes at Harvard. With typical self-deprecation, Mao ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Janny Scott [Scott, Janny]

Seven Community Organizing The village of Ungaran was a speck in the mountains above the port of Semarang on the north coast of Central Java. A two-lane road between Semarang ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 26,2014 )
A JOURNEY by Blair Tony
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Blair, Tony [Blair, Tony]

Round the world, September 11 is bringing governments and people to reflect, consider and change. And in this process, amidst all the talk of war and action, there is another ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers 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 )
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

PART THREE When the luminary full moon Drifts across the vault of the sky And its light, shining out, Begins to play on the azure horizon; When the nightingale’s whistling ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 26,2014 )
Mao Zedong by Jonathan Spence
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Spence

8 Taking Over IN THE MIDSUMMER OF 1945, no one in China guessed that the war with Japan was just about to end. Because security in Chongqing was so poor, ...
( Category: China March 26,2014 )
Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore

Malenkov was always punctilious in his reports but even the meticulous Zhdanov was sometimes distracted by battle, provoking another reprimand: “It’s extremely strange that Comrade Zhdanov feels no need to ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 26,2014 )
Heart: An American Medical Odyssey by Cheney Dick & Reiner Jonathan
epub |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Cheney, Dick & Reiner, Jonathan [Cheney, Dick]

CHAPTER 11 Treating the Vice President DR. REINER The summers in Washington are long, but on this early September morning, the cooler air and crystalline light offered a whispered promise ...
( Category: Cardiology March 26,2014 )
Giving by Bill Clinton
mobi |eng | 2007-09-04 | Author:Bill Clinton

EIGHT Model Gifts ONE THING THAT makes programs as diverse as Heifer International, the Self Employed Women’s Association in India, and New York’s Chess-in-the-Schools so appealing to givers is that ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith

Dealing with Good Deed Doers We commented earlier that “Successful leaders are not above repression, suppression, oppression, or even killing their rivals, real and imagined.” The truth of this statement ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-29 | Author:Suetonius

DIVUS CLAUDIUS 1. When, three months after her marriage to Augustus, Livia gave birth to Decimus (later Nero) Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, people suspected that Augustus, not her ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading Series) by Ulysses S. Grant
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant

CHAPTER FORTY FOUR BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA — A GALLANT CHARGE — COMPLETE ROUT OF THE ENEMY — PURSUIT OF THE CONFEDERATES — GENERAL BRAGG — REMARKS ON CHATTANOOGA AT TWELVE ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-11-12 | Author:Claire Tomalin

17. The Secret Scientist Pepys became a member of the Royal Society in 1665 and went on to become its president in 1684. As president his name appears on the ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )

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