Biographies & Memoirs
mobi |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:McKay Sinclair

18 1942: Grave Setbacks and Internal Strife ‘You mustn’t think that it was all harmony at BP,’ says one veteran. ‘There were some pretty ferocious internal squabbles too.’ As 1942 ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

22 Birth and death The infant mortality rates of the medieval period were high, with over a third of boys and a quarter of girls dying at or soon after ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-27 | Author:Patrick J. Buchanan

( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-12-14 | Author:Richard Overy

A VICTORY OF SORTS I think we have managed to avoid losing this war. But when I think how on earth we are going to win it, my imagination quails. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Timothy Snyder

Home to much of the Polish educated classes and to Europe’s largest society of Jews, Warsaw was a metropolis that had no place in the Nazi worldview. As of spring ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Edvard Radzinsky

A GAME FROM THE GRAVE Indeed, by then it had already begun. This happened on New Year’s Eve: In the Church of the Protective Veil of the Virgin, where the ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-03-15 | Author:John Banville

4 GREAT DANE, LITTLE DOG The once Danish, now Swedish, island of Hveen, or Hven, or simply Ven - let us choose a middle course and call it Hven - ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Robert Hughes

The Irish were the largest and most cohesive white minority in penal Australia, and their folkways were bound to make a deep mark on the ethos of all convicts and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-02-12 | Author:Mike Dash

In the meantime, the commandeur continued his interrogation of the prisoners. Pelsaert was legally bound, under Dutch law, to administer justice as quickly as possible, and to that end he ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Peter FitzSimons

The three men get onto the raft in the mid-morning with such possessions as they have and wave goodbye to those who farewell them on the shore, waves that continue ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Tom Bissell

IV On our way to Chu Lai, the former site of a U.S. military base, the road was full of everything but traffic. Truong, consequently, was driving much faster than ...
( Category: Southeast March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-17 | Author:Blaine Harden

PART TWO 14 Their plan was simple – and insanely optimistic. Shin knew the camp. Park knew the world. Shin would get them over the fence. Park would lead them ...
( Category: North March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Barbara Demick

CHAPTER 11 WANDERING SWALLOWS Boys at a North Korean market. IN HER FREQUENT VISITS TO THE CHONGJIN TRAIN STATION, Mrs. Song probably crossed paths with a boy wearing an indigo ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Steve Coll

Organized, state-sponsored political murder is practiced regularly and on a significant scale in South Asia today not only in Sri Lanka but in the disputed Indian states of Punjab and ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Simon Winchester

Krakatoa's final twenty hours and fifty-six minutes were marked by a number of phases. First, from early afternoon on Sunday until about 7 p.m. there was a series of explosions ...
( Category: Volcanology March 25,2014 )