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The Invaders and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

* * * POLIKUSHKA. A STORY. * * * I. "As you may please to order, madame. But it would be too bad to send any of the Dutlofs. They ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
The Studebaker Brothers: The Lives and Legacy of the Family Behind the Famous Automobile Company by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2020-01-28 | Author:Charles River Editors [Charles River Editors]

The Studebaker Building In addition to their business, the Studebaker Brothers were active in national politics, and for the most part the brothers backed Republican candidates and their policies. The ...
( Category: United States March 17,2020 )
St. Patrick of Ireland by Philip Freeman
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Philip Freeman

THE PRIMARY SOURCES for Celtic religion in Ireland are tales dating from medieval Christian times that recall the days before the faith arrived on the island. These sources are a ...
( Category: Irish March 17,2020 )
Ten Years In Washington by Mary Clemmer Ames
epub |eng | 2019-05-19 | Author:Mary Clemmer Ames [Ames, Mary Clemmer]

IT is one of the traditions of Washington that Andrew Jackson decided the exact site of the present Treasury Building. After the third destruction by fire, in 1833, of the ...
( Category: American Civil War March 17,2020 )
Child of Light by Madison Smartt Bell
epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Madison Smartt Bell

PART FIVE OUTERBRIDGE REACH 1 CHILDREN OF LIGHT, RECEPTION AND PROMOTION Bob’s delivery of the Children of Light manuscript came out more or less even with Knopf’s advance on the ...
( Category: United States March 17,2020 )
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 6 by T. S. Eliot
epub |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:T. S. Eliot

Yours very sincerely, [T. S. Eliot] FROM Vivien Eliot TO Ottoline Morrell MS Texas 26 December 1933 68 Clarence Gate Gardens My dearest Ottoline Thank you so very much for ...
( Category: Letters March 17,2020 )
Doing My Bit For Ireland by Margaret Skinnider
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Margaret Skinnider [Skinnider, Margaret]

VII We were all happy that night as we camped in St. Stephen's Green. Despite the handicap we were under through lack of men, almost everything was going our way. ...
( Category: Europe March 17,2020 )
Burke Davis on the Civil War by Burke Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Burke Davis

The ordnance reserve train of the army stood between the Richmond-Petersburg Pike and the Woodpecker Road, not far from Swift Creek—forty-four wagons under the command of Lieutenant Joseph Packard. A ...
( Category: American Civil War March 17,2020 )
The Maid Of France by Andrew Lang
epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

General Dragomirof abounds in the same sense. Against these testimonies of professional soldiers, contemporary and of our own day, we have merely the repeated assertions of a peaceful man of ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
By Right of Conquest by G.A. Henty
epub |eng | | Author:G.A. Henty

CHAPTER 13: THE MASSACRE OF CHOLULA. ~ THE TLASCALANS HAD, FROM THE moment when they admitted themselves beaten by the Spaniards, laid aside all hostility; and had, indeed, accepted the ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 17,2020 )
Hitler's First Hundred Days by Peter Fritzsche
epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Peter Fritzsche

WHEN KARL DÜRKEFÄLDEN stood at the window watching his neighbors assemble under Nazi banners on the Day of National Labor, he was witnessing the final act of a drama in ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
Fighting Words by Nancy F. Cott
epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Nancy F. Cott

AT THE FIRST crest of Personal History’s success in March 1935, Sheean acquired a “girlfriend,” in his own word. He fixed his eye on Diana Forbes-Robertson—called Dinah—daughter of a famous ...
( Category: Media & Internet March 17,2020 )
Target for Tonight by Squadron Leader D.a Braithwaite Dfc*
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Squadron Leader D.a Braithwaite Dfc*

CHAPTER SIX 139 Squadron I had some mechanical trouble with my MG on the journey south from Aberdeen, but at last limped it into a garage I used in London. ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
Moltke and his Generals by Quintin Barry
epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Quintin Barry [Barry, Quintin]

In fact later in this essay, Frederick Charles went on to take a further swipe at Manteuffel, complaining that ‘boot licking is not punished, but rewarded by success, telling tales ...
( Category: Germany March 17,2020 )
Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Morrison

* * * THE CASE OF THE MISSING HAND. .................. I THINK I HAVE RECORDED in another place Hewitt’s frequent aphorism that “there is nothing in this world that is ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense March 17,2020 )

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