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Hitler's Engineers: Fritz Todt and Albert Speer - Master Builders of the Third Reich by Blaine Taylor
mobi |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:Blaine Taylor [Taylor, Blaine]

The Messerschmitt Me 262, the world’s first operational jet, produced by German industry in 1942, didn’t enter aerial combat until July 1944. (CER) German General of the Fighters Adolf Galland ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles April 4,2018 )
The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
epub |eng | | Author:Helene Cooper

14 Samuel Doe and his bodyguards MONROVIA, LIBERIA, APRIL 22, 1980 The morning after the rape, Mommee moved on autopilot. She walked stiffly, almost like a robot. Eunice, Marlene, and ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 4,2018 )
The Man Who Painted the Universe by Ron Legro
epub |eng | 2015-04-04 | Author:Ron Legro

8 ALL FALL DOWN Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. —John Quincy Adams, Oration at Plymouth Throughout the latter half ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 4,2018 )
Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs) by Stephen Alford
epub |eng | 2014-10-17 | Author:Stephen Alford

But the council in London was unmoved. In fact it stood firmer than ever. The following day a letter was drafted for both Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth to offer ...
( Category: Europe April 4,2018 )
Victoria by Helen Rappaport
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Helen Rappaport

FOR THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE ALBERT, receiving a reduced allowance was a slap in the face; he told Uncle Leopold that he was ‘shocked and exasperated by the disrespect’ shown him. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 4,2018 )
The Cardinal's Hat by Mary Hollingsworth
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Mary Hollingsworth [HOLLINGSWORTH, MARY]

Harvests at Bondeno, 1536–7 Bad harvests could be disastrous for agricultural workers and their families who depended on their produce to survive the following winter, but they were not always ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2018 )
Upstairs at the Roosevelts' by Curtis Roosevelt
epub |eng | 2017-05-08 | Author:Curtis Roosevelt

This background regarding the tense relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt, is useful; it needs to be absorbed, seen in the context of a long-past culture. ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2018 )
Don't Know Much About® the American Presidents by Kenneth C. Davis
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Kenneth C. Davis

( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
Caligula: Divine Carnage by Jeremy Reed Stephen Barber
mobi |eng | 2016-01-23 | Author:Jeremy Reed Stephen Barber [Stephen Barber, Jeremy Reed]

4. HELIOGABALUS: BLACK SUN RISING “Myth and utopia: the origins have belonged, the future will belong to the subjects in whom there is something feminine” —Roland Barthes “We are all ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 4,2018 )
Fodor’s Amsterdam by Fodor’s Travel Guides
epub |eng | 2017-12-05 | Author:Fodor’s Travel Guides

( Category: Historical April 4,2018 )
Belisarius: The Last Roman General by Hughes Ian
epub, mobi |zho | 2009-04-09 | Author:Hughes, Ian [Hughes, Ian]

Unable to make tactical deployments due to the unexpected nature of the meeting, the Byzantine cavalry immediately joined combat with the Goths, Belisarius himself being in the front line of ...
( Category: Europe April 4,2018 )
Overtaken by the Night by Richard G. Robbins Jr
epub |eng | | Author:Richard G. Robbins, Jr.

Absorbed by the May riots in Moscow and Rasputin, Dzhunkovsky appears to have been largely oblivious to the political currents and maneuverings that were swirling around him. Thus, Maklakov’s dismissal ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2018 )
Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian
epub |eng | 2009-03-31 | Author:Grigoris Balakian [Balakian, Grigoris]

I have left my fields and orchards and come … As much as I heave deep sighs, my soul gets plucked. Crane, wait a while, your voice is my soul, ...
( Category: Middle East April 4,2018 )
Henry VIII's Last Victim by Jessie Childs
epub |eng | 2008-02-07 | Author:Jessie Childs [Jessie Childs]

With characteristic hubris, Surrey has fashioned himself as God’s agent on earth. He is the vigilante-prophet sent out with his stonebow to warn the citizens of the ‘fearful thunder clap’ ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2018 )
The Man Who Designed the Future by B. Alexandra Szerlip
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:B. Alexandra Szerlip

CHAPTER 15 Birth of a Classic, Death of a Beauty January 1938 In our town, we like to know the facts. —NARRATOR IN OUR TOWN Somewhere between his ill-fated Hamlet ...
( Category: Engineering April 4,2018 )

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