Home > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical
Historical
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

The solemn High Mass that would precede the inaugural meeting of the Estates General at Versailles was to be held on 4 May. At various levels, Marie Antoinette’s gloomy presentiments ...
( Category: Europe August 20,2017 )
Manhunt by James L. Swanson
epub |eng | 2006-10-08 | Author:James L. Swanson [Swanson, James L.]

ONCE JOHN WILKES BOOTH ATTEMPTED TO CROSS THE POtomac on Thursday the twentieth, and finally reached Virginia early on Sunday the twenty-third, the sanctuary of Thomas Jones’s Huckleberry did not ...
( Category: Americas August 20,2017 )
Behind the Palace Doors by Michael Farquhar
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Michael Farquhar [Farquhar, Michael]

William loved Mary, too, though for much of their marriage he treated her more as an ornament than a true equal—a dynamic she seemed to encourage by her deference to ...
( Category: Historical August 20,2017 )
Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents by Cormac O'Brien
epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Cormac O'Brien

BULL ROAR Having thrown his hat back into the ring on the Progressive ticket in 1912, TR was making a stop in Milwaukee to give a speech when an unknown ...
( Category: Historical August 20,2017 )
Lessons in Disaster by Gordon M. Goldstein
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon M. Goldstein

LESSON FIVE NEVER DEPLOY MILITARY MEANS IN PURSUIT OF INDETERMINATE ENDS “What can we say is the most surprising?” McGeorge Bundy asked himself in a fragment he composed on February ...
( Category: Military August 20,2017 )
Written Out of History by Mike Lee
epub |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Mike Lee

CHAPTER 6 Mum Bett: The Slave Who Claimed Her Rights When we think of the founders of our nation, most Americans picture middle-aged or older white men. There is, of ...
( Category: Americas August 20,2017 )
Khrushchev by Edward Crankshaw
epub |eng | 2017-08-18 | Author:Edward Crankshaw

It may well be that these last pages have a planless and inconsequent appearance: this is intended. It is impossible to make a neat pattern of the complex violence that ...
( Category: Russia August 20,2017 )
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Belfer Center Studies in International Security) by Graham Allison
epub |eng | 2013-02-09 | Author:Graham Allison [Allison, Graham]

What core competencies should today's worker possess? Unlike workers in the repetitive, machine-based age, tomorrow's workers must depend more on their own knowledge and skills. They have to manage their ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 20,2017 )
Hitler in the Crosshairs by John Woodbridge Maurice Possley
epub |eng | 2011-08-20 | Author:John Woodbridge, Maurice Possley

CHAPTER 11 THE 179th INFANTRY PLOWED AHEAD, TAKING HOXHOHL, Alsbach, Jugenheim, and Seeheim. But then, the men came face-to-face with Aschaffenburg, a city so heavily defended that some journalists called ...
( Category: Historical August 20,2017 )
Boss Rove by Craig Unger
epub |eng | | Author:Craig Unger

THIRTEEN The Vanishing In the spring of 2007, Josh Bolten, who had replaced Andrew Card as White House chief of staff, told White House staffers that they should either leave ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Iran-Contra: Reagan's Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power by Malcolm Byrne
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Malcolm Byrne [Byrne, Malcolm]

THE PRESSURE ON NORTH Toward the end of his June 25 meeting with Rodriguez, North reportedly glanced at a television in his office tuned to the congressional debate on the ...
( Category: Americas August 19,2017 )
Company Man by John Rizzo
epub |eng | | Author:John Rizzo

I voted for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. It was consistent with a simple—and probably overly simplistic—pattern I had followed up to then and would continue to follow ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 19,2017 )
Stalin and His Hangmen by Donald Rayfield
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Donald Rayfield

When Kamenev and Zinoviev were charged with Kirov’s murder, the new edition of Machiavelli was stopped, and the volume with Kamenev’s foreword was pulped. Weeks passed before Zinoviev and Kamenev ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2017 )
Tudor : Passion. Manipulation. Murder. the Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family by Leanda de Lisle
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-24 | Author:Leanda de Lisle

Part Three SETTING SUN: THE TUDOR QUEENS Let men that receive of women authority, honour, or office, be most assuredly persuaded, that in so maintaining that usurped power, they declare ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2017 )
Born to Lose by James G. Hollock
epub |eng | | Author:James G. Hollock

17 “‘Not guilty!’ That’s what the sunuvabitch said, ‘not guilty’.” Chief Blackie DeLellis gave the news to Joe Zanella’s father, Joe Sr. “After all Hoss’s big talk about pleading guilty ...
( Category: Americas August 19,2017 )

First Prev [465] [466] [467] [468] 469 [470] [471] [472] [473] [474] [475] Next Last