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Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Borman Tracy
mobi |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Borman, Tracy [Borman, Tracy]

CHAPTER 12 ‘The Lady in the Tower’ According to Chapuys, what had made Cromwell resolve upon Anne’s destruction was not the open declaration of war which the Passion Sunday sermon ...
( Category: Great Britain July 21,2015 )
Hugo! by Bart Jones
epub |eng | 2007-07-19 | Author:Bart Jones [Jones, Bart]

Rather than petering out, the mudslinging got worse. Urdaneta’s accusations against Miquilena included charges that he was a shareholder in a printing company that won a noncompetitive contract from the ...
( Category: Venezuela July 20,2015 )
American Colossus by H. W. Brands
epub |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

Riis’s tour led along another alley. “Be a little careful, please! The hall is dark and you might stumble over the children pitching pennies back there. Not that it would ...
( Category: Economic History July 20,2015 )
The Devil's General: The Life of Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz - the "Panzer Graf by Raymond Bagdonas
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-18 | Author:Raymond Bagdonas [Bagdonas, Raymond]

( Category: Germany July 19,2015 )
She-Wolves by Helen Castor
epub |eng | 2010-07-18 | Author:Helen Castor [Helen Castor]

2 Dearest and Most Powerful ‘Our King Edward has now reigned six full years’, the author of the Vita wrote in 1313, ‘and has till now achieved nothing praiseworthy or ...
( Category: England July 19,2015 )
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz by Michela Wrong
epub |eng | | Author:Michela Wrong

CHAPTER EIGHT The importance of being elegant ‘It seems that our country has been Abandoned to its sad fate Why did we fight against the white man’s rule? Did we ...
( Category: Comparative Politics July 19,2015 )
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front by Gunter Koschorrek
epub |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Gunter Koschorrek [Koschorrek, Gunter]

combat engagements. As a replacement for the Rittmeister, an Oberleutnant took command of our Schwadron for a short time. During his command, some of the more enterprising soldiers organised a ...
( Category: World War II July 19,2015 )
Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA (Forbidden Bookshelf) by Ralph W. McGehee
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Ralph W. McGehee [McGehee, Ralph W.]

rumors. Such crimes were punishable by death. Bernard Fall, in his book Last Reflections on a War, observed: “On May 6, 1959, the Diem regime passed Law 10/59, which provided ...
( Category: Political July 19,2015 )
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America by Matthews Owen
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Matthews, Owen [Matthews, Owen]

Footnotes * The exchange was recorded in Cyrillic in Löwenstern’s diary, hence escaping the editorial hand of his censorious descendants. * This timepiece made it all the way round the ...
( Category: Russia July 19,2015 )
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Jimmy Carter [Carter, Jimmy]

Worship, and Foreign Leaders My religious faith had become a minor issue during the campaign, when I responded “yes” to a reporter’s question, “Are you a born-again Christian?” Some reporters ...
( Category: History & Theory July 18,2015 )
Big Science by Michael Hiltzik
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Hiltzik [Hiltzik, Michael]

Chapter Fourteen * * * The Road to Trinity The course of the war had outrun work on the bomb, rendering the Allied scientists’ concerns about a Nazi bomb program ...
( Category: United States July 18,2015 )
Hitler's Last Secretary by Muller Melissa Junge Traudl
epub |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:Muller, Melissa, Junge, Traudl

V We were sitting together at lunch again; this was the end of August [1944]. Hitler’s manner to me was very strange. He seemed almost unfriendly. He never said a ...
( Category: Europe July 17,2015 )
Hitler: Personal Recollections : Memoirs of Hitler From Those Who Knew Him by Heinz A. Heinz
epub |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:Heinz A. Heinz [Heinz, Heinz A.]

CHAPTER 8 HERR DREXLER CONTINUES HIS STORY FROM THE DATE of Adolf Hitler’s joining the “Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,” to that of the apparent ruin of all their hopes, in November, 1923, ...
( Category: Germany July 17,2015 )
The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Martin Gilbert [Gilbert, Martin]

The wealth collected in ‘Canada’ came from Jews who were alive on arrival at Birkenau, but who were dead by the time their belongings had been sorted. Just before being ...
( Category: Europe July 14,2015 )
The Millionaire and the Bard : Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio by Mays Andrea
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mays, Andrea [Mays, Andrea]

The monumental events of 1911 did not dampen Henry Folger’s Foliomania. The only disruption to his collecting seems to have involved his annual summertime pilgrimage to England. On July 17, ...
( Category: Historical July 13,2015 )

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