Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Joseph Lelyveld [Lelyveld, Joseph]

He may have meant to offer Ambedkar “the gentlest treatment,” may not have been thinking of Ambedkar at all, when he led off with a political barb, noting in the ...
( Category: India & South Asia June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Aida D. Donald [Donald, Aida D.]

0465010240-Donald.qxd:Layout 1 8/25/08 5:36 PM Page 141 The Accidental President letter: “I did not believe it would hurt the party. It did not hurt the party. It helped the party.” ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-27 | Author:Stephan Talty [Talty, Stephan]

After a few hours of exchanging gunfire with the Chinese at the transport station, Soepa realized the PLA was winning. “Their bullets were finding their mark and many were killed ...
( Category: China June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1876-01-15 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

XII TO SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS YOU tell me in your letter that you are extremely alarmed by a dream; apprehending that it forebodes some ill success to you in the case ...
( Category: Rome June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Robert Wright [Wright, Robert]

In Ottawa, meanwhile, the opposition Liberals were doing everything in their power to confound the government’s efforts to keep a lid on Canada’s role in the hostage crisis. Day after ...
( Category: Diplomacy June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ingrid Von Oelhafen

TWELVE | NUREMBERG ‘Lebensborn was responsible, amongst other things, for the kidnapping of foreign children for the purpose of Germanisation … numerous Czech, Polish, Yugoslav and Norwegian children were taken ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Fitzroy MacLean [MacLean, Fitzroy]

Chapter VIII New Horizons AFTER the kidnapping of General Zahidi, I settled down to the more orthodox task of assembling my new detachment and training them in S.A.S. methods. As ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Jeremy Thorpe [Jeremy Thorpe]

‘HERE COMES JEREMY. HAROLD, TED ARE WORRIED’ Again another headline read: ‘SENSATIONAL POLL RESULT. LIBERALS ARE GAINING FAST’ and: ‘TED, JEREMY NECK AND NECK’ Evening Standard. ‘HEATH, WILSON FIGHT TO ...
( Category: Political June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Garfield [Garfield, Simon]

Missing T A stage version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, one of my favourite childhood films, opened at the London Palladium on 19 March 2002, my forty-second birthday, and to ...
( Category: Great Britain June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-11 | Author:James Chambers [James Chambers ]

In her isolation at Cranbourne Lodge Charlotte was at least allowed to see newspapers. She read that the motion had been withdrawn. The week went by. The sense of being ...
( Category: Great Britain June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Robin Renwick [Robin Renwick]

13 April 1989 I reported to the Prime Minister that I had received a letter on prison notepaper from Nelson Mandela. Mandela had told one of his lawyers, Hymie Bernardt, ...
( Category: Letters June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-11 | Author:Frances Osborne [Osborne,Frances]

Toby and his “wives,” Chefoo, 1928. Lilla is on the left. The waterfront, Shanghai As Toby was saluted into the Shanghai harbor on the prow of a battleship, Ada and ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-19 | Author:Sarah Wildman

Both winter and spring might pass, perhaps and next summer too, and the whole year, but sometime you will come, I know for sure, and I shall wait, as I ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Hanna Levy-Hass

3 B. B. | December 1944 I thought it was the end, that I wouldn’t have anything more to write down.… But there is no end. There isn’t one. The ...
( Category: Holocaust June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Wendy Holden [Holden, Wendy]

The memorial to the dead of KZ Freiberg Priska, as tired and hungry as the rest of the inmates, stubbornly refused to allow thoughts of death to enter her mind. ...
( Category: Holocaust June 12,2015 )