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My Silent War by Kim Philby
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Kim Philby

VIII. THE VOLKOV CASE I now come to the Volkov case, which I propose to describe in some detail, both because of its intrinsic interest and because it nearly put ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
Memoirs (The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading Series) by William T. Sherman
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:William T. Sherman

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, April 24, 1864. Lieutenant-General GRANT, commanding Armies of the United States, Culpepper, Virginia. GENERAL: I now have, at the hands of Colonel ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
David Crockett: The Lion of the West by Michael Wallis
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Michael Wallis

Fellow Citizens of the Ninth Congressional District— I now avail myself of the privilege common to every freeman, of offering myself as a candidate for a seat in the next ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Robin Lane Fox

So, through the baroque imagination of a Greek master, ‘Alexander’s Wedding to Roxane’ won a prize at the festival games of Greek Olympia and survived through a Roman visitor’s description ...
( Category: Greece March 25,2014 )
Ulysses S. Grant by Michael Korda
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Michael Korda

Inaction, overwhelming responsibilities for which he was unsuited, and some doubt about what to do next were certainly part of the problem, but worse was to come. Up until then ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Eric Foner

7 “Forever Free”: The Coming of Emancipation EVEN AS THE ARMY of General George B. McClellan embarked on the Peninsular campaign, a military commander with a very different political outlook ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Custer Survivor: The End of a Myth the Beginning of a Legend by John Koster & Louise Barnett
mobi, azw3, azw |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:John Koster & Louise Barnett

(i)A huge number of such cases have been collected by B.J. Burkett and Glenna Whitley in Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Adam Goodheart

THE CONVENTION TO DETERMINE Missouri’s course in the national crisis assembled in St. Louis on March 4. Although this was also, by chance, the day of Lincoln’s inauguration, it dawned ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
The Good War by Studs Terkel
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Studs Terkel

BOOK THREE SUDDEN MONEY RAY WAX He is a stockbroker, living in a middle-class suburb just outside New York City. It is a recent endeavor. Previously he had been a ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Wilber Del Quentin
mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Wilber, Del Quentin [Wilber, Del Quentin]

DOCTORS GIORDANO, GENS, and Price watched saline solution drain from the catheter into a small plastic container. The liquid was crystal clear. The belly tap seemed to confirm that Reagan ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Pulitzer by James McGrath Morris
mobi |eng | 2010-07-17 | Author:James McGrath Morris

By June 1892, Pulitzer had alighted in Paris. Like that of a migratory bird, his path was developing regularity. But while he enjoyed his luxurious Parisian summer, workers at the ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Alan Brinkley

At the same time that Luce was immersed in the Willkie campaign, he was also working quietly to persuade Roosevelt to take a more aggressive stance toward the war. The ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X; Alex Haley
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-08-15 | Author:Malcolm X; Alex Haley

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Bronski House by Philip Marsden
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-05-26 | Author:Philip Marsden

At the end of the school term, Helena took the Red Cross train up to Wilno for Christmas. Reassured by the Polish administration, her mother had returned there in October, ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari; Aimee Molloy
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Maziar Bahari; Aimee Molloy

Chapter Thirteen The next morning, Brown Sandals came to my cell early, and with my breakfast, he gave me a pen and six pieces of paper with the names of ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )

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