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The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush by Howard Blum
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Howard Blum

Mamie, Siringo’s “child bride,” and their daughter, Viola (A Cowboy Detective, 1912) Bluff Creek Bridge was the landmark signaling that a hurrah cowtown was a short ride ahead. It was ...
( Category: Americas March 25,2014 )
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-24 | Author:Kate Williams

CHAPTER 31 The Battered Hero I feel myself highly honoured and flattered by your ladyship's charming letter," enthused Earl St. Vincent, Nelson's commander, to Emma in May 1798. "The picture ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
Washington by Ron Chernow
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Ron Chernow

PART FOUR The Statesman Bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculpted in 1785. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT American Celebrity WITH PERFECT TIMING, George Washington made it home to the loving embrace ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess Of Carnarvon
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:The Countess Of Carnarvon

12 War Heroes After six months of listening to horror stories from the Western Front and tending desperate patients, the familiarity of the winter trip to Egypt must have felt ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
John Adams by David McCullough
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:David McCullough

• • • UNTIL A SUITABLE HOUSE could be found, the three Adamses were residing in the Bath Hotel in Piccadilly, where, after the quiet of Auteuil, the noise of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-02-01 | Author:Curt Gentry

Following his censure, McCarthy was finished. He still had his Senate seat and his committee assignments, but when he rose to speak most of the senators left the chambers and ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Erik Larson

CHAPTER 31 Night Terrors The lives of the Dodds underwent a subtle change. Where once they had felt free to say anything they wished within their own home, now they ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2000-08-30 | Author:Ian Kershaw

III Meanwhile, within the Reich itself the beginning of the war had also marked a vital step in the descent into modern barbarism. Here, too, Hitler now authorized mass murder. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The princes in the tower by Alison Weir
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-08-15 | Author:Alison Weir

stature she was a formidable woman: highly intelligent, literate, strong-minded, devout and austere in her religious observances. She was the sole heiress of the Beaufort descendants of John of Gaunt ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-12-29 | Author:Alison Weir

Already people expected the prisoners to be convicted. On May 11, before any trial had taken place, the Abbot of Cirencester wrote informing Cromwell that he had already promised Sir ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-02-24 | Author:Alexander Waugh

RUSSIA AND RAVEL Marga went to New York in September 1927 to raise money for Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, and took with her some records of Paul playing music ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
The 48 laws of power by Robert Greene; Joost Elffers
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-09-07 | Author:Robert Greene; Joost Elffers

48 Laws of Power LAW 28 ENTER ACTION WITH BOLDNESS JUDGMENT If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Michael Korda

Triumph: Lawrence, in the Blue Mist, arrives in Damascus. The arrival of Lieutenant-General Chauvel added to Lawrence’s burdens. Like General Barrow at Deraa, Chauvel was shocked and appalled by the ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-22 | Author:Jack Weatherford

The refugees spread information about the Mongols across Europe, as can be seen from the chronicle written by Matthew Paris, a monk of the Benedictine abbey at St. Albans in ...
( Category: Asia March 25,2014 )
The Rockefeller Files by Gary Allen
mobi |pt | 2010-01-26 | Author:Gary Allen

Cleveland and New York Financers to set up an East-West Exchange David Rockefeller,chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, is the most important and most effective promoter In the US of ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )

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