Historical Biographies
epub |eng | | Author:Munoz, Heraldo;

AT THE TIME of the 1986 ambush in Cajón del Maipo, Pinochet was already setting his sights on holding the planned 1988 plebiscite. In a speech in the southern town ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-15 | Author:Jonathan Petropoulos

Gründgens and Emmy Sonnemann Göring, who acted together at the Prussian State Theater. (Stadtmuseum Berlin) In October 1933, Gründgens starred with Sonnemann in a staging of Hermann Bahr’s comedy The ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edmund Gordon

On 28 April 1976, Calder offered £1,500 for British and Commonwealth rights to The Passion of New Eve. She wanted to publish it in a new ‘Fantasy and Macabre’ imprint, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-05 | Author:John P. Parker

NINE THE FIRST ADVENTURE prompted me to move to Ripley, where there was an iron foundry. To give you the real background of my activities, it is necessary to tell ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-14 | Author:Richard O'Rawe

I had known Father Denis Faul from the days of internment, when he would visit the cages to say Mass. He was a fierce critic of the establishment and had ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Weber, Thomas;

While I had the twelve Frenchmen that I had taken prisoner restore the blown-up bridge to the south of Vézaponin, I divided the regimental staff into two groups to occupy ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Harry S. Truman [Harry S. Truman]

I was raised on a farm, and even as a boy I helped my father there. My home state of Missouri is primarily a farm state, and my brother Vivian ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger

X By February 1932, the crisscross of maneuver was becoming more intense than ever. Roosevelt’s strategy was clear. It was to keep his lines open to the old Bryan-McAdoo wing ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Ellis Silas

Anzac, May, 1915. In his description Silas refers to shrapnel bursting and he indicates it by the cloudlike puffs of smoke. A shrapnel shell contained thousands of steel or lead ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-08 | Author:Rebecca Walker [Walker, Rebecca]

Lisa and me. It’s the end of sixth grade, summertime and I’m packing to go back east for the summer and the next two years. Lisa and I haven’t talked, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kat Smutz

Andersonville Prison During its time, Andersonville (pictured above in August 1864) saw 45,000 prisoners pass through its gates. Out of that number, nearly 13,000 died of exposure, starvation, malnutrition, diarrhoea ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Skidelsky

5. I had little idea what I wanted to do after I left university. I did not feel (despite my degree) that my prospects of finding a decent job were ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Raja Shehadeh

20 DECEMBER I have just written to the people at the Khan to say that I refuse their proposal to dramatise my book. This rejection has been more painful than ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Gerard Helferich

For millennia, people had been drawn to Chicago—not as a home, but as a place to pass through on their way somewhere else. Native Americans had portaged their canoes over ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Tauber, Alfred I.; Tauber, Alfred I. I.; [Tauber, Alfred I.]

The Moral Structure of the Will Nietzsche, as Kant before him, created his philosophy with the goal of establishing a basis for human freedom. The biological conception of human nature ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 17,2020 )