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The Day of the Barbarians by Alessandro Barbero
epub |eng | 2009-09-14 | Author:Alessandro Barbero

IX ADRIANOPLE, AUGUST 9, 378 Adrianople was the first great city the emperor came to after his departure from the suburbs of the capital; since Sebastianus's victorious counterraid, however, the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 14,2017 )
The American South and the Vietnam War by Fry Joseph A
epub |eng | 2015-05-01 | Author:Fry, Joseph A.

President Lyndon B. Johnson and General William Westmoreland, a South Carolina native and US commander in Vietnam, 1964–1968, who was described as personifying the South’s military tradition. Courtesy of the ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2017 )
Mandela - My Prisoner, My Friend by Christo Brand Barbara Jones
epub | | 2014-09-13 | Author:Christo Brand, Barbara Jones [Christo Brand and Barbara Jones]

Estelle didn’t tell me about the letter but she began to press me to take up degree courses. I reasoned with her that I already had to study criminal law ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 13,2017 )
The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century by Peter Dreier
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Dreier

Saul Alinsky (1909–1972) CREDIT: Associated Press AFTER RIOTS erupted in the Rochester, New York, ghetto in the summer of 1964, an interracial group of clergy approached organizer Saul Alinsky to ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2017 )
Caesar's Greatest Victory by John Sadler
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:John Sadler

This stirring invocation is a translation of the inscription on the base of the statue of Vercingetorix at Alesia. It tells us rather more about 19th-century French nationalism than it ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 13,2017 )
THE ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SUBMARINE COMMANDER VON FORSTNER: The First Submarines - World War One by Freiherrn von Forstner
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-07 | Author:Freiherrn von Forstner [von Forstner, Freiherrn]

Shaded area shows "War Zone" announced by Germany on 4 February 1915. Our adversary was concealed by day, and only ventured forth at night, confident that darkness would insure his ...
( Category: Europe September 13,2017 )
The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner by Freiherrn von Forstner
epub |eng | 2014-02-07 | Author:Freiherrn von Forstner [Forstner, Freiherrn von]

Shaded area shows "War Zone" announced by Germany on 4 February 1915. Our adversary was concealed by day, and only ventured forth at night, confident that darkness would insure his ...
( Category: Europe September 13,2017 )
I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-02-17 | Author:Victor Klemperer

October 9, Saturday afternoon For a good week now we have been plagued by every kind of influenza symptom. Eva is extremely handicapped and worn down by lumbago, I myself ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs September 13,2017 )
I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945 by Victor Klemperer
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-17 | Author:Victor Klemperer [Klemperer, Victor]

September 24, Friday morning My new work does after all exhaust me far more than that at Wormser Strasse. Shoveling, shoveling, shoveling with spade and fork onto the cutting table, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs September 13,2017 )
The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton
epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:Edith Hamilton [Hamilton, Edith]

Lesbia, however, was used to varied entertainment. She never had an idea of confining herself to “only a few,” and Catullus’ forgiveness mattered less and less to her. From then ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 13,2017 )
At the End of the World by Lawrence Millman
epub |eng | 2017-01-19 | Author:Lawrence Millman

30 As I would soon be going home, I offered the old woman several large bills for all the help she had given me. Pushing the bills away, she told ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2017 )
Oz 5 - The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:L. Frank Baum [Baum, L. Frank]

12. The Deadly Desert Crossed "Oh, that's too bad!" cried Dorothy; "I wanted to thank Johnny Dooit for all his kindness to us." "He hasn't time to listen to thanks," ...
( Category: Classics September 13,2017 )
Gonzo Papers 1 - The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time by Hunter S. Thompson
epub |eng | 1979-01-02 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

Gonzo 1 - The Great Shark Hunt PART 3 Traveler Hears Mountain Music Where It's Sung Renfro Valley, Ky.-- The Bluegrass country is cold and brown in the winter. Night ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 13,2017 )
Lolita by Vladimirovich Nabokov
epub |eng | 1998-02-15 | Author:Vladimirovich Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimirovich]

after them, but as I was crashing through the shrubbery, I saw, in an alternate vision, as if life's course constantly branched, Lo, in slacks, and her companion, in shorts, ...
( Category: Arts & Photography September 13,2017 )
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter & J. R. R. Tolkien
epub |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Humphrey Carpenter & J. R. R. Tolkien [Carpenter, Humphrey & Tolkien, J. R. R.]

Part Five 1925-194900: The Third Age Enter Mr Baggins Really that missing piece had been there all the time. It was the Suffield side of his own personality. His deep ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 13,2017 )

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