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The 9/11 Wars by Jason Burke
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Jason Burke [Burke, Jason]

Nowhere was this more clear than in Multan, once simply a sleepy provincial town famous for its shrines but in November 2007 a city with a population swollen to nearly ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jacob Burckhardt [Burckhardt, Jacob]

PART FOUR. THE DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN Journeys of the Italians Freed from the countless bonds which elsewhere in Europe checked progress, having reached a high degree ...
( Category: Europe December 4,2017 )
The Promise: A Novel of China and Burma by Pearl S. Buck
mobi |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Pearl S. Buck

XII THE GENERAL WAS UNEASY and the more because for many days he had not been able to ask the Chairman for advice. The small radio set he had brought ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )
One World by J. Buchanan
epub |eng | | Author:J. Buchanan

******* Assimilation Lab The doctor in the room was alerted when the alarm sounded. The rotation of the Dream Machine's large magnetic scanner came to a halt as the patient ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 4,2017 )
Cinderella by Unknown
epub |eng | 2016-02-20 | Author:Unknown

THREE Worried that she might once again run away from him, Charming insisted she move into the palace that very day. He tried to hoist Cinderella onto his horse but ...
( Category: Arts & Photography December 4,2017 )
To Kill Hitler by Constantine FitzGibbon
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Constantine FitzGibbon [FitzGibbon, Constantine]

CHAPTER VII THE atmosphere in which the conspirators lived during the last few weeks before July 20th was hectic and the strain great. Stauffenberg knew that on July 1st he ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )
The Survival of the Princes in the Tower by Matthew Lewis
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Matthew Lewis

Here we have Henry’s riposte to Richard’s pretension: the king claims that the youth is a native of Tournay, the son of a boatman and that his true name is ...
( Category: Historical December 4,2017 )
The Last Roman - Romulus Augustulus by Adrian Murdoch
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Adrian Murdoch [Adrian Murdoch]

One day, as Saint Severinus was reading in his cell, he suddenly closed the book and began to sigh deeply and to weep. He ordered those around him to run ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 4,2017 )
Stalin's Wars by Geoffrey Roberts
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Geoffrey Roberts

According to Clement Gottwald, the Czechoslovak communist leader, in July 1946 Stalin told him: Experience shows, and the classics of Marxism-Leninism teach, there is not one path to the Soviet ...
( Category: Russia December 4,2017 )
1215 and All That by Ed West
epub |eng | 2017-12-03 | Author:Ed West

CHAPTER NINE Not as Bad as Hitler or Stalin John has gone down in history as a ‘bad king,’ but unlike his showy brother, at least he bothered to visit ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )
Great Generals of the Ancient World by Richard A. Gabriel
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Richard A. Gabriel [Richard A. Gabriel]

Cannae: Final Phase Now Hasdrubal’s cavalry arrived in the Roman rear to block their retreat, completing the double envelopment of the Roman infantry. Having assured himself that the allied cavalry ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )
The Balfour Declaration by Bernard Regan
epub |eng | 2017-12-03 | Author:Bernard Regan

THE PALESTINIAN DELEGATION, CHURCHILL’S WHITE PAPER AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS In August 1921, the delegation sent by the Fourth Congress met with Churchill in London. He confirmed at the ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 4,2017 )
Egypt by Christina Riggs
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Christina Riggs

The beautiful and the dead The vogue for paintings inspired by ancient Egypt, like those of Alma-Tadema, Poynter and Long, was not limited to Britain by any means. It was ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 4,2017 )
Palm Springs Paradise by Peter Moruzzi
epub |eng | 2015-12-04 | Author:Peter Moruzzi

This dazzling modern abode is in the North Shore Estates tract near the Salton Sea. In the 1950s and early 1960s, developers dubbed this enormous inland lake “America’s Riviera.” Photograph ...
( Category: Americas December 4,2017 )
Among the Dead Cities by A. C. Grayling
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:A. C. Grayling

Next to this passage must be placed one from a speech broadcast by Truman on the radio that same day: The world will note that the first atomic bomb was ...
( Category: Military December 4,2017 )

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