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I, Bartleby
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Meredith Quartermain [Quartermain, Meredith]

She paused on the trail and took a breath. Don’t look back. Don’t look down. Don’t look up at the fire tower on top of the mountain where she’d scattered ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 11,2015 )
The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu
epub |eng | 1996-03-07 | Author:Murasaki Shikibu [Shikibu, Murasaki]

The time for the return to the Palace was approaching, but we were constantly rushed off our feet. Her Majesty was involved in her book-binding, and so first thing every ...
( Category: Women October 10,2015 )
The Greeks in Asia by John Boardman
epub |eng | 2015-10-03 | Author:John Boardman

The Mauryans and Buddhism Although the Mauryan dynasty had centred on the Ganges Valley, its rule and activity extended well to the north, into Gandhara and areas permeated by Greeks. ...
( Category: Asia October 9,2015 )
The Battle For Leyte Gulf by C. Vann Woodward
epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:C. Vann Woodward

IV THE BATTLE OFF CAPE ENGAÑO Vice Admiral Ozawa, commander of the Japanese Northern Force of carriers, entered the Battle for Leyte Gulf expecting, he said, the “complete destruction” of ...
( Category: Naval October 9,2015 )
The Conquering Tide by Ian W. Toll
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian W. Toll [Toll, Ian W.]

TWO PARALLEL PACIFIC CAMPAIGNS, north and south of the equator, now had the imprimatur of the Allied high command. But Nimitz did not yet possess the sea or carrier air ...
( Category: Japan October 9,2015 )
The Lost World of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Jonathan Harris

CHAPTER SEVEN The Long Shadow For [the Phokas family] held perpetual dominance, I daresay, until we came on the scene. Land Law of Basil II (996) Of the three groups ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 9,2015 )
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Chang Jung
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Chang, Jung [Chang, Jung]

20 A Plot to Kill Cixi (September 1898) WILD FOX KANG had been hatching plots to kill Cixi for some time, knowing that she stood between him and supreme power. ...
( Category: China September 16,2015 )
Jungle Lore by Jim Corbett
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Corbett

So that winter I went down to Kaladhungi armed with a rifle, and without any anxiety about ammunition. The rifle the good Sergeant-Major had selected for me was dead accurate, ...
( Category: India & South Asia September 8,2015 )
My India (1952) by Jim Corbett
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Corbett

And so on round the deck until 1 came to the last man on the left. This man, 1 told Crosthwaite, was an oldfriend of mine. the father of one ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2015 )
The Temple Tiger and more Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1954) by Jim Corbett
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jim Corbett

of the peninsula. Here the Sarda widens out and shallows, and flows for two hundred yards over rocks before entering a big pool. It was at the upper end of ...
( Category: General September 8,2015 )
Tree Tops (1955) by Corbett Jim
epub |eng | | Author:Corbett, Jim

mother pressed the damp tip of her trunk on to the salt-impregnated dust, and then conveyed it to Iter mouth. The calf, taking advantage of its mother's preoccupation, inserted its ...
( Category: Wildlife September 8,2015 )
man eating leopard of rudraprayag by jim corbett
epub |eng | | Author:jim corbett

E a. s ■n o a a. o O o ^ o j:-S J^ £ _c Z2 -5 tS o z z o o Q_ LU z < u ■p ...
( Category: Hunting September 8,2015 )
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-06 | Author:Katherine Frank [Frank, Katherine]

Indira did not consult Kamaraj, the Congress President, about the ‘strong medicine’ of devaluation, knowing that he was vehemently opposed to it. As were a number of cabinet ministers when ...
( Category: India & South Asia September 8,2015 )
The Brunei Revolt 1962-1963 by Nicholas Van Der Bijl
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Nicholas Van Der Bijl

10 June 1945. Australian infantry and a Matilda tank landing on Green Beach. (Australian War Memorial) 9 December 1962. Part of D Company, 1/2 Gurkha Rifles wait to board a ...
( Category: Military September 7,2015 )
The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, including The Art of War (History & Warfare) by Ralph D. Sawyer
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-07 | Author:Ralph D. Sawyer

The Military Pronouncements states: "When the officials are many but the people few; there is no distinction between the honored and lowly; the strong and weak insult each other; and ...
( Category: China August 29,2015 )

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