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Secret World by Christopher Andrew
epub |eng | 2018-09-21 | Author:Christopher Andrew

Part of the Zimmermann telegram as decrypted by Room 40. Because ‘Arizona’ did not appear in the German naval codebook, it had to be split into phonetic syllables. Recent research ...
( Category: Military September 22,2018 )
The Victorian Guide to Sex by Fern Riddell
epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:Fern Riddell

How to Choose a Wife by the Shape of Her Legs: - The great French poet Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier (1811–1872) once proclaimed, ‘Show me the leg, and I will ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling September 22,2018 )
The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by Kelly John
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Kelly, John [Kelly, John]

A deserted famine village In Irish port towns, long lines of scantily dressed men and women—their worldly possessions compressed between two pieces of cardboard—gathered on wharves in the cold and ...
( Category: Europe September 22,2018 )
Condition of the Border at the union : destruction of the Graham clan by Graham John
epub |eng | 1907-09-21 | Author:Graham, John

the successful assault upon Carlisle Castle. As a matter of course the Queen demanded the immediate surrender into her hands of both Buccleuch and Cessford. Biiccleuch defended his conduct, declariiif^ ...
( Category: World September 22,2018 )
A Week in the Fall of Jerusalem by Ben Witherington III
epub |eng | 2017-09-20 | Author:Ben Witherington III

As the two were coming up out of the river—talking excitedly to one another in Aramaic—Martha, who was never shy, approached them. “Are you followers of the Master?” The taller ...
( Category: World September 21,2018 )
Black Flags, Blue Waters by Eric Jay Dolin
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Jay Dolin

CHAPTER 8 The Gentleman Pirate and Blackbeard Blackbeard as portrayed in the 1726 edition of Johnson’s A General History of the Pyrates. BETWEEN THE CRASH OF THE WHYDAH AT THE ...
( Category: Americas September 21,2018 )
Rainy Season by Amy Wilentz
epub |eng | | Author:Amy Wilentz

Aristide disappeared into the countryside. For a week, no one knew quite where he was. Soldiers from Fort Dimanche started arresting the boys who were washing cars at the intersection ...
( Category: Americas September 21,2018 )
The Improbable Wendell Willkie by David Levering Lewis
epub |eng | 2018-09-02 | Author:David Levering Lewis

CHAPTER 9 EXCEPTIONALISM AT WORK 1943 Detroit Riot reenacted, Willkie and team. Courtesy the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. To a Forty-Eighter descendant, the dividend of immigration was obvious ...
( Category: Historical September 20,2018 )
These Truths by Jill Lepore
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-09-04 | Author:Jill Lepore

III. ROOSEVELT HAD GROWN haggard. At his inauguration in January 1945, he was wan and weak and could hardly stand; during his brief speech, his whole body shook, as if ...
( Category: Americas September 20,2018 )
Piers Plowman by William Langland
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:William Langland [Langland, William]

1Langland may be punning on his name in “Land of Longing.” 2Again Langland appears to be referring to himself. 3A saying of unknown origin. 4Source not known. 5John iii 5. ...
( Category: Poetry September 20,2018 )
Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry
epub |eng | 2018-09-19 | Author:Imani Perry

Out here on a sand bar, working and taking walks by the ocean, which seems to be my particular brand of therapy . . . back at the end of ...
( Category: World September 20,2018 )
Paris on the Brink by Mary McAuliffe
epub |eng | 2018-06-07 | Author:Mary McAuliffe [McAuliffe, Mary]

While Blum convalesced, crisis upon crisis continued to mount—not only the social and economic crises at home, but the ongoing rise of Hitler and Mussolini on France’s borders. In March, ...
( Category: World September 19,2018 )
Road to Disaster by Brian Vandemark
epub |eng | 2018-08-18 | Author:Brian Vandemark

Rostow had no hesitation about emphasizing his own opinions in the paperwork he submitted to the president. He had been secretly promoting himself for months through starry-eyed back-channel memos to ...
( Category: Military September 19,2018 )
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Ben Macintyre

Chapter 10 MR. COLLINS AND MRS. THATCHER The Iron Lady had developed a soft spot for her Russian spy. Margaret Thatcher had never met Oleg Gordievsky. She did not know ...
( Category: Military September 19,2018 )
Can Democracy Work? by James Miller
epub |eng | | Author:James Miller

FIVE A HALL OF MIRRORS ON THE EVENING of April 2, 1917, the president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, addressed a joint session of the House and Senate. In ...
( Category: World September 18,2018 )

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