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Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany by Marthe Cohn & Wendy Holden
epub |eng | 2002-12-15 | Author:Marthe Cohn & Wendy Holden [Cohn, Marthe & Holden, Wendy]

An Unlikely Spy My work as the most unlikely of spies officially began on January 20, 1945. I was assigned to the Commandos d’Afrique, the first French unit to land ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 24,2018 )
Comrades (Text Only) by Paul Preston
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Preston [Paul Preston]

8 A Life Adrift: Indalecio Prieto There are few Spanish politicians who so single-mindedly sacrificed their lives to the cause of democracy as Indalecio Prieto. He did more than any ...
( Category: Europe August 24,2018 )
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar by Virginia Vallejo
epub |eng | 2018-05-28 | Author:Virginia Vallejo

* * * — IN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOW, Pablo and I see each other once or twice a week. Every forty-eight hours I’m brought to a different location, and ...
( Category: Memoirs August 24,2018 )
Michael by Amy Robyn
epub |eng | 2017-04-25 | Author:Amy Robyn [Robyn, Amy]

Chapter 7. Michael We were expecting the attack after the raid on the laboratory. We had the perimeter set up with cameras and an alarm to alert us of movement. ...
( Category: World August 23,2018 )
Crossing the Wire by AnnaMaria Cardinalli
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:AnnaMaria Cardinalli [Cardinalli, AnnaMaria]

Men waiting in the shade of a building. Chapter 14 To Walk a Mile for a Camel Day 105 I don’t think I’ll ever be able to hear the phrase ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling August 23,2018 )
Walls by David Frye
epub |eng | | Author:David Frye

PART THREE * * * THE WORLD IN TRANSITION The Horrible Bombard CONSTANTINOPLE, AD 1453 * * * Constantine Palaeologus sleeps now. He has joined that select company of heroic ...
( Category: World August 23,2018 )
The Highest Glass Ceiling by Ellen Fitzpatrick
epub |eng | 2016-01-16 | Author:Ellen Fitzpatrick

She made this case forthrightly to her colleagues in the Unity Democratic Club.49 Chisholm immediately faced a flare of opposition within the Unity Democratic Club, from county Democratic party leaders ...
( Category: World August 23,2018 )
Book of All Saints by Adrienne von Speyr
epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Adrienne von Speyr [Speyr, Adrienne von]

JOSEFA MENENDEZ (1890-1923)31 I see her prayer, which God, so to speak, takes over from her, while she gives herself and prays in an attitude of the greatest surrender. And ...
( Category: Catholicism August 23,2018 )
Brazil--A Biography by Lilia M. Schwarcz
epub |eng | | Author:Lilia M. Schwarcz

14 Samba, Malandragem,1 Authoritarianism: The Birth of Modern Brazil THROUGH THE VOTE, OR THROUGH ARMED CONFRONTATION: THE FIRST REPUBLIC WILL COME TO AN END On 1 March 1930, on a ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 23,2018 )
Mary Magdalene, Bride in Exile by Margaret Starbird
epub |eng | 2011-06-26 | Author:Margaret Starbird

Concretizing the Word of God This tension continues. Today, as in the past, Christian clergy are notably reluctant to accept ecstatic dreams, visions, and channeled messages received by members of ...
( Category: History August 23,2018 )
The Chosen Wars by Steven R. Weisman
epub |eng | | Author:Steven R. Weisman

SERMONS IN CONFLICT: RABBI RAPHALL “MUST KNOW” The interregnum following Lincoln’s election in November 1860 heightened fears of war throughout the soon-to-be disunited States. President James Buchanan, hapless in the ...
( Category: World August 23,2018 )
Bedroom by Michelle Perrot
epub |eng | | Author:Michelle Perrot

Chambrées At first workers converged in “communal rooms,” as Villermé termed them in his description. In Sedan, “as in all industrial towns, single men live in pensions. For 25 or ...
( Category: World August 23,2018 )
Russia in Flames by Laura Engelstein
epub |eng | 2017-07-28 | Author:Laura Engelstein

( Category: Russia August 23,2018 )
The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
epub |eng | 2018-08-22 | Author:Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Scientist, Doctor, Naturalist, Artist 1872–1912 Words must always fail me when I talk of Bill Wilson. I believe he really is the finest character I ever met. ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 23,2018 )
Playing to the Gods by Peter Rader
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Rader

CHAPTER TWELVE “It was more of a collision than a meeting,” reported Count Robert de Montesquiou about the moment, in the late spring of 1897, when Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora ...
( Category: World August 23,2018 )

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