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The Siege by Peter David
epub |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Peter David [David, Peter]

“Juggling?” Sisko looked at Dax skeptically. “Now why in the world should I take up juggling?” “You need something to relax you, Benjamin,” said Dax reasonably. “I heard Chief O’Brien ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 19,2017 )
Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:Adam Zamoyski [Zamoyski, Adam]

19 The Duke of Texas Tsar Alexander was still fixated on Spain. ‘He regarded Spain,’ the British minister plenipotentiary in Vienna, Sir Robert Gordon, reported to Castlereagh in May 1821, ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 19,2017 )
The First Crusade by Steven Runciman
epub |eng | 2016-12-11 | Author:Steven Runciman

CHAPTER 10 Armenian interlude Trust ye not in a friend. Micah VII, 5 The Armenian migration to the southwest, begun when the Seldjuk invasions made life in the Araxes valley ...
( Category: Europe October 19,2017 )
Empress of the East by Leslie Peirce
epub |eng | 2017-09-01 | Author:Leslie Peirce

While the foundation’s users doubtless took care to conduct themselves with circumspection, the Haseki complex was rarely silent. In warm weather, the voices of children reciting their lessons might waft ...
( Category: World October 19,2017 )
One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper by Davenport-Hines Richard; Sisman Adam;
epub |eng | 2014-09-19 | Author:Davenport-Hines, Richard; Sisman, Adam; [Davenport-Hines, Richard; Sisman, Adam;]

On the morning of Saturday 23 April, the very morning that Trevor-Roper’s article announcing the discovery of the Hitler diaries was published in The Times, he spoke by telephone to ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 19,2017 )
Under Full Sail by Rob Mundle
epub |eng | 2016-10-12 | Author:Rob Mundle

The seas were so powerful and the destruction of the ship so complete that there was no immediate way of discovering her identity. She might be any one of six ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania October 19,2017 )
Divided on D-Day by Edward E. Gordon
epub |eng | 2017-08-18 | Author:Edward E. Gordon

Fig. 8.2. Rhino tank. (© Imperial War Museums [B 9336]) Culin's company commander got General Gerow to contact Bradley's staff. On July 14 Bradley personally attended a demonstration. With Culin's ...
( Category: Military October 19,2017 )
K Blows Top by Peter Carlson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Carlson [Carlson, Peter]

46. MARILYN MONROE TELLS HER MAID WHAT SHE REALLY THINKS OF KHRUSHCHEV When the chairman left the room, reporters swarmed around the stars, fishing for quotes about the historic event ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 19,2017 )
Fanshen by Hinton William ; Magdoff Fred;
epub |eng | 2008-10-19 | Author:Hinton, William ; Magdoff, Fred;

PART IV Who Will Educate the Educators? Why are there such bad things in the splendid organization of our Party? The reason, I think, is very simple. It is that ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 19,2017 )
African Nights by Kuki Gallmann
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Kuki Gallmann

13 Fifty Guineas’ Pike The seamed hills became black shadows … sounds ceased, forms vanished – and the reality of the universe alone remained – a marvellous thing of darkness ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 19,2017 )
Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann
epub |eng | 2017-10-19 | Author:Miranda Kaufmann

Flushing, where the Silver Falcon mysteriously docked in 1619. Braems’s factor in Flushing, John Vandhurst, paid the customs required for the ship to be unloaded. Thomas Lawley, an English merchant ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 19,2017 )
Code Girls by Liza Mundy
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Liza Mundy

During 1942 the U.S. Army and Navy had hammered out a sane division of code-breaking duties, abandoning the odd-even rivalry dating back to the Purple break. The U.S. Navy took ...
( Category: Americas October 19,2017 )
Edward VII: The Last Victorian King by Christopher Hibbert
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Hibbert

12 ‘Inconvenient’ Friends and ‘Ill-bred’ Children It is the greatest bane in one’s life saying good-bye, especially to one’s children, relations and friends. ‘If you ever become King,’ the Queen ...
( Category: Historical October 19,2017 )
Chindit Affair by Brian Mooney
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Brian Mooney

I recall that I was very aggressive in my outlook towards the Japanese during this period. Like the soccer enthusiast, however, I did all my fighting by proxy. It was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 19,2017 )
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
epub |eng | | Author:Mary S. Lovell

* Monckton had served as legal adviser to Edward VIII at the time of the abdication. † During her first marriage, as a young bride on a naval air base, ...
( Category: Europe October 18,2017 )

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