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Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
epub |eng | 1993-03-01 | Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook [Cook, Blanche Wiesen]

OUT OF THE CRUCIBLE OF FDR’S ILLNESS, THE ROOSEVELTS’ lives were transformed once again. Eleanor considered Franklin’s triumph over his disability “a blessing in disguise.” Although many believe that his ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 27,2017 )
Diana: Story of a Princess by Tim Clayton & Phil Craig
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Tim Clayton & Phil Craig [Clayton, Tim & Craig, Phil]

* * * James Hewitt had been trying to forget Diana and had not spoken to her for more than a year. He was still based in Germany when the ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Lady Colin Campbell
epub |eng | 2013-10-30 | Author:Lady Colin Campbell [Campbell, Lady Colin]

Notes 1: Shawcross, p258 2: News Chronicle, 13 April, 1953 3: Michael Thornton 4: Wheeler-Bennett, p230 5: Harry Batterbee to Lord Stamfordham – 26 May 1927 – Royal Archives 6: ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver by Scott Stossel
epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Scott Stossel [Stossel, Scott]

Shriver was forced to agree to scale back the military’s role significantly. Liberals also objected to the role Shriver proposed for private corporations in administering the Job Corps camps. But ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
Blood Royal: The Story of the Spencers and the Royals by John Pearson
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:John Pearson [Pearson, John]

Chapter 9 Reform and After John Charles, third Earl Spencer (1782-1845) and Frederick, fourth Earl Spencer (1798-1857) Apart from his mother, almost everyone who came in contact with John Charles, ...
( Category: Europe September 27,2017 )
The Other Schindlers by Agnes Grunwald-Spier
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Agnes Grunwald-Spier [Agnes Grunwald-Spier]

3 RESCUERS WITH OTHER MOTIVES Oskar Schindler (1908–74), who became known across the world through Stephen Spielberg’s 1994 film, did not live to see his surname become a generic term ...
( Category: World September 27,2017 )
Priscilla by Nicholas Shakespeare
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Shakespeare

The Germans enforced most of these rules. Yvette Goodden was barely a month back in Paris when one morning at 5 a.m. the Gestapo knocked on her door to check ...
( Category: Military September 27,2017 )
Vikings in America by Graeme Davis
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Graeme Davis

6 Viking Hudson Bay THE north-centre of the North American continent is a vast area running from the Canadian High Arctic through Hudson Bay, and south to the Great Lakes ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
A Wind From the North by Ernle Bradford
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-20 | Author:Ernle Bradford [Bradford, Ernle]

15 ❖ It is difficult for a man to be completely dedicated to a dream, or to an idea, without sacrificing something of his humanity. In Prince Henry’s attitude and ...
( Category: World September 27,2017 )
Why was the Partridge in the Pear Tree? by Mark Lawson-Jones
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Mark Lawson-Jones

Many have questioned the historical accuracy of this religious origin of the song. Some have suggested it is merely an ‘urban myth’, although there is little ‘hard’ evidence available either ...
( Category: Music September 27,2017 )
Women Sailors & Sailors' Women by David Cordingly
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-04-15 | Author:David Cordingly

When asked what time of night this happened, he said it was about three or four in the morning. Was there any light? There was not any. It was dark. ...
( Category: World September 27,2017 )
Generals of the Army by James H. Willbanks
epub |eng | | Author:James H. Willbanks

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of ...
( Category: Military September 27,2017 )
The Italian Renaissance by Peter Burke
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Burke

5 Morisani, ‘Cristoforo Landino’. 6 Gelli, ‘Vite d’artisti’, p. 37. 7 Savonarola, Prediche e scritti, pp. 2, 47. 8 Blunt, Artistic Theory, ch. 8. 9 Clements, Michelangelo; Summers, Michelangelo, ch. ...
( Category: Europe September 27,2017 )
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy by Stewart O'Nan
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Stewart O'Nan [O'Nan, Stewart]

The basement of Public Hall. Circus veterinarian Dr. J. Y. Henderson examines Pasha while Blackie Barlow paints on Foille. The three camels hung on the longest, but eventually they succumbed ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
Vikings by Neil Oliver
epub, mobi, azw |eng | | Author:Neil Oliver

CHAPTER SEVEN THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY ‘Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.’ John B. L. Soule It was already dark when the boat slipped out of ...
( Category: Europe September 27,2017 )

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