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The World War II Collection by Lord Walter;
epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Lord, Walter; [Lord, Walter]

CHAPTER IX “You Don’t Wear a Tie to War” THE BREESE SAW IT first. From her anchorage off Pearl City, the old destroyer-minecraft sighted a conning tower turning up the ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
The Jews in America Trilogy by Birmingham Stephen;
epub |eng | | Author:Birmingham, Stephen;

12 LEGENDS AND LEGACIES Each of the old families has its favorite legend, and Aunt Elvira Nathan Solis knew them all. Some of the most romantic, to be sure, involved ...
( Category: Judaism August 29,2017 )
The Creative Spark by Agustín Fuentes
epub |eng | 2017-03-02 | Author:Agustín Fuentes [Fuentes, Agustín]

( Category: Anthropology August 29,2017 )
Midnight's Furies by Nisid Hajari
epub |eng | | Author:Nisid Hajari

As a discouraged Ismay flew back to Delhi on 14 September, Nehru was racing the other way, to attend an emergency summit with Liaquat in the Punjab. Jinnah was not ...
( Category: Asia August 29,2017 )
[Scudder 08] - A Ticket to the Boneyard by Block Lawrence
mobi |eng | 2010-09-26 | Author:Block, Lawrence [Block, Lawrence]

I thought about it and decided the present circumstances didn't qualify as an emergency. I wasn't in danger of taking a drink, which is the only sort of emergency I ...
( Category: Mystery August 29,2017 )
Chasing the Sun by Richard Cohen
epub |eng | 2010-08-29 | Author:Richard Cohen [Cohen, Richard]

In Don Quixote (1605), Cervantes makes his feelings plain about people’s general ability to use all this newfangled gadgetry. Quixote (whose surname, in Catalan, translates as “horse’s ass”) is busy ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 29,2017 )
The Age of Bede by Bede
epub |eng | 1998-09-02 | Author:Bede [Bede]

CHAPTER 35 Wilfrid encourages his brethren WILFRID, God’s beloved, addressed his comrades thus: ‘Keep in mind and recall to the brethren those days of old, how we read in the ...
( Category: Catholicism August 29,2017 )
The Survivor by Thomas Keneally
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Keneally

6 It was a waking dream. The diggers found no corpse but a vacancy, and stood back, their faces all what he would call classic Antarctic faces, the type that ...
( Category: World August 29,2017 )
Aimee & Jaguar by Erica Fischer
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Erica Fischer

On the second day of each month Aimée and Jaguar celebrated the second of April, the day that Felice first crawled into bed with Lilly. On September 2, 1943, Jaguar ...
( Category: LGBT August 28,2017 )
Ease by Patrick Gale
epub |eng | 1986-08-28 | Author:Patrick Gale [Patrick Gale]

15 The propeller was a roaring blur, a hail of sugared almonds was pelting over her skin, her legs were about his neck and truly this is the meaning of ...
( Category: World August 28,2017 )
Colditz by P. R. Reid
epub |eng | 2015-08-28 | Author:P. R. Reid

A quarrel ensued in which Tunstall told him to check up with the duty officer, and much else besides, and to emphasize some of his points touched the German with ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
The Creole Affair by Arthur T. Downey
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Arthur T. Downey

On May 5, 1842, Giddings’s northeastern Ohio constituents reelected him overwhelmingly (7,469 to 393) to the congressional seat he had just vacated. By late May, Giddings was back at his ...
( Category: Americas August 28,2017 )
The Lady with the Borzoi by Laura Claridge
epub |eng | | Author:Laura Claridge

18 THE WAR’S END AT AN AFTERNOON BUFFET LUNCH at Manhattan’s Dorset Hotel in early November 1943, Blanche shared stories with Mencken of her brief trip overseas. The newspaperman, rarely ...
( Category: World August 28,2017 )
Orson Welles: Hello Americans by Simon Callow
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Callow

CHAPTER FOURTEEN An Occasional Soapbox IN ADDITION TO the newspaper column, Welles had continued throughout 1945 to pursue his political interests, preparing for a new radio programme in which he ...
( Category: Movies August 28,2017 )
Hitler's Last Day by Emma Craigie
epub |eng | | Author:Emma Craigie

In his diary the politician Harold Nicolson notes the response of Mrs Grove, his London housekeeper, to the news of the deaths of Mussolini and Clara Petacci. Mrs Groves thinks ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )

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