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The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman
mobi | | 0100-12-31 | Author:David E. Hoffman

Akhromeyev. Gorbachev called Chernyaev at home that evening. "We discredited the country, humiliated our people," Gorbachev said, according to Chernyaev's account. Gorbachev wondered if he should have resigned too. Then ...
( Category: Military August 14,2017 )
Curveball by Bob Drogin
epub |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Bob Drogin

Others were less impressed. Werner Kappel, the senior BND official, turned on the large TV in his corner office in Berlin and invited members of the Curveball team to join ...
( Category: Middle East August 14,2017 )
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World by Alan Beattie
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Alan Beattie [Beattie, Alan]

Chapter 6. Politics Of Development: Why Does Our Asparagus Come From Peru? If you are a European, or less so an American, take a look at your supermarket the next ...
( Category: Economics August 14,2017 )
The Butcher's Tale by Helmut Walser Smith
epub |eng | 2014-02-20 | Author:Helmut Walser Smith

III Of all the denunciations in Konitz, perhaps the most tragic involved a series of sightings of Ernst Winter together with Moritz Lewy, Adolph’s elder son. Moritz Lewy denied knowing ...
( Category: True Crime August 13,2017 )
Mozart and the Nazis: How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon by Levi Erik
mobi |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Levi, Erik [Levi, Erik]

23 Joseph Goebbels delivering his Mozart speech at the Staatsoper in Vienna, 4 December 1941. 24 Goebbels visiting the newly restored Figarohaus in the Domgasse Vienna, 5 December 1941. After ...
( Category: Music August 13,2017 )
Flags Over the Warsaw Ghetto by Arens Moshe
mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Arens, Moshe [Arens, Moshe]

In his conversation with Moczarski in the Warsaw prison while awaiting his trial, he recounts this battle: Already during the first two days of the Grossaktion the numerically strongest Jewish ...
( Category: World August 13,2017 )
Discovering the Vedas by Frits Staal
epub |eng | 2013-04-06 | Author:Frits Staal [Staal, Frits]

The Gāyatrī Mantra The Gāyatrī mantra is called after its metre (Five: Rigveda): it consists of three verses of eight syllables which are long ‘—’ or short ‘^’ as in ...
( Category: Hinduism August 13,2017 )
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties by Rachel Cooke
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Rachel Cooke [Cooke, Rachel]

Ann Todd in The Seventh Veil (ITV Global/The Kobal Collection.) The Seventh Veil opened on 22 October 1945 at the Leicester Square Theatre; its title and the names of its ...
( Category: World August 11,2017 )
Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks
epub |eng | 2017-04-28 | Author:Thomas E. Ricks

Animal Farm appeared in Britain’s bookstores five months after Eileen’s death, and just three days after the end of World War II. It was published by Fredric Warburg. The reaction ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 11,2017 )
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Wood Gordon S
mobi |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Wood, Gordon S. [Wood, Gordon S.]

When someone as aristocratic as William Byrd could write of the natural equality of all men, even those of different nations and races, and conclude that “the principal difference between ...
( Category: Americas August 11,2017 )
Ibn Tufayl by Kukkonen Taneli;
epub |eng | 2014-09-26 | Author:Kukkonen, Taneli;

THE SPIRIT WHICH IS GOD’S All this is highlighted in the scene-setting preamble in which Hayy is born spontaneously out of the earth’s bowels, “without a mother or father” as ...
( Category: World August 11,2017 )
Three Guineas by Three Guineas
epub, mobi |eng | 1938-08-11 | Author:Three Guineas

Notes and references 1. To quote the exact words of one such appeal: ‘This letter is to ask you to set aside for us garments for which you have no ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 11,2017 )
Measure of a Man by Martin Greenfield & Wynton Hall
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Martin Greenfield & Wynton Hall [Greenfield, Martin & Hall, Wynton]

( Category: Memoirs August 5,2017 )
Water by Steven Solomon
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-08 | Author:Steven Solomon [Solomon, Steven]

( Category: Nature & Ecology August 5,2017 )
Killing Kennedy by Bill O'reilly & Martin Dugard
epub |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Bill O'reilly & Martin Dugard [O'Reilly, Bill & Dugard, Martin]

( Category: Americas August 5,2017 )

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