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Warriors of God by James Reston Jr
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:James Reston, Jr.

CHAPTER TWENTY HOME FIRES SMOLDERING SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE THESE PRODIGIOUS events in Acre, the indomitable, the incomparable, the irrepressible Eleanor of Aquitaine left her favorite son, Richard, in Sicily and ...
( Category: Royalty May 2,2016 )
Shopgirls by Pamela Cox
epub |eng | | Author:Pamela Cox

‘Shopgirl As Strike Leader’: Hilda Canham and the strike committee during the John Lewis & Co. strike, May 1920. CHAPTER 6 STRIKE! After the armistice, with 900,000 British and Empire ...
( Category: Women in History May 1,2016 )
Kundalini Warning - Are False Spirits Invading the Church? by Andrew Strom
epub |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Andrew Strom [Strom, Andrew]

CHAPTER FIVE THE LAKELAND DISASTER In March 2008, after four bruising years, my family and I departed the USA for a year’s break in our home country of New Zealand ...
( Category: Christianity May 1,2016 )
The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor Killing by Rod Nordland
mobi |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Rod Nordland

When they resurfaced, we learned that the couple had gone back with Anwar to the family home in Surkh Dar late that June, when Zakia’s father and brothers were still ...
( Category: Asian April 30,2016 )
The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern
epub |eng | 2016-04-28 | Author:Paul Strathern [Strathern, Paul]

17 The Bonfire of the Vanities PIERO DE’ MEDICI, now known as Piero the Unfortunate, has been harshly judged by history; and his weakness of character is said to have ...
( Category: Italy April 30,2016 )
The Comfort Women by George Hicks
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:George Hicks

As in many war crimes trials, the court proceedings essentially became a simple ratification of the findings of earlier investigations. They were in any case something of a legal hybrid, ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2016 )
Empire of Things by Frank Trentmann
epub |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:Frank Trentmann

‘Work hard, play hard’ was already a motto in the United States in the 1950s. The cult of busyness in professional and corporate life since has energized leisure further, in ...
( Category: Consumer Behavior April 29,2016 )
The Pity of War by Miranda Seymour
epub |eng | | Author:Miranda Seymour

PART TWO From Versailles to the Verge of War (1919–40) 18 LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (1919–23) The challenge facing the modest and quietly spoken Friedrich Ebert as the first president ...
( Category: European April 29,2016 )
First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower

JACKIE SPOKE IN a childlike whisper of a voice (Kennedy’s sisters called her “the Deb” behind her back), but she was tough as nails and would cut people off if ...
( Category: United States April 29,2016 )
The People by Selina Todd
epub |eng | 2014-02-23 | Author:Selina Todd [Selina Todd]

11 Working-Class Heroes IN OCTOBER 1957 Margaret Forster began a history degree at Somerville College, Oxford. She came from a council estate in Carlisle: her father was a factory worker; ...
( Category: Great Britain April 29,2016 )
A Handful of Heroes, Rorke's Drift: Facts, Myths and Legends by Katie Stossel
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Katie Stossel

The four soldiers mentioned in the two extracts above had also been detailed to defend the hospital, together with most of the patients who were fit enough to handle their ...
( Category: South Africa April 28,2016 )
Victory in Italy by Doherty Richard
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Doherty, Richard

Notes 1. Belogi & Guglielmi, op. cit., p.142; Jackson, op. cit., pp.267–8; Blaxland, op. cit., pp.259–60. 2. NA, WO170/5059, war diary 2/5 Queen’s. 3. Blaxland, p.259. 4. NA, WO170/5060, war ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
When Globalization Fails by James MacDonald
epub |eng | | Author:James MacDonald

5 PAX AMERICANA AND THE SECOND ERA OF GLOBALIZATION Either men may set up a common league to keep the peace of the earth, or one state must ultimately become ...
( Category: Trades & Tariffs April 26,2016 )
The Bomb by Stephen M. Younger
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen M. Younger

THE DISASTROUS EFFECT of unauthorized entry into computer networks has been repeatedly demonstrated in the commercial sector as hackers have planted viruses, worms, and other network attack software on the ...
( Category: Arms Control April 26,2016 )
0062413406 (N) by Duncan Clark
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Duncan Clark

eBay Comes to China In the fall of 2001, eBay CEO Meg Whitman made a trip to Shanghai to meet Bo. In March 2002, EachNet once again surprised the market ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )

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