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Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis by Bruce F. Pauley
epub |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Bruce F. Pauley [Pauley, Bruce F.]

CHAPTER X "POSITIVE FASCISM" AND APPEASEMENT The Austrian government’s nearly total suppression of overt Nazi activity was destined to be short-lived. The Ethiopian War, which began in October 1935, turned ...
( Category: Germany December 29,2014 )
Four Sisters of Hofei : A History (9781439125878) by Chin Annping
epub |eng | | Author:Chin, Annping

YUN-HO Yun-ho (left), with Yuan-ho, when she was a college student in Shanghai. WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD, Yun-ho did not like love scenes in an opera, or scenes with ...
( Category: China December 27,2014 )
Elsa Schiaparelli by Meryle Secrest
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Meryle Secrest [Secrest, Meryle]

Schiaparelli, who was a fine skier, chastising Bettina, who was not, in this photograph taken in Megève, France, 1930s (illustration credit 8.5) “And remember Amelia Earhart’s evening dress with wings ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 27,2014 )
The Roosevelts by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

A Manhattan bread line operated by the Salvation Army. By 1931 there were 82 bread lines in New York, serving some 85,000 meals a day to those who had no ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 27,2014 )
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“SIR, “Your wife, Ursula Halifax, having some time since attained the age fixed by her late father as her majority, I will, within a month after date, pay over to ...
( Category: England December 27,2014 )
Cherry by Sara Wheeler
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Sara Wheeler

After a glorious rail journey on his own up through Harbin to Siberia and across central Russia, Cherry arrived home on 10 May to find The Times sprouting with stories ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 27,2014 )
The Sixteenth Rail by Adam Schrager
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Adam Schrager

After stating “the pertinent principles of law” for the grand jurors, Trenchard continued, If, then, the evidence presented to you in the Grand Jury room reasonably tends to show that ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
Le Temps Viendra: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Morris Sarah A
epub |eng | 2012-05-25 | Author:Morris, Sarah A. [Morris, Sarah A.]

Almost two weeks later, my mother and I arrived back at Hever, having spent Twelfth Night celebrations as guests of honour of Sir Henry Wyatt and his wife, Elizabeth at ...
( Category: History December 27,2014 )
Pirates: A History by Travers Tim
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Travers, Tim [Travers, Tim]

7 Death to the Pirates In the western world of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and along the coasts of the Americas, government forces were engaged in a concentrated campaign of ...
( Category: History December 27,2014 )
Thief-Taker Hangings by Aaron Skirboll
epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Aaron Skirboll

XIV The Trial of Jack Sheppard Sheppard, the notorious housebreaker, who lately escaped from the New Prison and was retaken by Jonathan Wild and committed to Newgate, attempted to escape ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction December 27,2014 )
Uncorking the Past by Patrick E. McGovern
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Patrick E. McGovern

SIX SAILING THE WINE-DARK MEDITERRANEAN MY WIFE AND I CAUGHT our first glimpse of the azure Mediterranean in 1971, when we traveled south from Germany to Italy, on our way ...
( Category: Wine December 27,2014 )
Exit the Colonel
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Ethan Chorin

PART III FITNA (CHAOS) Like so many of its utopian counterparts in the 20th century, this was a regime likely to self-destruct. LISA ANDERSON1 CHAPTER 9 Benghazi: The First Five ...
( Category: African December 27,2014 )
Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Wolf Shenk

The will of God prevails—In great contests each party claims to act in accordence with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 27,2014 )
Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford
epub |eng | 2003-08-04 | Author:Les Standiford

However, reports of Flagler’s demise were greatly exaggerated, as the saying goes. Even as the Journal account was being published, crews were back at work, rebuilding work camps and replacing ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust by Gilbert Martin
epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Gilbert, Martin [Gilbert, Martin]

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS are British sovereign territory, but the largest island, Jersey, is only fifteen miles from the coast of France, and seventy-five miles from Britain. In June 1940 the ...
( Category: Holocaust December 27,2014 )

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