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I Believe In Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History by Moore Tim
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Moore, Tim [Moore, Tim]

Chapter Five If a common theme connected all the previous periods I'd stuck a grubby toe into, it was the daily struggle for survival. The Iron Agers had led a ...
( Category: Humor December 27,2014 )
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson
epub |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Frances Larson [Larson, Frances]

In Sudbury, in the county of Suffolk, a man’s head is kept in a church as a relic, but he is not a saint. Simon Sudbury’s head may well have ...
( Category: Death December 25,2014 )
Das Reich by Hastings Max
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hastings, Max [Hastings, Max]

But Macpherson embodied the exact spirit that SHAEF had intended to send with the Jedburghs. He had no interest in clandestine life – he considered that his business was to ...
( Category: France December 25,2014 )
Himmler's Crusade by Christopher Hale
epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:Christopher Hale

Chapter Ten WEIRD BARBARITY ‘The veil has been torn aside and the naked city [of Lhasa] has been revealed in all its weird barbarity.’ – Colonel Sir Thomas H. Holdich, ...
( Category: Germany December 25,2014 )
The Deluge by Adam Tooze
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Adam Tooze [Tooze, Adam]

17 Compliance in Asia At the signing ceremony on 28 June 1919 the Chinese were the only delegation to stay away. Since the first week of May the Versailles conference ...
( Category: World War I December 25,2014 )
Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Peter Longerich [Longerich, Peter]

Phase II: Women and children With Hitler’s instruction of 16 July and the decision in principle it indicated about the structure of the civil administration, the moment had come for ...
( Category: Germany December 25,2014 )
Citizen of the World by John English
epub |eng | 2006-12-24 | Author:John English [English, John]

Emmanuel Mounier, the French Catholic personalist and founder of Esprit, had taught Trudeau to “see, judge, act.” It was now the time to act. That summer, Trudeau began to encounter ...
( Category: Political December 25,2014 )
Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants 1933-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War) by Ian Baxter
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-30 | Author:Ian Baxter

A photograph of SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Bothmann. Bothmann was the last commandant of the Chelmno extermination camp from 1942, and commander of the SS Special Detachment. Bothmann was responsible for the ...
( Category: Holocaust December 22,2014 )
Christianity: The First 3000 Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch

17 A House Divided (1517-1660) A DOOR IN WITTENBERG Two incidents stick in the popular consciousness from Martin Luther's career: first, that he nailed some theses to a door in ...
( Category: Christianity December 21,2014 )
The Secrets of Q Central: How Leighton Buzzard Shortened the Second World War by
mobi |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:

The National Fire Service During the war, as part of the ARP, a NFS was formed. It was based on and grew out of the Auxiliary Fire Service originally formed ...
( Category: World War II December 19,2014 )
Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Michael Levy [Levy, Michael]

The Taiwan Problem Our first game was scheduled for a Saturday night against the Guizhou Military Academy. We donned our yellow jerseys and boarded the team bus at 3:30 p.m. ...
( Category: General December 19,2014 )
In the Kingdom of Ice-The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
mobi |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Hampton Sides

AROUND MIDNIGHT ON June 11, something momentous did happen. While most of the men slept away the bright polar night, the ice opened with a ragged crack, and the Jeannette ...
( Category: Transportation December 19,2014 )
In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal by Richard Nixon
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Nixon

21 POWER When we met with Mao Tse-tung in Beijing in 1972, Henry Kissinger remarked that he had assigned Mao’s writings to his classes at Harvard. With typical self-deprecation, Mao ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 19,2014 )
None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen
mobi |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:Gary Allen

Warburg, engineered the establishment of the Federal Reserve System while on the Kuhn Loeb payroll. Schiff’s descendants are active in the Council on Foreign Relations today. Home of the Council ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism December 19,2014 )
The Templars: The History and the Myth by Michael Haag
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Michael Haag

* * * Lonely Outposts The fall of the Crusader castles to the Mamelukes needs some explanation. How could such magnificent structures, built at such vast cost and effort, incorporating ...
( Category: Christianity December 19,2014 )

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