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A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel by Allis Radosh & Ronald Radosh
epub |eng | 2009-05-12 | Author:Allis Radosh & Ronald Radosh [Radosh, Allis & Radosh, Ronald]

While Truman remains a potential supporter of our cause—for party reasons—the State Department, and especially Henderson, are apparently doing their best to counter-balance this by overemphasizing, as usual, the Arab ...
( Category: Diplomacy October 10,2014 )
Farewell the Trumpets by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jan Morris [Morris, Jan]

1 Whose grandson, the third baron, now lives at 7, Lord Sinha Road, Calcutta. 2 ‘Because the great Harcourt Butler Sahib is taking care of us,’ Indian mothers were alleged ...
( Category: England October 9,2014 )
Pax Britannica by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Jan Morris [Jan Morris]

1 Jaipur is now the capital of the Indian province called Rajasthan, though its Maharajah is still rich and powerful. There are few signs that it ever owed allegiance to ...
( Category: Great Britain October 9,2014 )
Hearts West by Chris Enss
epub |eng | 2005-05-31 | Author:Chris Enss

Aged 27, height 4 feet 9 inches, dark hair and eyes, considered handsome by all his friends untied in saying his amiable and will make a model husband. The lady ...
( Category: Women in History October 9,2014 )
1995 by Campbell W. Joseph
epub |eng | | Author:Campbell, W. Joseph

Conclusion The Long Reach of 1995 Nineteen ninety-five closed the way it began—on a Sunday, with the farewell appearance of a popular newspaper comic. The delightfully bizarre Far Side, a ...
( Category: United States October 9,2014 )
Sanders by Edgar Wallace
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Edgar Wallace

VI: The Man Who Hated Sheffield Beyond the Forest of Happy Dreams, which is a pestilential marsh, beautiful to see but deadly to traverse, lie the hunting grounds of the ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction October 9,2014 )
Why America Failed by Morris Berman
epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Morris Berman

Chapter 4 The Rebuke of History The past is always a rebuke to the present . . . it’s a better rebuke than any dream of the future. —Robert Penn ...
( Category: History & Theory October 9,2014 )
Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard [O'Reilly, Bill & Dugard, Martin]

CHAPTER ELEVEN JERUSALEM OCTOBER, A.D. 29 DAY Pontius Pilate sits tall as he rides to Jerusalem. His wife, Claudia, travels in a nearby carriage, as Pilate and his escorts lead ...
( Category: Christianity October 8,2014 )
The Book of Ancient Bastards: 101 of the Worst Miscreants and Misdeeds From Ancient Sumer to the Enlightenment by Brian Thornton
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Brian Thornton [Thornton, Brian]

50 MARCUS SALVIUS OTHO The Emperor as Scheming Pretty Boy ( A.D. 32–69) When civil war in the balance lay, and mincing Otho might have won the day, bloodshed too ...
( Category: Mesopotamia October 1,2014 )
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Edward Dolnick [Dolnick, Edward]

Spectators out for a day’s entertainment might attend a puppet show or a hanging or, perhaps, a bear-baiting. Dogs attacked a chained bear, who flailed at his attackers. Bull-baiting was ...
( Category: Scientists October 1,2014 )
Les bijoux indiscrets by Diderot
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Diderot [Diderot]

Les Bijoux Indiscrets La conversation dura quelques moments encore entre le sultan et Mirzoza ; et il ne la quitta que sur les onze heures, pour devenir ce que l'on ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 1,2014 )
Le soleil d'Austerlitz by Gallo Max
epub |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Gallo, Max [Gallo, Max]

Il n’y a plus que quelques jours à attendre, quelques dernières mesures à arrêter. Il aime ce moment, quand l’horizon s’éclaircit et que les lignes deviennent nettes. Il convoque M. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 1,2014 )
Le Journal D'Anne Frank by Anne Frank
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-23 | Author:Anne Frank [Frank, Anne]

Bien à toi, Anne SAMEDI 12 FÉVRIER 1944 Chère Kitty, Le soleil brille, le ciel est d’un bleu profond, il souffle un vent délicieux et j’ai une telle envie – ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 1,2014 )
Le bossu by Féval Paul
epub |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:Féval,Paul [Féval,Paul]

IV – Souvenirs des trois Philippe Le petit homme noir avait un binocle à la main, il lorgnait les décorations de la fête en véritable amateur. Il saluait les dames ...
( Category: General Books & Reading October 1,2014 )
The Best of Lucius Shepard by Lucius Shepard
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Lucius Shepard [Shepard, Lucius]

When she had no other duties, Tan would assist me with my chores: feeding the exotics, cleaning out their cages, and, though she did not relish his company, helping me ...
( Category: Anthologies September 30,2014 )

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