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Dancing Under the Red Star by Karl Tobien
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-05-24 | Author:Karl Tobien [Tobien, Karl]

Fourteen BUREPOLOM Our introduction to this transitional camp was rough indeed. We were put to work immediately and left to fend for ourselves among the camp’s most violent members. Because ...
( Category: Russia May 25,2015 )
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-06 | Author:Vera Brittain

10 Victor’s long letter had been written on March 24th from a sector near Arras. To-day, as I re-read his realistic phrases, they seem to me to be less infused ...
( Category: World War I May 24,2015 )
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Fifteen WE CANNOT DROP OUR WORK IN THE HOSPITALS In January 1915 an additional burden of concern was placed on the shoulders of the Romanov sisters when Anna Vyrubova ...
( Category: Russia April 5,2015 )
Tears of the Desert by Halima Bashir
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Halima Bashir

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Rumors of War I knew how valuable my qualifying as a doctor would be for the people of our village. That gave me the strength and fortitude to ...
( Category: Africa April 5,2015 )
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Gail Collins

10. “You’re Gonna Make It After All” “YOU WALK INTO A MEETING�� AND NOW THERE’S ANOTHER WOMAN.” In September 1970 Mary Tyler Moore—the actress who had broken television’s no-pants rule ...
( Category: United States April 5,2015 )
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot by J. Randy Taraborrelli & Beth Fowler
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:J. Randy Taraborrelli & Beth Fowler

Jackie’s Saddest Days At the same time that Ted and Joan moved into their new rented home, Jackie purchased a fourteen-room, brick town house close to them, at 3017 N ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Jill Lepore

Franklin’s story doesn’t fit neatly on one side of that divide, nor Jane’s on the other. Their lives were messier than that. John Adams found Benjamin Franklin impossible to account ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 5,2015 )
Breasts by Florence Williams
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Florence Williams

• 9 • HOLY CRAP: HERMAN, HAMLET, AND THE ALL-IMPORTANT HUMAN GUT O, thou with the beautiful face, may the child Reared on your milk, attain a long life, like ...
( Category: Obstetrics & Gynecology April 5,2015 )
Hatchepsut by Joyce Tyldesley
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-06 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley

Both these women chose to shun conventional female dress in order to challenge the way that their societies perceived them. However, there are clear differences between the two cases. Joan ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
The Men Who Would Be King by Josephine Ross
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-16 | Author:Josephine Ross

6 “The Weal of the Kingdom” While there was “but one mistress and no master” in England, there would be no heirs born to the queen. Admirable as her desire ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Mackrell Judith
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Mackrell, Judith [Mackrell, Judith]

Chapter Nine NANCY When Tallulah made her debut in The Green Hat, she was not the only woman in London reputed to be the inspiration for its lovely, errant heroine, ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
Domestic Soldiers by Jennifer Purcell
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Jennifer Purcell

Chapter Eight: Fight Like Hell Until All Are Equal 1 Priestley, Postscripts, p. 42. 2 Ibid., p. 21. 3 Ibid., p. 7. 4 Ibid., p. 33. 5 Ibid., p. 45. ...
( Category: World War II April 5,2015 )
Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Matthew Goodman

DECEMBER 18–23, 1889 South China Sea ON BOARD THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP THAMES BOUND for Singapore, Elizabeth Bisland slept “the languorous, voluptuous sleep of the tropics.” Her stateroom had ...
( Category: Women April 4,2015 )
Lillian Alling by Susan Smith-Josephy
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Susan Smith-Josephy

Stories of a Russian Countess Dietger Hollmann, an amateur historian who followed Lillian Alling’s trail to the Atlin area in the late autumn of 1970, met with Jim Grant, owner ...
( Category: Canada March 22,2015 )
Hitler's Valkyrie by David R L Litchfield
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:David R L Litchfield

5 BAVARIAN RHAPSODY * * * 1934–36 * * * Somewhere between fear and sex is passion. Somewhere between God and the Devil. Jeanette Winterson On 30 June 1934 the ...
( Category: World War II March 22,2015 )

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