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On Wings Of Eagles (1990) by Follett Ken
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Follett, Ken [Follett, Ken]

Ross Perot: until this moment, life had been good to him. Perot’s parents: he had his father’s love of jokes, his mother’s iron will. Bull Simons. ABOVE with Lucille. BELOW, ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Okrent Daniel
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Okrent, Daniel [Okrent, Daniel]

Chapter 16 “Escaped on Payment of Money” I N AN ATTEMPT to memorize poetry,” Irving Fisher wrote in 1926, “Professor Vogt of the University of Christiania found that on days ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 25,2014 )
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:John M. Barry

The report had consequences. Park’s laboratory began the struggle to produce an antiserum and vaccine to Pfeiffer’s bacillus. Soon they were culturing liters and liters of the bacteria, transporting it ...
( Category: Infectious Disease March 25,2014 )
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis

III. IT MIGHT become necessary, the Doolittle Report suggested, for the American people to “be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.”26 But no administration from Eisenhower’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Erik Larson

BOLIVAR POINT The Lost Train ABOUT NOON ON Saturday, two trains converged on Galveston, one from the north, the other from the east. The first train belonged to the Galveston, ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tom Brokaw

Martha Settle Putney Her all-black unit of medical technicians was to be housed near Gardner General Hospital, not too far from Chicago’s tony Lake Shore Drive. The Army had built ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The Great Bridge by David McCullough
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough

There are times when standing alone on this spot, one feels as completely isolated as if in a dungeon. Some three years ago I had an experience of this kind ...
( Category: Civil & Environmental March 25,2014 )
The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story by King Dean
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:King, Dean [King, Dean]

Portraits from the February 17, 1888, Louisville Courier-Journal, of (in order from the top) Randall McCoy and the defendants Wall Hatfield, L. D. McCoy, Selkirk McCoy; Doc, Sam, and Plyant ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tony Horwitz

FROM HIS OLIVE SKIN and unusual surname, I’d guessed that the pharmacist Joe Gerache was of southern European extraction. But when I arrived at his home in suburban Vicksburg, I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Hampton Sides

Narbona’s sons believed the old man was already on the path. “You’ve gone away from us now,” they chanted. “You’ve gone away by yourself.” Having slaughtered the horses and left ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Bad Land by Jonathan Raban
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Raban

The Wollastons were bent on self-sufficiency, on making the homestead pay. Many, if not most, of their neighbors were subsidizing their farms by taking outside jobs. They taught school, or ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

The Whisper of Necessity BEFORE THEY LEFT Henderson Island, Chase loaded a flat stone and an armful of firewood into each boat. That first evening back on the water, as ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Drew Gilpin Faust

“It was my Mother’s customs,” “My gentle Mother dear” “I was my Mother’s darling,” for, I loved my lager beer. “Kiss me good-night, Mother,” and bring me a Bourbon plain— ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Vincent J. Cannato

Chapter 13 Moral Turpitude Poor little me, why did they consider me a dangerous woman? —Vera, Countess of Cathcart, 1926 DRESSED IN A LARGE GREEN FELT HAT WITH A MAT ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration March 25,2014 )

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