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The Downfall of Galveston’s May Walker Burleson Texas Society Marriage & Carolina Murder Scandal


Free Download T. Felder Dorn, "The Downfall of Galveston’s May Walker Burleson: Texas Society Marriage & Carolina Murder Scandal"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1467139661, 1540228584 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 1.6 mb
Jennie May Walker Burleson was envied for having everything a woman of her time could want-the privileged upbringing, the dazzling good looks, the dashing war hero husband. She was admired for demonstrating that a woman could want more, from the front of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession to the bottom of a Mesoamerican archaeological dig. But as she stood over the body of her husband’s second wife, gun in hand, society’s envy and admiration quickly hardened into pity and scorn. T. Felder Dorn examines the complicated trajectory of her life as socialite, suffragist and shooter.

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Downfall


Free Download Downfall: Prigozhin and Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia
by Mark Galeotti

English | June 13, 2024 | ISBN: 1529927366 | 272 pages | EPUB | 0.75 Mb

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Nicaragua, 1961-1990 Volume 1 The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship (Latin America at War)


Free Download Nicaragua, 1961-1990: Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship (Latin America at War) by David Francois
English | January 4th, 2019 | ISBN: 1911628216 | 72 pages | True EPUB | 13.75 MB
A history of the Sandinista takeover of this Central American nation and the uneasy decades leading up to it, with maps, photos, and illustrations.

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Iron Kingdom The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947


Free Download Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 By Christopher Clark
2006 | 800 Pages | ISBN: 0674023854 | PDF | 111 MB
In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia–a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe’s development–ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia’s legacy is far more complex. Though now a fading memory in Europe’s heartland, the true story of Prussia offers a remarkable glimpse into the dynamic rise of modern Europe. What we find is a kingdom that existed nearly half a millennium ago as a patchwork of territorial fragments, with neither significant resources nor a coherent culture. With its capital in Berlin, Prussia grew from being a small, poor, disregarded medieval state into one of the most vigorous and powerful nations in Europe. Iron Kingdom traces Prussia’s involvement in the continent’s foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great to the destructive conquests of Napoleon, and from the "iron and blood" policies of Bismarck to the creation of the German Empire in 1871, and all that implied for the tumultuous twentieth century. By 1947, Prussia was deemed an intolerable threat to the safety of Europe; what is often forgotten, Clark argues, is that it had also been an exemplar of the European humanistic tradition, boasting a formidable government administration, an incorruptible civil service, and religious tolerance. Clark demonstrates how a state deemed the bane of twentieth-century Europe has played an incalculable role in Western civilization’s fortunes. Iron Kingdom is a definitive, gripping account of Prussia’s fascinating, influential, and critical role in modern times.

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Adolf Hitler My Part in his Downfall


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English | 2012 | pages: 144 | ISBN: 0241964458 | EPUB | 8,1 mb
‘At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked ‘This is your enemy’. I searched every compartment, but he wasn’t on the train’. Spike Milligan’s on the march, blitzing friend and foe alike with his uproarious recollections of army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943. Bathos, pathos and gales of drunken laughter, and insane military goonery explode in superlative Milliganese.

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