Biography index reprint series
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The book tells the story of Dr Felix Kersten, a masseur who treated Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's Gestapo chief for his stomach ailments which no other doctor could cure and succeeded in persuading Himmler to spare the lives of thousands of Jews and others interned in Nazi prisons and concentration camps. An incredible true story.
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The Man With the Miraculous Hands
The book tells the story of Dr Felix Kersten, a masseur who treated Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's Gestapo chief for his stomach ailments which no other doctor could cure and succeeded in persuading Himmler to spare the lives of thousands of Jews and others interned in Nazi prisons and concentration camps. An incredible true story.
Indiana, an interpretation
The purpose of this book is to interpret a state, Indiana, and the people who inhabit it. It is one man's interpretation of Indiana: the Hoosier character, the Hoosier thought, the Hoosier way of living.
The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce
Contains: IN THE MIDST OF LIFE TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS Soldiers A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]( CHICKAMAUGA A SON OF THE GODS ONE OF THE MISSING KILLED AT RESACA THE AFFAIR AT COULTER'S NOTCH THE COUP DE GRACE PARKER ADDERSON, PHILOSOPHER AN AFFAIR OF OUTPOSTS THE STORY OF A CONSCIENCE ONE KIND OF OFFICER ONE OFFICER, ONE MAN GEORGE THURSTON THE MOCKING-BIRD Civilians THE MAN OUT OF THE NOSE AN ADVENTURE AT BROWNVILLE THE FAMOUS GILSON BEQUEST THE APPLICANT [Watcher by the Dead]( THE MAN AND THE SNAKE A HOLY TERROR THE SUITABLE SURROUNDINGS THE BOARDED WINDOW A LADY FROM REDHORSE [Eyes of the Panther]( THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY CAN SUCH THINGS BE? THE DEATH OF HALPIN FRAYSER THE SECRET OF MACARGER'S GULCH ONE SUMMER NIGHT THE MOONLIT ROAD A DIAGNOSIS OF DEATH MOXON'S MASTER A TOUGH TUSSLE ONE OF TWINS THE HAUNTED VALLEY A JUG OF SIRUP STALEY FLEMING'S HALLUCINATION A RESUMED IDENTITY A BABY TRAMP THE NIGHM)OINGS AT "DEADMAN'S" BEYOND THE WALL A PSYCHOLOGICAL SHIPWRECK THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT JOHN MORTONSON'S FUNERAL THE REALM OF THE UNREAL JOHN BARTINE'S WATCH [Damned Thing]( HAiTA THE SHEPHERD [Inhabitant of Carcosa]( THE STRANGER
Lincoln and the preachers
Examines the influence specific preachers may have had on Lincoln's way of thinking.
Three thousand years of espionage
Includes material on Rahab the harlot, Lydia Darrah, Benedict Arnold, Schumeister, spy for Napoleon, Lafayette C. Baker, Emma Edmonds, Wilhelm Stieber, Eugene Azeff, Franz von Rintelen, Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, Mata Hari, Sidney Reilly, the Kempei Tai, Admiral Canaris, Laurenti Beria, and others.