Arts & Photography
mobi |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Rick Atkinson

Part Four 10. ARGONAUTS Citizens of the World MORNING sun and a tranquil breeze carried hints of an early Mediterranean spring across Grand Harbour, where strains of “The Star-Spangled Banner” ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |zho | 2011-08-03 | Author:Crowley, Roger [Crowley, Roger]

… we won [it] in a very short space of time – just an hour and a half … of their twenty-one galleys we took fifteen with noble captains on ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-06 | Author:Tim Harris

CONCLUSION The challenge of the Whigs, then, was met by an ideological counterchallenge from the Tories. The Tory propaganda counter-offensive was highly sophisticated, designed to target a socially diverse audience, ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1960-01-02 | Author:William L. Shirer

* Hitler’s proclamation to the Army announcing the opening of hostilities was broadcast over me German radio at 5:40 A.M., and the newspaper extras were on the street shortly after. ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Erik Larson

( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

23 Faith of our fathers The failure of Wyatt’s rebellion, and the subsequent arrival of Philip, lent confidence to the queen. The pace of religious reform, or perhaps of religious ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-26 | Author:Robert Harvey

Chapter 51 THE GRENVILLE INTERLUDE When Pitt died at the end of January 1806, William, Lord Grenville, Pitt’s brilliant cousin, formed the Ministry of All Talents, so named for its ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Marr, Andrew [Marr, Andrew]

There were worse worlds for revolutionaries, and more serious revolutionaries too. In the final days of a freezing November in 1923 in a grimy street in Pollockshaws, just outside Glasgow, ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:McKay Sinclair

18 1942: Grave Setbacks and Internal Strife ‘You mustn’t think that it was all harmony at BP,’ says one veteran. ‘There were some pretty ferocious internal squabbles too.’ As 1942 ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

22 Birth and death The infant mortality rates of the medieval period were high, with over a third of boys and a quarter of girls dying at or soon after ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-12-14 | Author:Richard Overy

A VICTORY OF SORTS I think we have managed to avoid losing this war. But when I think how on earth we are going to win it, my imagination quails. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-17 | Author:Neil Oliver

Mary had no such qualms and gamely set out to survey the field for a suitable husband. (This behaviour can only have added to Knox’s rage. While he was almost ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-24 | Author:Aeschylus & Roberts, Deborah [Roberts, Deborah]

Endnotes Here I note departures from the text of Griffith’s edition (Griffith 1983) and a few other textual issues. i. 431 (409 in the Greek): “in the west.” Here I ...
( Category: Theater March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Robert Hughes

The Irish were the largest and most cohesive white minority in penal Australia, and their folkways were bound to make a deep mark on the ethos of all convicts and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Barbara Demick

CHAPTER 11 WANDERING SWALLOWS Boys at a North Korean market. IN HER FREQUENT VISITS TO THE CHONGJIN TRAIN STATION, Mrs. Song probably crossed paths with a boy wearing an indigo ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 25,2014 )