Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Wendy Moore [Moore, Wendy]
NINE ESTHER Wakefield, Yorkshire, 1775 Clever, amiable and wealthy, at twenty-three, Esther Milnes was popular with girlhood friends and male admirers alike. Having lost both her parents within a few ...
( Category:
Women in History
March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1937-03-07 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]
PART TWO 8 The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear. In the earlier chapters of this book ...
( Category:
Communism & Socialism
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Simon Winchester
The main outcrop of the Jurassic rocks in England. The Jurassic rocks here had been given names that were almost as sonorous as the villages on which they lay. The ...
( Category:
Scientists
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Thomas B. Costain [Costain, Thomas B.]
3 During the last visit he paid to England before becoming King, Richard had been in the offices of the chancellery; briefly, because of his dislike for his bastard brother ...
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Royalty
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Simon Jenkins
Painted ceiling in the Royal Hospital in Greenwich: though firm Protestants, William and Mary revelled in Stuart grandeur and understood the potency of monarchical symbols. Anne, last of the Stuart ...
( Category:
England
March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Stephen Clarke
15 The Guillotine, a British Invention ‘There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.’ P. G. Wodehouse Before France ...
( Category:
European
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Philip Ziegler [Philip Ziegler]
He claimed that this figure had been confirmed by his study of the Charters of King Edward III. Camden claimed to have seen the same inscription but, in his recollection, ...
( Category:
Infectious Disease
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Peter Fitzsimons [Fitzsimons, Peter]
CHAPTER ELEVEN A WEARY WAY TO GO… Kono kuso ame! While the Japanese language has no real equivalent to the western notion of swearing, this phrase loosely translates to ‘this ...
( Category:
World War II
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Tim Harper & Tim Harper
MALAYA’S FORGOTTEN REGIMENTS Among the forsaken of empire were the vast regiments of labourers on the rubber plantations of Malaya. In the words of Selangor trade unionist C. V. S. ...
( Category:
Asia
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-06 | Author:Tim Harper
5 1943: Valleys of the Shadow of Death As the New Year of 1943 dawned, the British and the Americans looked to the future with restored confidence. In Britain the ...
( Category:
World War II
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jawaharlal Nehru [Nehru, Jawaharlal]
attitude was necessary and no truck with nationalism and sedi- tion. The Aligarh College group had become the leaders of the new Moslem intelligentsia and influenced sometimes openly, more often ...
( Category:
Historical
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Winchester
The elegant copperplate and exquisitely courteous tone of Consul Cameron’s lengthy Krakatoa dispatch to Lord Granville, in London. The error is understandable. Kennedy had in fact been consul in Sumatra, ...
( Category:
Volcanology
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-11-21 | Author:Iris Chang [Chang, Iris]
Corpses of Nanking citizens were dragged to the banks of the Yangtze and thrown into the river (Moriyasa Murase). Heaps of dead bodies wait for disposal on the wharves of ...
( Category:
China
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Julia Lovell
Chapter Fourteen THE TREATY OF NANJING In April 1842, a seventy-one-year-old Manchu called Yilibu received some terrible news. His distant relative, the emperor, had revoked his sentence of banishment to ...
( Category:
China
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Iris Chang [Chang, Iris]
In January 1938, not one shop was officially open in Nanking except for a military store and the International Committee’s rice shop. The harbor was practically empty of ships. Most ...
( Category:
China
March 26,2014 )
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