Historical European Biographies
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Evans, Richard J.;

III While Eric was away touring Latin America in 1962–3, Marlene had moved into Eric’s flat in Gordon Mansions in Huntley Street, around the corner from Birkbeck. On his return, ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Lytton Strachey [Strachey, Lytton]

Chorus: “We’ll send him home and make him groan, Oh, Al! you’ve played the deuce then; The German lad has acted sad And turned tail with the Russians.” “Last Monday ...
( Category: Historical European Biographies January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:Kati Marton [Marton, Kati]

ON SUNDAY MORNING, September 3, 1939, the shrill wail of the war’s first air raid warning pierced through London’s early morning sky, bringing the nightmare home to Alexander Korda. “We ...
( Category: Jewish January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-17 | Author:Jeremiah McCall [McCall, Jeremiah]

Chapter 4 The Political Battle for Syracuse Late in 211 or early in 210, Marcellus returned from Sicily. He left his troops there under his successor, though apparently unwillingly, since ...
( Category: Rome January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-05 | Author:Colin Falconer [Falconer, Colin]

✽ ✽ ✽ The moon fell below the hills. A shadow down in the street hurried inside a darkened doorway. A servant answered the timid knock and escorted the visitor ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:L. S. Fauber

It was not enough to be a critical reader. Every work that civilization had ever created must be assumed false. Regarding certain knowledge as a mode of demonstration and discourse ...
( Category: Astronomy January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Lichtblau

Hans, meanwhile, whiled away the late-winter days in an attic in Oberperfuss, waiting for news from Freddy to relay to OSS, now that his transmitter was finally working. Alois had ...
( Category: World War II December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-17 | Author:Roger Powell [Powell, Roger]

Lady Augusta Kennedy, later Hallyburton, (née FitzClarence) (1803–65) The fourth daughter of Mrs. Jordan (1761–1816), the well known comic actress, by the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, was ...
( Category: Europe December 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-26 | Author:Skidelsky, Edward;

Cassirer’s Critique of Logical Positivism It should come as no surprise that Cassirer’s few published and unpublished criticisms of logical positivism focus on its narrowing of the concept of meaning. ...
( Category: Modern May 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:John Carey [John Carey]

21 Disaster With The Pyramid due to appear on 1 June 1967, Golding followed his usual plan of refusing to talk about the book, and staying out of the country ...
( Category: Authors February 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:White, Edmund [White, Edmund]

While Proust was working on his Ruskin translations and essays, he was becoming friendly with three young noblemen of a rank higher than that of any of his previous friends. ...
( Category: French September 24,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

2 There are some things I’ve never liked talking about. A few days after I entered prison, I realized that I wouldn’t like talking about this part of my life. ...
( Category: French June 10,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Paul Strohm

CHAPTER FIVE The Other Chaucer One can immerse oneself in the extensive Life-Records without learning that Chaucer was a writer at all. This does not mean that he wasn’t writing, ...
( Category: Medieval February 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

Mary was delighted and moved to see them. After greetings were exchanged, the conversation was mainly about Henry Dudley’s arrest at Calais with incriminating evidence. Later, however, the Queen sent ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )