Historical European Biographies
mobi |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:Spence, Richard B. [Spence, Richard B.]
2 Dwight Messimer, The Merchant U-Boat: The Adventures of the Deutschland, 1916-1918 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1988). 3 NYT (1 Nov. 1916), 1:5 ff. 4 Ibid., (14 Nov. 1916), 2:6. ...
( Category:
Occultism
June 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:Varlow, Sally [Varlow, Sally]
CHAPTER TWENTY January–December 1596 “With best forewinds guide the journey, speed the victory” – Elizabeth I, 3 June 1596 Essex’s daring raid on the Spanish port of Cadiz in the ...
( Category:
Women in History
June 6,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Bew, Paul [Bew, Paul]
Parnell behaved as if he thought all the elements for a Conservative parliamentary settlement were coming into place. In early August 1885 he drew attention to the reality that Irish ...
( Category:
Europe
May 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Dwyer, Ryle T [Dwyer, Ryle T]
10 ‘Spies Beware’ Collins opened new offices at 76 Harcourt Street. This time certain precautions were taken to ensure there was an escape route and a hiding place for important ...
( Category:
Europe
May 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Collins, Lorcan [Collins, Lorcan]
Cathal O’Shannon wrote that Connolly: … was not exactly a great orator, although he could rise to oratory too. But he had a method, a style, a manner that exactly ...
( Category:
Military
May 18,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]
45. On the next day the Romans covered their advance more effectively, and when the Parthians attacked they met with a severe shock. They rode up expecting to have nothing ...
( Category:
Rome
May 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-02-22 | Author:Plutarch
26. So for the time being the assembly was adjourned. When the day came for voting on the law, Pompey went quietly out of the city into the country. There ...
( Category:
Rome
May 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1973-09-26 | Author:Plutarch
7 NICIAS [c. 470 – 413 B.C.] THERE is a true parallel, I believe, between the lives of Nicias and Crassus,1 and between the disasters of the Sicilian and the ...
( Category:
Europe
May 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Philippa Jones [Jones, Philippa]
Sir John’s gift for making enemies was not helped by foolish actions on behalf of the families of his officers. In November, Sir Nicholas White reported to Burghley of a ...
( Category:
England
May 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Xenophon & Robin H. Waterfield & Paul Cartledge
CHAPTER 10 The usual way of getting a good war-horse to put on a grander and [1] more imposing display as it rides by is to pull at its mouth ...
( Category:
Europe
April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-07 | Author:Donald Sassoon [Sassoon, Donald]
Violence paid off: Ferrara, hitherto a socialist stronghold, turned fascist at the national election of 15 May.43 The bloodshed continued for the following year and a half – until the ...
( Category:
Fascism
April 8,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:R. J. B. Bosworth
12 Dictating full-time If, by the early 1930s, men and women at the bottom of Italian society still cherished a complex set of identities, what had a decade of Fascist ...
( Category:
U.S. Presidents
April 8,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Keegan
SIR HENRY NEWBOLT (1862 — 1938) Vitaï Lampada There’s a breathless hush in the Close tonight — Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and ...
( Category:
Military Technology
April 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Mackay, Lauren [Mackay, Lauren]
The ambassador’s response was carefully engineered, as he knew it would get back to Henry before his audience. He attempted to soothe the older man, assuring him that his words ...
( Category:
Royalty
April 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:William Golding [Golding, William]
CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees The pig-run kept close to the jumble of rocks that lay down by the water on the other side and Ralph was content to ...
( Category:
Classic Literature & Fiction
March 26,2014 )
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