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Enlightenment Blues by Andre van der Braak
epub |eng | 2016-10-18 | Author:Andre van der Braak [Braak, Andre Van Der]

5.2. In Love When Gina had left the community in January 1990, I hardly had time to dwell on it, busy as I was with my glorious book project. But ...
( Category: Asia June 13,2023 )
Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America by Jeremy Jennings
epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Jennings

* * * Shortly after the publication of L’ancien régime et la révolution in 1856 Tocqueville sent a letter to Charles de Grandmaison. “Without you and your archives,” he wrote, ...
( Category: France June 13,2023 )
Orwell by D. J. Taylor
epub |eng | 2023-05-25 | Author:D. J. Taylor

It was infuriating. I had been a hundred and fifteen days in the line and had come back to Barcelona for a bit of a rest and comfort; and instead ...
( Category: Great Britain June 13,2023 )
The Pirate Who Stole Scotland by Leon Hopkins;
epub |eng | 2023-03-30 | Author:Leon Hopkins;

Chapter 16 Off to (not so) sunny Spain It was in July 1693 that Customs Commissioners gave permission for the ships Charles the Second, James and Dove galley to set ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2023 )
The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel
epub |eng | | Author:Lily Koppel

Didn’t dare go to Mother’s room. You should hear the stories going around because last night I was—Alone with 2 boys—terrible! Had a long talk with Nat down by the ...
( Category: Italy & Rome June 12,2023 )
Forever Young by William Sylvester Noonan & Robert Huber
epub |eng | 2006-09-19 | Author:William Sylvester Noonan & Robert Huber [Noonan, William Sylvester & Huber, Robert]

THAT SEPTEMBER, T.X. Cronin died. He’d been a World War II naval officer, graduated from the Harvard School of Business, and made a fortune in electronics in the sixties. When ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2023 )
Never Again by John Ashcroft
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Ashcroft [ASHCROFT, JOHN]

Someday someone will die and, wall or not, the public will not understand why we were not more effective and throwing every resource we had at certain “problems.” Let’s hope ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2023 )
Ramesses the Great by Toby Wilkinson;
epub |eng | 2023-06-15 | Author:Toby Wilkinson;

CHAPTER FOUR Sons and Lovers When recalling his appointment as Seti I’s co-regent, Ramesses chose to focus on the three key actions that signified his formal elevation from heir apparent ...
( Category: Middle East June 11,2023 )
Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life by Lesley Smith
pdf |en | | Author: Lesley Smith

( Category: Historical June 10,2023 )
Catalina over Arctic Oceans by French John; Dyer Anthony;
epub |eng | | Author:French, John; Dyer, Anthony;

CHAPTER TEN Operations in 1944 As February 1944 came towards its end, the crew and I were detailed to escort Russian convoy JW 57, to be met far away, north ...
( Category: World War I June 7,2023 )
Messalina by Honor Cargill-Martin
epub |eng | | Author:Honor Cargill-Martin [Cargill-Martin, Honor]

* Before Claudius had sailed to Britain, and before she had ridden in his triumph, Messalina was said to have opened AD 42 – her first full year as empress ...
( Category: Rome June 6,2023 )
Letters for the Ages by Sir Winston S. Churchill
epub |eng | 2023-04-05 | Author:Sir Winston S. Churchill

‘The War is a terrible searcher of character’ Winston Churchill may have been a great orator but his speeches did not always demonstrate great political judgement. On the evening of ...
( Category: Historical June 3,2023 )
A Last Survivor of the Orphan Trains, a Memoir by William Walters & Victoria Golden
epub |eng | | Author:William Walters & Victoria Golden [Walters, William & Golden, Victoria]

Stubborn streak The Marine Corps gave William an opportunity to become a manager, first of himself and then of other people. Dropped amidst the enemy on a Pacific island, he ...
( Category: Historical June 2,2023 )
The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England by Peter C. Mancall
pdf |en | | Author: Peter C. Mancall

( Category: Great Britain June 1,2023 )
The Duke's Assassin: Exile and Death of Lorenzino de' Medici by Stefano Dall'Aglio; Donald Weinstein
pdf |en | | Author: Stefano Dall'Aglio; Donald Weinstein

( Category: Italy June 1,2023 )

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