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Journey to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson
epub |eng | 1996-08-09 | Author:Samuel Johnson [Ssamul Johnson / James Boswell / Ian McGowan]

Sunday, 29th August. Mr. Keith breakfasted with us. Dr. Johnson expatiated rather too strongly upon the benefits derived to Scotland from the Union, and the bad state of our people ...
( Category: Europe August 10,2018 )
Jennie by Ralph G. Martin
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-08-09 | Author:Ralph G. Martin

Two weeks later she stressed the matter again: … Darling I lay awake last night thinking about you & how much I wanted to help you—if only I had some ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 10,2018 )
Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Fuhrer by Mark Felton
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Mark Felton [Felton, Mark]

After the war had began, and following Bormann’s stringent efforts to beef up security around the Berghof and prevent day trippers and hikers from getting anywhere near the place, any ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 10,2018 )
Oscar Wilde by Nicholas Frankel
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Nicholas Frankel

However, there are good reasons for questioning the veracity of Wilde’s account. Relations with Ross had been tense at best where Douglas was concerned. More to the point, having separated ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 9,2018 )
Hannibal's Road by Mike Roberts
epub |eng | 2018-07-21 | Author:Mike Roberts [Mike Roberts]

Battle of Numistro 210. The army surveyors laid out the plan of the camp, a routine followed virtually every day, with flags and upright spears driven into the earth to ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 9,2018 )
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 – 30 BC by John D Grainger
epub |eng | 2018-07-21 | Author:John D Grainger [John D Grainger]

( Category: Historical August 9,2018 )
Pericles of Athens by Cartledge Paul Lloyd Janet Azoulay Vincent
epub |eng | 2014-08-08 | Author:Cartledge, Paul, Lloyd, Janet, Azoulay, Vincent

PERICLES UNDER CONTROL: THE POWER OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY! One of Many Magistrates Pericles never held military power on his own. The stratēgoi always acted in a collegial fashion, never ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 9,2018 )
GUERRILLA WARFARE by Ernesto Che Guevara
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Ernesto Che Guevara [Guevara, Ernesto Che]

CHE GUEVARA : GUERRILLA WARFARE – CHAPTER II who have not fled must go to buy their basic foods at establishments located outside the zones of guerrilla action. Should these ...
( Category: Military August 9,2018 )
Mad Dog Killers by Ivan Smith
epub |eng | 2012-05-18 | Author:Ivan Smith

8 The jungle road out of Lisala had been driven over and cleared many times, and at regular intervals the moist air mixed with the stench of rotting corpses. The ...
( Category: Africa August 9,2018 )
The Husband Hunters by Anne de Courcy
epub |eng | | Author:Anne de Courcy

CHAPTER 10 The Call of Europe Many of the ‘buccaneers’ wound up as the brides of European noblemen, if only for the reason that Americans were naturally drawn towards Europe. ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 9,2018 )
1415 Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Ian Mortimer [Ian Mortimer]

Sunday 25th The siege had now been underway for a week, and the siege engines and cannon had continued bombarding the town, day and night. The author of the Gesta ...
( Category: Europe August 8,2018 )
Alexander The Great by Graham Phillips
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Graham Phillips [Phillips, Graham]

SUMMARY OF CHAPTER EIGHT Roxanne was Alexander’s first wife and queen. After three years with Roxanne, however, Alexander took a second wife, the Persian princess Statira, daughter of the late ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 8,2018 )
My India by Jim Corbett
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jim Corbett

VIII. Loyalty THE mail train was running at its maximum speed of thirty miles per hour through country that was familiar. For mile upon mile the newly risen sun had ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 8,2018 )
Alexander the Great by Graham Phillips
mobi |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Graham Phillips

9. MELEAGER – THE LONG MARCH HOME MELEAGER HAD BEEN a regular Macedonian soldier for over thirty years. Little is known of his early life, but he had seen service ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 8,2018 )
Conan Doyle for the Defense by Margalit Fox
epub |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Margalit Fox

What astounded Conan Doyle, who had trained as an ophthalmologist, was that Edalji’s lawyers had not brought this defect to light. “So bad was this defence that in the whole ...
( Category: Historical August 8,2018 )

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