Home > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical
Historical
Caithness to Patagonia by Ian Leith
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Leith [Leith, Ian]

1Club Britannica Rio Gallegas. 2 La Patagonia Rebelde./ Osvaldo Bayer, 2004 3 http://patbrit.org/eng/events/scrobbery.htm. 4 Patagonia, A Forgotten Land: from Magellan to Perón/ C. A. Brebbia. WIT Press. 2006. 5 Argentine ...
( Category: Latin America January 6,2023 )
Forsaken Heroes of the Pacific War by Don Morrow
epub |eng | | Author:Don Morrow

Now at this point, obviously they’ve taken your weapons. “Oh, we destroyed all the weapons.” Rifles, side arms? “Well, we’d put an off-sized shell in a chamber and fire it ...
( Category: Military & Wars January 6,2023 )
Healy's West by Gordon E. Tolton
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Gordon E. Tolton

18 THE LAW OF THE LAND IN 1878, JOHNNY HEALY CAMPAIGNED for his own mandate. Speaking to the primary issue affecting Chouteau County, he told voters: “If any of you ...
( Category: Canada January 6,2023 )
Far Pastures by R. M. Patterson
epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:R. M. Patterson

The borderland between fact and dreams was often hard for me, knowing only a few words of Stoney, to determine. The Indian is by nature an orator and an artist. ...
( Category: Canadian January 6,2023 )
After the Hero's Welcome by Dorothy H. McDaniel
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Dorothy H. McDaniel

14 ON CAPITOL HILL By the time Red left Lexington, his anger about national defense priorities was at the boiling point. “Sailors should not have to hold their ships together ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 5,2023 )
Pepys's Later Diaries by C S Knighton
epub |eng | | Author:C S Knighton

FOUR The Tangier Journal 30 July–1 December 1683 Tangier, in the modern kingdom of Morocco, was a possession of the British Crown from 1661 to 1684, having been ceded by ...
( Category: Ireland January 5,2023 )
Crack Hardy by Stephen Dando-Collins
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Name, Author]

At Lone Pine, the very earth stank of death. Viv spent the day of August 7 in the oppressively hot Lone Pine trenches, ignoring the piles of bloating bodies around ...
( Category: World War I January 5,2023 )
Hitler's Plans for Global Domination by Jochen Thies
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Jochen Thies

Chapter 11 ARCHITECTURE AND THE THIRD REICH The issue of Hitler’s relationship to architecture, even with the knowledge that he was the main individual responsible for planning large buildings, cannot ...
( Category: Germany January 5,2023 )
A British Boy in Fascist Italy by Peter Ghiringhelli
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Peter Ghiringhelli

14 RACE LAWS AND PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS Although I did not know it at the time, Italian officers of the calibre of Croce were few and far between. Matters ...
( Category: Italy January 5,2023 )
Once Upon a Time in the Sixties by Peter Maddick
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Peter Maddick [MADDICK, PETER]

SIXTEEN The reception area of Goodwin Advertising is more a waiting room with four metal-framed chairs along the wall and a low coffee table scattered with well-thumbed, out-of-date magazines. The ...
( Category: Historical January 5,2023 )
The Tribes Triumphant by Charles Glass
epub |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Charles Glass [Charles Glass]

Civil Society One man in Gaza who knew the people taken in by the Israelis, released and then arrested by their Palestinian compatriots was a lawyer named Raji Sourani. Forty-seven ...
( Category: France January 5,2023 )
The Irish Diaries by Alastair Campbell
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Alastair Campbell

Thursday, September 3 I was up just after 5 to get to Number 10 for the convoy to Northolt. It was pouring with rain. Some of the broadsheets were clear ...
( Category: Great Britain January 5,2023 )
Night Action by Peter Dickens
epub |eng | 1974-01-15 | Author:Peter Dickens

7a. Vorpostenboot, a converted steam drifter. (Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte) 7b. Vorpostenboot 1314, ex-German steam trawler Gustav Hugo Deiters, 1942. ‘M’ Class Fleet Minesweeper in background. (Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte) 8 A ...
( Category: World War I January 5,2023 )
The Africa House by Christina Lamb
epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Christina Lamb [Lamb, Christina]

14 Stewart Gore-Browne, diary entry Lusaka, January 21st 1936 Heard that the King died peacefully last night at midnight. One is v. glad he had the triumph of that Jubilee. ...
( Category: Africa January 5,2023 )
My Silent Pledge by Sidney J Zoltak
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Sidney J Zoltak [Poltak, Sidney J]

Poland 1997 After leaving the Jewish cemetery, our driver takes us through what, for a few months in 1942, had been the barbed-wired Jewish Ghetto of Siemiatycze. I remember how ...
( Category: Historical January 5,2023 )

First Prev [37] [38] [39] [40] 41 [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] Next Last