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City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

Dr Jaffery SEVEN THE WINTER RAINS arrived promptly at the end of January. During the last week of the month Olivia and I had gone to stay outside Delhi, in ...
( Category: Travel Writing July 22,2017 )
The Boer War (Winston Churchill Early Works Collection Book 1) by Winston Churchill
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-12 | Author:Winston Churchill

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN AFTER THE SIEGE Durban: March 10, 1900 Since the road by which Dundonald’s squadrons had entered the town was never again closed by the enemy, the siege of ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )
Trained to Kill by Antonio Veciana
epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Antonio Veciana

IN HIS BOOK, Phillips recalled his deeply emotional reaction as it became clear the invasion was collapsing. After he finally left the operations center at Quarters Eye in Washington, D.C., ...
( Category: Historical July 22,2017 )
Henry V by Malcolm Vale
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Malcolm Vale

Chapter 5 THE KING AND THE CHURCH II PREROGATIVE, POWER AND THE PAPACY We have already seen the extent to which relations between England and the papacy under Henry V ...
( Category: Historical July 22,2017 )
Battle Ready by Tom Clancy
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-06 | Author:Tom Clancy

ZINNI’S INVOLVEMENT in “Operations Other Than War”—like Provide Comfort, Provide Hope, Provide Promise, and others while at EUCOM—provided a wealth of experience that he later drew on constantly. These were ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 22,2017 )
Private Life of Edward IV by Ashdown-Hill John
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Ashdown-Hill, John

20 1470–1471: WINTER IN EXILE As was mentioned briefly in connection with Miss Wayte’s story, in 1469, 1470 and 1471 Edward IV was, at times, forcibly separated from Elizabeth Widville. ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )
Edward III by Jonathan Sumption
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Jonathan Sumption [Sumption, Jonathan]

4 Prince of Chivalry (1347–1360) It was customary in the courts of Europe to exchange gifts of jewellery at New Year. In 1333, Philippa of Hainault gave her husband a ...
( Category: Historical July 22,2017 )
Be Like the Fox by Erica Benner
epub |eng | 2017-05-14 | Author:Erica Benner

12 How to Win Towards the end of 1504, in his poem Decennale, Niccolò stands back and surveys Italy’s hectic political biography over the past decade. He is thirty-five, a ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )
Hannibal by Patrick N Hunt
epub |eng | 2017-07-14 | Author:Patrick N Hunt

BATTLE OF BAECULA After Cartagena, Scipio had one decisive battle where he defeated Hasdrubal Barca at Baecula (Baelen) in 208, his first victory in Spain. Now controlling vast reaches of ...
( Category: Africa July 22,2017 )
Queen Victoria's Gene by D M Potts
epub |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:D M Potts

The family of Princess Alice. Carriers of haemophilia underlined, haemophiliacs boxed Alexandra Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice was born on 6 June 1872 in Darmstadt, near Frankfurt. Her mother, Princess Alice, ...
( Category: World July 21,2017 )
The War Path by David Irving
epub |eng | | Author:David Irving [Irving, David]

Before Munich, significantly, Hitler had scarcely bothered about Slovakia. As recently as April 1938 he had assured the Hungarian envoy that Bratislava, the Slovak capital, would be Hungary's. He was ...
( Category: Military July 16,2017 )
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet by John G. Turner
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:John G. Turner

Jedediah Grant, late-nineteenth-century engraving of earlier photograph (courtesy of Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) In Young’s mind, one sign of lukewarm commitment was the ...
( Category: Americas July 15,2017 )
Brigham Young (Vintage) by Leonard J. Arrington
mobi |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Leonard J. Arrington

( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 15,2017 )
The Last Gunfight by Guinn Jeff
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Guinn, Jeff [Guinn, Jeff]

Virgil Earp emerged from his house shortly after noon. Daniel Lynch, a housepainter, rushed over and repeated the warning that Virgil had already heard from A. G. Bronk: Ike Clanton ...
( Category: Americas July 13,2017 )
James Baldwin by William J. Maxwell
epub |eng | 2017-04-06 | Author:William J. Maxwell

28. “AN ATTEMPT TO INTERVIEW HIM COULD PROVE HIGHLY EMBARRASSING” MARCH 1964 This report from the spring of 1964 rehearses the reasons behind Baldwin’s extended stay on the FBI Security ...
( Category: Americas July 11,2017 )

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