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The Life of Lord Nelson by Robert Southey
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Robert Southey

Before this occurred, and while the junction was as probable as it would have been formidable, Nelson was in a state of the greatest anxiety. "What a state am I ...
( Category: Military July 5,2020 )
An Education in Happiness: The Lessons of Hesse and Tagore by Flavia Arzeni
epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Flavia Arzeni [Arzeni, Flavia]

THE ART OF LOOKING HESSE, IN FACT, does not deny that on the way to love and joy, along with little things, there are also greater things—among them, art. The ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 5,2020 )
Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo by Siân Rees
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Siân Rees [Rees, Siân]

Then there was a handshake, Max told Lucie he looked forward to meeting her again tomorrow at a dinner arranged for after the meeting, and left. ‘There was never a ...
( Category: World War II July 4,2020 )
The Devonshires by Roy Hattersley
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Roy Hattersley [Roy Hattersley]

* * * fn1 Fox did not take his seat as Member for Westminster until the spring of 1785. Claims of malpractice – almost certainly malicious – delayed the declaration ...
( Category: Europe July 4,2020 )
Behind Palace Doors - My Service as the Queen Mother's Equerry by Major Colin Burgess
epub |eng | 2007-07-31 | Author:Major Colin Burgess [Burgess, Major Colin]

It was the Queen Mother who interested Charles in homoeopathic medicine. She was very keen on alternative treatments and I remember coming in with a bruise on my arm one ...
( Category: Europe July 3,2020 )
Aurelian and the Third Century by Watson Alaric;
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Watson, Alaric;

The purpose and legacy of Aurelian’s walls The circumstances that inspired Aurelian to build the walls to a large degree dictated their nature. They had to be built in a ...
( Category: Rome July 2,2020 )
Love in the Blitz by Eileen Alexander
epub |eng | 2020-04-10 | Author:Eileen Alexander

9 Limbo FRIDAY 1 MAY 1942Darling, you sounded never so weary, never so in woe. What you need is a course of Solace. Come to London, my love. That will ...
( Category: Letters June 30,2020 )
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch
epub |eng | 2007-12-25 | Author:David Damrosch [Damrosch, David]

Shamash, great lord, give me a definite answer to what I ask you! … Will any of the eunuchs and the bearded officials, the king’s entourage, or any of his ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 30,2020 )
The Letters, Volume 4 by Cicero
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

198 M. Valerius Messalla, who had been with young Cicero at Athens. See vol. iii., p.225. 199 Bucilianus and his brother Caecilius were induced by Brutus to join the assassins ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 28,2020 )
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2019-02-03 | Author:Plutarch

( Category: Rome June 28,2020 )
We Learnt About Hitler at the Mickey Mouse Club by Enid Elliott Linder
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Enid Elliott Linder

Several months had passed since the Coronation before I began to realise that our father did not drink in the same way that other men did. I had never ever ...
( Category: Europe June 22,2020 )
The Habsburgs by Martyn Rady
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Martyn Rady [Rady, Martyn]

20 Archduchesses and the Habsburg Low Countries In the late 1760s Maria Theresa ordered that the Hall of the Giants (Riesensaal) in the Habsburg palace in Innsbruck in the Tyrol ...
( Category: Rome June 14,2020 )
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Douglas Boin [Boin, Douglas]

CHAPTER EIGHT Into the Labyrinth To the fight / which lies before me now I go with Justice. —EURIPIDES In 397 Arcadius’s men appointed Alaric general of Illyricum. He had ...
( Category: Rome June 11,2020 )
Liam Mellows by Conor McNamara;
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:Conor McNamara; [Неизв.]

7. ‘Never in the whole history of Ireland has there been such a time’, Central Opera House, New York, 5 January 1919 Organised under the auspices of Clan na Gael ...
( Category: Europe May 30,2020 )
The Bastard's Sons: Robert, William and Henry of Normandy by Jeffrey James
epub |eng | 2020-03-14 | Author:Jeffrey James [James, Jeffrey]

9 HENRY IN PERIL During the long winter of 1090/1 Robert Curthose attempted to reassert his authority by placing the castle at Courci-sur-Dive, located in the modern-day Vienne department in ...
( Category: Europe May 10,2020 )

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