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St. Patrick of Ireland by Philip Freeman
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Philip Freeman

THE PRIMARY SOURCES for Celtic religion in Ireland are tales dating from medieval Christian times that recall the days before the faith arrived on the island. These sources are a ...
( Category: Irish March 17,2020 )
Doing My Bit For Ireland by Margaret Skinnider
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Margaret Skinnider [Skinnider, Margaret]

VII We were all happy that night as we camped in St. Stephen's Green. Despite the handicap we were under through lack of men, almost everything was going our way. ...
( Category: Europe March 17,2020 )
Frederick Barbarossa by Franz Kuhn
epub |eng | | Author:Franz Kuhn

Conrad’s Death THE INTENTION OF FREDERICK’S faithless allies to destroy his army by hunger rather than by the sword was frustrated by the indefatigable exertions of the Germans. Though greatly ...
( Category: Europe March 17,2020 )
Seneca: A Life by Emily Wilson
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Emily Wilson

SENECA’S WEALTH Poison is drunk from gold.24 We turn now to one of the most fraught questions about Seneca’s life story: his vast accumulation of wealth under Nero.25 For our ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 17,2020 )
The Life of Graham Greene (1939-1955) by Norman Sherry
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Norman Sherry

The paradox of Greene’s characters lies in the fact that out of the sinner comes the saint. In The End of the Affair hate is a source of love; in ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
The Life of Graham Greene (1955-1991) by Norman Sherry
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Sherry

34 Warming Up to the Cold Scots ‘A Serbonian bog of politics’ – PROFESSOR BLACK IN ANOTHER MONTH, near the end of August 1965, Greene has a letter from Catherine, ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
The Life of Graham Greene (1904-1939) by Norman Sherry
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Sherry

Written on the obverse and tucked into the dog’s collar, Greene’s reply was: Honoured Madame, In case you starve while your devoted husband is away I send you one toffee. ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
A House For Spies: SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse by Wake-Walker Edward
epub |eng | 2020-03-08 | Author:Wake-Walker, Edward [Wake-Walker, Edward]

CHAPTER 9: KEEPING HOUSE IN SUSSEX When the war ended and normal family life resumed at Bignor Manor, Barbara Bertram found to her dismay that she could not sleep. As ...
( Category: World War II March 16,2020 )
Maximilian and Carlota by McAllen M. M.;
epub |eng | | Author:McAllen, M. M.; [McAllen, M. M.]

16 Someone Is Intent on Poisoning Me On August 23, 1866, Carlota left Paris for the castle of Miramar. Much had occurred in Europe over the past two years, and ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 15,2020 )
Cicero's Brutus (Imperium Romanum) by Cicero
epub |eng | 2016-12-21 | Author:Cicero

“The three following years the city was free from the tumult of arms; but either by the death, the voluntary retirement, or the flight of our ablest Orators (for even ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 15,2020 )
A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyany
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Sacha Batthyany

12 That afternoon we flew from Moscow to Yekaterinburg, where we spent four days searching for anything that remained of the camps. We had a ramshackle yellow minibus, a driver ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
Hitler's Pope by John Cornwell
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:John Cornwell

Meanwhile, down in the piazza below, the papacy was not exactly making its peace with the city of Rome. The scene was witnessed by the English writer Hugh Walpole, who ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
Richard and John by Frank McLynn
epub |eng | | Author:Frank McLynn

13 IT WAS SOME TIME before the backlash from the Lusignans manifested itself, so that John must sometimes have wondered if, against all the odds, he had got away with ...
( Category: Royalty March 14,2020 )
May at 10 by Anthony Seldon
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Anthony Seldon [Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell]

MAY’S SPEECH: 4 OCTOBER Much hinged on the impact of May’s speech, and she knew it. She’d reflected on what she might say over her long summer break and determined ...
( Category: Leadership March 13,2020 )
The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty by Hollingsworth Mary
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-05 | Author:Hollingsworth, Mary [Hollingsworth, Mary]

Sebastiano del Piombo, Clement VII, 1526 (Naples, Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte). After Raphael, The Donation of Constantine, early 1520s (Vatican Palace, Stanza di Costantino). The papal claim to secular power ...
( Category: Europe March 12,2020 )

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