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The Assassination of Heydrich: Hitler's Hangman and the Czech Resistance by Wiener Jan
epub |eng | 2012-09-29 | Author:Wiener, Jan [Wiener, Jan]

A Catholic Jew The prison camp to which I was sent contained a mixture of political prisoners and prisoners of war. There were about two thousand of us—Yugoslavs, Czechs, Poles, ...
( Category: Europe March 4,2020 )
Born Jewish by Marcel Liebman
epub |eng | | Author:Marcel Liebman

The inspirational Gert Jospa, centre, a few months after his return from the camps. Yura Livchitz. Nevertheless, the transport still went on its way. Though not for long. Around Wespelaere, ...
( Category: Europe March 4,2020 )
Calum's Road (N) by Roger Hutchinson
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Roger Hutchinson

* Calum was referring here to James Loch and Patrick Sellar, the Scottish commissioner and factor respectively of Lord Stafford’s immense Sutherlandshire estate in the 1810s. Loch and Sellar enforced ...
( Category: Europe March 3,2020 )
The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor by Martijn Icks
epub |eng | 2016-01-22 | Author:Martijn Icks [Icks, Martijn]

THE ‘EVIL TYRANT’: SELECTED WORKS Elagabalus in Aureli and Cavalli’s Eliogabalo (1667) Francesco Cavalli (1602–76) was one of the greatest opera composers of his time. When the impresario of the ...
( Category: Rome March 3,2020 )
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss by Mintzker Yair;
epub |eng | 2017-03-01 | Author:Mintzker, Yair;

( Category: Rome March 2,2020 )
Constantine the Emperor by Potter David;
epub |eng | | Author:Potter, David;

In very truth it was not without good cause that the mercy of Christ withdrew from these, in whom it is clear as day that their madness is of such ...
( Category: Rome February 29,2020 )
The Swan King by Christopher McIntosh
epub |eng | 2019-11-21 | Author:Christopher McIntosh [McIntosh, Christopher]

Hohenlohe was now thinking in terms of forming what he called a ‘United States of Southern Germany’. If this plan had come to fruition it is possible that France’s fears ...
( Category: Royalty February 27,2020 )
Markievicz by Lindie Naughton;
epub |eng | 2018-10-13 | Author:Lindie Naughton;

To Eva Cork Jail. 1 September 1919. Dearest Old Darling, I do hope that you are having the lovely weather over in that most awful country that I am having ...
( Category: Europe February 26,2020 )
Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile by Julia Fox
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Julia Fox [Fox, Julia]

Indeed he would. On coming of age in January 1515, he had changed the personnel of his council and his household, and while he retained his love for his aunt ...
( Category: Europe February 24,2020 )
Emperor Constantine by Pohlsander Hans A.; Pohlsander Hans A.;
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Pohlsander, Hans A.; Pohlsander, Hans A.; [Hans A. Pohlsander]

8 THE CRISIS IN THE IMPERIAL FAMILY The years 324 and 325 saw Constantine at the pinnacle of success. His victories over Licinius had made him the sole ruler of ...
( Category: Rome February 23,2020 )
Tiberius Caesar by Shotter David;
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Shotter, David; [David Shotter]

7 TIBERIUS AND THE EMPIRE Shortly before Augustus’ death in AD 14 he had allegedly instructed his successor not to engage in imperialist adventures but to retain the empire within ...
( Category: Rome February 23,2020 )
Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies by Hayley Nolan
epub |eng | 2019-11-30 | Author:Hayley Nolan [Nolan, Hayley]

CHAPTER 8 THEN IT ALL WENT WRONG During her first year of marriage, in which Anne threw herself head first into her humanitarianism and many issues of reform, her personal ...
( Category: Women in History February 21,2020 )
Hitler by Peter Longerich
epub |eng | 2019-05-16 | Author:Peter Longerich

Preparations for the attack in the West On 23 November, Hitler gave a speech to the military leadership in which he made clear his determination to expand the war at ...
( Category: World War II February 16,2020 )
King of the World by Philip Mansel
epub |eng | 2019-07-10 | Author:Philip Mansel [Mansel, Philip]

18 France against Europe ‘Ultima ratio regum’, ‘The final argument of kings’, was the motto often inscribed on Louis XIV’s massive bronze cannon, below the royal crown and coat of ...
( Category: Royalty February 16,2020 )
Lorenz by Jerry Roberts
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Roberts

Period Two – 1 October 1942–31 December 1942 at 15 per day 1,170 Period Three – January–June 1943 at 30 per day 4,680 Period Four – July–31 December 1943, twenty-four ...
( Category: World War II February 15,2020 )

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