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When the Flagpoles Bloomed by Vera Oredsson
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-11-30 | Author:Vera Oredsson

Heidi Lauban fall/winter 1941/42. Lauban: a small town in Schlesien, an idyllic place with smaller rows of houses, where the streets are lined with hostels and lanes that blended into ...
( Category: Europe February 14,2020 )
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
epub |eng | 2020-02-03 | Author:Ariana Neumann

Lotar and Hans must have felt a profound sadness at reading Otto’s first letter from the camp, one that echoed across the years when my father’s sobbing rocked the fence ...
( Category: Europe February 10,2020 )
The Fall of the French Monarchy by Munro Price
epub |eng | | Author:Munro Price [Price, Munro]

Chapter Ten THE KING AND THE CONSTITUTION THE ROYAL FAMILY immediately felt the consequences of their failed escape. On 25 June, the day they returned to Paris, the king was ...
( Category: Europe February 6,2020 )
Hypatia by Watts Edward J.;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Watts, Edward J.;

9 The Memory of Hypatia The discordance between the type of person that Hypatia was and the brutal way in which she died explains the initial shock that many people ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2020 )
Brutus: The Noble Conspirator by Kathryn Tempest
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Kathryn Tempest [Tempest, Kathryn]

Terror at Rome For the remaining months of Cicero’s life, we must make do without any speeches or letters from his hands. It makes little difference; by then Cicero had ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2020 )
The Last Pagan Emperor by Teitler H. C.;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Teitler, H. C.;

Chapter 2 1. CONSTANTINE: PLRE I, Constantinus 4; Kienast 19962, 298–303; cf., e.g., Neri 1992, Lenski 2006, Schuller and Wolff 2007, Van Dam 2011, Barnes 2011, Maraval 2011, Bardill 2012, ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2020 )
Hitler by Longerich Peter;
epub |eng | 2019-05-16 | Author:Longerich, Peter;

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 January 19,2020 )
Eric Hobsbawm by Evans Richard J.;
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Evans, Richard J.;

III While Eric was away touring Latin America in 1962–3, Marlene had moved into Eric’s flat in Gordon Mansions in Huntley Street, around the corner from Birkbeck. On his return, ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
The Sword of Rome by Jeremiah McCall
epub |eng | 2015-12-17 | Author:Jeremiah McCall [McCall, Jeremiah]

Chapter 4 The Political Battle for Syracuse Late in 211 or early in 210, Marcellus returned from Sicily. He left his troops there under his successor, though apparently unwillingly, since ...
( Category: Rome January 18,2020 )
Aztec by Colin Falconer
epub |eng | 2011-08-05 | Author:Colin Falconer [Falconer, Colin]

✽ ✽ ✽ The moon fell below the hills. A shadow down in the street hurried inside a darkened doorway. A servant answered the timid knock and escorted the visitor ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese January 18,2020 )
The Shadow of Vesuvius by Daisy Dunn
epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Daisy Dunn

It is tempting to see the influence of Pliny the Elder’s passages on art in the design of the Tuscan estate itself. Outside, in the hippodrome garden, Nature was shaped ...
( Category: Rome January 18,2020 )
999 by Heather Dune Macadam
epub |eng | 2019-10-24 | Author:Heather Dune Macadam

ROSH HASHANAH, THE Jewish New Year and High Holy days, arrived with the first blush of fall. Golden birch leaves flickered to the ground, covering the mass burial pits with ...
( Category: Women in History January 6,2020 )
The Tudor Rose by Jennifer Kewley Draskau
epub |eng | 2015-12-27 | Author:Jennifer Kewley Draskau [Draskau, Jennifer Kewley]

10 - Notes 1. CSP Ven vol ii 396-410 2. L&P ii 4134 3. CSP Ven vol ii 396-410 4. L&P ii pt 2 4479 5. CSP Ven vol ii ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2019 )
Royal Bastards by Roger Powell
epub |eng | 2012-02-17 | Author:Roger Powell [Powell, Roger]

Lady Augusta Kennedy, later Hallyburton, (née FitzClarence) (1803–65) The fourth daughter of Mrs. Jordan (1761–1816), the well known comic actress, by the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, was ...
( Category: Europe December 16,2019 )
Hitler and Stalin by Alan Bullock
epub |eng | 2019-12-10 | Author:Alan Bullock

* * * — THE MORE Hitler learned of the French and British governments’ attitudes, the more he became convinced that, while they would undoubtedly protest, he ran very little ...
( Category: Fascism December 12,2019 )

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