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The Mistress of Paris by Catherine Hewitt
epub |eng | | Author:Catherine Hewitt

Édouard Manet, Mademoiselle Lucie* Delabigne, called Valtesse de la Bigne, 1879, pastel on canvas, 55.2 × 35.6cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, bequest of Mrs ...
( Category: France February 12,2017 )
The New Russia by Mikhail Gorbachev
epub |eng | 2016-10-05 | Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

Ordeal by global crisis Russia, and not only she, was soon to face another test of her resolve, a global financial crisis. When it broke, I was in the United ...
( Category: European January 15,2017 )
Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade
epub |eng | 2016-08-27 | Author:Philip Eade

* Originally entitled ‘Mr Cruttwell’s Little Outing’, which would not have been wholly inappropriate as Cruttwell was to end his life insane. * Many years later, Diana Cooper wrote to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 9,2017 )
Hemingway at War by Terry Mort
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Terry Mort

To Hemingway, Paris was a city of memory and nostalgia, the place where he had served his apprenticeship as a writer, the place where he and his first wife, Hadley, ...
( Category: World War II December 9,2016 )
Charlemagne by Derek Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Wilson

Notes 1 Halphen, op. cit., p.98 2 N. Machiavelli, The Prince (trs. W. K. Marriott), 1908, p.21 3 Allott, op. cit., p.98 4 Einhard and Notker, p.146 5 cf. Becher, ...
( Category: Rome December 4,2016 )
Kafka by Reiner Stach
epub |eng | | Author:Reiner Stach

It was his first publication, at the age of twenty-four, and Kafka was surely heartened. Might it not be possible after all to patch together “Description of a Struggle” into ...
( Category: Europe November 29,2016 )
All Out War by Tim Shipman
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Tim Shipman

17 Aunty Beeb Craig Oliver was furious. He had just tuned in to his first BBC bulletin of the day, and his former employers were leading with a row orchestrated ...
( Category: European November 7,2016 )
Prince of Medicine by Mattern Susan P.;
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Mattern, Susan P.;

Chapter Seven GALEN AND HIS PATIENTS t this point we lose the narrative thread of Galen’s life. We know—from one vague reference—that he suffered in the reign of Marcus’s son ...
( Category: Rome September 26,2016 )
Ukraine Diaries by Andrey Kurkov
epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Andrey Kurkov [Kurkov, Andrey]

Saturday 1 March First day of spring, but no one is thinking about that. We arrived in Lazarevka last night. On our way out of Kiev, the central traffic police ...
( Category: Human Rights September 17,2016 )
The First Circumnavigators by Harry Kelsey
epub |eng | 2016-08-06 | Author:Harry Kelsey

FIVE Following the Leader Once the return route was established by Father Urdaneta, it was no longer necessary for mariners and explorers to risk the treacherous seas and storms of ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal August 7,2016 )
Dante by Marco Santagata
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Marco Santagata [Santagata, Marco]

Baldo d’Aguglione’s amnesty In the year when Henry’s prospects were beginning to fail, the other actors on the scene were busy in diplomatic exchanges and some major military activity. Clement ...
( Category: Italy July 21,2016 )
Gordon Welchman by Joel Greenberg
epub |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:Joel Greenberg

Forrester and Project Whirlwind were unpopular with most of the computer community, which was mainly concerned with mathematical and scientific problems. He was fighting for a fast universal machine that ...
( Category: Great Britain July 18,2016 )
Albert Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd
epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Olivier Todd [Todd, Olivier]

Chapter Thirty The Island with Three Rivers On January 31, 1946, in Washington, D.C., Frederick B. Lyon, head of the State Department’s Foreign Activity Correlation division, wrote to FBI director ...
( Category: France July 17,2016 )
Catullus' Bedspread by Daisy Dunn
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Daisy Dunn [Daisy Dunn]

Murder, adultery, injustice, and careless disregard for the gods were rife. Near the beginning of the poem, in contrast, Catullus praised the Heroic Age: ‘Heroes, born in the moment most ...
( Category: Rome July 12,2016 )
Jasper Tudor: Godfather of the Tudor Dynasty by Debra Bayani
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Debra Bayani

The homecoming of Jasper and Henry Tudor was probably not as easy as they had imagined. Essentially, much of it depended on sheer good luck whereby everything had to happen ...
( Category: Great Britain July 11,2016 )

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