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The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore

SCENE 2 Liberator CAST ALEXANDER II, emperor 1855–81, son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt), empress, ‘Marie’ Alexandra, their eldest daughter, ‘Lina’ Nikolai, ...
( Category: European March 24,2016 )
The Rothschilds by Frederic Morton
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Frederic Morton

(c) Country Squires Lionel’s house at 148 Piccadilly was not the only Rothschild residence in the neighborhood where a prime minister could get a good dinner. At 143 Piccadilly, Ferdinand ...
( Category: Business March 21,2016 )
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Ian Buruma

Left to right: Hilary, John, Win, Susan, Wendy, and Roger One man who understood this perfectly was Bernard’s closest friend, Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, who succeeded his father in 1942 ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2016 )
Panzer Operations: Germany's Panzer Group 3 During the Invasion of Russia, 1941 by Hermann Hoth
epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Hermann Hoth [Hoth, Hermann]

RUSSIAN RELIEF ATTACKS AGAINST THE EASTERN AND NORTHERN FRONTS OF PANZER GROUP 3, 18-27 JULY (MAPS 12 AND 13) As cover against the eastern and northern sides of the Smolensk ...
( Category: Russia March 19,2016 )
The Lost Tudor Princess by Alison Weir
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Alison Weir

On the 27th, to gratify the Queen, Lennox went through a ceremony of reconciliation with Châtelherault, his old foe, although their enmity would continue to simmer. Randolph reported on November ...
( Category: Great Britain March 19,2016 )
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Olivia Laing

It was hard to square that statement with the things I’d seen: folder after folder attesting to creative decisions, to choices made and problems solved, though if I’d never read ...
( Category: Great Britain March 17,2016 )
Village of Secrets by Caroline Moorehead
epub |eng | 2015-08-23 | Author:Caroline Moorehead

CHAPTER ELEVEN An unknown and unknowable oblivion It was not only on the plateau, but across the whole of France, that the mood was changing. The early spring of 1943 ...
( Category: Europe March 14,2016 )
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

Déjà j’entends l’orage du tambour, De cent heros je vois briller la rage, Déjà je vois envahir cent états Et tant d’humains moissonnés avant l’âge. This may not have been ...
( Category: France March 11,2016 )
The Private Heinrich Himmler by Katrin Himmler
epub |eng | | Author:Katrin Himmler

Sofia, 7.5.419 Dear Mami! I spent the night here and toured the city. Now I am off to Athens. I am very well. To you and Püppi many affectionate greetings ...
( Category: Germany March 10,2016 )
Peacerunner by Penn Rhodeen
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:Penn Rhodeen

Keep in mind, the world was focused on Bosnia and I had tried to get the allies early in ‘93 to agree to have NATO take action there. Warren Christopher ...
( Category: European March 9,2016 )
Roger Bacon by Brian Clegg
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

Looking at Bacon’s plight through modern eyes, it can be difficult to understand why his work was so disliked. We have seen that the man himself, like many other obsessives, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 8,2016 )
PICKING TOMATOES WHEN THE SKY WAS IN FLAMES by Fischer Smith Ursula Anna
mobi |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Fischer Smith, Ursula Anna

Dangerous Games, 1945 Chapter 31 At dawn our street was deserted as we said goodbye to Father and Alfred when they left for the train station. Train schedules were unpredictable ...
( Category: Germany March 6,2016 )
DANCE ON THE VOLCANO: A Teenage Girl in Nazi Germany by Zerner Renata
mobi |eng | 2010-02-23 | Author:Zerner, Renata [Zerner, Renata]

Now, three years later in Bad Wildungen, I was faced with having to tell Erika a lie. I did not know her well enough to trust her with the truth, ...
( Category: Europe March 6,2016 )
The Wonder of Their Voices:The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder (Oxford Oral History Series) by Rosen Alan
mobi |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Rosen, Alan [Rosen, Alan]

The ascription of “strangely disembodied” to audio recorded testimony and the voices that it conveys has them lose exactly what Boder had hoped they would gain. This is true in ...
( Category: Holocaust March 6,2016 )
Tudor : Passion. Manipulation. Murder. the Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family (9781610393645) by De Lisle Leanda
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:De Lisle, Leanda

Part Three SETTING SUN: THE TUDOR QUEENS Let men that receive of women authority, honour, or office, be most assuredly persuaded, that in so maintaining that usurped power, they declare ...
( Category: Great Britain March 5,2016 )

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