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David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider by Hattersley
epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Hattersley [Hattersley]

CHAPTER 24 THE PATRIOT Politicians who want to avoid war have always taken refuge in wishful thinking. Speaking at the Mansion House banquet on 17 July 1914 - three weeks ...
( Category: Leadership October 4,2015 )
Diving Stations: The Story of Captain George Hunt and the Ultor by Peter Dornan
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Peter Dornan

C H A P T E R E L E V E N Operation AVALANCHE The war was not going well for the Italians. On 25 July 1943, the Fascist ...
( Category: World War II September 15,2015 )
Last Stalinist : The Life of Santiago Carrillo by Preston Paul
epub |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Preston, Paul

I now see Fernando in a new light, as a pessimistic sceptic, without beliefs, who doubts everything, who doubts the capacity for struggle of the working class, who doubts the ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal September 6,2015 )
April Queen by Douglas Boyd
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Douglas Boyd

Was this Henry’s grand design? 1. Young Henry and Marguerite. 2. Princess Matilda and Henry of Saxony. 3. Re-attachment of Toulouse/Prince John and Alix de Maurienne/the Crown of Lombardy. 4. ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2015 )
Edward II: The Unconventional King by Kathryn Warner
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-12 | Author:Kathryn Warner

12 Tyranny, Miracles and an Escape The year 1322 marked the beginning of Edward II’s tyranny. The Vita comments, ‘The harshness of the king has today increased so much that ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2015 )
Robert Bruce: Our Most Valiant Prince, King and Lord by McNamee Colm
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:McNamee, Colm [McNamee, Colm]

The English spent the night at Falkirk, and on the Sunday 23 June ‘after dinner’ they came within sight of the Torwood. They were anxious to reach Stirling Castle either ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2015 )
Suleiman the Magnificent by André Clot
epub |eng | | Author:André Clot

9 The Greatest City of East and West The capital of the Byzantine Empire for fifteen centuries, Constantinople – Istanbul1 – naturally became the Ottomans’ capital as soon as they ...
( Category: Asia August 20,2015 )
Leon Trotsky by Joshua Rubenstein
epub |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Joshua Rubenstein

5 Out of Power THE SUCCESSION WAS not decided at the moment of Lenin’s death. Kamenev and Zinoviev remained allied with Stalin, though both looked down on him. They were ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2015 )
The Duchess by Amanda Foreman
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Amanda Foreman [Foreman, Amanda]

( Category: Great Britain August 4,2015 )
Lenin (Critical Lives) by Lih Lars
mobi |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:Lih, Lars [Lih, Lars]

4 Three Train Rides ‘A new era of revolutions is drawing near.’ Karl Kautsky, 1909, as paraphrased by Lenin, 1914 Krakow to Bern In the early summer of 1914 Lenin ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism July 30,2015 )
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Borman Tracy
mobi |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Borman, Tracy [Borman, Tracy]

CHAPTER 12 ‘The Lady in the Tower’ According to Chapuys, what had made Cromwell resolve upon Anne’s destruction was not the open declaration of war which the Passion Sunday sermon ...
( Category: Great Britain July 21,2015 )
The Devil's General: The Life of Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz - the "Panzer Graf by Raymond Bagdonas
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-18 | Author:Raymond Bagdonas [Bagdonas, Raymond]

( Category: Germany July 19,2015 )
She-Wolves by Helen Castor
epub |eng | 2010-07-18 | Author:Helen Castor [Helen Castor]

2 Dearest and Most Powerful ‘Our King Edward has now reigned six full years’, the author of the Vita wrote in 1313, ‘and has till now achieved nothing praiseworthy or ...
( Category: England July 19,2015 )
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front by Gunter Koschorrek
epub |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Gunter Koschorrek [Koschorrek, Gunter]

combat engagements. As a replacement for the Rittmeister, an Oberleutnant took command of our Schwadron for a short time. During his command, some of the more enterprising soldiers organised a ...
( Category: World War II July 19,2015 )
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America by Matthews Owen
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Matthews, Owen [Matthews, Owen]

Footnotes * The exchange was recorded in Cyrillic in Löwenstern’s diary, hence escaping the editorial hand of his censorious descendants. * This timepiece made it all the way round the ...
( Category: Russia July 19,2015 )

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