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Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (Volume I) by Churchill Randolph S
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-04 | Author:Churchill, Randolph S. [Churchill, Randolph S.]

( Category: Great Britain April 14,2015 )
The Last Tsar: Emperor Michael II by Donald Crawford
epub |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Donald Crawford [Crawford, Donald]

A sealed copy of the abdication was handed over to Guchkov and another to Ruzsky for transmission to the army commands and to Petrograd and other key centres, including the ...
( Category: Europe April 9,2015 )
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Fifteen WE CANNOT DROP OUR WORK IN THE HOSPITALS In January 1915 an additional burden of concern was placed on the shoulders of the Romanov sisters when Anna Vyrubova ...
( Category: Russia April 5,2015 )
Last Alchemist : Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason by Iain McCalman
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:Iain McCalman

Jeanne’s own house was now almost literally overshadowed by the far grander maison de Cagliostro at 1 rue St.-Claude, off the boulevard St.-Antoine. Rohan had chosen the premises himself so ...
( Category: Europe April 5,2015 )
Casanova's Women by Judith Summers
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-11-12 | Author:Judith Summers

Between 1753 and May 1755, while Christoforo Capretta believed that his daughter was safely out of harm’s way in the convent, she was being debauched by Marina Morosini, Casanova and ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Helen Rappaport

In the summer of 1918, the road out to the Koptyaki Forest – a dense area of ancient birch and pine forest nine miles north-west of Ekaterinburg – would take ...
( Category: Russia April 5,2015 )
A Magnificent Obsession: The Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Eleven ‘A Married Daughter I Must Have Living with Me’ In the spring of 1863 the British public resolutely shook off its gloom and enjoyed a few days of ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
Nancy Mitford by Nancy Mitford
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Nancy Mitford

9 NANCY PAID ANNUAL visits to her parents who had chosen to live apart in their old age—Lord Redesdale in a cottage at Otterburn, Northumberland, and Lady Redesdale at lonely ...
( Category: France April 5,2015 )
The Woman from Hamburg by Hanna Krall
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Hanna Krall

16 His conversations with his father, conducted in his maximum security cell, ended in a silence behind which Stefan W. could feel a stubborn, unreconciled disapproval. At first this had ...
( Category: Holocaust April 5,2015 )
I Shall Live by Henry Orenstein
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-10-16 | Author:Henry Orenstein

Budzyń They marched us toward what was obviously a prison camp; in the distance we could see guard towers and rows of barbed wire. This looked like a labor camp, ...
( Category: Holocaust April 5,2015 )
The Pope Who Quit by Jon M. Sweeney
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Jon M. Sweeney

12 RIDING ON AN ASS After the papal election of 1294, when the Church authorities came for him, Peter, by then eighty-four years old, must have thought that he would ...
( Category: Europe April 5,2015 )
Dying Every Day by James Romm
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:James Romm

Unable to resign even at the price of his huge estate, Seneca had nonetheless withdrawn from court to the degree that was safe. He no longer kept up the routine ...
( Category: Rome April 5,2015 )
The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis by Julie Kavanagh
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Julie Kavanagh

The veteran actor Marie Bouffé had recently been taken on at the Variétés by Nestor Roqueplan—a significant coup, as Bouffé had made the fortune of the Théâtre du Gymnase. But ...
( Category: France April 5,2015 )
The Men Who Would Be King by Josephine Ross
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-16 | Author:Josephine Ross

6 “The Weal of the Kingdom” While there was “but one mistress and no master” in England, there would be no heirs born to the queen. Admirable as her desire ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
epub, mobi | | 2010-10-21 | Author:Primo Levi [Levi, Primo]

Henri, on the other hand, is eminently civilized and sane, and possesses a complete and organic theory on the ways to survive in Lager. He is only twenty-two, he is ...
( Category: Authors April 3,2015 )

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