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Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon
epub, mobi |eng | 1962-12-31 | Author:Georges Simenon [Simenon, Georges]

( Category: France January 13,2015 )
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Castor Helen
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-06 | Author:Castor, Helen [Castor, Helen]

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 memorable, ...
( Category: England January 8,2015 )
Hero The Life and Legend of Lawrence of
mobi | | | Author:Michael Korda

Triumph: Lawrence, in the Blue Mist, arrives in Damascus. The arrival of Lieutenant-General Chauvel added to Lawrence’s burdens. Like General Barrow at Deraa, Chauvel was shocked and appalled by the ...
( Category: Great Britain January 6,2015 )
The Lady in the Tower The Fall of Anne
mobi | | | Author:Alison Weir

( Category: Great Britain January 6,2015 )
Mary Tudor Princess, Bastard, Queen
mobi | | | Author:Anna Whitelock

( Category: England January 6,2015 )
An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Vasily Grossman

10 THE FIRST thing I saw in Armenia was stone; and what I took away when I left was a memory of stone. We do not remember every feature of ...
( Category: Armenia January 6,2015 )
Where Have All the Bullets Gone? by Milligan Spike
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-06-26 | Author:Milligan, Spike [Milligan, Spike]

* * * Transcribed newspaper cutting from the Union Jack, 1945 The compère for the contest is Captain Philip Ridgeway, the announcer. He is as informed on Dance Bands as ...
( Category: Great Britain January 6,2015 )
The Greater Journey by Mccullough David
mobi |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Mccullough, David [Mccullough, David]

an army with, in its midst, grey-bearded civilians who were fathers, beardless youngsters who were sons, and in its open ranks women carrying their husband’s or their lover’s rifle slung ...
( Category: Immigrants January 6,2015 )
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II by Avey Denis;Broomby Rob
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Avey, Denis;Broomby, Rob [Avey, Denis;Broomby, Rob]

Chapter 12 Evening was approaching and I knew the British POWs would soon start to assemble fifty yards away from the stripeys for the march back to E715. I could ...
( Category: Holocaust January 6,2015 )
Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Thomas Levenson [Levenson, Thomas]

While talkative fools like Ball and Whitfield presented little difficulty to Newton, William Chaloner remained at large, a wholly different species of problem. He was vastly more ambitious than the ...
( Category: Great Britain December 29,2014 )
Napoleon: A Political Life by Englund Steven
epub |eng | 2010-05-08 | Author:Englund, Steven [Englund, Steven]

XI The Empire—and Its Fissures (1807-1810) I love power … as a musician loves his violin, for the tones I can bring forth, for the chords and harmonies. —Napoleon I, ...
( Category: France December 29,2014 )
Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis by Bruce F. Pauley
epub |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Bruce F. Pauley [Pauley, Bruce F.]

CHAPTER X "POSITIVE FASCISM" AND APPEASEMENT The Austrian government’s nearly total suppression of overt Nazi activity was destined to be short-lived. The Ethiopian War, which began in October 1935, turned ...
( Category: Germany December 29,2014 )
Pericles of Athens by Vincent Azoulay Janet Lloyd & Paul Cartledge
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Vincent Azoulay, Janet Lloyd & Paul Cartledge

FIGURE 9. Ostraka of Cimon (ca. 462 B.C.). From S. Brenne, 1994, “Ostraka and the Process of Ostrakophoria,” in W.D.E. Coulson et al., eds., The Archaeology of Athens and Attica ...
( Category: Greece December 27,2014 )
Secrets My Mother Kept by Hardy Kath
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-10 | Author:Hardy, Kath [Hardy, Kath]

27 My Secret Sister We had the phone connected when I was about seventeen and it had been a revelation. No more going to the phone box! Aunty was wary ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
All in One Basket by Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire
epub |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire [Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire]

The Organ Recital When two or three old people are gathered together in the name of lunch, you can be sure of the subject of conversation to start the ball ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )

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