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Anne Neville: Richard III's Tragic Queen by Licence Amy
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Licence, Amy [Licence, Amy]

9 Richard’s Wife 1472–1483 With love founded on profit, pleasure and honesty then shall true friendship reign among you.1 For the next decade, the rule of Edward IV went unchallenged. ...
( Category: England November 23,2014 )
Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham & the Secret War that Saved England by Hutchinson Robert
epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

Soon after Drake’s return from ‘singeing the King of Spain’s beard’, as his exploits were now popularly labelled, Walsingham sat down and drew up plans to gather more timely and ...
( Category: England November 23,2014 )
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832 by Stella Tillyard
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-06 | Author:Stella Tillyard [Tillyard, Stella]

PART THREE ‘Are you not delighted with our dear little Sally’s thinking herself with child?’ Caroline to Emily, 14 June 1768. ‘I am very glad you have bought that place ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's Obsession by Norton Elizabeth
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth [Norton, Elizabeth]

The Act expressly stated that matrimonial causes should not be tried by appeal to Rome and that they must be heard within the Church of England. This was the final ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Kirstin Downey

Despite these differences, Isabella was not looking for a showdown. She had some important business to conduct with the pope, and for now, points of contention were set aside. As ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal November 23,2014 )
This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Alan Johnson

If returning to unlovely North Kensington and the dreaded autumn term at Sloane was dispiriting after the glories of Denmark, I had the new football season to cheer me up. ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
Dialogues and Letters by Seneca
epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Seneca

ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE [Our time is so precious we must be sure to make the best use of it] 1 Most human beings, Paulinus,1 complain about the meanness ...
( Category: Rome November 23,2014 )
Such Good Girls by R. D. Rosen
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:R. D. Rosen

PART TWO THE GATHERING STILL HIDING In 1989, Carla Lessing, the mother of two grown children and a social worker in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, heard about a lecture on child ...
( Category: Holocaust November 22,2014 )
The Fast Times of Albert Champion by Peter Joffre Nye
epub |eng | 2014-10-09 | Author:Peter Joffre Nye

As he recovered, he received lucrative offers. Desgrange hired him to race on the Parc des Princes against Bruni, Walthour, and others through the end of October. An offer—an appearance ...
( Category: France November 21,2014 )
Crown & Country: A History of England Through the Monarchy by Starkey David
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Starkey, David [Starkey, David]

Chapter 15 King and Emperor Henry VIII ON 24 JUNE 1509, HENRY VIII was crowned in front of the high altar at Westminster Abbey. The supreme symbol of the Tudor ...
( Category: England November 21,2014 )
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Boris Johnson [Johnson, Boris]

The Abdication Crisis. In the late autumn of 1936 it became widely known that the King, Edward VIII, was having an affair with an American divorcee by the name of ...
( Category: Great Britain November 20,2014 )
MEIN KAMPF by ADOLF HITLER
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:ADOLF HITLER [HITLER, ADOLF]

They are coming to maturity in a great epoch, and they will fight against the evils which were due to the laziness and indifference of their fathers." Either the German ...
( Category: Germany November 19,2014 )
Pythagorus by Kitty Ferguson
epub |eng | 2010-11-18 | Author:Kitty Ferguson

[2]The Romans continued to use this formation effectively through the years of their republic and in the expansion of their Empire. [3]Alcibiades’ reputation for lack of discipline and unscrupulousness was ...
( Category: Greece November 19,2014 )
Dinner With Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Cita Stelzer [Stelzer, Cita]

Menu for the Bermudians’ dinner honouring the British Delegation It should come as no surprise that Churchill left Bermuda still determined to arrange one more Big Three summit, a dream ...
( Category: World War II November 19,2014 )
My Battle Against Hitler by Dietrich von Hildebrand John Henry Crosby
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Dietrich von Hildebrand,John Henry Crosby [Hildebrand, Dietrich von]

Some years later, in 1938, Italy passed the first of its race laws, which severely restricted the rights of Jews. Even so, von Hildebrand means that racism was not intrinsic ...
( Category: Holocaust November 19,2014 )

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