Great Britain
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-03 | Author:Max Hastings

Back in Cairo on August 17, Churchill briefly lapsed into exhaustion. After a rest, however, he quizzed Alexander about the prospective desert offensive, which there were hopes of launching in ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-24 | Author:Kate Williams

CHAPTER 31 The Battered Hero I feel myself highly honoured and flattered by your ladyship's charming letter," enthused Earl St. Vincent, Nelson's commander, to Emma in May 1798. "The picture ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:The Countess Of Carnarvon

12 War Heroes After six months of listening to horror stories from the Western Front and tending desperate patients, the familiarity of the winter trip to Egypt must have felt ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-08-15 | Author:Alison Weir

stature she was a formidable woman: highly intelligent, literate, strong-minded, devout and austere in her religious observances. She was the sole heiress of the Beaufort descendants of John of Gaunt ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-12-29 | Author:Alison Weir

Already people expected the prisoners to be convicted. On May 11, before any trial had taken place, the Abbot of Cirencester wrote informing Cromwell that he had already promised Sir ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-10 | Author:Margaret Thatcher

SDI President Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative, about which the Soviets and Mr Gorbachev were already so alarmed, was to prove central to the West’s victory in the Cold War. Although, ...
( Category: Leadership March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Alison Weir

There was no hint in this letter of any criticism of the King, to whom the Queen constantly referred as her “very dear lord,” as became a loving wife. Yet ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:John Piper & Jonathan Aitken

AmazingGraceLWW.48754.i04.qxd 12/6/06 1:59 PM Page 43 A Multitude of Christlike Causes 43 only of the clergy. In a chance meeting with James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s biographer, he spent time into ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Niall Ferguson

Though primarily conpiracy theorists, writers like Drumont and Chirac were also preoccupied with the Rothschilds’ penetration of French high culture and society. In the second volume of Jewish France, Drumont ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Alison Weir

No one was more delighted than the Queen when Mary signed her submission. Jane had worked for months towards a reconciliation, and she now looked forward to receiving her stepdaughter ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Alison Weir

When he arrived at Calais, Warwick began courting the friendship of Philip of Burgundy, whose ships he had recently so cheerfully plundered. The merchants of Calais and those in England ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

CHAPTER XXI I AM LIKE RIPE SHIT HEN Martin Luther proclaimed his theses at Wittenberg he was announcing, too, the triumph of his own self-awareness. The era of Protestantism, as ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Paul Johnson

Chapter Five The Unregarded Prophet Now began the hardest, harshest period of Churchill’s life. He was lucky to have a safe seat where he was active, was much loved, and ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-07-08 | Author:Alison Weir

Northumberland was at King's College, Cambridge when, on the morning of 20 July, he heard that Mary had been proclaimed in London. In a desperate attempt to save his neck, ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Marc Morris

The Great Cause Within a month of the close of the autumn parliament of 1290 Queen Eleanor was dead. During her stay in Gascony she had contracted a malarial fever ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )