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Marlborough: His Life and Times, Volume I (Winston Churchill's Marlborough Collection Book 1) by Winston S. Churchill
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Winston S. Churchill

Chapter Nineteen MARLBOROUGH AND WILLIAM 1688–1690 The Prince of Orange had now become the effective military ruler of his new country; but there was no lawful Government of any kind. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 22,2017 )
The Boer War (Winston Churchill Early Works Collection Book 1) by Winston Churchill
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-12 | Author:Winston Churchill

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN AFTER THE SIEGE Durban: March 10, 1900 Since the road by which Dundonald’s squadrons had entered the town was never again closed by the enemy, the siege of ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )
Marlborough: His Life and Times, Volume IV (Winston Churchill's Marlborough Collection Book 4) by Winston S. Churchill
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Winston S. Churchill

Gradually a settlement was reached. In spite of the libels with which they assailed him through their pamphleteers, in spite of the adverse Parliamentary debates and of all the floutings ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 22,2017 )
Marlborough: His Life and Times, Volume III (Winston Churchill's Marlborough Collection Book 3) by Winston S. Churchill
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Winston S. Churchill [Churchill, Winston S.]

VILLARS’S INVASION OF GERMANY We might make you many reproaches about the disaster on the Rhine. If the least attention had been paid to the pressing requests which have been ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 22,2017 )
Trained to Kill by Antonio Veciana
epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Antonio Veciana

IN HIS BOOK, Phillips recalled his deeply emotional reaction as it became clear the invasion was collapsing. After he finally left the operations center at Quarters Eye in Washington, D.C., ...
( Category: Historical July 22,2017 )
Henry V by Malcolm Vale
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Malcolm Vale

Chapter 5 THE KING AND THE CHURCH II PREROGATIVE, POWER AND THE PAPACY We have already seen the extent to which relations between England and the papacy under Henry V ...
( Category: Historical July 22,2017 )
Battle Ready by Tom Clancy
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-06 | Author:Tom Clancy

ZINNI’S INVOLVEMENT in “Operations Other Than War”—like Provide Comfort, Provide Hope, Provide Promise, and others while at EUCOM—provided a wealth of experience that he later drew on constantly. These were ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 22,2017 )
Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW by James N. Rowe
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:James N. Rowe [Rowe, James N.]

6 ON MARCH 4, 1967 WE WERE TAKEN FROM THE CAMP WE called “Hanoi II,” leaving behind the physical reminders of that period of imprisonment, but each of us bore ...
( Category: Military July 22,2017 )
Letters from the Trenches: The First World War by Those Who Were There by Wadsworth Jacqueline
epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Wadsworth, Jacqueline

( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 22,2017 )
Private Life of Edward IV by Ashdown-Hill John
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Ashdown-Hill, John

20 1470–1471: WINTER IN EXILE As was mentioned briefly in connection with Miss Wayte’s story, in 1469, 1470 and 1471 Edward IV was, at times, forcibly separated from Elizabeth Widville. ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )
Edward III by Jonathan Sumption
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Jonathan Sumption [Sumption, Jonathan]

4 Prince of Chivalry (1347–1360) It was customary in the courts of Europe to exchange gifts of jewellery at New Year. In 1333, Philippa of Hainault gave her husband a ...
( Category: Historical July 22,2017 )
Shattered by Jonathan Allen
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Jonathan Allen

As Donald Trump took control of the Republican race, one of Hillary’s longtime advisers circulated a memo. The very top read “FACT: Donald Trump can defeat Hillary Clinton and become ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 22,2017 )
Hannibal by Patrick N Hunt
epub |eng | 2017-07-14 | Author:Patrick N Hunt

BATTLE OF BAECULA After Cartagena, Scipio had one decisive battle where he defeated Hasdrubal Barca at Baecula (Baelen) in 208, his first victory in Spain. Now controlling vast reaches of ...
( Category: Africa July 22,2017 )
Queen Victoria's Gene by D M Potts
epub |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:D M Potts

The family of Princess Alice. Carriers of haemophilia underlined, haemophiliacs boxed Alexandra Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice was born on 6 June 1872 in Darmstadt, near Frankfurt. Her mother, Princess Alice, ...
( Category: World July 21,2017 )
The War Path by David Irving
epub |eng | | Author:David Irving [Irving, David]

Before Munich, significantly, Hitler had scarcely bothered about Slovakia. As recently as April 1938 he had assured the Hungarian envoy that Bratislava, the Slovak capital, would be Hungary's. He was ...
( Category: Military July 16,2017 )

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