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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess Of Carnarvon
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 )
John Adams by David McCullough
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:David McCullough

• • • UNTIL A SUITABLE HOUSE could be found, the three Adamses were residing in the Bath Hotel in Piccadilly, where, after the quiet of Auteuil, the noise of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Erik Larson

CHAPTER 31 Night Terrors The lives of the Dodds underwent a subtle change. Where once they had felt free to say anything they wished within their own home, now they ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2000-08-30 | Author:Ian Kershaw

III Meanwhile, within the Reich itself the beginning of the war had also marked a vital step in the descent into modern barbarism. Here, too, Hitler now authorized mass murder. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The princes in the tower by Alison Weir
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 )
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
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 )
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | 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: World War I March 25,2014 )
Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
mobi, epub |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Guy Sajer

THE BREAKTHROUGH AT KONOTOP We drove for an hour-which meant about thirty miles-before it grew dark. We were all anxious to stop so that we could get rid of the ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

ETIQUETTE AND EMULATION “We are most delightfully situated,” Abigail explained to her sister. “The prospect around us is Beautiful in the highest degree, it is a mixture of sublime & ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Erik Larson

“HOW COULD I TELL HIM,” she wrote later, “that it was one of the strangest evenings I had ever spent in my life?” A sense of foreboding tempered her enjoyment. ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
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 )
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-10-25 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHASE, UNLIKE LINCOLN, was never able to forgo his statesmanlike persona and simply enjoy conversations and lighter amusements. He was inclined to let things fester, brooding over perceived slights and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Queen Isabella by Alison Weir
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 )
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
mobi, epub |eng | 1980-09-11 | Author:Robert K. Massie

entrenched army. The rear of the new Russian camp overlooked the bluff of the Vorskla at a point where the bank was so steep and the river so broad and ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-23 | Author:Edmund Morris

“A LARGE, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY.” Metropolitan magazine, TR’s main journalistic outlet from 1915 to 1918. (photo credit i20.1) The resultant twelve-chapter volume, entitled America and the World War, was issued ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )

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