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English Histories 01 - The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
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 )
The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
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 )
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
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 )
The Last Days of Richard III and the Fate of His DNA by John Ashdown-Hill
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill

12 ‘Here Lies the Body’1 When Henry VIII dissolved the religious houses of England, the fate of the burials within the monastic and conventual churches varied. Occasionally, surviving relatives took ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
Stone of Destiny by Ian Hamilton
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Ian Hamilton

Chapter Fifteen Twenty-four hours earlier we could have called the whole thing off and gone home to live with nothing worse than our private shame at our failure. Up until ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions March 25,2014 )
Churchill by Paul Johnson
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 )
Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
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 )
Catherine the Great by Simon Dixon
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-08-13 | Author:Simon Dixon

In the end, the Menshikov Palace was used to house theatrical staff and Catherine chose to build a new stone residence on the site of the burnt-out palace on the ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris
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 )
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-09 | Author:Barack Obama

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
A Reason to Believe by Governor Deval Patrick
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Governor Deval Patrick

Over the years, we’ve opened our doors to these and many other people who were hungry for company, attention, and affection. Growing up, I know that I too longed for ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Malcolm X by Manning Marable
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-22 | Author:Manning Marable

Home from Detroit the morning of April 13, Malcolm barely had time to bid his wife and followers good-bye before catching a flight to Cairo that evening. He flew under ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:Laura Hillenbrand

Twenty-five B-29 ON ONE OF THE LAST DAYS OF OCTOBER 1944, LOUIE pushed a wheelbarrow over the Omori bridge, through the vilage at the bridge’s end, and into Tokyo. With ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Tom Reiss

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Him Chanrithy
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-04-16 | Author:Him, Chanrithy [Him, Chanrithy]

9 Now I Know the Answer Under the Khmer Rouge, reunions are precious but brief, appearing like a sudden summer shower that opens the sweet plumeria, and ending just as ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )

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