mobi | | | 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 ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:John Garth

PART THREE The Lonely Isle ELEVEN Castles in the air The fever persisted. Tolkien wrote to Lieutenant-Colonel Bird, his commanding officer, explaining his whereabouts, but All Hallows went by and ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Will R. Bird

CHAPTER VII In a German Trench We found a little estaminet between our village and Bourecq, a small house managed by a gaunt, bony-faced woman with eye sockets like a ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Elisabeth Shipton

… I felt like screaming, like beating myself against the wall with agonised suspense. I was in a terrible quandary; against my will I had become a spy for friend ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Diana Souhami

Such letters worried Mrs. Cavell. She wrote anxiously to Sergeant Doman asking how risky the whole business was. He tried to reassure her: Referring to it being risky for her ...

mobi |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Alexander Aaronsohn

Railroad Station Scene Between Haifa and Damascus/Camels Bringing in Newly Cut Trees, Damascus We felt sure that the Turkish defeat would put a damper on the arrogance of the soldiery. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Lucy Hughes-Hallett [Hughes-Hallett, Lucy]

After the Germans drew back, d’Annunzio obtained a permit to drive out into the territory they had occupied in the weeks before. On a day of pouring rain he set ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Richard Holmes

CHAPTER 19 CASABLANCA AND TEHRAN One of the least explored of the major themes of the Second World War is the degree to which the Americans, deliberately or accidentally, pursued ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-02-01 | Author:General Michel; Weider Franceschi

Britain Saved by its Navy at Trafalgar With due allowance for the differences, the Franco-British confrontation may be compared to that between Rome and Carthage during the Punic Wars, with ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-27 | Author:Patrick J. Buchanan

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Jonathan Steinberg

On 20 April Prince Karl Anton and Prince Leopold let Madrid know that they were no longer interested. On 13 May Bismarck wrote to Delbrück to express his rage and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Scott Anderson [Anderson, Scott]

TO THE ANNOYANCE of defense-minded military commanders throughout history, civilians have a tendency to stay put in their homes until an enemy invading force is just over the horizon. Then, ...