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The Rough Guide to the Royals by Rough Guides
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Rough Guides

If you discount James Stuart, the Old Pretender, who spent 64 years claiming the thrones of England and Scotland but no years at all actually sitting on them, Queen Victoria ...
( Category: Ireland January 9,2023 )
The Murder of Alexander the Great: Book 1 - The Puranas by Ajith Kumar
azw3 |eng | 2019-12-12 | Author:Ajith Kumar

Chapter 23: Location of the Greek Fort in Patala Alexander reached Patala at the time of the rising of the Dog Star, during the rainy season in July 325 BC.[291] ...
( Category: Greece January 9,2023 )
Witness to History by Paul Hoffmann
epub |eng | 2021-10-13 | Author:Paul Hoffmann

15 The Communist Storm Strikes: August 1948—August 1949 I particularly remember my stay in Moganshan because it coincided with the revaluation of the Chinese currency which was accomplished by dividing ...
( Category: China January 9,2023 )
A Short History of Ireland's Rebels by Morgan Llywelyn
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Morgan Llywelyn [Morgan Llywelyn]

CHAPTER 12 Constance, Countess Markievicz (1868–1927) ‘The Rebel Countess’ Constance Georgina Gore-Booth was born at Buckingham Gate, London. Her family were members of the Ascendancy, the landed Protestant class in ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2023 )
Leaders of the Mexican American Generation by Anthony Quiroz
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Anthony Quiroz

García organized a public protest on the evening of January 11, at the Lamar Elementary School cafeteria in Corpus Christi. He admonished “all veterans, their families, and the general public ...
( Category: Latin America January 8,2023 )
Harbor Knight by Ralph A. Garcia
epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Ralph A. Garcia [Garcia, Ralph A.]

I stayed in touch with the CIA throughout that time. I had sent my letter from Vietnam, and I waited over eighteen months to get into the CIA. But the ...
( Category: Military & Wars January 8,2023 )
Key Figures in Espionage by Bayard & Holmes
epub |eng | | Author:Bayard & Holmes

15 John Cairncross The One That Got Away John Cairncross is known as “The Fifth Man,” as he was the fifth of the Cambridge Five to be publicly identified. He ...
( Category: World War II January 8,2023 )
Shrapnel in the Heart by Laura Palmer
epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Laura Palmer [Palmer, Laura]

July 5, 1985 Dear Lieutenant: I’m here today with my son, Jim, and my dearest friend, Debbie. It’s been fifteen years since I put you, already dying, onto a dustoff. ...
( Category: Asia January 8,2023 )
Prairie People by Robert Collins
epub |eng | 2004-10-05 | Author:Robert Collins [Collins, Robert]

VIII CITY LIGHTS The western city has yet to take its place of prominence in our mindscapes. GEORGE MELNYK The Urban Prairie, 1993 The City as Province How about doing ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2023 )
Combat to Catwalk by Katrina Hodge
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Katrina Hodge

CHAPTER SIX THE SEMI-FINALS MY PRECARIOUS first experience of trying to combine work and Miss England had shaken me up a little but had ultimately given me the confidence that, ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2023 )
Seven Slovak Women by Josette Baer
epub |eng | 2015-04-10 | Author:Josette Baer [Baer, Josette]

IV. 5 Conclusion At the end of 1968, it was quite obvious that the government could not continue the reform course; after Husák's election as General Secretary in April 1969 ...
( Category: Historical January 7,2023 )
Last of the Ten Fighter Boys by Jimmy Corbin
epub |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Jimmy Corbin

Chapter Eight NOVEMBER 1940 – BIGGIN HILL, KENT The squadron’s stay at Gravesend was brief and from there we were moved to West Malling aerodrome, also in Kent, which had ...
( Category: World War II January 7,2023 )
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers by Tamara Plakins Thornton
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Tamara Plakins Thornton

Chapter Nine: Apogee In the last decade of his life Bowditch reached the height of his fame. The name “Bowditch” had long been synonymous with the maritime best seller. More ...
( Category: India & South Asia January 7,2023 )
A Child of the East End by Jean Fullerton
epub |eng | | Author:Jean Fullerton

Brand Spanking New I knew when I started at Redcoat that the following year I would be starting again in the new school we’d seen rise from its foundation over ...
( Category: Europe January 7,2023 )
Our Man In Tokyo by Steve Kemper
epub |eng | 2022-09-07 | Author:Steve Kemper

31 The Matsuoka Hurricane IN JANUARY 1940 James R. Young, an American correspondent living in Japan, left Tokyo to report on the war in China. When he returned he gave ...
( Category: Historical January 6,2023 )

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