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Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union by Conor O'Clery
mobi |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Conor O'Clery

DECEMBER 7, 1991: The clock starts ticking towards December 25 as Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk, and Stanislav Shushkevich (three on right) meet in a state hunting lodge in Belarus and ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis

On the official level I have been asked to give advice only on the particular problem of Soviet reaction to various possible approaches. But there is one thing I should ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-11 | Author:Andrew Roberts

* As the Russians made their way along the Baltic coast, the Germans had to relocate their U-boat fleet to Norway. Although their number peaked at the huge figure of ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-12 | Author:T.E. Lawrence

CHAPTER LXI LEWIS, the Australian, at such an ambitious moment, said that he and Stokes would like to be of my party. A new, attractive idea. With them we should ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:Simon Sebag-Montefiore

THE OUD- PLAYER: WASIF JAWHARIYYEH Wasif Jawhariyyeh started to learn the lute – or oud – as a boy, and soon he was the best oud-player in a town that ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The Secret History of the World by Jonathan Black
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Black

WHAT IS LESS WELL KNOWN IS THAT ANOTHER enemy was at work on the other side of the world. There an initiate wielded a blacker, more powerful magic than that ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
A History of the World by Andrew Marr
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Andrew Marr

And Yet It Moves A day in August 1609: in one of the most gorgeously decorated rooms in the world, the Hall of the College in the Doge’s Palace in ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
mobi |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Rick Atkinson

Part Four 10. ARGONAUTS Citizens of the World MORNING sun and a tranquil breeze carried hints of an early Mediterranean spring across Grand Harbour, where strains of “The Star-Spangled Banner” ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1960-01-02 | Author:William L. Shirer

* Hitler’s proclamation to the Army announcing the opening of hostilities was broadcast over me German radio at 5:40 A.M., and the newspaper extras were on the street shortly after. ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS
mobi | | | Author:Erik Larson

( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Germany's high sea fleet in the World War by Reinhard Scheer
mobi, epub | | 1920-12-14 | Author:Reinhard Scheer

159 fight when our ships were already damaged. The sinking of the Pommern had unfortunately proved that this class of ship could not be risked in heavy fighting, owing to ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Great Tales from English History, Book 2 by Robert Lacey
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-29 | Author:Robert Lacey

ELIZABETH - QUEEN OF HEARTS 1559 ELIZABETH I WAS CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER Abbey on 15 January 1559 — a date selected by her astrologer, Dr John Dee. Cheering crowds had ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
The War of Wars by Robert Harvey
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-26 | Author:Robert Harvey

Chapter 51 THE GRENVILLE INTERLUDE When Pitt died at the end of January 1806, William, Lord Grenville, Pitt’s brilliant cousin, formed the Ministry of All Talents, so named for its ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The Making of Modern Britain by Marr Andrew
mobi |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Marr, Andrew [Marr, Andrew]

There were worse worlds for revolutionaries, and more serious revolutionaries too. In the final days of a freezing November in 1923 in a grimy street in Pollockshaws, just outside Glasgow, ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 25,2014 )
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
mobi |eng | 2008-10-27 | Author:Piers Brendon

This verdict was heard in other parts of Africa painted red on the map. Settler colonies in particular seemed bent on following the Boer example: one Cewa chief complained that ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )

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