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Emperor by Geoffrey Parker
azw3 |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Geoffrey Parker [Parker, Geoffrey]

THE EMPEROR STRIKES BACK ‘The arrival of the duke of Alba, with his Spaniards and the money has greatly raised our spirits,’ wrote a member of Charles’s entourage. ‘Now the ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2020 )
The Alexiad (Annotated) by Anna Komnene
epub |eng | 2020-03-25 | Author:Anna Komnene

BOOK ELEVEN THE FIRST CRUSADE (1097–1104) BOHEMOND and all the counts met at a place from which they intended to sail across to Kibotos, and with Godfrey they awaited the ...
( Category: Rome July 17,2020 )
The Rise of Rome by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Plutarch

When this response was reported, all the Achaeans rejoiced, especially the Sicyonians, who, changing at once from grief to festivity, donned garlands and white garments in order to bring the ...
( Category: Rome July 16,2020 )
The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch
epub |eng | 1973-09-27 | Author:Plutarch

5 had perfected a technique of cross-examination which enabled him to corner his opponent by the method of question and answer, and Timon of Phlius has described him as Zeno, ...
( Category: Europe July 16,2020 )
Frank, Ann - The Diary of Ann Frank by Frank Ann
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Frank, Ann

My dearest Kitty, For a long time now I didn't know why I was bothering to do any schoolwork. The end of the war still seemed so far away, so ...
( Category: Europe July 16,2020 )
Life of St Columba by Adomnan of Iona
epub |eng | 1995-02-23 | Author:Adomnan of Iona

Every conscientious reader who has finished reading this three-part book should mark well how great and special is the merit of our reverend abbot; how great and special is his ...
( Category: Saints July 16,2020 )
Frank, Ann - The Diary of Anne Frank by Frank Anne
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Frank, Anne

My dearest Kitty, For a long time now I didn't know why I was bothering to do any schoolwork. The end of the war still seemed so far away, so ...
( Category: Europe July 16,2020 )
The Twelve Caesars (100 Copy Collector's Edition) by Suetonius
epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:Suetonius

DIVUS CLAUDIUS 1. When, three months after her marriage to Augustus, Livia gave birth to Decimus (later Nero) Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, people suspected that Augustus, not her ...
( Category: Rome July 16,2020 )
Agricola and Germania by Tacitus
epub |eng | 2010-01-07 | Author:Tacitus

Glossary of Terms auxiliaries Non-citizen troops, often from less developed parts of the empire, serving with the Roman army; from the reign of Augustus on they constituted a formal and ...
( Category: Rome July 16,2020 )
An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper by Adam Sisman
epub |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Adam Sisman [Sisman, Adam]

Hugh’s Historical Essays was published by Macmillan in the autumn of 1957.* Of the forty-two “essays” in the book, all had been previously published, most of them as book reviews ...
( Category: World War II July 11,2020 )
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Roger Knight [Knight, Roger]

21 Separation 8 November 1800–March 1801 I want neither nursing, or attention, And had you come here, I should not have gone on Shore, Nor would you have come afloat. ...
( Category: Military July 11,2020 )
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt by Giacomo Casanova
epub |eng | 2020-07-08 | Author:Giacomo Casanova

Chapter XVIII M. Haller—My Stay at Lausanne—Lord Rosebury—The Young Saconai—Dissertation on Beauty—The Young Theologian M. Haller was a man six feet high and broad in a proportion; he was a ...
( Category: Europe July 10,2020 )
Islam in Victorian Britain by Ron Geaves
epub |eng | | Author:Ron Geaves

Not all Muslims were happy with the proclamation, and Quilliam himself mentions the controversy in Muslim circles and a letter that he received from India which pleaded with him to ...
( Category: Europe July 7,2020 )
Scotland by Magnus Linklater
epub |eng | 2018-07-15 | Author:Magnus Linklater

Massacre of Glencoe And so a company of trustworthy Campbell troops, from the Earl of Argyll’s Regiment of Foot, commanded, as it happened, by a relative by marriage of MacIan’s, ...
( Category: Rich & Famous July 5,2020 )
Churchill Style: The Art of Being Winston Churchill by Singer Barry
epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Singer, Barry [Singer, Barry]

CIGARS A fascinating and largely unknown facet of Churchill’s enforced economization program in the 1930s involved cigars. Churchill’s expensive taste in cigars had always run to Cubanos, with Romeo y ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 5,2020 )

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