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Ten Caesars : Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine (9781451668858) by Strauss Barry
epub |eng | | Author:Strauss, Barry

THE JEWISH WAR Hadrian incited a new, massive Jewish revolt against Rome, lasting from 132 to 135. The proximate cause was probably his decision to refound Jerusalem as a Roman ...
( Category: Rome March 5,2019 )
Famous Men of the Middle Ages (Yesterday's Classics) by Haaren John H
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Haaren, John H. [Haaren, John H.]

Alfred the Great King from 871-901 A.D. I THE Danes were neighbors of the Norwegian Vikings, and like them were fond of the sea and piracy. They plundered the English ...
( Category: Europe June 8,2017 )
Hannibal (Yesterday's Classics) by Abbott Jacob
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Abbott, Jacob [Abbott, Jacob]

CROSSING THE MARSHES Still, Hannibal concluded to cross it, and, in the attempt, he involved his army in difficulties and dangers as great, almost, as he had encountered upon the ...
( Category: Rome June 8,2017 )
Plutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls (Yesterday's Classics) by Weston W. H
epub |eng | 2010-11-13 | Author:Weston, W. H. [Weston, W. H.]

CORIOLANUS AND THE MATRONS OF ROME 'O mother!' cried he, as he raised her from the ground and tenderly pressed her hand, 'what is this that you have done? You ...
( Category: Europe June 7,2017 )
Young and Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell
epub |eng | | Author:Gareth Russell

Catherine had spent most of her married life on the move, and she was already familiar with the upheaval that came with each relocation, but the progress to the north ...
( Category: Great Britain May 21,2017 )
Art and Revolution by John Berger
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:John Berger [Berger, John]

Whirlwind Lovers in Whirlwind Couple in Whirlwind Minotaur Hand of Hell Strange Birth Human Anatomy Reclining Woman * The Brothers Karamazov. Translated by David Magarshack. Penguin Books, 1958. * For ...
( Category: Russia May 18,2017 )
Eric Gill by Fiona MacCarthy
epub |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:Fiona MacCarthy [Fiona MacCarthy]

Gill’s only contribution to the Guild central fund was £500 borrowed from Lord Howard de Walden. Financial control, though in theory a shared responsibility, was in reality put in the ...
( Category: Great Britain May 9,2017 )
J. D. Bernal by Brown Andrew;
epub |eng | 2005-04-24 | Author:Brown, Andrew;

14 Rebuilding Bernal’s wartime contact with Birkbeck College was slight and somewhat peevish. Breams Buildings had closed after being hit by incendiary bombs in September 1940, but reopened the following ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2017 )
16 Dead Men by Anne-Marie Ryan
epub |eng | | Author:Anne-Marie Ryan

Seán Heuston John Joseph Heuston (known as Seán) was born in Dublin on 21 February 1891. His family lived at 24 Gloucester Street and later moved to Jervis Street. Both ...
( Category: Irish April 6,2017 )
Dark History of the Roman Emperors (Dark Histories) by Michael Kerrigan
epub, azw |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Michael Kerrigan [Kerrigan, Michael]

TORTURE AND TRUTH * * * Today, if torture is frowned upon, it is not only on humanitarian grounds, but also because we distrust the kind of information it supplies. ...
( Category: Rome March 30,2017 )
God & Churchill: How the Great Leader's Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours by Jonathan Sandys & Wallace Henley
epub |eng | 2015-09-30 | Author:Jonathan Sandys & Wallace Henley [Sandys, Jonathan]

The Britain of Churchill’s early years “had an air of careless supremacy” and a mind-set of “splendid isolation,” writes Tuchman. The British “felt no need of allies and had no ...
( Category: Great Britain March 23,2017 )
The Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Norton [Norton, Elizabeth]

‘To Muddy Death’ In steadfastly adhering to her own Biblical interpretations, Joan Bocher knew the ultimate retribution that lay in wait, and so she quite consciously sought out death. But ...
( Category: Women in History March 15,2017 )
Wellington - The Iron Duke by Richard Holmes
epub |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

Wellington in the breach at Badajoz. The artist has used some licence, showing dignified French prisoners under guard in the breach and minimising the effect of close-range fire on the ...
( Category: Europe March 2,2017 )
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return by Kenan Trebincevic & Susan Shapiro
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Kenan Trebincevic & Susan Shapiro

CHAPTER SEVEN * * * My Grandpa Murat’s Karma Brcko, Bosnia September 1992 “Those are not for Muslims,” yelled a Serb woman at the makeshift Brcko market, grabbing the red ...
( Category: Europe February 27,2017 )
Hitler: History in an Hour by Rupert Colley
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Rupert Colley [Colley, Rupert]

Hitler the Man Following his release from prison in 1924 Hitler became increasingly aloof. Friendship, which had always been difficult, became impossible. Albert Speer wrote in his memoirs, ‘If Hitler ...
( Category: Leadership February 26,2017 )

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