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Kennan by Frank Costigliola;
epub |eng | 2022-10-20 | Author:Frank Costigliola;

BEFORE MOSCOW, 1950–1952 Kennan’s troubles in Moscow came on the heels of other strains. Feeling increasingly out of place in the State Department, he took leave in 1950–1951 to pursue ...
( Category: Russia June 13,2023 )
Gilded Youth by Tom Quinn
epub |eng | 2023-06-15 | Author:Tom Quinn

One of the reasons Margaret found her sister so reassuring was that Elizabeth, throughout her life, hated confrontation or unpleasantness – her scoldings were always far more like quiet appeals. ...
( Category: Great Britain June 13,2023 )
Lenin's Laureate by Paul R. Josephson;
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Paul R. Josephson; [Josephson, Paul R.]

4 From Transistors to Heterojunctions1 In December of 2000, Zhores Alferov stood at the lectern in the Grand Hall of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm to deliver his ...
( Category: Russia June 13,2023 )
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade by Joel Warner
epub |eng | 2023-02-21 | Author:Joel Warner [Warner, Joel]

* * * — Sade submitted numerous requests to be released, all of which the administrators ignored. Meanwhile, the police constantly searched his quarters, tried to prevent him from interacting ...
( Category: France June 13,2023 )
Nero by Anthony Everitt & Roddy Ashworth
epub |eng | 2022-11-08 | Author:Anthony Everitt & Roddy Ashworth [Everitt, Anthony & Ashworth, Roddy]

* * * Boudica, meanwhile, had been crowned as the queen of the Iceni in the kingdom’s capital at Venta Icenorum (Market of the Iceni—today’s Caistor St. Edmund). A proud ...
( Category: Rome June 13,2023 )
Love, Madness, and Scandal by Johanna Luthman;
epub |eng | 2016-12-14 | Author:Johanna Luthman; [Luthman, Johanna]

Finally, Buckingham received word from his spies that Frances was hiding out in a house adjacent to Cesare Allessandro Scaglia, the ambassador of the Duke of Savoy. In order to ...
( Category: Ireland June 13,2023 )
Tough Guy by Richard Bradford
epub |eng | 2022-09-06 | Author:Richard Bradford

This is terrifyingly convincing, particularly his private redefinition of sanity as exploring ‘areas of experience’ that others are ‘afraid of’. Presumably this included his assumption that attempted murder was within ...
( Category: Great Britain June 13,2023 )
Augustus by Barbara Levick;
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Barbara Levick;

Tittle-tattle Refined as the analysis of Raaflaub and Samons is, more allowance could be made for fluctuations of opinion under pressure of internal and external events, for the shock of ...
( Category: Italy June 13,2023 )
A History of the Grandparents I Never Had by Jablonka Ivan
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Jablonka, Ivan [Jablonka, Ivan]

6 THE PROVIDENTIAL DENTIST Gitla Leszcz is in the last stages of life. Her spindly arm, nothing left but veins and tendons, emerges from her yellow “Hospitals of Paris” bedsheet. ...
( Category: France June 13,2023 )
Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America by Jeremy Jennings
epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Jennings

* * * Shortly after the publication of L’ancien régime et la révolution in 1856 Tocqueville sent a letter to Charles de Grandmaison. “Without you and your archives,” he wrote, ...
( Category: France June 13,2023 )
Orwell by D. J. Taylor
epub |eng | 2023-05-25 | Author:D. J. Taylor

It was infuriating. I had been a hundred and fifteen days in the line and had come back to Barcelona for a bit of a rest and comfort; and instead ...
( Category: Great Britain June 13,2023 )
The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel
epub |eng | | Author:Lily Koppel

Didn’t dare go to Mother’s room. You should hear the stories going around because last night I was—Alone with 2 boys—terrible! Had a long talk with Nat down by the ...
( Category: Italy & Rome June 12,2023 )
Messalina by Honor Cargill-Martin
epub |eng | | Author:Honor Cargill-Martin [Cargill-Martin, Honor]

* Before Claudius had sailed to Britain, and before she had ridden in his triumph, Messalina was said to have opened AD 42 – her first full year as empress ...
( Category: Rome June 6,2023 )
The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England by Peter C. Mancall
pdf |en | | Author: Peter C. Mancall

( Category: Great Britain June 1,2023 )
The Duke's Assassin: Exile and Death of Lorenzino de' Medici by Stefano Dall'Aglio; Donald Weinstein
pdf |en | | Author: Stefano Dall'Aglio; Donald Weinstein

( Category: Italy June 1,2023 )

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