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Innovation: A History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | 2021-09-02 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

34 An old world On 6 February 1952, the king died, and, quite by accident, an Elizabethan age was established. Another herald was the establishment of the Conservative government in ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
The Great Evil: Christianity, the Bible, and the Native American Genocide by Chris Mato Nunpa
epub |eng | 2020-05-15 | Author:Chris Mato Nunpa [Nunpa, Chris Mato]

Manifest Destiny in Action In the 18th and 19th centuries, U.S. military and paramilitary troops, as well as settlers and farmers, perpetrated hundreds of genocidal massacres or cruel removals all ...
( Category: Christian Bibles November 15,2021 )
Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 by Edward Cunningham
epub |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Edward Cunningham [Cunningham, Edward]

To Private William Swan of the Third Iowa Infantry, the “whole earth seemed in a blaze—the sharp, ringing crash of our musketry—our batteries belching forth their shot and shell, and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies November 15,2021 )
Darkness Falling: The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33 by Peter Walther
epub |eng | 2021-08-05 | Author:Peter Walther [Walther, Peter]

a Alfred Hugenberg (1865–1951) was a businessman who was closely associated with the Krupp armaments firm. In 1920, he entered the Reichstag as a member of the German National People’s ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
I Was a French Muslim: Memories of an Algerian Freedom Fighter by Mokhtar Mokhtefi
epub |eng | 2021-09-21 | Author:Mokhtar Mokhtefi [Mokhtefi, Mokhtar]

* * * — In the village, soldiers are everywhere, as during the Second World War. But they’re not Englishmen stationed here before going into battle against Nazi imperialism. They’re ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies November 15,2021 )
The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski by Tim Tate
epub |eng | 2021-05-27 | Author:Tim Tate [Tate, Tim]

This was almost word for word the story Golitsyn sold to Angleton as the rule by which everything the KGB did – and everything the CIA had done in response ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies November 15,2021 )
Star Stories: Constellations and People by Anthony Aveni
epub |eng | 2019-10-22 | Author:Anthony Aveni [Aveni, Anthony]

7 Star Patterns in the Tropics Have you ever noticed that Scorpius’s tail looks like a hook, especially when it rises in the southeast? Hawaiians call it Maui’s Fishhook. Maui ...
( Category: Christian Bibles November 15,2021 )
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History by Jamie Mackay
epub |eng | 2021-11-15 | Author:Jamie Mackay [Mackay, Jamie]

Chevalley, an ardent patriot, struggles to hide his exasperation with the Leopard’s stubbornness. ‘Prince,’ he asks incredulously, ‘do you seriously refuse to do all in your physical power to alleviate, ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
Dark History of Tea. by Seren Charrington. Hollins
epub |eng | 2020-11-15 | Author:Seren Charrington. Hollins [Hollins, Seren Charrington.]

A luncheon voucher advertisement from March 1958. Women who smoked opium were frowned upon and treated more harshly than male smokers. It was believed that smoking opium would cause women ...
( Category: Asian Cooking, Food & Wine November 15,2021 )
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
epub |eng | 2020-10-26 | Author:Laura Tunbridge [Tunbridge, Laura]

6. Liberty: Fidelio, op. 72 (1814) In celebration of the allied armies’ very recent victory over Napoleon in France, on 11 April 1814 there was a performance at Vienna’s Kärtnertortheater ...
( Category: Architecture November 15,2021 )
Clutter: An Untidy History by Jennifer Howard
epub |eng | 2022-01-04 | Author:Jennifer Howard [Howard, Jennifer]

The Beecher sisters’ manual and Isabella Beeton’s blockbuster stand as two of the most famous examples of what was (and still is) a thriving market for domestic-economy books, though marketers ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles November 15,2021 )
An Anthology of World War One, 1914–1918: Extracts From Selected Titles by Pen & Sword
epub |eng | 2014-09-26 | Author:Pen & Sword [Pen & Sword]

‘Really, Alf, I never thought I should come out to tell the tale, it was real hell. Fritz put up a bombardment on our trenches that the boys will never ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
Between Two Hells by Diarmaid Ferriter
epub |eng | 2021-11-15 | Author:Diarmaid Ferriter [Ferriter, Diarmaid]

Michael Flannery, another civil war veteran who endured imprisonment and emigrated with IRA assistance in 1927, did not, however, reconcile himself to the independent Irish state. He established NORAID in ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade by James Walvin
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:James Walvin [Walvin, James]

SEVEN Resistance One of the most puzzling questions about the history of Atlantic slavery remains the issue of control. How did such relatively small numbers of slave owners maintain their ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
The Age of Constantine the Great (1949) by Jacob Burckhardt
epub |eng | 2018-07-30 | Author:Jacob Burckhardt [Burckhardt, Jacob]

VII Senescence of Ancient Life and Its Culture IF THE CRISIS in the life of the ancient world is anywhere clearly revealed, it is in the twilight of paganism which ...
( Category: Christian Bibles November 15,2021 )

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