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ENGLISH WARFARE, 1511–1642 by Mark Charles Fissel
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Charles Fissel

Victualling and logistics, 1550–1640 The English practice of arms reached a high level of efficiency in regard to logistics in the years between 1543 and 1550. The gargantuan invasion of ...
( Category: Engineering October 27,2020 )
Tales of Two Americas by Unknown
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Unknown

HILLSIDES AND FLATLANDS Héctor Tobar MY SON WAS STILL sleeping in a crib. We set him down each night, my wife and I, in his cushioned cocoon, lined with bumpers ...
( Category: American History October 27,2020 )
Korea by Simon Winchester
epub |eng | 2004-10-15 | Author:Simon Winchester

One thing I would like to say is why Shakespeare did not tell us the way to get rid of the causes of human tragedy. I expected to find out ...
( Category: American History October 27,2020 )
Storm of Eagles by John Dibbs
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:John Dibbs

USAAF Curtiss P-40F, USS Ranger, January 19, 1943. After 11 days onboard ship, Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Austin prepares to take off for Cazes Aerodrome near Casablanca. Austin served as the ...
( Category: American History October 27,2020 )
In Days to Come by Avraham Burg
epub |eng | 2018-01-02 | Author:Avraham Burg [BURG, AVRAHAM]

IT TOOK ME MANY YEARS TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE place of women in society—any woman in society—is the litmus test for the degree of equality in that society. The boys-only ...
( Category: History October 27,2020 )
Age of Extremes : 1914-1991 (9780349144399) by Hobsbawm Eric
epub |eng | | Author:Hobsbawm, Eric

* About the three-fifths of the land area of the globe, omitting the uninhabited continent of Antarctica. †The systematic introduction in parts of the Third World of new high-yielding ...
( Category: European History October 27,2020 )
A World Beneath the Sands by Toby Wilkinson
epub |eng | 2020-09-14 | Author:Toby Wilkinson

Many people imagine that archaeology is an armchair science. I would like to see them dangling from a rope, with a 30-metre shaft beneath their feet and an inscription to ...
( Category: American History October 27,2020 )
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Emma Southon
epub |eng | 2020-07-20 | Author:Emma Southon [Southon, Emma]

† The story is that an enslaved man called Androclus in the province of Africa ran away from his owner, the proconsul of Africa during the reign of Gaius, because ...
( Category: History October 27,2020 )
Remaking Muslim Lives by David Henig
epub |eng | 2020-10-14 | Author:David Henig

5 Praying and Witnessing “I remember the time,” Aiša told me, “when my husband was injured during the war. It was in 1994, and I prayed hajr-dove [for good luck] ...
( Category: Middle East History October 27,2020 )
Air Apaches by Jay Stout
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Jay Stout [Stout, Jay A.]

By the middle of June 1944, Japanese air power in New Guinea was a ghost of what it had once been—George Kenney’s men dominated the Japanese in the sky, virtually ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People Biographies October 27,2020 )
Exocet Falklands by Ewen Southby-Tailyour
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Ewen Southby-Tailyour

‘Where exactly are the Falkland Islands?’ The command team at Northwood, left to right: Vice Admiral Peter Herbert, Major General Jeremy Moore, Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse, Vice Admiral David Halifax, ...
( Category: European History October 27,2020 )
The War for the Seas by Evan Mawdsley;
epub |eng | | Author:Evan Mawdsley;

OPERATION TORCH Various aspects of the execution of Operation TORCH, the giant landing operation in North Africa, have already been discussed. The object here is to put TORCH in context ...
( Category: European History October 27,2020 )
Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain by Kevin Ingram
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Ingram

© The Author(s) 2018 Kevin IngramConverso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spainhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93236-1_6 6. Diego Velázquez and the Subtle Art of Protest Kevin Ingram1 (1)Division of Humanities, Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain ...
( Category: European History October 27,2020 )
Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 by Alida C. Metcalf
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Alida C. Metcalf

When did the earliest known printed world maps include mention of anthropophagy in the Americas? Based on surviving printed maps, a legend appeared first, and an image later. The first ...
( Category: History October 27,2020 )
The First World War by Susan R. Grayzel
epub |eng | 2020-05-24 | Author:Susan R. Grayzel

Tomorrow the exodus of one-half of the population of this region commences. Were the people not so entirely subdued I should expect to see some stirring scenes. As it is, ...
( Category: American Military History October 27,2020 )

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