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Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-16 | Author:Edith Hall [Hall, Edith]

Of all the events of this war, this was the most momentous, and indeed I think it was the most momentous of any event ever reported to have happened in ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 22,2018 )
The Real Hornblower by Bryan Perrett
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Bryan Perrett

‘The feelings of a father, upon such a glorious achievement as the victory you have obtained over the enemy, with such fearful odds against you, can be better conceived than ...
( Category: Historical January 22,2018 )
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Patrick J. Deneen

CHAPTER FIVE Liberalism against Liberal Arts BEFORE the advent of liberalism, culture was the most pervasive human technology and the fundamental locus of education. It was the comprehensive shaping force ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2018 )
The History of the Port of London by Peter Stone
epub |eng | 2017-08-30 | Author:Peter Stone

Cargoes are raised into the warehouses out of the hold of a ship without the goods being deposited on the quay. The cargoes can be raised out of the ship’s ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2018 )
Recovering Buddhism in Modern China by Jan Kiely
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Jan Kiely

1. Generosity: there are three forms of practice, including giving of material wealth, the dharma, and fearlessness. The government’s distribution of resources to poor people is the giving of material ...
( Category: History January 22,2018 )
The Survival Handbook by Peter Darman
epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Peter Darman [Darman, Peter]

Ground-to-air signals There are several factors you must take into account with regard to ground-to-air signals if they are to be effective and help you get rescued. Above all, you ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation January 22,2018 )
Thet Oera Linda Bok by Linden C. Over De
epub | | 2009-11-13 | Author:Linden, C. Over De

Adela. Okke min svn. Thissa boka mot i mith lif ånd sêle wârja. Se vmbifattath thju skêdnise fon vs êle folk âk fon vsa êthlum. Vrlêden jêr håb ik tham ...
( Category: History January 22,2018 )
Lewis Sorley by Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam [Vietnam, Westmoreland: The General Who Lost]

WESTMORELAND'S DEPARTURE ENDED four years during which, as Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird later observed, "the war had been Americanized." Said Laird, "We had not been giving the South Vietnamese ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 22,2018 )
The Preacher of Cedar Mountain by Seton Ernest Thompson
epub |eng | 2009-10-22 | Author:Seton, Ernest Thompson [Thompson, Seton, Ernest]

* * * CHAPTER XXXI Love in The Saddle "Here come Apollo and Psyche," said Mrs. Waller, as she glimpsed them from the window. The Colonel was just leaving for ...
( Category: History January 22,2018 )
A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks by Stewart Gordon
epub |eng | | Author:Stewart Gordon

Even more interesting than De Coutre’s description of the battle in Manila harbor are four memorials he wrote to the Spanish monarch around 1625. He was all too aware that, ...
( Category: Transportation January 22,2018 )
1914-1918: The History of the First World War by David Stevenson
mobi |eng | 2004-09-01 | Author:David Stevenson

15 The Central Powers’ Last Throw, Autumn 1917–Summer 1918 In autumn 1917 the Central Powers regained the initiative. Their counterattack against the Kerensky offensive initiated a reversal of fortunes comparable ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 21,2018 )
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Ellsberg Daniel
azw3, epub |eng | 2003-09-30 | Author:Ellsberg, Daniel [Ellsberg, Daniel]

John T. McNaughton, assistant secretary of defense, international security affairs, and my boss at the Pentagon. An evening at Ed Lansdale’s house in Saigon. Left to right: Lansdale, Ambassador Henry ...
( Category: Military January 21,2018 )
The Hollow Crown by Dan Jones
epub |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Dan Jones [Dan Jones]

Sand crunched underfoot on London Bridge as Elizabeth Woodville crossed the river Thames and entered England’s capital to be crowned a queen. During the previous winter the bridge had been ...
( Category: Europe January 21,2018 )
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Oren
mobi |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:Michael Oren

Damascus and Jerusalem The Syrian shelling of Israel’s northern settlements, unabated since the previous day, went largely unanswered. Residents of those settlements, comprising the country’s largest lobbying group, continued to ...
( Category: Middle East January 21,2018 )
In Search Of The Trojan War by Michael Wood
epub |eng | 2016-09-25 | Author:Michael Wood

A PREHISTORIC ARMS RACE? What was the relation between Mycenae and the other palaces? Historians have been perplexed by the presence of several great fortresses in the same area, as ...
( Category: Middle East January 21,2018 )

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