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The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter M. Judson
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Pieter M. Judson [Judson, Pieter M.]

Workers required education to become economical and thrifty and to value advance planning. The liberal education program would create a Volk of sober householders who knew the value of work ...
( Category: Europe October 25,2017 )
Robert the Bruce by Penman Michael
epub |eng | 2016-12-20 | Author:Penman Michael

Robert may have been happy to stoke this English fear of a two-front attack to see what peace concessions from Edward it might shake loose: he was in touch with ...
( Category: Europe October 25,2017 )
We Have the War Upon Us by William J. Cooper
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:William J. Cooper [Cooper, William J.]

CHAPTER SIX “Fraternity Is the Element of Union” MERICANS DID NOT all greet the arrival of March 1861 in the same spirit. Some eagerly anticipated Lincoln’s inauguration, four days away. ...
( Category: Americas October 25,2017 )
To Appomattox by Burke Davis
epub |eng | 2017-10-16 | Author:Burke Davis

It seemed an age ago to Lieutenant W. F. Robinson that he had helped to drive files into the touchholes of the guns of the Ringgold Battery, and to chop ...
( Category: Americas October 25,2017 )
Iran by Abbas Amanat
epub |eng | 2017-10-25 | Author:Abbas Amanat [Amanat, Abbas]

Figure 9.3. Marshal Voroshilov shows the Stalingrad sword to Franklin Roosevelt during the Tehran conference on November 28, 1943. Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin look on. No Iranian official attended ...
( Category: Middle East October 25,2017 )
The Persian Empire by Kia Mehrdad;
epub |eng | 2017-10-16 | Author:Kia, Mehrdad;

Illustration depicts the legendary king Fereydun receiving the envoy from his two sons, Salm and Tur. Fereydun is best known in Greater Iran’s legendary history as the hero who defeated ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides October 25,2017 )
A Matter of Honour: The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock by Jonathon Riley
epub |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Jonathon Riley [Riley, Jonathon]

Strategy is the achievement of national objectives using such ways and means as are available, appropriate and legal. Tactics is the business of fighting battles and engagements. Between the two ...
( Category: Americas October 25,2017 )
The Fall of Mussolini by Morgan Philip;
epub |eng | 2007-10-25 | Author:Morgan, Philip;

6 The Invasion and Occupation of Italy, and the Kingdom of the South, 1943–1945 IN spring 1943, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the British Eighth Army, gave an order ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 25,2017 )
South Pacific Destroyer by Russell Crenshaw Jr
epub |eng | 2017-10-25 | Author:Russell Crenshaw Jr. [Crenshaw, Russell Sydnor]

15 Kula Gulf HALSEY’S OP-ORDER required the assault on Munda to begin on 3 July, with the airfield being occupied by the seventh. All elements of the complex armada had ...
( Category: Military October 25,2017 )
Final Betrayal by Mark Felton
epub |eng | 2010-06-19 | Author:Mark Felton

Mountbatten was forced to delay launching Zipper until 9 September as a result of Operation Python. The question was why had the British government enacted Python when they knew that ...
( Category: History October 25,2017 )
The Real Enigma Heroes by Phil Shanahan & Phil Shanahan
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Phil Shanahan & Phil Shanahan [Shanahan, Phil]

Swapping trophies, Prunella Scales with a Colin Grazier commemorative plate and the author with the Celebrities Guild of Great Britain award he accepted on behalf of Grazier, Fasson and Brown. ...
( Category: Historical October 25,2017 )
The First World Oil War by Timothy C. Winegard
epub |eng | 2017-10-13 | Author:Timothy C. Winegard

The Foreign Office agreed that the “rapid advance of the Germans eastwards through the Ukraine serves to draw attention once again to their evident designs upon the Caucasus.”19 The secure ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 25,2017 )
Skulls and Keys by David Alan Richards
epub |eng | 2017-10-25 | Author:David Alan Richards

THE FIRST YALE UNIT AND THE SENIOR SOCIETIES Among Yale’s undergraduates, twenty-eight men would pioneer American military aviation, on their own initiative. Their families’ immense private resources made possible the ...
( Category: Americas October 25,2017 )
Operation Sea Lion by Leo McKinstry
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Leo McKinstry [MCKINSTRY, LEO]

He concluded by urging the government to drive forward this scheme by setting up a ‘Petroleum Warfare Executive’ under Lloyd’s chairmanship.25 To give extra support to his case, Hankey sent ...
( Category: Europe October 25,2017 )
Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom by Iain Ballantyne
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Iain Ballantyne [Ballantyne, Iain]

3. Hand of Mercy In a temporary debating chamber in Church House, central London - a stand-in House of Commons, due to a recent Luftwaffe fire-bombing raid that damaged the ...
( Category: Military October 25,2017 )

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