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Sophia of Hanover by J.N. Duggan
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:J.N. Duggan

CHAPTER 9 FAMILY AFFAIRS After the death of Karl Ludwig in 1680, Sophia became the unofficial guardian to his Raugrave children. That year, eight of the fourteen were still alive, ...
( Category: Wales January 5,2023 )
Spirit of Gallipoli by Patrick Lindsay
epub |eng | 2010-08-18 | Author:Patrick Lindsay

CHAPTER EIGHT Gallipoli Stalemate While the Anzacs fought for their lives, General Hamilton watched anxiously from his flagship as he received confused reports from the other landings. From the start, ...
( Category: Military Science January 5,2023 )
In Stockmen's Footsteps by Jane Grieve
epub |eng | 2013-01-04 | Author:Jane Grieve

CHAPTER 17 TOOMBA Christmas always meant a visit home and a gathering of the greater clan; there were firsts, and lasts, as a new generation started to come into being ...
( Category: History January 5,2023 )
Whiteley's Folly by Linda Stratmann
epub |eng | 2014-02-27 | Author:Linda Stratmann

Crowded as the Grove always is, it is so especially on a fine Saturday morning when all sorts and conditions of men women and children throng the pavement and the ...
( Category: World January 5,2023 )
Shadows of ANZAC by David W. Cameron
epub |eng | | Author:David W. Cameron

43 ‘… all of us seemed to have an attack of coughing …’ British-born 25-year-old Private John Adams, a valet from Waverley, New South Wales, is a member of the ...
( Category: World War I January 5,2023 )
Dance of the Peacocks by James Mcneish
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:James Mcneish [James McNeish]

Much has been written about the New Zealand Division’s role as the spearhead of the British army, but little has been said of its Intelligence war. Oliver Leese, who succeeded ...
( Category: 20th Century January 5,2023 )
Medieval Siege and Siege Craft by Geoffrey Hindley
epub |eng | 2012-10-17 | Author:Geoffrey Hindley [Hindley, Geoffrey]

CHAPTER EIGHT Logistics ‘the art of moving and quartering troops, i.e. quarter-master general’s work ...’ The Athenaeum, 1898 It seems that the word ‘logistics’ arrived in English in the fifteenth ...
( Category: Pictorials January 5,2023 )
The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Rian Malan
epub |eng | 2013-01-10 | Author:Rian Malan

We all know, thanks to Twain, that statistics are often the lowest form of lie, but when it comes to HIV/AIDS, we suspend all skepticism. Why? AIDS is the most ...
( Category: Southern Africa January 5,2023 )
New Zealand's Vietnam War by Ian McGibbon
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Ian McGibbon [Ian McGibbon]

Moya McTamney’s role (and that of Mandy Harrison and Adrienne Lattimore, who would follow her in later teams) was to attend to the general health conditions of the refugees, most ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 5,2023 )
Nutrition by Adams Media
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Adams Media

Fact Sautéing, which comes from the French term meaning “to jump,” is a similar technique to stir-frying. Foods are cooked quickly over high heat and kept in constant motion. Broiling ...
( Category: Architecture January 5,2023 )
Through the Keyhole by Susan Law
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Susan Law

They were hardly ever seen asunder … her ladyship kept company more with the gentlemen than with the ladies. Lady Percy and Mr Bird seemed to be so particularly attentive ...
( Category: 19th Century January 5,2023 )
The A-Z of Curious Essex by Paul Wreyford
epub |eng | 2013-06-27 | Author:Paul Wreyford

Everybody needs good neighbours Disputes between neighbours are not uncommon. However, few can have gone to the extent that one resident of Kelvedon Hatch went to in order to pay ...
( Category: Europe January 5,2023 )
The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park by Dermot Turing
epub |eng | 2019-12-09 | Author:Dermot Turing

The four huts The autumn of 1939 was the period of the ‘Phoney War’, where nothing much was happening, at least as far as the war on land and in ...
( Category: 20th Century January 5,2023 )
Great Australian Outback School Stories by Bill Marsh
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Bill Marsh

Just Like a Sentence I grew up in the Gulf country of Queensland where we lived on a cattle station four mile out of Normanton. When I say ‘cattle station’ ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 5,2023 )
Anzacs and Ireland by Jeff Kildea
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Kildea

The grave of Private James Cowan (Jeff Kildea) The next day his uncle arrived at the hospital and arranged for his body to be taken to Ireland, where he was ...
( Category: History January 5,2023 )

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