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Harold Wilson by Ben Pimlott & Peter Hennessy
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Ben Pimlott & Peter Hennessy [Pimlott, Ben & Hennessy, Peter]

Callaghan’s subsequent account suggests that what Brown told Wilson may have been seriously misleading. Though the First Secretary had ‘broached the subject in his most sober and impressive mood’, declaring ...
( Category: Political July 20,2020 )
Taking Command by David Richards
epub |eng | 2014-10-09 | Author:David Richards [Richards, David]

ELEVEN Fighting Battles on My Way to Kabul It was near the end of my tour as Assistant Chief of the General Staff that I was told that my next ...
( Category: Military July 20,2020 )
The Kaiser’s Army by David Stone
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Stone [Stone, David]

5. ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLE TROOPS The army’s armoured fighting vehicle troops did not comprise a separate combat arm, and their organization’s existence during the war was relatively short-lived; nevertheless, they ...
( Category: Europe July 20,2020 )
The Tragedy of St. Helena by Sir Walter Runciman
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Sir Walter Runciman

CHAPTER IV THE OLIGARCHY, THEIR AGENTS AND APOLOGISTS It would be an easy task to enlarge on the excellent qualities of this wonderful man. Volumes could be written about this ...
( Category: Historical July 20,2020 )
Italian Renaissance Utopias by Antonio Donato
epub |eng | | Author:Antonio Donato

21Upon an initial investigation, Zuccolo’s criticism seems completely unfair since More devoted an entire section of Utopia to military practices (Utopia, 200.18–217.27), as De Mattei observed (De Mattei , La ...
( Category: Europe July 20,2020 )
The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came To Power by Peter Ross Range
epub |eng | 2020-05-12 | Author:Peter Ross Range [Range, Peter Ross]

36 HINDENBURG, HUGENBERG, AND HARZBURG He can lick me from behind. —President Paul von Hindenburg, 1931 Adolf Hitler and President Paul von Hindenburg had never met. By the autumn of ...
( Category: History & Theory July 20,2020 )
Made in Italy by Fallan Kjetil Lees-Maffei Grace & Kjetil Fallan
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Fallan, Kjetil,Lees-Maffei, Grace & Kjetil Fallan

PART 3 SPACES 8 PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS: GALLERIES, ART AND INTERIOR DESIGN, 1920–1960 IMMA FORINO ENTERING THROUGH A SECONDARY DOOR This chapter enters the history of Italian interior design through the ...
( Category: Architecture July 20,2020 )
101 Amazing Facts About London by Jack Goldstein
epub |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:Jack Goldstein

London’s Culture There are more than 170 museums in London. The wonderful Notting Hill Carnival, led by members of the West Indian community in London is the largest street festival ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures July 20,2020 )
Frederick Barbarossa by John Freed
epub |eng | | Author:John Freed

Frederick’s Promotion of Economic Development Frederick was not very interested, seemingly, in economic matters north of the Alps prior to his visit in 1165 to the lower Rhine valley, the ...
( Category: Royalty July 20,2020 )
The Merchant of Prato’s Wife: Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360–1423 by Crabb Ann
epub |eng | | Author:Crabb, Ann [Crabb, Ann]

Margherita’s letter to Francesco of 1388 does not seem to have been written for any particular reason. Coming a few months after the birth of his first illegitimate child, it ...
( Category: Historical July 20,2020 )
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
epub |eng | 2008-03-12 | Author:Madame de Lafayette [Lafayette, Madame de]

III “In the meantime, however busy and full I was of my new engagement with the Queen, I still kept fair with Madam de Themines by a natural inclination which ...
( Category: Biographical July 20,2020 )
Captain Courageous (Illustrated) by Rudyard Kipling
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

Chapter VII Table of Contents Next day they fell in with more sails, all circling slowly from the east northerly towards the west. But just when they expected to make ...
( Category: Classics July 20,2020 )
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Elizabeth L. Eisenstein [Eisenstein]

Fig. 28. The full title page of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs contrasts the fate of Protestants (on the left), who are burned on earth but triumph forever in heaven, with ...
( Category: Renaissance July 20,2020 )
Twelve Apostles by Tim Pat Coogan
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tim Pat Coogan [Coogan, Tim Pat]

CHAPTER EIGHT Bloody Sunday The infamous Cairo Gang, a group of British Intelligence operatives active in Dublin during the War of Independence. Several of these men were killed on ‘Bloody ...
( Category: Europe July 20,2020 )
THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND by William Thackeray
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:William Thackeray

Chapter 11 THE FAMOUS MR JOSEPH ADDISON1 THE gentlemen ushers had a table at Kensington, and the Guard a very splendid dinner daily at St James’s, at either of which ...
( Category: Biographical July 20,2020 )

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