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The Verdun Regiment by Johnathan Bracken
epub |eng | 2018-10-18 | Author:Johnathan Bracken

Attack of 9 April The German operation scheduled for 9 April would be the largest assault at Verdun since the opening day of the offensive on 21 February. This was ...
( Category: Europe January 26,2019 )
Henry VII by S. B. Chrimes
epub |eng | 2017-02-16 | Author:S. B. Chrimes

1 On the subject generally, see Chrimes, English constitutional ideas in the fifteenth century 192–203, 249–53. For Fortescue’s assertion, see R.P., V, 239. 2 R. Steele (ed.) A bibliography of ...
( Category: Europe January 24,2019 )
Hitler, Donitz, and the Baltic Sea by Howard D. Grier
epub | | | Author:Howard D. Grier [Grier, Howard D.]

CHAPTER 8 The Swedish Question SWEDEN’S ROLE IN WORLD WAR II has evoked little interest outside of that country. Although we now know this nation would never enter the war, ...
( Category: Military January 24,2019 )
Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole
epub |eng | 2005-12-28 | Author:Horace Walpole [Walpole, Horace]

I have said that duke Richard was born in 1474. Unfortunately his aunt Margaret was married out of England in 1467, seven years before he was born, and never returned ...
( Category: Europe January 24,2019 )
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film by Glenn Kurtz
azw |eng | 2014-11-18 | Author:Glenn Kurtz [Kurtz, Glenn]

11 A DIFFERENT STYLE OF TORTURE I’M LOOKING AT a photograph of four young men. The photo is black-and-white, not quite three by five inches. The corners are bent and ...
( Category: Europe January 24,2019 )
The History of England, Volume 3 by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

The syntax might be faulty, but the fervour is evident. When they were not at prayer they debated predestination, election, justification and reprobation. They also discussed more political affairs. Ought ...
( Category: Europe January 24,2019 )
The Lives of Michel Foucault by David Macey
epub |eng | | Author:David Macey

Early on Saturday afternoon, a planning meeting took place at the Ecole Normale, where a group of Maoists, no strangers to illegal demonstrations, carefully drew a map of the streets ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 24,2019 )
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Norman Stone [Stone, Norman]

chapter six | FANATICISM AND HATE, MUDDLE AND DELAY preceding page: US Navy Dauntless dive-bombers during the Battle of Midway, June 1942 (Bettmann/Corbis) The eventual end of the Third Reich ...
( Category: Military January 23,2019 )
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Leonie Frieda

Chapter 13 A King Restored As her son progressed from despondency to despair and, ultimately, to near-death, Louise was doing her considerable best to ensure that the regency continued as ...
( Category: Europe January 23,2019 )
The Port of Missing Men by Meredith Nicholson
epub |eng | 1907-01-23 | Author:Meredith Nicholson [Nicholson, Meredith]

Chapter 15 SHIRLEY LEARNS A SECRET Nightingales warble about it All night under blossom and star; The wild swan is dying without it, And the eagle crieth afar; The sun, ...
( Category: Europe January 23,2019 )
Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas Pere
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Alexandre Dumas, Pere [Dumas, Alexandre (Pere)]

CHAPTER X The next day a still more extraordinary scene took place. While M. de Laubardemont was questioning one of the nuns, the superior came down into the court, barefooted; ...
( Category: True Crime January 23,2019 )
Hitler's Second Book by Adolf Hitler
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Adolf Hitler

[Chapter XII] [Principles of German Foreign Policy] In the construction of the future German foreign policy, the following must be considered in view of Germany’s hopeless military situation:1. Germany itself ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2019 )
The Venetians: A New History: from Marco Polo to Casanova by Paul Strathern
epub |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:Paul Strathern [Strathern, Paul]

* It has been pointed out that this quote from The Prince (Chapter 12) is of course a wild exaggeration where Venice’s mainland territories are concerned. As we have seen, ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2019 )
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders
epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Judith Flanders [Flanders, Judith]

A City chophouse, fitted out with standard booth-style seating, or ‘boxes’, as they were known. The waiter looks anxious to serve: he was not an employee, but instead he paid ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2019 )
The Vikings by Robert Ferguson
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Ferguson

Though the English repossession of York has the neatness and drama of concluding a ‘campaign’ to re-take lands lost to the invaders, the battle at Brunanburh in 937 seemed to ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2019 )

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