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The the Cathars by Sean Martin
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Sean Martin

The Inquisition While French troops reduced the Languedoc to the sort of barren wasteland we might more readily associate with Arthurian myth or the nightmares of Bosch and Breughel, a ...
( Category: World December 9,2018 )
Liberalism in Empire by Sartori Andrew Stephen;
epub |eng | | Author:Sartori, Andrew Stephen;

5 Peasant Property and Muslim Freedom If we consider the founding of Pakistan in 1947 as the single most consequential political expression of a self-identifiedly “Muslim” aspiration to collective self-determination ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 9,2018 )
The Tunnel Through Time by Gillian Tindall
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian Tindall

Spurning other offers (according to the rector, though one does rather wonder how any suitor could have felt equal to such virtue), she became a ‘spouse of God’. It is ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
The Catholics by Roy Hattersley
epub |eng | | Author:Roy Hattersley

CHAPTER 19 The Most Jacobinical Thing If a Catholic ploughman, homeward plodding his weary way in any part of Britain, felt passionately engaged in the struggle for complete and unqualified ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
The Crusades by Abigail Archer
epub |eng | 2015-04-23 | Author:Abigail Archer [Abigail Archer]

The Fourth Crusade was a disgrace. Pope Innocent III launched this crusade in 1200, the second year of his tumultuous papacy, sending preachers to whip up enthusiasm in England, France ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
The SBS in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Gavin Mortimer

Friday 10 March was a ‘lovely day’, according to Milner-Barry. The weather was dreamy, Stefan Casulli arrived back from the Turkish port of Bodrum with fresh meat and vegetables, and ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
Monty's Men by John Buckley
epub |eng | | Author:John Buckley

Crocker was not the only British commander to grumble about the Canadians. In early September Major General ‘Bubbles’ Barker, commanding 49th Division, complained about how the British role in First ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
Five-Finger Discount by Helene Stapinski
epub |eng | 2001-04-30 | Author:Helene Stapinski

I was glad Julie came back to Jersey City, because Stephen was my favorite cousin on the Polish side. We goofed around a lot. Once, we put toothpicks in Aunt ...
( Category: Memoirs December 9,2018 )
Feeding Nelson's Navy by Janet Macdonald
epub |eng | 2014-12-08 | Author:Janet Macdonald

TIMING OF MEALS Although theoretically the time and duration of meals was at the captain’s discretion, when a squadron was working together such things were laid down by the senior ...
( Category: Engineering December 9,2018 )
Negro Comrades of the Crown by Horne Gerald;
epub |eng | 2012-12-08 | Author:Horne, Gerald;

Notes INTRODUCTION 1. At this moment Florida was under Spanish rule though U.S. hegemony was soon to come; as a result, the now normative term “African American,” as it is ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 9,2018 )
Finding the Foe by Andy Saunders
epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Andy Saunders

The Junkers 88 crew were never buried and post-war controversy inflamed and polarised local opinion when the idea of a memorial to the four Germans was proposed. Ultimately, the village ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945 by Vincent O'Hara
epub |eng | | Author:Vincent O'Hara [O’Hara, Vincent P.]

Action Off Syltefjord, 21 January 1943 TIME: 2123–2230 TYPE: Interception WEATHER: Full moon, winds SW force 4 to 5 three to five miles VISIBILITY: SEA STATE: Calm, sea state 1 ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
The Medici by Paul Strathern
epub |eng | 2007-10-03 | Author:Paul Strathern

17 The Bonfire of the Vanities PIERO DE’ MEDICI, now known as Piero the Unfortunate, has been harshly judged by history; and his weakness of character is said to have ...
( Category: Europe December 9,2018 )
The Cambrai Campaign 1917 by Andrew Rawson
epub |eng | 2017-10-29 | Author:Andrew Rawson

Twelve B Battalion tanks and three C Battalion tanks led the 1/6th Gordons under crossfire from Fontaine and La Folie Wood and Lieutenant Colonel Fraser’s men had to fall back. ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
The RAF by Julian Hale
epub |eng | 2017-11-08 | Author:Julian Hale

A De Havilland Mosquito being armed for an anti-shipping strike mission. Although designed as a reconnaissance aircraft using high speed to evade interception, the Mosquito proved successful in a variety ...
( Category: Transportation December 9,2018 )

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