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The Pie At Night by Stuart Maconie
epub |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Stuart Maconie [Maconie, Stuart]

CHAPTER 6 MAKING A DAY OF IT Bank holidays in Silloth and Southport and a trip to see the ‘Lights’ Only virgins and generals keep diaries, they say. Samuel Pepys, ...
( Category: Anthropology September 24,2018 )
Tumult in the Clouds by James Goodson
epub |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:James Goodson

CHAPTER SEVEN Millie But there were the others. Some had natural flair; some had to make it the hard way. That was Millie’s way. It started way back in Malvern, ...
( Category: Europe September 24,2018 )
Edward I by Michael Prestwich
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Michael Prestwich [Prestwich, Michael]

VIII. The Crown Revenue The financial history of Edward I’s reign has been described as ‘a highly complicated and rather repellent subject’.[625] But complex subjects have their fascination, and it ...
( Category: Europe September 24,2018 )
Target Switzerland by Stephen P. Halbrook
epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Stephen P. Halbrook [Halbrook, Stephen P.]

Elsewhere in this harangue, Hitler made an obscure reference apparently expressing resentment against the Swiss for their victory against the Germans in the Swabian War of 1499. He saw Switzerland ...
( Category: Europe September 24,2018 )
The Forgotten Highlander by Alistar Urquhart
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Alistar Urquhart

6 Bridge on the River Kwai The Japanese put us straight to work. This section of railway, further north, would eventually join up with that of our earlier handiwork at ...
( Category: Memoirs September 23,2018 )
The Last Big Gun by Brian Lavery
epub |eng | 2015-10-18 | Author:Brian Lavery

The Saumarez went within nine cables or 1,800 yards of the target to release her torpedoes. For the crew of the Norwegian Stord it was more personal, so close to ...
( Category: Military September 22,2018 )
Secret World by Christopher Andrew
epub |eng | 2018-09-21 | Author:Christopher Andrew

Part of the Zimmermann telegram as decrypted by Room 40. Because ‘Arizona’ did not appear in the German naval codebook, it had to be split into phonetic syllables. Recent research ...
( Category: Military September 22,2018 )
The Victorian Guide to Sex by Fern Riddell
epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:Fern Riddell

How to Choose a Wife by the Shape of Her Legs: - The great French poet Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier (1811–1872) once proclaimed, ‘Show me the leg, and I will ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling September 22,2018 )
The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by Kelly John
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Kelly, John [Kelly, John]

A deserted famine village In Irish port towns, long lines of scantily dressed men and women—their worldly possessions compressed between two pieces of cardboard—gathered on wharves in the cold and ...
( Category: Europe September 22,2018 )
Condition of the Border at the union : destruction of the Graham clan by Graham John
epub |eng | 1907-09-21 | Author:Graham, John

the successful assault upon Carlisle Castle. As a matter of course the Queen demanded the immediate surrender into her hands of both Buccleuch and Cessford. Biiccleuch defended his conduct, declariiif^ ...
( Category: World September 22,2018 )
The Dark Stuff by Donald S. Murray
epub |eng | | Author:Donald S. Murray

PART THREE Fàd a’ Ghàrraidh – The Wall Peat CUTTING PEATS When he went to moor to cut peat, he’d turn over quarrels with his brother. A feud about a ...
( Category: Europe September 21,2018 )
Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem by Newman Sharan
azw3 |eng | 2014-04-28 | Author:Newman, Sharan [Newman, Sharan]

Twelve Training a King Jerusalem, 1130 The year 1130 began with the leaders of the Crusader States still smarting from their defeat at Damascus. It seemed impossible that they could ...
( Category: Middle East September 21,2018 )
Frontier Rebels by Patrick Spero
epub |eng | 2018-08-03 | Author:Patrick Spero

Pennsylvania Frontier 1766–1768 Meanwhile, as imperial visions of the Empire in the West came together and peace seemed at hand, things in the Conococheague got worse. Penn’s alliance with frontier ...
( Category: Americas September 21,2018 )
Fallout by Peter Watson
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]

When we first began to develop atomic energy, the United States was in no way committed to employ atomic weapons against any other power. With the activation of the Manhattan ...
( Category: Military September 20,2018 )
The Old Stones by Andy Burnham
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Andy Burnham

A fantastic slab of local sandstone and one of the tallest standing stones in Wales at 4.3m (14ft) high. It is mentioned as a Gower boundary marker in a 13th-century ...
( Category: Archaeology September 20,2018 )

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