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Trumpets from the Steep by Diana Cooper
epub |eng | 2018-04-05 | Author:Diana Cooper

The two great ships were forgotten by people in the street who looked unconcerned, and careless of the huge shadows cast. There was faith too in the inhabitants’ loyalty (true, ...
( Category: Europe August 31,2018 )
Imam in Paris by Newman Daniel L.;
epub |eng | | Author:Newman, Daniel L.;

All in all, it is impossible to give a detailed overview of the sciences and arts of Paris. One can provide only a general survey as we have done here. ...
( Category: Middle East August 31,2018 )
England and the English by Ford Madox Ford
epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Ford Madox Ford [Sara Haslam]

CHAPTER III In the Cottages AT the end of a closed field, in a hollow of the woods, so deep and so moist that it was twilight there even at ...
( Category: Europe August 31,2018 )
The Weimar Century by Greenberg Udi;
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:Greenberg, Udi;

3.1. Waldemar Gurian after his exile from Germany (date unknown). Gurian’s writings were crucial in shaping Catholic thinking about communism and democracy. University of Notre Dame Archives. Repackaging and expanding ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 30,2018 )
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by John Julius Norwich
epub |eng | 2014-03-19 | Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]

1 Michael Wardell, Manager of the Evening Standard. 2 Sir Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897–1977). Foreign Secretary 1935–8, 1940–5 and 1951–5; Prime Minister 1955–7. 3 Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940), ...
( Category: Historical August 30,2018 )
The Impostor by Javier Cercas & Frank Wynne
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Javier Cercas & Frank Wynne

* * * — The C.N.T.’s self-destruction didn’t come about because of the contradictions within it, but because of mistakes it made which made those same contradictions irreconcilable. The first, ...
( Category: World August 30,2018 )
Annus Horribilis by Mark Walker
epub |eng | 2010-08-27 | Author:Mark Walker [Mark Walker]

Notes: For the first two lines see Chapter 9, extract 4 excelsis – ablative plural of excelsus, noun from verb excello, excellere (English ‘excel’) laudamus … benedicimus … adoramus … ...
( Category: Europe August 28,2018 )
Tracing Your Ancestors by Gill Blanchard
epub |eng | 2018-06-28 | Author:Gill Blanchard

John Evans (deceased) of Gaywood, labourer, refused to assist Francis Chamberlain, constable of Gayton in keeping various rogues, vagabonds and other loose and disorderly persons in custody. Some local associations ...
( Category: Europe August 27,2018 )
Napoleon Bonaparte by Alan Schom
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Alan Schom [Schom, Alan]

Chapter Twenty-Five – The Marches of Empire ‘Your Holiness [Pope Pius VII] is sovereign of Rome, but I am its emperor.’ Napoleon’s return from Austerlitz had been triumphant. As he ...
( Category: Historical August 27,2018 )
Taxing the Rich by Scheve Kenneth; Stasavage David;
epub |eng | | Author:Scheve, Kenneth; Stasavage, David;

FRANCE The history of debates about progressive income taxation in France is a complex one. We can attribute this to the unsettled inheritance of the French Revolution. During the Revolution, ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 27,2018 )
Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen by Amy Licence
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Amy Licence

6 MOTHERHOOD, 1486–7 I love the rose both red and white Is that your pure perfect appetite? To hear talk of them is my delight! Joyed may we be Our ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 27,2018 )
Hurrah for the Blackshirts! by Martin Pugh
epub |eng | 2006-03-29 | Author:Martin Pugh [Martin Pugh]

Churchill argued that all concessions were futile: ‘The truth is that Gandhism and all it stands for will, sooner or later, have to be grappled with and finally crushed. It ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 26,2018 )
Acts of Union and Disunion by Linda Colley
epub |eng | | Author:Linda Colley

A railway poster designed by Frank H. Mason, c. 1932, evokes – for an American audience – the scenic distinctiveness of parts of Scotland. Footnote * It may be relevant ...
( Category: Europe August 26,2018 )
Orbán by Paul Lendvai
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Paul Lendvai

( Category: Europe August 26,2018 )
The Last Englishmen by Deborah Baker
epub |eng | 2018-08-25 | Author:Deborah Baker [Baker, Deborah]

Victoria Station, London, Wednesday, September 28, 1938, 2:00 p.m. “I am so glad I’m here,” Stephen Spender had said, standing by the stove on the opening day of the 1938 ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2018 )

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