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The Mongols and the West by Peter Jackson
epub |eng | 2018-02-18 | Author:Peter Jackson

The mechanics of Ilkhanid diplomacy In their successive attempts to secure assistance from the Latin world, the Ilkhans took care to select personnel who would elicit the confidence of Western ...
( Category: World August 25,2018 )
Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries by Gyles Brandreth
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Gyles Brandreth [Brandreth, Gyles]

MONDAY 16 JANUARY 1995 Small lunch with the PM at No. 10. I sat immediately opposite him. He was in good form, feels the year’s got off to the right ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2018 )
Fulcanelli and the Alchemical Revival by Geneviève Dubois
epub |eng | 2013-06-27 | Author:Geneviève Dubois

Fig. 5.24. Announcement of the death of Jean-Julien Champagne Fig. 5.25. Grave of Jean-Julien Champagne at Arnouville-les-Gonesse (Seine-et-Oise). The plaque bearing the inscription APOSTOLUS HERMETICAE SCIENTIAE (Apostle of Hermetic Science) ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality August 25,2018 )
Ninja by Stephen Turnbull
epub |eng | 2017-11-29 | Author:Stephen Turnbull

Chapter 10 The Enduring Ninja During the early twentieth century an alternative view of ninjutsu began to emerge alongside the undercover techniques of the military manuals and the magic of ...
( Category: Asia August 25,2018 )
Comrades (Text Only) by Paul Preston
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Preston [Paul Preston]

8 A Life Adrift: Indalecio Prieto There are few Spanish politicians who so single-mindedly sacrificed their lives to the cause of democracy as Indalecio Prieto. He did more than any ...
( Category: Europe August 24,2018 )
A Concise History of Bulgaria by R. J. Crampton
epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:R. J. Crampton [Crampton]

The Rule of the Democratic Alliance, 1923–1931 After seizing power Tsankov fashioned a new grouping, the Democratic Alliance, to provide him with reliable support in the sûbranie. The Democratic Alliance ...
( Category: Europe August 22,2018 )
Germany's Black Holocaust_1890-1945 by Firpo W. Carr
epub |eng | 2003-06-28 | Author:Firpo W. Carr [Carr, Firpo W.]

Witness Omission? Although the literature of the Watch Tower Society speaks extensively about the inhuman treatment followers unjustly suffered at the hands of Nazi persecutors, we found no mention of ...
( Category: World August 22,2018 )
The Divorce of Henry VIII by Catherine Fletcher
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Catherine Fletcher

11 The Daily Frauds of the Brothers Casali BY MAY 1530, Croke had added corruption and betrayal to his compendium of Casali wrongdoing. His friends believed, so he said, that ...
( Category: Catholicism August 22,2018 )
Britain's Wild Flowers by Richardson Rosamond;
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Richardson, Rosamond;

When the flowers hang downwards it’s a sign of impending bad weather. The Victorian botanist Anne Pratt observed, ‘when growing in exposed situations, the stems and leaves have a rich ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 21,2018 )
Under a Cruel Star by Helen Epstein
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Helen Epstein [Epstein, Helen]

At the time there was a film being shown in Prague which Comrade Stano liked to discuss, with deep emotion, calling it the pinnacle of Socialist Realism and a masterful ...
( Category: Europe August 20,2018 )
By Eric A. Johnson - What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany (12906) by Eric A. Johnson
epub |eng | 2006-01-29 | Author:Eric A. Johnson [ERIC A. JOHNSON AND KARL-HEINZ REUBAND]

Were you drafted immediately? No. I first became a soldier in 1940 after the western campaign was already over. Everything had gone quickly until 1940, and then I became a ...
( Category: World August 20,2018 )
Great Train Robbery, The by Cook Andrew
epub |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:Cook, Andrew

At 6.45 pm on Saturday, 24 August 1963, in company with Detective Sergeant Church, I saw Ronald Biggs at his home at 37 Alpine Road, Redhill. His wife was present ...
( Category: Europe August 20,2018 )
Rethinking German History (Routledge Revivals): Nineteenth-Century Germany and the Origins of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
epub |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Richard J. Evans [Evans, Richard J.]

NOTES 1 L. Stone, ‘The Revival of Narrative’, in Stone, The Past and the Present (London, 1981 ), pp. 74–96, provides a good introduction to these developments, though the word ...
( Category: Europe August 20,2018 )
Islamic Humanism by Goodman Lenn E.;
epub |eng | 2003-08-19 | Author:Goodman, Lenn E.;

Knowledge as a Value The watershed that Islam sets between itself and the prior condition of humanity, especially in Arabia, is marked by the stark Qurānic contrast of knowledge from ...
( Category: Islam August 20,2018 )
Destructive and Formidable_British Infantry Firepower 1642-1756 by David Blackmore
epub |eng | 2014-10-18 | Author:David Blackmore [Blackmore, David]

Lieutenant General Henry Hawley wrote a similar account of the Highlander’s tactics, adding that they normally formed four deep, with their best men in the front rank, but that by ...
( Category: Military August 19,2018 )

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