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Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Fuhrer by Mark Felton
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Mark Felton [Felton, Mark]

After the war had began, and following Bormann’s stringent efforts to beef up security around the Berghof and prevent day trippers and hikers from getting anywhere near the place, any ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 10,2018 )
Shadow over the Atlantic by Robert Forsyth
epub |eng | 2017-07-26 | Author:Robert Forsyth [Forsyth, Robert]

* * * *This most likely means the fitting of external underwing wing racks to the Ju 290A-7 and the installation of Kehl/Strassburg equipment for operations with the Hs 293 ...
( Category: Military August 10,2018 )
A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising by Miron Bialoszewski
epub |swe | 2015-10-27 | Author:Miron Bialoszewski [Bialoszewski, Miron]

I was very moved. In those words I could hear, I remembered, my first Vespers. That is why I am writing about this. Because it is all intermeshed. Everything. My ...
( Category: Europe August 10,2018 )
Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age by Adrian Johns
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Adrian Johns [Johns, Adrian]

REGINALD CALVERT CAME from a different generation from Smedley, and a very different culture. Born in 1928, his background lay far from high finance and politics, in that world of ...
( Category: Europe August 9,2018 )
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity by Cameron Averil
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-07-21 | Author:Cameron, Averil

Urban Violence Late antique cities could be turbulent places. We have already encountered rioting in the context of religious division, especially in certain explosive urban centres such as Alexandria. When ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 9,2018 )
The Ismaili Assassins by James Waterson
epub |eng | 2008-10-29 | Author:James Waterson

Usama’s memoirs also show how the Assassins’ blades were not just aimed at ‘great’ men. There was a low-level war between minor lords and the sect also taking place, over ...
( Category: Military August 9,2018 )
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 1: The Birth of Britain by Winston S. Churchill
epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Winston S. Churchill [Churchill, Winston S.]

CHAPTER VIII ON THE ANVIL King John died in the toils; but he died at bay. The misgovernment of his reign had brought against him what seemed to be an ...
( Category: Europe August 9,2018 )
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World by Milton Giles
epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Milton, Giles [Milton, Giles]

“A wyfe ought to be chaste, pacyent and sober,” reads one Elizabethan guide for housewives. She also needed to be hardworking, for her daily routine included baking, brewing, harvesting, spinning, ...
( Category: Europe August 9,2018 )
The Husband Hunters by Anne de Courcy
epub |eng | | Author:Anne de Courcy

CHAPTER 10 The Call of Europe Many of the ‘buccaneers’ wound up as the brides of European noblemen, if only for the reason that Americans were naturally drawn towards Europe. ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 9,2018 )
Knight by Michael Prestwich
epub |eng | 2018-07-22 | Author:Michael Prestwich

Chaucer’s knight, in The Canterbury Tales, was a great crusader. Chaucer probably based his career on the life of Philippe de Mézières, a propagandist for the crusade. (From Geoffrey Chaucer, ...
( Category: Military August 8,2018 )
1415 Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Ian Mortimer [Ian Mortimer]

Sunday 25th The siege had now been underway for a week, and the siege engines and cannon had continued bombarding the town, day and night. The author of the Gesta ...
( Category: Europe August 8,2018 )
Germania by Simon Winder
epub |eng | 2010-03-16 | Author:Simon Winder [Winder, Simon]

The Strong and the Fat It is conventional in histories of Germany at this point to start talking about Prussia so that everyone can start gibbering and rolling their eyes ...
( Category: Europe August 8,2018 )
In Search Of The Dark Ages by by Michael Wood
epub |eng | 2010-03-17 | Author:by Michael Wood

St Germans, and visited Exeter several times in the next twelve years, building a new minster there and richly endowing it with lands and holy relics. 'Guardian of Britain' Historians ...
( Category: Europe August 8,2018 )
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors by Ian Maxwell
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Ian Maxwell [Maxwell, Ian]

Steam boat on the Clyde near Dumbarton. From William Daniell, Voyage Round Great Britain, 1820. The development of the railways brought about a second Industrial Revolution in Scotland. Edinburgh and ...
( Category: Genealogy August 8,2018 )
Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq by Ashley Jackson
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Ashley Jackson [Jackson, Ashley]

Crimes committed by allied forces Criminal activity cut both ways, and documented in the archives are complaints from local authorities to the British representatives in Baghdad and Tehran. In Iraq ...
( Category: Middle East August 8,2018 )

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