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Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History by Heda Margolius Kovály
azw3 |eng | 2018-01-19 | Author:Heda Margolius Kovály [Kovály, Heda Margolius]

Liberating Russian soldiers shake the hands of residents after driving the Germans out of Prague, 1945. Courtesy Česká televize. In the morning the announcer called me and said: “You know, ...
( Category: World May 1,2018 )
My Kingdom for a Horse by Ed West
epub |eng | 2018-04-13 | Author:Ed West

CHAPTER EIGHT This Sun of York That the Yorkists won was down to the support of London, which was vastly richer than anywhere else in England, due to its role ...
( Category: Military May 1,2018 )
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction by Marc Mulholland
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-04-30 | Author:Marc Mulholland

8. A Provo ‘Loose talk costs lives’ poster. In the 1970s, by consciously aping conventional wartime public information posters, the IRA hoped to bolster their military credentials. On 27 January ...
( Category: Europe April 30,2018 )
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-07 | Author:Iain Sinclair [Sinclair, Iain]

VOICE OF THE HUTS The last London is a lost London, a city of fracture and disappearance. I set out early one morning, with notebook and pocket camera, to map ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 30,2018 )
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Caroline Moorehead [Moorehead, Caroline]

Nello, ostensibly free but in fact kept under constant surveillance on the mainland, was also at work on the shape of Italy’s future, only in his case it was a ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 30,2018 )
Bannockburn by Alistair Moffat
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Alistair Moffat

6 Black Monday Vigils. The Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, in the Year of Our Lord, 1314, the eighth year of the reign of Robert, first ...
( Category: Military April 30,2018 )
Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe by Rebecca Erbelding
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Rebecca Erbelding

15 Adrift IN SURVEY GRAPHIC MAGAZINE’S September 1944 issue, John Pehle shared the story of a boy who had escaped certain death thanks to Ira Hirschmann’s efforts in Turkey. Under ...
( Category: World April 30,2018 )
Islam Without Europe by Dallal Ahmad S.;
epub |eng | 2018-04-30 | Author:Dallal, Ahmad S.;

Hadith in India The name of the seventeenth-century scholar ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī (d. 1052/1642) is closely associated with the introduction of hadith studies to India. Prior to ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, Indian ...
( Category: Europe April 30,2018 )
The Avengers by Rich Cohen
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Rich Cohen [Cohen, Rich]

Vitka Kempner. “These people go to the forest,” said Sonia, “or they die.” Vitka said she would make a decision after the mission. The partisans spent the night in the ...
( Category: World April 28,2018 )
The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
epub |eng | 1996-10-14 | Author:Thomas Pakenham [Pakenham, Thomas]

CECIL JOHN RHODES CHAPTER 21 A New Rand? Mashonaland and Matabeleland (Rhodesia), Cape Colony, the Transvaal and England 27 June 1890-December 1892 and before ‘I am tired of this mapping ...
( Category: Africa April 28,2018 )
James I by Thomas Cogswell
epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:Thomas Cogswell

6 Gorget and Armour Paul van Somer’s portrait of King James standing next to his crown, sceptre and orb initially seems regal, if a little routine. But then something unusual ...
( Category: Historical April 28,2018 )
A history of Russia by Riazanovsky
epub |eng | | Author:Riazanovsky

supervising and inspecting schools in Russia, and the emperor's assistants followed his example. The restrictive policies of the Ministry of Education resulted logically from its social views and aims. In ...
( Category: Russia April 27,2018 )
1812: Napoleon in Moscow by Paul Britten Austin
epub |eng | 1995-06-01 | Author:Paul Britten Austin [Austin, Paul Britten]

On one occasion – but only one – some tuns of wine arrive ‘without escort and without accident’ for 3rd Cavalry Corps from Moscow. And here’s a really big surprise ...
( Category: Military April 27,2018 )
Lights Out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair
epub |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Iain Sinclair [Sinclair, Iain]

The story to be described here is: Increased somatic mutation frequencies were found in the stamen hairs of a clone of spiderwort planted close to some nuclear power plants. Long-term ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 27,2018 )
The Agrarian History of Sweden by Janken Myrdal
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Janken Myrdal

Figure 5.3 The national output of milk, beef, pork, and eggs by farm type and size, 1924–7 and 1937–8 (per cent). The smaller farms’ and small-holdings’ share of total agricultural ...
( Category: Europe April 27,2018 )

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