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1983 by Taylor Downing
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Taylor Downing

12 Truck Bomb In the summer of 1982, Ronald Reagan had decided at last that the United States must intervene in the ongoing crisis in Lebanon. It had taken some ...
( Category: Military April 24,2018 )
The Pope Who Would Be King by David I. Kertzer
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:David I. Kertzer

Yet food was growing short, and the French had cut off the ancient Roman aqueducts, so fresh water had become scarce. Amid the deprivation and fear, many Romans were beginning ...
( Category: Catholicism April 24,2018 )
Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite
epub |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:Arthur Edward Waite [Waite, Arthur Edward]

[182] CHAPTER IX. HOW LUCIFER IS UNMASKED. M. le Docteur Bataille is a mighty hunter before the face of the Lord in the land of Masonry, and through the whole ...
( Category: Classics April 23,2018 )
Eva Braun by Heike B. Görtemaker
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Heike B. Görtemaker [Görtemaker, Heike B.]

Eva Braun, concealed in the entourage sitting behind Hitler, at the Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, February 1936 (Illustration Credit 8.9) Travels Travel was an important aspect of life in ...
( Category: Europe April 23,2018 )
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 by Sir Rodric Braithwaite
mobi |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Sir Rodric Braithwaite

Though not as important as the Salang route, the western highway which led from Kushka in Uzbekistan to Herat, Shindand, and Kandahar also had to be kept open. It was ...
( Category: Asia April 23,2018 )
The Battle of Hastings by Harriet Harvey Wood
mobi |eng | 2013-03-02 | Author:Harriet Harvey Wood

THE BATTLE The battle of Stamford Bridge was fought on 25 September. On the day it was fought William was still at St Valéry, waiting for a favourable wind. The ...
( Category: Military April 23,2018 )
War and Genocide by Bergen Doris L. & Bergen Doris L
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Bergen, Doris L. & Bergen, Doris L.

Prisoners gather outside their barracks in the Gurs concentration camp in southwestern France, in 1939 or 1940. French authorities, not Germans, were in charge of Gurs. Originally set up for ...
( Category: World April 23,2018 )
Luftwaffe in Colour by Christophe Cony & Jean-Louis Roba
epub |eng | 2017-04-23 | Author:Christophe Cony & Jean-Louis Roba

An anti-aircraft spotlight (scheinwerfer) being used by a flak battery in Italy. Lt Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert, Staffelkapitän of 3./JG 77, on the cover of Die Wehrmacht magazine, October 27th, 1943. He ...
( Category: Military April 23,2018 )
The Way of Herodotus by Justin Marozzi
epub |eng | | Author:Justin Marozzi

Apart from the Oracle of Ammon, Herodotus refers specifically to one other landmark in Siwa. As so often in the Histories, it is a crowd-pleasing marvel. They have another spring ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 22,2018 )
The Ariadne Objective: The Underground War To Rescue Crete From The Nazis by Wes Davis
mobi |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Wes Davis

SOON AFTER HE arrived in Cairo to await reassignment to SOE, Moss began to hear horrifying news from the desert where the Coldstream Guards were still engaged in heavy fighting. ...
( Category: Europe April 22,2018 )
The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Ian Mortimer [Mortimer, Ian]

Rural Houses To the modern eye, some of the smaller manor houses of Elizabethan England are just as aesthetically pleasing as the stately homes. Hundreds are under construction. William Harrison ...
( Category: Europe April 22,2018 )
Troubled Geographies by Ell Paul S. Lloyd Christopher D. Gregory Ian N. Cunningham Niall A. Shuttleworth Ian G
epub |eng | | Author:Ell, Paul S., Lloyd, Christopher D., Gregory, Ian N., Cunningham, Niall A., Shuttleworth, Ian G.

Up to this point northeast Ulster’s distinctive industrial character had always been represented as the basis of its economic good fortune. In the 1930s that industrial character became Ulster’s undoing. ...
( Category: Religious Studies April 22,2018 )
Hell and Good Company by Richard Rhodes
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

TEN Cuckoo Idealists George Orwell, the British novelist and journalist, had spent a miserable winter as a militia volunteer on a freezing mountainside on the Aragon front, in Catalonia. Finally, ...
( Category: Europe April 22,2018 )
Victorian Pumping Stations by Trevor Yorke
epub |eng | 2017-12-12 | Author:Trevor Yorke

The chimney tower at the former Bestwood Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire, which has been restored as a restaurant and spa. In Nottingham industrial growth around the cloth industry had been rapid ...
( Category: Architecture April 22,2018 )
White King by Leanda de Lisle
epub |eng | | Author:Leanda de Lisle

18 EVIL WOMEN ON THE DAY of his death, 10 January 1645, the diminutive Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, dressed in his habitual black. Laud had been a chief supporter ...
( Category: Historical April 22,2018 )

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