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Crete 1941 by Antony Beevor
epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Antony Beevor

18 * * * South from Suda Bay 28–30 MAY After Freyberg’s departure to Sphakia, command of the withdrawal was left to General Weston. But Weston’s unreliable leadership, not helped ...
( Category: Military February 3,2018 )
Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years by Jim Macgregor & Gerry Docherty
epub |eng | 2017-12-26 | Author:Jim Macgregor & Gerry Docherty

( Category: Americas February 2,2018 )
The World Turns to War by Jay Wertz
epub |eng | 2017-12-19 | Author:Jay Wertz

German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl talks to members of the American decathlon team—Glenn Morris, Jack Parker and Robert Clark at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The Olympic Torch is carried by Berlin’s ...
( Category: Military February 2,2018 )
1914 by Paul Ham
epub |eng | 2014-02-02 | Author:Paul Ham

We passed by smoking ruins of villages completely shot to pieces. No stone was left on top of the other. Corpses both human and horse were still lying around in ...
( Category: Military February 2,2018 )
When Paris Went Dark by Ronald C. Rosbottom
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Ronald C. Rosbottom [Rosbottom, Ronald C.]

The Red Poster. (Mémorial de la Shoah) HERE’S THE PROOF: If some Frenchmen pillage, steal, sabotage, and kill… It is always foreigners who command them. It is always the unemployed ...
( Category: Europe February 2,2018 )
Ministers at War by Jonathan Schneer
epub | | | Author:Jonathan Schneer

WINSTON CHURCHILL EXHIBITED PATIENCE AND CUNNING IN HIS DEALINGS with Stafford Cripps. With Lord Beaverbrook, another member of his War Cabinet who would likewise pose a significant challenge to his ...
( Category: Military February 1,2018 )
Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Hochschild

The enormous gulf between rich and poor was a major tension underlying the Spanish Civil War. Spain’s Catholic hierarchy fervently backed the Nationalists. The bishop of Salamanca (left) and other ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 1,2018 )
The Shield and The Sword by Ernle Bradford
epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Ernle Bradford

On other counts the Maltese were not so happy at the arrival of the Knights. Here is a Maltese historian, Sir Themistocles Zammit, on the subject: By the time the ...
( Category: Military January 30,2018 )
A Short History of the Italian Renaissance by Cox Virginia
epub |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Cox, Virginia [Cox, Virginia]

THE COURTIER Although it is coherent to speak of a ‘Renaissance merchant’, particularly with regard to patronage, personal style, and learned interests, the social type of the Renaissance merchant has ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 30,2018 )
Another Bloody Chapter In an Endless Civil War, Volume 1 by Ken Wharton
epub |eng | 2016-10-19 | Author:Ken Wharton

SOUTH LONDONDERRY Corporal ‘E’ UDR On one occasion I was part of a foot patrol going through a village in South Derry. I tried the door handles of all the ...
( Category: Europe January 30,2018 )
Young Hitler (Kindle Single) by Paul Ham
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Paul Ham [Ham, Paul]

6 - Soldier, 1917-1918 HITLER’S REGIMENT ENTERED 1917 grimly conscious of having failed to distinguish itself in offensive action. At Ypres and the Somme, they had been comprehensively ‘stabbed in ...
( Category: Historical January 30,2018 )
George IV--The Rebel Who Would Be King by Christopher Hibbert
epub |eng | 2015-09-26 | Author:Christopher Hibbert

[27] The Warwick House Affair 1814 ‘Like a bird let loose from its cage’ CREEVEY, for one, looked forward to the next instalment of the drama with anticipatory delight. ‘Well, ...
( Category: Historical January 30,2018 )
The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga
epub |eng | 2016-01-29 | Author:Johan Huizinga [Johan Huizinga]

* * * 1 Let us pray God that the Jacobins May eat the Augustinians, And that the Carmelites may be hanged With the cords of the Minorites. 2 Perhaps ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 29,2018 )
American Jennie by Anne Sebba
epub |eng | 2007-01-29 | Author:Anne Sebba

Well I have had quite enough of it all. It confirms me in my decision to have done with politics and make a little money for the boys and ourselves. ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2018 )
Communities of Violence by Nirenberg David; Nirenberg David;
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Nirenberg, David; Nirenberg, David;

Chapter 6 MINORITIES CONFRONT EACH OTHER: VIOLENCE BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND JEWS THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER moved from a set of anxieties arising at a particular religious boundary to the strategic deployment ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 28,2018 )

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