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The German Army at Passchendaele by Jack Sheldon
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Jack Sheldon

On a day of almost unrelieved frustration and disaster for the defence, there was one slight crumb of comfort: the performance of the regiments of 2nd Guards Reserve Division, backed ...
( Category: Military October 24,2017 )
A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-03-18 | Author:Peter Mayle [Mayle, Peter]

One: The Arrival One must always arrive as conspicuously as possible, preferably on the back of a crimson Kawasaki 750 motorcycle driven by a young man in head-to-toe black leather ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
Mein Kampf by ADOLF HITLER & Michael Ford
epub |eng | 2009-07-25 | Author:ADOLF HITLER & Michael Ford [HITLER, ADOLF & Ford, Michael]

masses, but always a devotion which has inspired them, and often a kind of hysteria which has urged them to action. Whoever wishes to win over the masses must know ...
( Category: Historical October 24,2017 )
Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism by Fernand Braudel & Patricia Ranum
epub |eng | 1979-03-01 | Author:Fernand Braudel & Patricia Ranum [Braudel, Fernand & Ranum, Patricia]

( Category: Social Sciences October 24,2017 )
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies & Joseph Gies
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-11 | Author:Frances Gies & Joseph Gies

Paving, from the fifteenth-century Chroniques de Hainaut. [Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, Ms. 9242, f. 48v.] By the late Middle Ages, strenuous efforts to alleviate some of the problems were being made ...
( Category: Technology October 24,2017 )
Red Roses by Amy Licence
epub |eng | 2016-02-11 | Author:Amy Licence

Notes 1 Poem attributed to John Lydgate. 2 Dockray. 3 Allmand. 4 From the ‘Treaty of Troyes’, 1420, reproduced in Rymer’s Foedera. 5 Hall. 6 Allemand. 7 Strickland. 8 Ibid. ...
( Category: Military October 24,2017 )
Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
epub, mobi | | 2010-05-05 | Author:Stephen Ambrose [Ambrose, Stephen]

They were heading south. Eikner had cause to feel discouraged. If, after all that pounding, the Germans were building a reserve somewhere to the south, why then it was the ...
( Category: Military October 23,2017 )
2. Insurgent by Unknown
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

someone I can be. Tori acknowledges Marlene with a nod and scans the crowd for another recommendation. "Harrison," someone says. I don’t know who Harrison is until someone slaps a ...
( Category: Europe October 23,2017 )
Norse Mythology: A Concise Guide to Gods, Heroes, Sagas and Beliefs of Norse Mythology by Carlson Robert
epub, azw3, azw |eng | 2016-02-09 | Author:Carlson, Robert [Carlson, Robert]

Chapter Four Valhalla “Five hundred doors And forty more Methinks are in Valhalla. Eight hundred heroes through each door Shall issue forth Against the wolf to combat.” “A wolf hangs ...
( Category: Europe October 23,2017 )
Warriors by Ross Kemp
epub |eng | | Author:Ross Kemp

RAF Captain Albert Ball At 5.30 in the afternoon on 7 May 1917, Captain Albert Ball led a formation of eleven light-brown SE5 biplanes into the menacing skies above northern ...
( Category: Military October 23,2017 )
Women in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies & Joseph Gies
epub |eng | 2017-05-08 | Author:Frances Gies & Joseph Gies [Gies, Frances & Gies, Joseph]

8 Piers Plowman’s Wife Most of our information about the Middle Ages, political, social, economic, is concerned with the tip of the iceberg, the perhaps one percent of the population—kings ...
( Category: Women's Studies October 23,2017 )
Blitzkrieg by Nigel Cawthorne
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Nigel Cawthorne [Cawthorne, Nigel]

His commanding officer called on the radio to ask whether he was hurt. As they had already fallen behind, Wolff ordered his driver to stop for a moment, so that ...
( Category: Military October 23,2017 )
On Intelligence by Unknown
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

As information moves up from primary sensory regions to higher levels, we see fewer and fewer changes over time. In primary visual areas like V1, the set of active cells ...
( Category: Military October 23,2017 )
The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:Robert Macfarlane

11 Roots On pilgrimage — ‘Bees of the Invisible’ — The Rule of Resonance — The Library of the Forest — A demonstration of dominion — The Mask of Henry ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 23,2017 )
The Mint by T.E. Lawrence
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:T.E. Lawrence

29 The Last Fatigue Today we were chosen to bring in Decauville material from a derelict aerodrome six miles to the southward. Twelve of our squad, in two lorries: with ...
( Category: Historical October 23,2017 )

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