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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Somerset Anne
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Somerset, Anne [Somerset, Anne]

SEVEN A COURT IN CHAOS There were many people who believed that in 1670 the King’s English sister-in-law, Henriette-Anne, Duchesse d’Orléans, had been killed by poison. Her death had been ...
( Category: Europe September 10,2017 )
Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust by Bierman John
epub |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Bierman, John [Bierman, John]

In the second week of January 1945 Wallenberg’s private intelligence service brought him word that Eichmann’s plan for the total massacre of the General Ghetto was soon to be carried ...
( Category: Military September 10,2017 )
The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II by Kershaw Alex
mobi |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Kershaw, Alex [Kershaw, Alex]

ANARCHY AND CHAOS ruled the streets. But Wallenberg’s presence still counted.29 Each evening, even though he was effectively on the run, Wallenberg would visit his protected houses and check on ...
( Category: Military September 10,2017 )
The Embrace of Unreason by Frederick Brown
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Frederick Brown [Brown, Frederick]

Drieu raised hopes of marriage with political factions as well as with women, and so it was that after reading his letter of divorce from the Surrealist group in the ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 10,2017 )
The Dream And The Tomb: A History Of The Crusades by Robert Payne
mobi |eng | 1984-04-15 | Author:Robert Payne

Three Letters EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER FROM TERENCE, MASTER OF THE TEMPLE, TO ALL COMMANDERS AND BRETHREN OF THE ORDER, FROM TYRE, NOVEMBER 1187 BROTHER TERENCE, known as Grand Master ...
( Category: Religious Studies September 10,2017 )
Assassins of the Turquoise Palace by Hakakian Roya
epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Hakakian, Roya [Hakakian, Roya]

Some of the most incriminating details had been proudly offered by the minister himself. Passages from Fallahian’s own autobiography glorified what others would have agonized to bury. In the effusive ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 10,2017 )
A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain by Michael Paterson
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Michael Paterson

Sermons Discoursing on these matters was often a struggle for the young. Molly Hughes (or Molly Thomas, as she was at the time), whose family lived in London and attended ...
( Category: Europe September 10,2017 )
Lost London by Richard Guard
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Richard Guard [Guard, Richard]

King’s Bench Prison Borough THIS PRISON STOOD ON THE SOUTH-WEST CORNER of Blackman Street and Borough High Street from the time of Richard II (1377–99). Originally used to incarcerate those ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games September 10,2017 )
Kim Philby by Tim Milne
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:Tim Milne

8 DECLINE AND FALL Almost the first lesson I learnt in Section V was that spying is a mug’s game. Here were all these German agents, unmasked not through any ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 10,2017 )
Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds
epub |eng | 2004-09-10 | Author:David Edmonds [Edmonds, David and Eidinow, John]

Fischer off-stage continues to command almost all the attention. In the press, much of it makes for uncomfortable reading. The Washington Post agonizes that “Fischer has alienated millions of chess ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games September 10,2017 )
They Eat Horses, Don't They? by Piu Marie Eatwell
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Piu Marie Eatwell [Eatwell, Piu Marie]

François Mitterrand once observed, with characteristic astuteness, that ‘there are two ways to sabotage the right to strike: to regulate it, as does the Right, or to use it wrongly ...
( Category: Europe September 10,2017 )
Six Weeks - The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War by John Lewis-Stempel
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-27 | Author:John Lewis-Stempel [Lewis-Stempel, John]

But I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat ...
( Category: Military September 10,2017 )
War by A. C. Grayling
epub |eng | | Author:A. C. Grayling

In the Introduction to this book, war was defined as ‘a state of armed conflict between states or nations, or between identified and organised groups of significant size and character’. ...
( Category: Military September 10,2017 )
Agent M by Henry Hemming
epub |eng | 2017-05-09 | Author:Henry Hemming

28 REPRIEVE ON JANUARY 12, 1938, M RECEIVED A CALL FROM OLGA GRAY. PERCY Glading had just told her that there was going to be another job, and that it ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 10,2017 )
They Stole My Innocence by Madeleine Vibert
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Madeleine Vibert [Vibert, Madeleine]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE She was there when I was shown into the common room. Those pale, cold eyes met mine and for a second I froze. She knew who I was. ...
( Category: World September 10,2017 )

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