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I, Columbus by Peter Roop
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Roop

Wednesday, 21 November, 1492. This day Martin Pinzon sailed away with the Pinta, without my will or command. It was through treachery. I think he believes that an Indian I ...
( Category: Americas September 8,2017 )
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Icelanders (Xenophobe's Guides) by Richard Sale
epub |eng | 2009-04-23 | Author:Richard Sale [Sale, Richard]

In conversation, the Icelanders are wonderfully free of the English habit of meaning something other than what is actually said. Once a subject has been brought up for discussion, all ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 8,2017 )
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton
epub |eng | | Author:Giles Milton

12 Czech-Mate IN THE NINE months that Margaret Jackson had been working for Colin Gubbins, she had come to realize that there was something extraordinary about her job. Unlike everyone ...
( Category: Military September 8,2017 )
Sorry! by Henry Hitchings
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Hitchings

15 The Englishness of English manners Edmund Burke, an admirer of Fanny Burney’s books, was instrumental in getting her released from her confinement, and his own brushes with monarchy, less ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 8,2017 )
Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror by Nechama Tec
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Nechama Tec

CHAPTER FOUR The Concentration Camps Bela Chazan Yaari was born in 1922 into a Jewish Orthodox family in the small Polish town of Rizyszczyce. Her father died when Bela was ...
( Category: World September 8,2017 )
Resistance by Tec Nechama
epub |eng | 2013-09-08 | Author:Tec, Nechama

CHAPTER FOUR The Concentration Camps Bela Chazan Yaari was born in 1922 into a Jewish Orthodox family in the small Polish town of Rizyszczyce. Her father died when Bela was ...
( Category: World September 8,2017 )
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
epub |eng | 2006-06-01 | Author:Antony Beevor [Beevor, Antony]

The Civil War within the Civil War In Barcelona towards the end of April a series of developments and incidents increased an already tense situation. On 16 April Companys reshuffled ...
( Category: Europe September 8,2017 )
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-06 | Author:Javier Marías [Marías, Javier]

( Category: Spanish & Portuguese September 8,2017 )
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) by Atkinson Rick
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-02 | Author:Atkinson, Rick [Atkinson, Rick]

“Man Is Distinguished from the Beasts” AS FISCHFANG played out at Anzio, another crowded hour ticked away for Monte Cassino and the armies encircling the abbey. Freyberg the New Zealander ...
( Category: Europe September 8,2017 )
Gorbachev by William Taubman
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William Taubman

Gorbachev and Reagan strolling in Red Square, Moscow, May 31, 1988. What Nancy Reagan wanted to say was “Thank you.” But it was hard to get a word in edgewise. ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
Hitler's Revolution: Ideology, Social Programs, Foreign Affairs by Richard Tedor
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-03-16 | Author:Richard Tedor [Tedor, Richard]

Returning to the British embassy with Ogilvie-Forbes, Dahlerus received Henderson’s permission to telephone Number 10 Downing Street, the prime minister’s office in London. Dahlerus stated on the line that the ...
( Category: Military September 8,2017 )
Dunkirk by Sinclair McKay
epub |eng | 2014-09-07 | Author:Sinclair McKay

10 ‘The Hour Is Too Solemn’ 28 May 1940 For an invading land army, the line between aggression and brutality must always be dangerously thin; for any commanding officer, the ...
( Category: Military September 7,2017 )
Darling Monster by Diana Cooper
epub |eng | 2013-09-13 | Author:Diana Cooper [Diana Cooper]

9 ‘I must get up without coffee, that’s all’ SETTLING IN, FEBRUARY–AUGUST 1948 H.M.S. Ceres Wetherby Yorks Undated, March 1945 It’s turned out nice again – the sun beats down ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 7,2017 )
Lindell's List by Peter Hore
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Hore

20 THE LIST OPENS In the first few weeks after her move to the Revier, Mary’s work was in the treatment room. She cleaned and dressed minor wounds, boils and ...
( Category: Military September 7,2017 )
Castle of the Eagles by Felton Mark;
epub |eng | 2017-02-08 | Author:Felton, Mark;

CHAPTER 11 ___________________ The Ghost Goes West ‘I don’t believe any party of would-be escapers ever worked harder or more consistently than ours, and this included all those grand fellows ...
( Category: Europe September 7,2017 )

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