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Whisky by Aeneas MacDonald
epub |eng | | Author:Aeneas MacDonald

One of a set of six contemporary postcards satirising the work of the experts of the Royal Commission on Whiskey. Thomson’s mother was a staunch temperance advocate but, more than ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine August 29,2017 )
The Survivor by Thomas Keneally
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Keneally

6 It was a waking dream. The diggers found no corpse but a vacancy, and stood back, their faces all what he would call classic Antarctic faces, the type that ...
( Category: World August 29,2017 )
Colditz by P. R. Reid
epub |eng | 2015-08-28 | Author:P. R. Reid

A quarrel ensued in which Tunstall told him to check up with the duty officer, and much else besides, and to emphasize some of his points touched the German with ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen Forrester
epub |eng | 2012-07-28 | Author:Helen Forrester

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN We crept through the spring and summer, cursing wet days, rejoicing in warm, dry ones, ignoring petty ailments and hunger, since we could do nothing about either. Several ...
( Category: Memoirs August 28,2017 )
Hitler's Last Day by Emma Craigie
epub |eng | | Author:Emma Craigie

In his diary the politician Harold Nicolson notes the response of Mrs Grove, his London housekeeper, to the news of the deaths of Mussolini and Clara Petacci. Mrs Groves thinks ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
When Paris Sizzled by Mary McAuliffe
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-08-28 | Author:Mary McAuliffe [McAuliffe, Mary]

While the unobtainable might possess an allure for some, Americans and others sought a more reliable form of glamour and excitement when they came to Paris and Montparnasse. As with ...
( Category: Europe August 28,2017 )
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 2 by Charles Moore
epub |eng | 2015-09-23 | Author:Charles Moore

Heseltine should also be made to give his letter to the press since he had done the same with his letter to Horne, Powell added. He then got in touch ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
The House by the Thames by Gillian Tindall
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian Tindall

Chapter VIII ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES EDWARD PERRONET SELLS, born just before the French Revolution, grew to manhood while Britain was at war with Napoleon. The unregulated, unpoliced, oil-and moon-lit London ...
( Category: Europe August 28,2017 )
Fritjof Capra by The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
mobi |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance

ARISTOTLE’S SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE For science at the time of the Renaissance, the most important Greek philosopher was Aristotle. A student of Plato, Aristotle was by far the most brilliant ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
The Highland Clearances by John Prebble
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:John Prebble

It is encouraging to find that such opinions are making their way among poor men who recollect well that their fathers and grandfathers contrived somehow to live while their employment ...
( Category: Europe August 28,2017 )
Glencoe by John Prebble
epub |eng | 2009-03-23 | Author:John Prebble

The weak, irresolute man, hoping for miracles, had let three months pass before making this decision. He was deeply in debt to the clans. As Duke of York, he had ...
( Category: Europe August 28,2017 )
A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca
epub, azw3 |eng | 2001-08-28 | Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca

I was back in CB2 again and on kitchen detail. In the days that followed I expected something to happen, if not from black gangs then from the black fag ...
( Category: Authors August 28,2017 )
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:Lynne Olson

ROOSEVELT’S ADAMANT opposition to de Gaulle and his movement was a source of frustration not only for the British but also for U.S. officials and military leaders in London and ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
The Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens
epub |eng | 2016-08-28 | Author:Peter Hitchens

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold which Milton held. —William Wordsworth, ‘National Independence and Liberty’ Breathes there the ...
( Category: Europe August 28,2017 )
Great Boer War by Farwell Byron
epub |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Farwell, Byron,,

We desire to say that in our judgement, reviewing the campaign as a whole, it has not been one where it can properly be said that the medical and hospital ...
( Category: Africa August 28,2017 )

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