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The Swiss and the Nazis by Stephen Halbrook
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Stephen Halbrook [Halbrook, Stephen]

The founding of the Swiss Confederation at the Rütli meadow in 1291. The union was intended to be a perpetual alliance against invaders. Image: Otto Schön, Die Schweitzergeschicte in Bildern, ...
( Category: Europe August 26,2017 )
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979 - 1989 by Sir Rodric Braithwaite
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Sir Rodric Braithwaite [Braithwaite, Sir Rodric]

The road starts in the fertile plains of the north, and then winds its way up increasingly bleak mountains to Pul-i Khumri, which is about the halfway point. It then ...
( Category: Asia August 26,2017 )
Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
epub, mobi |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Frances Gies [Gies, Frances]

Dominating the scene is the great incomplete shell of the cathedral itself. The rising wall is covered with scaffolding fashioned of rough-hewn poles lashed together in trusses, with the diagonals ...
( Category: Europe August 26,2017 )
The Fracture Zone by Simon Winchester
epub |eng | 2009-08-26 | Author:Simon Winchester

The frontier with Montenegro is half an hour’s drive from the outskirts of Dubrovnik. From the main road it is possible to see—impossible to avoid, in fact—the zigzag track that ...
( Category: Europe August 26,2017 )
Inside the Tudor Court by Lauren Mackay
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Lauren Mackay [Mackay, Lauren]

Around the Throne the Thunder Rolls Venere idus, sed nondum prœterire, the days have commenced, but have not yet ended. Chapuys, 1536 1536 presented several unforeseen crises. The court had ...
( Category: Europe August 26,2017 )
The Forgotton Soldier by Sajer Guy
epub |eng | | Author:Sajer, Guy

THE BREAKTHROUGH AT KONOTOP We drove for an hour-which meant about thirty miles-before it grew dark. We were all anxious to stop so that we could get rid of the ...
( Category: Military August 26,2017 )
Soldiers by Richard Holmes
epub |eng | 2011-08-26 | Author:Richard Holmes

group of finer officers, about twenty, I never saw. They were attired in handsome uniform, and appeared quite unfatigued. At first the extreme exhaustion of my bodily powers led me ...
( Category: Military August 26,2017 )
Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying by Neitzel Sonke & Welzer Harald
epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Neitzel, Sonke & Welzer, Harald [Neitzel, Sonke & Welzer, Harald]

Higher-ranking officers, for example, Major General Gerhard Bassenge, were particularly concerned about being held responsible for the things that had been carried out with or without Hitler’s knowledge: BASSENGE: We ...
( Category: Military August 26,2017 )
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck by Hans Von Luck
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Hans Von Luck

16 “Operation Goodwood,” 18/19 July 1944 Hitler now seemed to grasp that this was the invasion and not a diversionary maneuver; but he would still not rule out a further ...
( Category: Military August 26,2017 )
Crimea 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Trevor Royle [Royle, Trevor]

The Battle of Inkerman However, being so close to the British lines on Shell Hill — some of the 2nd Division’s picquets had already been taken prisoner — the Russians ...
( Category: Russia August 26,2017 )
Galician Trails: The Forgotten Story of One Family by Zalewski Andrew
epub |eng | 2014-05-04 | Author:Zalewski, Andrew [Zalewski, Andrew]

In the tense atmosphere that now existed in Galicia, troubles were instigated by the Polish side as well. On December 12, 1908, Dr. Bobrzynski, the new governor and an educator ...
( Category: Europe August 26,2017 )
The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 by William Manchester & Paul Reid
epub |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:William Manchester & Paul Reid [Manchester, William & Reid, Paul]

( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
The Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir
epub |eng | 2010-10-14 | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Already people expected the prisoners to be convicted. On May 11, before any trial had taken place, the Abbot of Cirencester wrote informing Cromwell that he had already promised Sir ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
The Last Princess by Matthew Dennison
epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Matthew Dennison

SEVENTEEN 'There now burnt a bewitching fiery passion' For Beatrice marriage changed everything and nothing. A year after her wedding she opened the annual show of the Royal Horticultural Society ...
( Category: Europe August 26,2017 )
The Last Knight Errant: Sir Edward Woodville & the Age of Chivalry by Christopher Wilkins
epub |eng | 2015-01-22 | Author:Christopher Wilkins [Wilkins, Christopher]

CHAPTER EIGHT: BLOOD AND ROSES A week’s sailing brought the fleet to Pembrokeshire on a Sunday afternoon. They waited until dusk and then sailed into Milford Haven, landing at Mill ...
( Category: Europe August 26,2017 )

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