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The King Who Had to Go by Adrian Phillips
epub |eng | 2016-08-25 | Author:Adrian Phillips [Adrian Phillips]

NOTES 1. BBK G/6/23, Duke of Windsor draft memoirs, dated 15 June 1949 2. Chamberlain diary, 2 December 3. NA CAB 301/101, Col. Casten (?) report, 27 November 4. BBK ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
On Persephone's Island by Mary Taylor Simeti
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Mary Taylor Simeti [Mary Taylor, Simeti]

The next day is Pasquetta, “Little Easter,” a day on which the family picnic in the country is as sacred a ritual as the procession is on Easter. This is ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 25,2017 )
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili
epub |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Jim Al-Khalili [Al-Khalili, Jim]

Among the features in medieval Muslim hospitals that distinguished them from their contemporaries elsewhere were their higher standards of medical ethics. Physicians there treated patients of all religions or ethnicities. ...
( Category: Middle East August 25,2017 )
Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory by Karen Hagemann
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Karen Hagemann [Hagemann, Karen]

1 “Verordnung wegen des Tragens der Preußischen National-Kokarde v. 22.2.1813,” in VZ and BN, no. 25, 27 Feb. 1813. 2 See, for example, “Brief eines Freundes an Friedrich Förster, Berlin, ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
William the Conqueror by Edward Freeman
epub |eng | 2014-06-08 | Author:Edward Freeman

The provocation was not long in coming. Within three months after his coronation, William paid a visit to his native duchy. The ruler of two states could not be always ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
24 Hours at the Somme by Robert Kershaw
epub |eng | 2017-05-17 | Author:Robert Kershaw

Hauptmann Schorer, the commander who had advised his messenger Leutnant Stahlhofer not to dally at the Schwaben after midnight, was taken prisoner. Over 60 of his men were taken out ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle by Liza Campbell
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Liza Campbell [Campbell, Liza]

Chapter 10 All those moments, like tears in the rain. Philip K. Dick My parents sent their five children to four different boarding schools in four different counties; only my ...
( Category: Memoirs August 25,2017 )
The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:A.N. Wilson

24 The Side of the Angels ON LOW SUNDAY, 1873, a new curate arrived in Wapping, to serve at the mission church, St Peter’s, London Docks. He was Lincoln Stanhope ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Among the Living and the Dead by Inara Verzemnieks
epub |eng | | Author:Inara Verzemnieks

IN THOSE EARLY DAYS, the story of the missing is a story they tell one another without saying a thing, the anxious transmissions of a hive mind, the entire village ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Queer City by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | 2017-05-25 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Peter Ackroyd]

14 Tiddy dolls Mr Fribble has emerged in an earlier chapter as the model of a mid-eighteenth-century queer. He was the creation of David Garrick who introduced him to the ...
( Category: LGBT August 25,2017 )
Our Times by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | 2008-08-25 | Author:A. N. Wilson

16 The Decline of the Roman Catholic Church The dissolution of the Church of England during our times was an inevitability. That Church had originated in a time when its ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 25,2017 )
Hitler by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:A. N. Wilson

SEVEN The Road to War In January 1936, Hitler summoned all his Gauleiters and Reichsleiters to a meeting. Disputes had arisen among them. There was disgruntlement among the old Brownshirt ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
London by A.N. Wilson
epub |eng | 2009-03-29 | Author:A.N. Wilson

The Victorians made much of the cult of home and for that reason needed refuges from it. The simple chophouses and coffeehouses of a previous age survived. But restaurants became ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Undercover by Joe Carter
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Joe Carter

Twenty-seven The journey back with Ray was arduous and testing to say the least, as we talked for the entire journey. I cannot recall a single awkward silence or a ...
( Category: Memoirs August 25,2017 )
After the Victorians by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:A. N. Wilson

The cryptic crossword and the whodunnit mystery story were two distinctive products of their time, expressions no doubt of the belief that if one could only worry at a problem ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )

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