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Great Tales From English History: Captain Cook, Queen Victoria, Edward the Abdicator, and More by Robert Lacey
epub |eng | 2014-11-02 | Author:Robert Lacey [Lacey, Robert]

‘WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!’ – THE BIRKENHEAD DRILL 1852 STEAMING OFF THE COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA late in February 1852, HM Troopship Birkenhead, a paddle-steamer, was one of the first ...
( Category: Europe August 24,2017 )
Grace Kelly by James Spada & James Spada
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:James Spada & James Spada [Spada, James]

CLICK FOR CHAPTER 12 ENDNOTES 12 Contrary to general belief, a Monegasque prince’s heir need not be male. CHAPTER THIRTEEN The eight-day voyage of the Constitution from New York to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 24,2017 )
Jessie's Journey by Jess Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Jess Smith [Smith, Jess]

19 THE LIVING NIGHTMARE That was a braw summer’s jaunt in the old bus. Why the others were hankering after a house beats me. Back at Crieff, though, this is ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 24,2017 )
The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy
epub |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Serhii Plokhy

The key figure in the transfer of the Galician experience to Dnieper Ukraine was a forty-year-old professor of Ukrainian history at Lviv University, Mykhailo Hrushevsky. An alumnus of Kyiv University, ...
( Category: Europe August 24,2017 )
The Story of England by Michael Wood
epub |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:Michael Wood

Man be ware and be no fool; Thinke upon the ax, and of the stool! The revolt had unleashed savage class antagonisms and exposed deep fissures between the rulers and ...
( Category: Europe August 24,2017 )
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
mobi |eng | 2010-07-16 | Author:Madhusree Mukerjee [Mukerjee, Madhusree]

Gourhori Majhi of Kalikakundu was eight at the time of the cyclone and living in another village. The family’s hut had fallen, but they had forded the floodwaters to reach ...
( Category: Asia August 24,2017 )
Casanova by Laurence Bergreen
epub |eng | 2016-12-03 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

Chapter 11 * * * Miss Wynne On arrival at The Hague, Casanova received a dinner invitation from his former lover, prospective mate, and would-be antagonist Teresa Trenti. “I found ...
( Category: World August 23,2017 )
Crusoe's Island by Andrew Lambert
epub |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:Andrew Lambert [Andrew Lambert]

After their strange encounter Douglas and Scouler left the sailors to fill the water butts and wandered into the ruined village. ‘Here a few years ago the Spaniards formed a ...
( Category: South America August 23,2017 )
Steel and Ice by Lawrence Paterson
epub |eng | 2016-05-11 | Author:Lawrence Paterson

Fired two torpedoes at a damaged tanker in Sokhumi. Depth charges. Tanker was 7,000 GRT, loaded or flooded, sea force 1, depth-setting 5.5 meters with magnetic firing pistol. Two hits ...
( Category: Military August 23,2017 )
Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo
epub |eng | 2007-02-14 | Author:Victor Hugo [Hugo, Victor]

* * * 1 (Return) The Bulletin des Lois publishes the following decree, dated the 27th of March:— "Considering the law of May 10, 1838, which classes the ordinary expenses ...
( Category: Europe August 23,2017 )
Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) / Or Italy by Madame de Staël
epub |eng | 2005-10-17 | Author:Madame de Staël [Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine)]

( Category: Europe August 23,2017 )
Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine) by Margaret Humphreys
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Humphreys

20 Joanna Mack managed to give me a month’s notice that Lost Children of the Empire was being broadcast in Australia. Thanks to the Trust’s anonymous benefactor, I flew into ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 23,2017 )
A Stranger in My Own Country by Hans Fallada
epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Hans Fallada

Notes 1. Incorrectly dated: the Reichstag burned down on 27 February 1933. Fallada had to rely entirely on memory when writing these reminiscences, so there are occasional errors and misdatings. ...
( Category: Historical August 23,2017 )
God and the Fascists by Karlheinz Deschner
epub |eng | 2017-08-23 | Author:Karlheinz Deschner

THE FLEXIBLE CARDINAL FAULHABER (OR, HOW TO SURVIVE FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS) “Cardinal Faulhaber was, so to speak, a duke in the great levy of German Catholics who repeatedly campaigned ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 23,2017 )
73.09 Siege of Darkness by R. A. Salvatore
mobi |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:R. A. Salvatore

Chapter 15 GREED The mercenary shook his bald head, as defiant an act as he had ever made against Matron Baenre. At this moment, so soon after the first matron ...
( Category: Fantasy August 23,2017 )

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