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The arms of Krupp, 1587-1968 by Manchester William 1922-2004
epub |eng | 1970-08-19 | Author:Manchester, William, 1922-2004

corted to the factory by the SS at 6 a.m., later on at 7 a.m. Here, they remained under the supervision of the factory guards . . . The workmen ...
( Category: Europe August 19,2017 )
The Arch Conjuror of England by Parry Glyn
epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Parry, Glyn [Parry, Glyn]

CHAPTER 17 The Magnificent Master Alchemist BEFORE DEE and Kelley left, all states had been warned against Dee's ‘religious innovations’. The city of Erfurt in Thuringia refused them leave to ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2017 )
Gladstone: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-02-13 | Author:Roy Jenkins [Jenkins, Roy]

It was curious that he should have got himself impaled, from the other direction as it were, upon the same stakes which had speared Newman in his Dublin lectures twenty ...
( Category: Europe August 19,2017 )
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak
mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Geert Mak

Chapter THIRTY-FOUR Leningrad ON DISPLAY IN ST PETERSBURG'S MUNICIPAL MUSEUM IS THE THIN, light-blue diary of eleven-year-old Tanya Savitsyeva. The only entries for 1941–2 are these: Zyenya died, 28 December, ...
( Category: Europe August 18,2017 )
Luther's Fortress by James Reston
epub |eng | | Author:James Reston [Reston, James]

Ten A CLANDESTINE MISSION IN LATE NOVEMBER LUTHER DECIDED THAT HE NEEDED TO SEE the volatile situation in Wittenberg for himself, and for good reason. In early December, a mob ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership August 18,2017 )
The Reformation Experience by Eric Ives
epub |eng | 2012-08-18 | Author:Eric Ives

by good works we mean not the superstitious works of men’s own invention, which be not commanded by God, nor approved by his word, in which kind of works many ...
( Category: Europe August 18,2017 )
Enemies of the Enlightenment by McMahon Darrin M.;
epub |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:McMahon, Darrin M.;

History If in the microcosm of the family anti-philosophes found a rich source of principles from which to create their image of the well-constituted society, they turned with equal relish ...
( Category: Philosophy August 18,2017 )
Byzantium at War AD 600-1453 by Haldon John;
epub |eng | 2017-08-18 | Author:Haldon, John;

Illuminated manuscript of the History of John Skylitzes (11th century), fol. 213. Byzantine troops defeat an Arab army in Sicily in the 1030s. Note the trumpet used for signals. (Biblioteca ...
( Category: Military August 18,2017 )
Sikunder Burnes by Craig Murray
epub |eng | 2016-11-23 | Author:Craig Murray

Neither Burnes nor Witkiewicz give any account of joint meetings with the Emir. But plainly the Qazi believed Ranjit’s sympathies to be with Russia. He also reported that Burnes had ...
( Category: Historical August 18,2017 )
John Verdon by Think of a Number
mobi |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Think of a Number

Chapter 29 Backwards November was his least favorite month, a month of waning light, an uncertain month shambling between autumn and winter. This sense of the season seemed to exacerbate ...
( Category: Mystery August 18,2017 )
Three Empires on the Nile by Dominic Green
epub |eng | 2007-08-18 | Author:Dominic Green

“IT IS NOT my finding out, it is G-d’s revelation.” Gordon had tried to escape his destiny, but the Lord had summoned him to the Sudan. That night, as his ...
( Category: Middle East August 18,2017 )
Victoria's Cross by Gary Mead
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Mead

Not many women who seemed promising enough from SOE’s point of view to be worth interview would be likely to quail at the thought of a singularly nasty death, perhaps ...
( Category: Europe August 18,2017 )
Voices from the Dark Years by Douglas Boyd
epub |eng | 2014-11-24 | Author:Douglas Boyd

The thermometer showed minus 10 degrees C in the morning, but it was down to minus 37 by dusk, and minus 41 the following day. Men don’t function at those ...
( Category: Military August 18,2017 )
Vienna, 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna by David King
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:David King [King, David]

ON HIS WAY from Elba, Napoleon had enjoyed good fortune in eluding several ships patrolling the waters. The Inconstant passed the French frigates Melpomène and Fleur-de-Lys without incident, and then, ...
( Category: Military August 18,2017 )
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Asne Seierstad
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Asne Seierstad [Seierstad, Asne]

Summer Fever It was the sort of weather for lying at home under a warm blanket drinking tea. Lara made some thyme-leaf tea and brought it to Bano. ‘Are you ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 18,2017 )

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