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Iron Kingdom : The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark
epub |eng | 2007-09-05 | Author:Christopher Clark

38. Old Lutheran settlement at Klemzig, South Australia, by George French Angas, 1845 The sharpening of confessional identities also unsettled relations between the state and its Catholic subjects, whose numbers ...
( Category: Europe August 17,2017 )
The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim by Kulish Nicholas & Mekhennet Souad
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Kulish, Nicholas & Mekhennet, Souad [Kulish, Nicholas]

CHAPTER 36 Tano Pisano never expected to have much of a relationship with Rüdiger Heim, the slightly withdrawn young man he got to know a little in Florence. Where the ...
( Category: World August 17,2017 )
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Joshua Levine
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2017-06-26 | Author:Joshua Levine

Seven Escape to Dunkirk For those continuing to fight the Germans on 28 May, the Belgians were already a thing of the past. The chief consequence of Leopold’s surrender was ...
( Category: Europe August 17,2017 )
The Book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione
epub |eng | 2004-04-29 | Author:Baldesar Castiglione [Castiglione, Baldesar]

‘This kind of joke is played very often; but more amusing still are jokes that are frightening to begin with but have a happy ending, for then the victim too ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 17,2017 )
The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn by Robert P. Watson
epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:Robert P. Watson

As is true for prisoners of war throughout history, several of the men confined belowdecks on the Jersey dealt with their bleak situation by fighting back against the oppressive guards. ...
( Category: Americas August 17,2017 )
Arab France by Coller Ian;
epub |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:Coller, Ian;

All the Egyptian refugees have the honor to present humbly to Your Excellence that they have sacrificed their tranquillity and their sometimes very substantial property in the service of the ...
( Category: Anthropology August 17,2017 )
On Royalty by Jeremy Paxman
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-17 | Author:Jeremy Paxman

9. We are You A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness’ sake. Just as in a family, one man is appointed to buy ...
( Category: Europe August 17,2017 )
Pushing Past the Night by Mario Calabresi
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-16 | Author:Mario Calabresi [Calabresi, Mario]

9. the chamber of deputies THERE IS A POINT when the normally mild-mannered, easygoing, civic-minded people who go by the reassuring name “the relatives of the victims” start to grow ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 16,2017 )
The Silent Weaver by Roger Hutchinson
epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Roger Hutchinson

Sometimes you would meet him [indoors] in the corridor, but you knew he was on his way out. This was his garden here, his workshop. He spent all the time ...
( Category: Europe August 16,2017 )
The Squad by T. Ryle Dwyer
epub |eng | | Author:T. Ryle Dwyer [DWYER, T.RYLE]

CHAPTER 12 ‘I’VE MY ORDERS TO SHOOT HIM’ John Lynch, a Sinn Féin county councillor from Kilmallock, County Limerick, who had come to Dublin with national loan money for Collins, ...
( Category: World August 16,2017 )
Auschwitz: A History by Sybille Steinbacher
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Sybille Steinbacher [Steinbacher, Sybille]

MAP 5 Auschwitz II (Birkenau) as of 1944 About 10,000 Soviet soldiers arrived in Auschwitz in October 1941. They were initially housed in a separate part of the parent camp, ...
( Category: World August 16,2017 )
Edward Elgar and His World by Adams Byron
epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Adams, Byron

Elgar, Wagner, and Lyricism Hadow’s concerns about Elgar’s use of leitmotifs were as much a matter of personal aesthetics as of technique. As noted above, opinion on Wagner in Britain ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 16,2017 )
Tycho and Kepler by Kitty Ferguson
epub |eng | 2013-01-21 | Author:Kitty Ferguson [Ferguson, Kitty]

IN GRAZ, later that same month, on April 27, Johannes Kepler and Barbara Müller were wed in a splendid celebration at Barbara’s own residence. In spite of Kepler’s less than ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 16,2017 )
Catherine Howard by Lacey Baldwin Smith
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Lacey Baldwin Smith [Smith, Lacey Baldwin]

CHAPTER 6 ‘Harry With the Crown’ Henry and Catherine were married on 28 July 1540. Heads had fallen, the international scene had been confounded, and the world cynically speculated upon ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
Riot by Jones Jones
epub |eng | 2014-10-31 | Author:Jones Jones

Fuck me, she’s not batting an eyelid. My heart’s booming. She must know what I’m doing. I’m unbuckling her belt and pulling her jeans down over her big wide hips. ...
( Category: Europe August 16,2017 )

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