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The Boer War (Winston Churchill Early Works Collection Book 1) by Winston Churchill
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-12 | Author:Winston Churchill

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN AFTER THE SIEGE Durban: March 10, 1900 Since the road by which Dundonald’s squadrons had entered the town was never again closed by the enemy, the siege of ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )
The World Crisis, Vol. 2 (Winston Churchill's World Crisis Collection) by Winston S. Churchill
mobi |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Winston S. Churchill

CHAPTER XV THE INCREASING TENSION Suspense—Lord Fisher’s Attitude—Sir John Jellicoe’s Health—Question of his Successor—The Battle Cruiser Fleet—Correspondence with Lord Fisher—Lord Fisher and the Sea Lords—His Position Defined—Difficulties and Friction—Further Correspondence ...
( Category: Military July 22,2017 )
The World Crisis, Vol. 2 (Winston Churchill's World Crisis Collection) by Winston S. Churchill
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Winston S. Churchill [Churchill, Winston S.]

( Category: Military July 22,2017 )
Medieval Military Technology, Second Edition by Kelly DeVries & Robert Douglas Smith
epub |eng | 2012-07-21 | Author:Kelly DeVries & Robert Douglas Smith [DeVries, Kelly & Smith, Robert Douglas]

Notes 1. B. Bachrach (1994); Bradbury (1992); and Purton (2010a, 2010b). 2. While numerous sources for each of these battles can be listed, for a general, but very outdated, overview ...
( Category: Military July 22,2017 )
Henry V by Malcolm Vale
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Malcolm Vale

Chapter 5 THE KING AND THE CHURCH II PREROGATIVE, POWER AND THE PAPACY We have already seen the extent to which relations between England and the papacy under Henry V ...
( Category: Historical July 22,2017 )
Pyramids and Fleshpots by Stuart Hadaway
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Stuart Hadaway

( Category: Middle East July 22,2017 )
Verneuil the Second Agincourt 1424: The Battle of the Three Kingdoms by Richard Wadge
epub |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Richard Wadge

Notes 110 Summary from Allmand, C.T. (1983), pp. 19–20. 111 Harriss, G. (2005), p. 550. 112 Wylie, J.H. and Waugh, W.T. (1914–29), vol. III, p. 266. 113 Barker, J., Conquest ...
( Category: Military July 22,2017 )
1700: Scenes from London Life by Maureen Waller
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Maureen Waller [Waller, Maureen]

To Make a Whipt Sillibub Take half a pint of Rhenish wine, or white wine, put it into a pint of cream, with the whites of three eggs, season it ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )
Crimes and Mercies by Bacque James
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Bacque, James [Bacque, James]

April 1946: German engineers are forced to dismantle a power-plant at Gendorf for shipment to Russia as reparations. January 1946: civilians in Kiel clean up rubble in front of the ...
( Category: Military July 22,2017 )
Private Life of Edward IV by Ashdown-Hill John
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Ashdown-Hill, John

20 1470–1471: WINTER IN EXILE As was mentioned briefly in connection with Miss Wayte’s story, in 1469, 1470 and 1471 Edward IV was, at times, forcibly separated from Elizabeth Widville. ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )
The Viking Age by Charles Francis Keary
epub, azw |eng | 2016-01-16 | Author:Charles Francis Keary [Keary, Charles Francis]

DEFENCES BROKEN DOWN, A.D. 846-58 THE SCANDINAVIANS ADOPTED A special name, Primsigning — first-signing — for the custom of allowing oneself to be marked with a cross, as we saw ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )
The Secret History by Procopius & Peter Sarris & G. A. Williamson
epub |eng | 0550-01-01 | Author:Procopius & Peter Sarris & G. A. Williamson [Procopius & Sarris, Peter & Williamson, G. A.]

Such was his statement. And the woman replied by intoning, ‘Patrician So-and-So’, and the chorus of eunuchs chanted their response: ‘That’s a mighty big hernia you’ve got there!’ When the ...
( Category: Military July 22,2017 )
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550 by Steven Ozment
epub |eng | 1980-07-21 | Author:Steven Ozment

Thomas Müntzer. Christoffel von Sichem the Elder. Müntzer, perhaps Luther’s most effective critic, has become the most influential sixteenth-century dissenter from the Reformation, especially in Marxist historiography. After failing to ...
( Category: History July 22,2017 )
Edward III by Jonathan Sumption
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Jonathan Sumption [Sumption, Jonathan]

4 Prince of Chivalry (1347–1360) It was customary in the courts of Europe to exchange gifts of jewellery at New Year. In 1333, Philippa of Hainault gave her husband a ...
( Category: Historical July 22,2017 )
Be Like the Fox by Erica Benner
epub |eng | 2017-05-14 | Author:Erica Benner

12 How to Win Towards the end of 1504, in his poem Decennale, Niccolò stands back and surveys Italy’s hectic political biography over the past decade. He is thirty-five, a ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )

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