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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]

Nonsuch Palace, Surrey, commissioned by Henry in 1538, and intended as a proclamation of Tudor wealth and power – a rival, he hoped, to Francis’s Chambord; not a trace remains. ...
( Category: Europe June 22,2017 )
Martin Luther by Lyndal Roper
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Lyndal Roper [Roper, Lyndal]

Someone may laugh at me for explaining the obvious and offering great men such an elementary tidbit of syntax, as if I were teaching boys learning their alphabet. What am ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 22,2017 )
When Paris Sizzled by Mary McAuliffe PhD
epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Mary McAuliffe PhD [McAuliffe, Mary]

While the unobtainable might possess an allure for some, Americans and others sought a more reliable form of glamour and excitement when they came to Paris and Montparnasse. As with ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources June 21,2017 )
The Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman
epub, mobi |eng, eng | 2016-12-05 | Author:Tracy Borman

This portrait of Henry VII was commissioned in 1505 for Margaret of Savoy, whom he hoped to marry. It failed to persuade her of the ageing king’s charms. Thought to ...
( Category: Europe June 21,2017 )
24 Hours at Agincourt by Michael Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Jones

And then the theme is powerfully reiterated: This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by From this day to the ending of ...
( Category: Military June 21,2017 )
A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Kurzman Dan
epub |eng | 2007-05-07 | Author:Kurzman, Dan [Kurzman, Dan]

The king, in fact, was being true to an ancient Roman tradition. Particularly before the destruction of Jerusalem two thousand years ago, Roman leaders had often been good to the ...
( Category: Europe June 21,2017 )
At War on the Gothic Line by Christian Jennings
epub |eng | | Author:Christian Jennings

The Allied Advance Stalls Then autumn suddenly played its hand. The rains came. In a foretaste of the winter that was to come, the hot Italian summer broke and the ...
( Category: Military June 21,2017 )
Les Parisiennes by Anne Sebba
epub |eng | 2016-08-04 | Author:Anne Sebba

Worse was to follow. Before the year was out she complained of having to share a straw mattress and one blanket with two other women until she was transferred to ...
( Category: Europe June 21,2017 )
Isabella of Castile by Giles Tremlett
epub |eng | 2017-06-20 | Author:Giles Tremlett

32 Indians, Parrots and Hammocks Palos de la Frontera, 15 March 1493 La Niña rode a rising tide as it sailed past the Saltés Bar into the calm waters of ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Murder In Matera by Helene Stapinski
epub |eng | 2017-04-02 | Author:Helene Stapinski

Chapter 20 WITH SNOW YOU GET BREAD, WITH RAIN YOU GET HUNGER And you, ugly, obscure cloud Why have you come? . . . No! Go away to your obscure ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
The Sexual History of London by Catharine Arnold
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-20 | Author:Catharine Arnold

When a young man meets there with handsome fine-looking girls, well-dressed with genteel manners, he forgets the indecency of their appearance and the looseness and impropriety of their language and ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling June 21,2017 )
The Pursuit of Power by Richard J. Evans
epub |eng | 2016-11-10 | Author:Richard J. Evans

OUT OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH Epidemics might hit the headlines, but the real killers were the everyday ones: poor nutrition, lack of hygiene, chronic conditions of one kind and ...
( Category: Europe June 21,2017 )
Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground by Marek Kohn
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-11-02 | Author:Marek Kohn

7 - BROKEN BUTTERFLY In the wake of the exposure of a 'circle of degenerates' after Billie Carleton's death, the public was treated to a stream of similar spectacles; some ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 21,2017 )
Prince Charles by Sally Bedell Smith
epub |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Sally Bedell Smith

“Her face might have been a mask that represented ‘grief’ and ‘injustice.’ ” Diana’s Panorama interview with Martin Bashir in which she blamed Camilla Parker Bowles for Charles’s “devastating” infidelity, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )
Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) by Anne Curry
epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Anne Curry

Callous as this act appears to be (other sources suggest prisoners were killed by weapons too), Henry had been placed in a vulnerable position. To protect his own men, he ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )

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