Europe
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Philipp Blom

The most important among these recent arrivals, a diplomat himself, was the abbé Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787), a man who became one of the fixtures at the salon for some years. ...
epub |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Mark Simmons

Little did he realise that one day his own name would add to the ‘romantic allure’ of the desert. His night near Benghazi was not a very restful one, as ...
( Category: Europe June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Antony Beevor [Beevor, Antony]

One of his men tried to bandage the wound, but the opening was too large for a field dressing. Soon the order to withdraw arrived from Kippenberger. The attack had ...
( Category: Europe June 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-17 | Author:Messenger, Charles [Messenger, Charles]

The 12th Canadian Brigade fared better on the left. They initially faced opposition from machine guns in the woods north-west of Beaucourt and from the northern edge of Beacourt Wood ...
( Category: Europe June 15,2017 )
epub |eng, eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Slessor, Tim

We are told the plane flies lower, Across the rugged Mahabharat range, But to have one’s feet on terra firma, This height now gained is not so strange. We estimated ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Timothy Bolton

Chapter 4 THE RISE TO DOMINANCE OVER SCANDINAVIA The actions of Cnut following the sudden death of his elder brother, Harald, around 1019, speak volumes about Cnut’s feelings towards his ...
( Category: Europe June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-08 | Author:Derek Wilson

CHAPTER 22 Out of Control Life at the political centre was entering a new and distinctive phase. The high tension at court, the fluctuations of policy, the feverish activity and ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-17 | Author:Jacques Barzun [Barzun, Jacques]

T H E F O R G O T T E N T R O O P < & > 4 5 7 goods by machinery bring on "poverty in ...
( Category: Europe June 15,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:Levine, Joshua [Levine, Joshua]

Nearing Dunkirk Hedgehog road blocks in position, ready to obstruct the road from Bergues to Dunkirk We were so exhausted that if we stood still for a couple of minutes, ...
( Category: Military June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-23 | Author:Cameron Euan [Euan, Cameron]

clearly provoked by his own determination to force the issues, and it is hard to see how the theologians could have acted otherwise than they did without abandoning all their ...
( Category: Europe June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Koestler

We find this pattern repeatedly in chronicles: in Treves, in Metz, and many other places. By the time of the second and later crusades, it had become almost a routine: ...
( Category: Europe June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Harding, Samuel B. [Harding, Samuel B.]

The First Crusade THE period of the Crusades lasts from the year 1095 to the year 1270. In the great movement included between these dates we find, for the first ...
( Category: World June 15,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Geoffrey Jukes [Jukes, Geoffrey]

Addition of these (158,918) to the Stalingrad figures (629,033) gives a total of 787,951, compared to 543,000 German ‘departures’, suggesting in round figures three Soviet losses for every two German. ...
( Category: Military June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 1994-06-29 | Author:Paul W. Schroeder [Schroeder, Paul W.]

( Category: Politics & Government June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Edward Gibbon [Gibbon, Edward]

“The master of the Roman world, who aspired to erect an eternal monument of the glories of his reign, could employ in the prosecution of that great work the wealth, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 15,2017 )