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Dead Men Risen by Toby Harnden
epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Toby Harnden

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Top Cover Vikings on the Shamalan Canal … though the death in action of a colonel at the head of his regiment is as fine an end as ...
( Category: Asia June 14,2017 )
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer
epub |eng | | Author:Willy Lindwer [Lindwer, Willy]

Rachel van Amerongen-Frankfoorder has added the following dedication: In memory of Charles Desiré Lu-A-Si, who fought from the very first hour and was killed in 1942 by the Nazis. BLOEME ...
( Category: World June 14,2017 )
Lidia's Italy by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
epub | | 2010-08-17 | Author:Lidia Matticchio Bastianich [Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio]

Tuscan Meat and Tomato Ragù RAGÙ MAREMMANO ½ cup dried porcini 1 medium onion, in chunks (1 cup or more) 2 celery ribs, in chunks (about 2 cups) ⅓ cup ...
( Category: Regional & International June 14,2017 )
The Enlightened Economy by Joel Mokyr
epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Joel Mokyr [Mokyr, Joel]

CHAPTER 13 Demographic Transformation in the Age of Enlightenment I have already noted the rather astonishing growth in population that Britain experienced during the period in question. The essential data ...
( Category: Economics June 14,2017 )
Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee by Bee Wilson
epub, pdf |rus | 2008-07-09 | Author:Bee Wilson [Wilson, Bee]

5 Mock Goslings and Pear-nanas Today we don’t have anything so crude as adulterants; we have additives and improvers and nutrients. —Elizabeth David, English Bread and Yeast Cookery (1977) George ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2017 )
Egri Csillagok by Gardonyi Geza
mobi |hu | 1978-01-03 | Author:Gardonyi Geza

Tíz szebbnél szebb gyűrű ragyogott a bal kezén. A jobb kezén is lehetett, de azt hamvas bőrkesztyű borította. Folytatta: – És hogy egy gyönyörű gyűrűje volna többek között. – Van ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2017 )
Citizens of London by Lynne Olson
epub |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:Lynne Olson [Olson, Lynne]

ROOSEVELT’S ADAMANT opposition to de Gaulle and his movement was a source of frustration not only for the British but also for U.S. officials and military leaders in London and ...
( Category: Military June 14,2017 )
With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 by Matthew H. Spring
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Matthew H. Spring [Spring, Matthew H.]

THE BAYONET CHARGE The Highlanders, observing that the rebels would not advance out of the wood, made a charge upon them, which was always a terror to the rebels, and ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2017 )
No Such Thing As Society by McSmith Andy
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:McSmith, Andy [McSmith, Andy]

In 1976, the Labour government had passed a law to break up such cartels, and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) had pronounced that the Stock Exchange’s protective demarcation lines ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2017 )
Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Margaret Powell [Powell, Margaret]

19 CHRISTMAS IN domestic service was nothing like the Christmases we had at home. I remember the excitement there was at home even with little money, the excitement of waking ...
( Category: Memoirs June 14,2017 )
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by McWhorter John
mobi |eng | 2008-10-29 | Author:McWhorter, John [McWhorter, John]

This even includes people as influential as the kings of England who, for a while, were men of Norman birth who likely did not even speak English. Think about it—let’s ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar June 14,2017 )
1888 by Peter Stubley
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-13 | Author:Peter Stubley

Two years later William Logan, a former city missionary, called for the ‘suppression of this widespread vice and the reclamation of its miserable victims’. He told of girls as young ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2017 )
History of the Conquest of Mexico by William H. Prescott
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:William H. Prescott

1 Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 96. 2 Ibid., cap. 97. 3 Gomara, Crónica, cap. 84.—Herrera, Hist. General, dec. 2, lib. 8, cap. 4. 4 Ibid., dec. 2, ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2017 )
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston
epub |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Paul Preston [Preston, Paul]

That you consider the detainees to be prisoners of war and that you are determined to prevent them being assassinated, except as a result of a judicial sentence; that you ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2017 )
Complete Works of Samuel Pepys by Pepys Samuel
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Pepys, Samuel

NOVEMBER 1666 November 1st. Up, and was presented by Burton, one of our smith’s wives, with a very noble cake, which I presently resolved to have my wife go with ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2017 )

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