Europe
mobi |eng | 2000-10-05 | Author:Simon Winchester

The frontier with Montenegro is half an hour’s drive from the outskirts of Dubrovnik. From the main road it is possible to see—impossible to avoid, in fact—the zigzag track that ...
( Category: European June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-05-01 | Author:Cornelius Ryan

Thirty miles away Lieutenant Commander Heinrich Hoffmann, in the lead E-boat of his 5th Flotilla, saw a strange, unreal fog blanketing the sea ahead. As Hoffmann watched, a single plane ...
( Category: World War II June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Adrian Johns

FIGURE ii.i. Henry C. Carey. H. C. Carey, Miscellaneous Works, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: H.C. Baird, 1883), vol. i, frontispiece. Courtesy of the University of Chicago Library. In Carey's hands, piracy ...
( Category: Legal History June 11,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

Kirilov All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule. What distinguishes modern sensibility from classical sensibility ...
( Category: French June 10,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip Nord

PART III DEATH COMES TO THE REPUBLIC CHAPTER 5 ARMISTICE France’s Chamber of Deputies and Senate met in joint session on 10 July. The setting was Vichy, a spa town ...
( Category: European June 8,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:William Dean Howells [ Howells, William Dean]

II. Entering at the enchanted portal of the Villa P –, we found ourselves in a realm of wonder. It was our misfortune not to see the magician who compelled ...
( Category: General June 5,2015 )
epub |ara, eng | 2015-04-23 | Author:Charles Bracelen Flood

Near the end of the war, the French general Robert Nivelle asked Nungesser, “Lieutenant, can you tell me by what miracle of tactics you have managed to bring down so ...
( Category: World War I June 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-04 | Author:Jan Sjåvik

LITERATURE. Norway’s earliest literature consists of runic inscriptions made on stone during the Viking age as well as alliterative poetry that was mostly orally transmitted and is known in writing ...
( Category: Norway June 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Bernard B. Fall [Fall, Bernard B.]

This entailed faster traveling, less roadside security and greater convoy discipline, but, under the circumstances, Barrou felt that the game was worth the gamble, the more so as Mobile Group ...
( Category: France June 4,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Khlevniuk, Oleg V. [Khlevniuk, Oleg V.]

THE STATE DEFENSE COMMITTEE Stalin’s actions during the war’s first days were frenetic, confused, and reactive. Even though he did not grasp the situation and was not qualified to manage ...
( Category: Russia June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:David Stevenson

15 The Central Powers’ Last Throw, Autumn 1917–Summer 1918 In autumn 1917 the Central Powers regained the initiative. Their counterattack against the Kerensky offensive initiated a reversal of fortunes comparable ...
( Category: European June 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-03-08 | Author:Jacob Abbott

Rizzio sides with Mary. Rizzio, of course, took Queen Mary's part in these questions. He opposed the grant of the crown matrimonial. He opposed all other plans for increasing or ...
( Category: Great Britain June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-22 | Author:Carole Matthews [Matthews, Carole]

Chapter Forty-two While I’m getting ready to go out for my birthday meal, Edie Skypes me. I take the laptop into the bedroom and talk to her while I’m putting ...
( Category: Europe June 3,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Bertolt Brecht

Jim Crocket Yes. Why, what’s going on? Gangster Your warehouse is on fire. Crocket dashes out. Some follow. Others go to the window. Roma Stop! Hold everything! Nobody leaves the ...
( Category: German June 2,2015 )