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Italian Blackshirt 1935-45 by Pier Battistelli
epub |eng | | Author:Pier Battistelli

Following the limitations imposed by the Italian Army, enlistment in front-line Blackshirt units was restricted to those aged between 26 and 36. As a consequence, the men were older than ...
( Category: Europe April 25,2017 )
Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
epub |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Ernie Pyle [Pyle, Ernie]

Anzio and Nettuno run together along the coast, forming practically one city. There is really only one main street, which runs along the low blocks just back of the first ...
( Category: World War II April 24,2017 )
The Jewish Revolt AD 66-74 by Si Sheppard
epub |eng | | Author:Si Sheppard

THE YEAR OF THE FOUR EMPERORS As the campaign season of AD 68 opened the Romans, observing affairs in Jerusalem with a wry detachment, were in no hurry to intervene. ...
( Category: Rome April 24,2017 )
Defense of the Third Reich 1941-45 by Steven Zaloga
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Zaloga

This view shows an LS-Hochbunker built on Kornerstrasse in Hagen in 1941 intended to protect against 250kg (500lb) bombs. Although designed to accommodate 600 people, on the night of March ...
( Category: Europe April 24,2017 )
The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau by Julie Ferry
epub |eng | 2017-04-21 | Author:Julie Ferry

Prince Leopold would always hold Minnie in high esteem, and even after her marriage he still wrote to her frequently, his letters filled with compliments. ‘You were much admired yesterday, ...
( Category: Women in History April 22,2017 )
Athens: A History by Robin Waterfield
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robin Waterfield [Waterfield, Robin]

The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War In 446 Athens and Sparta entered into a thirty-year peace, which did nothing to stop each side developing its military potential. The final insults ...
( Category: Greece April 16,2017 )
Byzantine Wars by John Haldon
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2008-10-31 | Author:John Haldon [Haldon, John]

Sa’if ad-Daulah’s Raid of 956 The raid in question was launched in early spring of that year, intended as a booty-collecting expedition, as an attack on the Roman frontier provinces, ...
( Category: Military April 15,2017 )
The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Ian Mortimer

8 Where to Stay The practicalities of finding accommodation vary from age to age. One of the problems of the Restoration period is the sheer number of people on the ...
( Category: Europe April 15,2017 )
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space by John R. Bowen
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-05-22 | Author:John R. Bowen [Bowen, John R.]

PERHAPS it is now clear why a law against the voile, pretending to deal evenhandedly with "religious signs," would have proved so appealing to politicians: a thorn in the Republican ...
( Category: Beauty, Grooming, & Style April 14,2017 )
A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness by Gareth Williams
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Gareth Williams [Williams, Gareth]

Rines’s reply began, ‘Dear Sir Scott’ and explained that the flipper photograph came from a series which was undergoing computer enhancement at JPL. ‘Serious attention’ had in fact come from ...
( Category: Europe April 11,2017 )
Athelstan by Tom Holland
epub |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Tom Holland

4 Angelcynn One year before the great durbar at Cirencester, while leading his army northwards against the King of the Scots, Athelstan arrived beside the River Wear. Here he halted ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2017 )
Operation Kronstadt by Harry Ferguson
epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Harry Ferguson [FERGUSON, HARRY]

11 Gefter Paul lay in Michael Semashko’s tomb and took stock of his situation. He could hear the deep boom of naval gunfire somewhere out in the Gulf. Sadly, Paul ...
( Category: Espionage April 7,2017 )
Charles II by Clare Jackson
epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Clare Jackson

5 Words The Wildean adage that ‘Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life’ might well have been written with Charles II’s reign in mind as the turbulent excesses ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2017 )
Assault in Norway by Gallagher Thomas
epub |eng | | Author:Gallagher, Thomas

11 THE MEN HAD ALREADY DESTROYED EVERYTHING OF FOREIGN ORIGIN THAT might betray them: empty raisin, cookie, milk, and ration tins, the wrappings of fruit, chocolate, and pemmican bars, used ...
( Category: Military April 6,2017 )
The Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Ian Buruma [Buruma, Ian]

TOKYO The law court in Nuremberg looks solid—indestructible almost—in a city that lacks solidity. The restored medievalism of the old town center gives the city a stagey atmosphere, as though ...
( Category: World War II April 6,2017 )

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