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Great Britain's Great War by Jeremy Paxman
epub |eng | 2013-10-03 | Author:Jeremy Paxman [Paxman, Jeremy]

10. The Great European Cup Final Whistles blow and the dying begins. The worst day in the history of the British army dawned bright and clear. Many of the men ...
( Category: Great Britain May 6,2016 )
Everything Irish by Lelia Ruckenstein
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Lelia Ruckenstein [Ruckenstein, Lelia]

L Labour Party, the. Political party. The Labour Party was formed in 1912, but had only a minimal organizational existence before the foundation of the Irish Free State. Since 1922, ...
( Category: Music May 5,2016 )
Battle Royal by Hugh Bicheno
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Hugh Bicheno [Bicheno, Hugh]

*1 When Calais was finally lost on 1 January 1558 it fell to a night attack that began with the capture of the sluice gates – by that time strongly ...
( Category: England May 3,2016 )
Warfare in the Classical World by John Warry
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:John Warry

■ Hannibal’s Victories Publius Cornelius Scipio, consul in 218 BC, having dispatched his own army into Spain under the command of his brother Gnaeu, returned with exemplary speed to North ...
( Category: Greece May 3,2016 )
The DeLorean Story by Sutton Nick
epub |eng | 2014-12-04 | Author:Sutton, Nick

Chapter 13 Life in the factory and the darker side of Belfast ‘To live the dream’ was a phrase coined by the DeLorean marketing team, but it could equally have ...
( Category: History May 2,2016 )
Waterloo in 100 Objects by Gareth Glover
epub |eng | 2015-08-09 | Author:Gareth Glover

The stallion was reputedly captured in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo and ownership soon transferred to a John Angerstein, the son of a City financier, whose superb art collection ...
( Category: Belgium May 2,2016 )
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Elizabeth Norton [Norton, Elizabeth]

By 5 September, the queen, weakened with fever, was declining; everyone knew that she could not live long. She was calmer, though, and had already asked Thomas for his consent ...
( Category: Great Britain May 2,2016 )
The King's Bed by Don Jordan
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Don Jordan

* The children were: Lady Anne FitzRoy, 1661; Charles FitzRoy, 1662; Henry FitzRoy, 1663; Charlotte FitzRoy, 1664; George FitzRoy, 1665. 13 THEATRICAL RIVALS The year 1668 began with scandal and ...
( Category: Great Britain May 2,2016 )
Versailles by Tony Spawforth
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Tony Spawforth

8. Behind Closed Doors IN THE seventeenth century, when Versailles was built, privacy mattered much less to the French upper classes than it did a hundred years later. On the ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments May 2,2016 )
Battleships of the Bismarck Class by Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke

The following damage to the Tirpitz resulted from 16 hits or near-misses: a near miss to the starboard boiler room aft; a hit on ‘B’ turret; a hit on the ...
( Category: Ships May 2,2016 )
Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Thomas Keightley

Seal of the Templars. * * * * The other writers of that century agree in the account given above. Brompton's authority has been preferred by some modern writers, who ...
( Category: England May 2,2016 )
Clash of Crowns by Mary McAuliffe
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Mary McAuliffe

In the meantime, Richard and his mercenary henchman, Mercadier, had been pressing Philip hard to the south of Paris, in Berry and the Auvergne. This, as well as Henry Hohenstaufen’s ...
( Category: England May 2,2016 )
Britain by Paul Norbury
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Paul Norbury [Norbury, Paul]

This recent process of “devolving power” also includes a change in London, where since 2000 there has been an elected mayor and a separately elected twenty-five-member Assembly (known as the ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions April 30,2016 )
Germany's Last Mission to Japan by Joseph Mark Scalia
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Joseph Mark Scalia [Scalia Mark Joseph]

Commanding the naval contingent to Japan was forty-eight-year-old Gerhard Falcke, a naval construction engineer and electrical welding expert. Upon the conclusion of preliminary POW interrogations, the ONI assessed Falcke as ...
( Category: Japan April 30,2016 )
Countdown To Valkyrie by Nigel Jones
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Nigel Jones [Jones, Nigel]

General Hellmuth Stieff. Hitler at the presentation of new field uniforms, with Stieff in the middle, early summer 1944. Tresckow instantly recognised, on meeting the maimed young colonel, that Stauffenberg ...
( Category: World War II April 30,2016 )

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