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The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern
epub |eng | 2016-04-28 | Author:Paul Strathern [Strathern, Paul]

17 The Bonfire of the Vanities PIERO DE’ MEDICI, now known as Piero the Unfortunate, has been harshly judged by history; and his weakness of character is said to have ...
( Category: Italy April 30,2016 )
The Comfort Women by George Hicks
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:George Hicks

As in many war crimes trials, the court proceedings essentially became a simple ratification of the findings of earlier investigations. They were in any case something of a legal hybrid, ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2016 )
Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:Nancy Mitford

The answers seem to have been satisfactory and the Venetian was decorated with the new order Pour le Mérite, which was exclusively for Prussian subjects. His title of Count had ...
( Category: Germany April 29,2016 )
The Pity of War by Miranda Seymour
epub |eng | | Author:Miranda Seymour

PART TWO From Versailles to the Verge of War (1919–40) 18 LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (1919–23) The challenge facing the modest and quietly spoken Friedrich Ebert as the first president ...
( Category: European April 29,2016 )
The People by Selina Todd
epub |eng | 2014-02-23 | Author:Selina Todd [Selina Todd]

11 Working-Class Heroes IN OCTOBER 1957 Margaret Forster began a history degree at Somerville College, Oxford. She came from a council estate in Carlisle: her father was a factory worker; ...
( Category: Great Britain April 29,2016 )
Berlin on the Brink by Daniel F. F. Harrington
epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:Daniel F. F. Harrington

CHAPTER 10 “Lieber Pomm als ‘Frau komm!’ ” In addition to being a diplomatic struggle between East and West, the Berlin blockade was a political competition conducted in the streets ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2016 )
A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500 by John M. Riddle & Winston Black
epub |eng | 2016-04-27 | Author:John M. Riddle & Winston Black

( Category: Europe April 29,2016 )
Victory in Italy by Doherty Richard
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Doherty, Richard

Notes 1. Belogi & Guglielmi, op. cit., p.142; Jackson, op. cit., pp.267–8; Blaxland, op. cit., pp.259–60. 2. NA, WO170/5059, war diary 2/5 Queen’s. 3. Blaxland, p.259. 4. NA, WO170/5060, war ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
Death on the Don: The Destruction of Germany's Allies on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 by Jonathan Trigg
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Jonathan Trigg [Trigg, Jonathan]

Air accident On the same day as this last entry, István Horthy, eldest son of Hungary’s Regent Miklos Horthy, died at the Alexeyevka airbase when his Hejja crashed due to ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
The Stories of English by David Crystal
epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:David Crystal [CRYSTAL, DAVID]

Some further examples are given on p. 326. It remains a lexicological puzzle why some words were accepted and some rejected. We do not know how to account for the ...
( Category: England April 25,2016 )
The Tudor Tutor by Lisa Graves
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Lisa Graves

The new couple shared a love of dancing and reading. There’s no reason to believe they didn’t genuinely enjoy each other’s company. Although Henry was immense by then, this wasn’t ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2016 )
Black Dragon River by Dominic Ziegler
epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Dominic Ziegler

CHAPTER 9 52°21.7' N 127°31.0' E The narrative of the European conquest and settlement of new lands comes everywhere now with acknowledgment of guilt and open shows of contrition. Except ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
The Penguin History of Europe by J. Roberts
epub |eng | 2008-11-30 | Author:J. Roberts

A NEW ABUNDANCE Between 1815 and 1848, and again between 1871 and 1914, Europe outside the Balkans enjoyed unprecedentedly long periods of virtually undisturbed peace. War, with its accompaniments of ...
( Category: Cultural April 23,2016 )
And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future by Yanis Varoufakis
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Yanis Varoufakis [Varoufakis, Yanis]

IMPOTENCE It is 2011. The contagion of default and collapse is spreading via the common currency from country to country. The minister of finance of a major European nation, with ...
( Category: European April 23,2016 )
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
epub |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:E. P. Thompson [Thompson, E. P.]

Within two months his opinion had changed. There were three reasons. First, he received reports both of the ‘Black Lamp’ and of secret trade union organization, which were more circumstantial, ...
( Category: England April 22,2016 )

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