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Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination by Otto Dov Kulka
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Otto Dov Kulka [Dov Kulka, Otto]

22. 23. 24. The immutable law of the Great Death, the immutable law which recurs in that dream in infinite permutations, which in one place I called ‘the eternal death ...
( Category: Holocaust April 8,2016 )
The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
epub |eng | 2008-04-06 | Author:Andrea Wulf [Wulf, Andrea]

Details of the Endeavour's cabin layout after the alterations. Note Banks's cabin next to the Great Cabin. Once the alterations were complete, Cook sailed the Endeavour from Deptford to Plymouth, ...
( Category: Great Britain April 7,2016 )
Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Norman Lewis [Lewis, Norman]

CHAPTER 9 THE COUNTRY WALK RECOMMENDED at the hospital had to be put off for a few days, for despite what was generally accepted as the collapse of the revolt, ...
( Category: Travel April 6,2016 )
Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox
epub |eng | 2012-12-29 | Author:Brenda Maddox

Rosalind’s Photograph 51 (shown original size) of the B form of DNA, which told Watson that the molecule was a helix. Events then moved fast. The following day, 31 January, ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 3,2016 )
The Duchess of Northumberland's Little Book of Jams, Jellies and Preserves by The Duchess of Northumberland
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-12 | Author:The Duchess of Northumberland

BLANC MANGER FOR ONE THAT IS SICKE Take almondes and beate them verie fine and beate withal rosewater and verie fine suger and straine it thorough a fine clothe. Let ...
( Category: Great Britain April 3,2016 )
In the Name of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-04-02 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy

THE MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN, 48 BC The pretence on both sides of hoping for a negotiated settlement had prevented either leader from overtly massing troops. In previous months Pompey had blithely ...
( Category: Rome April 3,2016 )
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Edna O'Brien

A real Irish lady, I’m longing to call you my own. I’ll not be contented ’Til she has consented To be Mrs Barney Malone. It is a small ward with ...
( Category: Literary April 2,2016 )
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich by Robert K. Wittman & David Kinney
epub |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Robert K. Wittman & David Kinney [Wittman, Robert K.]

An assault gun with the SS Division Totenkopf—the “Death’s Head” Division—speeds through the Soviet Union at the start of Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-136-0882-12/Albert Cursian) ...
( Category: Holocaust April 2,2016 )
SS-Totenkopf: The History of the 'Death's Head' Division 1940–45 (SS Divisional Histories) by Dr. Chris Mann
epub |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Dr. Chris Mann [Mann, Dr. Chris]

( Category: World War II March 26,2016 )
The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore

SCENE 2 Liberator CAST ALEXANDER II, emperor 1855–81, son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt), empress, ‘Marie’ Alexandra, their eldest daughter, ‘Lina’ Nikolai, ...
( Category: European March 24,2016 )
The Future of Nostalgia
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Svetlana Boym [Boym, Svetlana]

The main feature of Berlin in transition is a cohabitation of various nostalgias and a superimposition of Eastern and Western ways of commemoration. Recent postcards of Berlin incorporate the nostalgias ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 23,2016 )
The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It by David A. Bell
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:David A. Bell [Bell, David A.]

7 Days of Glory Today . . . no government would dare say to its nation: Let us go conquer the world. —BENJAMIN CONSTANT, 1813 I wanted to rule the ...
( Category: France March 23,2016 )
Human Rights in Russia by Mary McAuley
epub |eng | | Author:Mary McAuley

Education, education, education At the 2004 conference Korotaev, asking to be forgiven, claimed that the reason so many participants advocated education or enlightenment was that We are the direct descendants ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 21,2016 )
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Ian Buruma

Left to right: Hilary, John, Win, Susan, Wendy, and Roger One man who understood this perfectly was Bernard’s closest friend, Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, who succeeded his father in 1942 ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2016 )
Panzerkrieg: The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Tank Divisions by Peter McCarthy & Mike Syron
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Peter McCarthy & Mike Syron [McCarthy, Peter]

During December 1941, the Germans in Africa were retreating to the west just like their Kameraden in Russia, and yet by the end of January 1942, Rommel was ready to ...
( Category: World War II March 20,2016 )

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