Europe
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:David M. Gwynn [Gwynn, David M.]

The Gracchi Tiberius Gracchus (born c. 163 BC) came from the Republic’s highest nobility. His father of the same name twice held the consulship and his mother was Cornelia, the ...
( Category: Rome January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-09-07 | Author:Richards, Julian D. [Richards, Julian D.]

* * * Nonetheless, although Viking Age England was thriving, the Vikings themselves have been hard to find. The relative scarcity of identifiable burials of a Scandinavian character in England ...
( Category: Scandinavia January 10,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Andrew Nagorski [Nagorski, Andrew]

Truman Smith, who had been the first American official to meet Hitler, returned to Berlin in 1935 for a second tour, this time as the senior military attaché. It wasn’t ...
( Category: World War II January 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:William Morris [Morris, William]

"I am called the Wild–thing Glorious, and alone I wend on the earth." * * * * * "What master hath taught thee of murder?—Thou hast wasted Fafnir's day." "I, ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-03 | Author:Sienkiewicz, Henryk [Sienkiewicz, Henryk]

Chapter XXXIV Ok a certain calm night a band of horsemen, about twenty in number, moved along the right bank of the Valadinka in the direction of the Dniester. They ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

Chapter VII Dick Makes Himself Useful The effect of Geoffrey's incidental allusions to Mr. Shiner was to restrain a considerable flow of spontaneous chat that would otherwise have burst from ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:James Stephens

Chapter V Friday This morning there are no newspapers, no bread, no milk, no news. The sun is shining, and the streets are lively but discreet. All people continue to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-06 | Author:Wood, James A.

For the Army Group High Command, The Chief of General Staff, Speidel TO C.-IN-C. WEST, AUGUST 7, 1944 Below is submitted an extract from a report from 7th Army H.Q. ...
( Category: World War II January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Mike Rapport [Rapport, Mike]

6. Public bonfires of British contraband, like this one in Amsterdam in 1812, were aimed at reinforcing Napoleon’s blockade of Europe, but they also appalled mercantile communities already suffering from ...
( Category: France January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-08 | Author:Martin Loughlin

3. John Redmond, leader of the Irish party, and Home Rule, 1911 (p. 71) support in Ireland, to achieve through parliamentary means what it had been seeking since 1885 contributed ...
( Category: European January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Slack, Paul [Slack, Paul]

The sufferings of the illiterate majority can only be glimpsed indirectly, but those who were literate found ways of expressing their feelings, particularly about the death of children. An early ...
( Category: Infectious Disease January 6,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe & Restall, Matthew [Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe]

To pass as a conquistador, Catalina de Erauso had to act out the conquistador stereotype to a degree that parodied it; the conquistador par excellence. Trouble finds Erauso wherever she ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries January 6,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Richard Toye [Toye, Richard]

IV Menzies was no lone critic, however. The war was not going well and Churchill had to work constantly to maintain his position in Parliament. The German invasion of the ...
( Category: Great Britain January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Margaret MacMillan [MacMillan, Margaret]

GERMANY COULD MANAGE without Italy, and in the event did, but in the last decade before the Great War it badly needed to hang on to Austria-Hungary. In spite of ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Dennis E. Showalter [Showalter, Dennis E.]

PART III THE BLOOD-SWOLLEN GOD 7 The Province of Uncertainty I On a map, the advance of the Russian 2nd Army was a deadly thrust. An attack northwest towards the ...
( Category: World War I January 6,2016 )