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Evolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Charlesworth Brian & Deborah Charlesworth
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Charlesworth, Brian & Deborah Charlesworth [Charlesworth, Brian]

To illustrate selection of an advantageous mutation, consider the arms race between humans and rats, in which we try to develop rat poisons, and rats evolve resistance. The rat poison ...
( Category: France December 21,2015 )
Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) by Aurelius Marcus
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-05-14 | Author:Aurelius, Marcus [Aurelius, Marcus]

24. Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it. 25. So other ...
( Category: Greek & Roman December 20,2015 )
Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II by Niall Barr
epub, azw |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Niall Barr [Barr, Niall]

While Baytown appeared a relatively straightforward operation, Eisenhower always recognised that not only was Avalanche a more risky venture but that the US Fifth Army was something of an unknown ...
( Category: Treaties December 20,2015 )
Churchill : The Unexpected Hero by Churchill; The Unexpected Hero
epub |eng | 2005-12-19 | Author:Churchill; The Unexpected Hero

SIX The Making of a Hero, 1939–1945 On 15 March 1939 German troops marched into Prague and the Czechoslovak state ceased to exist. The moral case for the Munich agreement––that ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
Churchill Unexpected Hero by Paul Addison
mobi |eng | 2005-01-13 | Author:Paul Addison

So long frustrated, the two great ambitions of Churchill’s youth–to be a military hero and a hero of democracy––had come together in a blaze of glory in his sixty–sixth year. ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Russell

* * * Things I’ve learned this month: Denmark shuts down in July Holidays are good for you, but stay away too long and you’re dicing with divorce …which is ...
( Category: General December 19,2015 )
Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae, and the Invasion of the East by Gareth C Sampson
epub |eng | 2008-02-20 | Author:Gareth C Sampson

In reality, Crassus and his army were heading along a main caravan route which led towards the Belikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates, which would have been swollen with ...
( Category: Rome December 18,2015 )
The Faithful Executioner by Joel F. Harrington
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:Joel F. Harrington

A dastardly ambush of an innocent traveler by two robbers. Note the glee of the perpetrators and the fear of the victim (1543). As in broadsheet accounts of crime, Frantz’s ...
( Category: Germany December 18,2015 )
The 900 Days by Harrison Salisbury
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Harrison Salisbury [Harrison E. Salisbury]

In these conditions to talk of mounting a counteroffensive was impossible. The best Voroshilov had been able to do was to carry out local counterattacks. Voroshilov’s presentation was accurate. It ...
( Category: Asian December 18,2015 )
The Auschwitz Kommandant by Barbara Cherish
epub |eng | 2010-12-17 | Author:Barbara Cherish [Barbara U. Cherish]

Childhood fantasies and Stories told Were of Angels and Cherubs to behold, These Angelic forms with extended wings Forever back to my childhood brings, These words still echo, so few ...
( Category: Fascism December 18,2015 )
The Western Front 1915 by Peter F Batchelor
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Peter F Batchelor

Battle of Festubert After sixty hours – the longest artillery bombardment of the war to date – the battalion, having moved up to its assembly positions during the night, prepared ...
( Category: Veterans December 17,2015 )
The First Day on the Somme by Martin Middlebrook
epub |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [Middlebrook, Martin]

As the morning drew to a close, the battlefield lost some of the noise and violence of the early, intense fighting. Where an attack had been successful, the troops rested ...
( Category: World War I December 17,2015 )
Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )
Eminence by Blanchard Jean-Vincent
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Blanchard, Jean-Vincent [Blanchard, Jean-Vincent]

Chapter 8 War (1635–1637) In the busy morning hours of May 19, 1635, the guards at Brussels’s Hau gate witnessed a curious spectacle. A proud-looking man arrived on horseback, wearing ...
( Category: France December 16,2015 )
Rick Steves Rome 2016 by Rick Steves & Gene Openshaw
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Rick Steves & Gene Openshaw

Nave Mosaics The church contains some of the world’s best-preserved mosaics from early Christian Rome. If the floodlights are on, those with good eyesight or binoculars will enjoy watching the ...
( Category: General December 16,2015 )

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