Europe
epub |eng | 2010-01-20 | Author:Foot, John [Foot, John]

Re-inventing football coverage and subverting the genre. From Bar Sport to Mai Dire Gol ‘The first transmission in Italy to really take the piss out of the world of football’11 ...
( Category: Italy December 1,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-11-11 | Author:David Stafford [STAFFORD, DAVID]

In the vanguard of British forces moving up into Schleswig-Holstein and pushing the last Nazi government ever further north was commando Bryan Samain. Having crossed the Elbe, his brigade moved ...
( Category: World War II December 1,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-21 | Author:John MacLeod

8 ‘A PICTURE OF HEART-RENDING TRAGEDY …’ He was John Bowman; he was a young soldier from Clydebank, and he had – this mid-March weekend in 1941 – just won ...
( Category: Scotland November 30,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Despina Stratigakos

Fig. 56. May 30, 1937, cover of the New York Times Magazine. On May 30, 1937, the cover of the New York Times Magazine featured a large and stunning photograph ...
( Category: Germany November 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-23 | Author:George Plimpton & Jean Stein [George Plimpton and Jean Stein]

Edie and Gerard Malanga in the torture sequence, Vinyl, March, 1965 I worked on getting rid of characters. Andy had said, “Get rid of plot.” Of course, Samuel Beckett had ...
( Category: England November 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-26 | Author:Ian Knight [Knight, Ian]

‘Lightning, lightning of heaven’, he called, ‘it glitters and it shines; the sun, the sun of the Zulus, it consumes all!’ It was a quick-witted retort, seizing on the apparent ...
( Category: Great Britain November 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Bill Buford [Buford, Bill]

DAWES ROAD, FULHAM I was reading the morning newspapers in the coffeehouse in Ober Sankt Veit. I can still feel the indignation that overwhelmed me when I took hold of ...
( Category: Essays November 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Saul David [David, Saul]

At the end of April 1842, shortly after the replacement of Prince Albert by General Sir Arthur Clifton as colonel of the regiment, the 11th Hussars was relieved of the ...
( Category: England November 27,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Farrell, Joseph P. [Farrell, Joseph P.]

( Category: Fascism November 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-07 | Author:Service, Robert

29. THE LEAVING OF AFGHANISTAN Strange as it may seem, questions about East Germany, Hungary and even Poland cropped up little in the talks between America and the Soviet Union. ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Michael K. Jones

Alien they seemed to be: No mortal eye could see The intimate welding of their later history. How their collision happened will be the surprising part of the story. Few ...
( Category: England November 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

Over a decade after the Treaty of Alliance was signed, in the early days of the French Revolution, a forlorn Louis XVI would answer a letter from his Indian ally ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Graves, Donald E.

Training Company: 500 men (75% ‘Magen’ personnel) all aged over 35 Convalescent Company: Approximately 150 men During the preceding few months, personnel of these companies underwent a fairly thorough training ...
( Category: Germany November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-08 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

Five The Knights The knight is the last piece to place on the chessboard, for knights, as we think of them, in shining armor, were unknown in the North in ...
( Category: Scotland November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:King, M & Hitler, Adolf [King, M]

Quisling sought to safeguard the neutrality of Norway by informing Hitler of British plans to wage war upon Germany by occupying Scandinavian territory. After the war, Quisling was tried for ...
( Category: Germany November 23,2015 )