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Dowding's Eagles: Accounts of Twenty-Five Battle of Britain Veterans by Norman Franks
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Norman Franks

The operation was another Circus – Circus No.4 – six Blenheims attacking the docks at Dunkirk. The attackers were 109s from IV/JG51 and I/LG2, which bounced 249, shooting down one ...
( Category: Great Britain October 18,2015 )
Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny
epub |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Gitta Sereny [Sereny, Gitta]

* The Lazarett was nothing but a shell of a small building – about twelve metres by twelve, with a Red Cross painted on the front. There was no roof. ...
( Category: Fascism October 17,2015 )
Man of Misconceptions : The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change (9781101597033) by Glassie John
epub |eng | 2012-10-17 | Author:Glassie, John

15 Philosophical Transactions Three years after the plague subsided in Rome, the Tiber flooded, having the greatest effect on the Jewish ghetto. Alexander VII spent much of his time in ...
( Category: Germany October 17,2015 )
The Falklands War by Martin Middlebrook
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [ Middlebrook Martin]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN May the 25th In an attempt to help with the intense air battle, Admiral Woodward had posted two of his ships, Coventry and Broadsword, as a ‘42–22 combination ...
( Category: Argentina October 17,2015 )
The Yompers by Ian Gardiner
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Ian Gardiner [Gardiner, Ian R]

The rucksacks with our spare rations were flown in at first light so we were not very hungry for very long. However, from now on, men started building up little ...
( Category: Great Britain October 14,2015 )
Bourgeois Frontier by Jay Gitlin
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Jay Gitlin

Mrs. Ramsay Crooks. The marriage of Marianne Pelagie “Emilie” Pratte (1806-1863), daughter of Bernard Pratte and Emilie Labbadie, to Ramsay Crooks, right-hand man of John Jacob Astor, in 1825 facilitated ...
( Category: State & Local October 13,2015 )
A History of France from the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Versailles by Davis William Stearns
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Davis, William Stearns [Davis, William Stearns]

CHAPTER XVI. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, AS MASTER OF EUROPE THIS volume is a history of France. It is not a biography of Napoleon. It is not a history of the wars ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
Marie Antoinette: An Intimate History by Clegg Melanie
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Clegg, Melanie [Clegg, Melanie]

‘Madame, We are filled with happiness and venture to think that the last arrangements proposed to us, which we have performed with zeal and respect, are a further proof of ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon by Colin Jones
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Colin Jones

C) PATRIOTISM À L’AMÉRICAINE Despite the failure of the Turgot experiment, the young king still retained goodwill in the country at large – indeed, so unpopular had the Controller-General become ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
Modern France: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Schwartz Vanessa R
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-11 | Author:Schwartz, Vanessa R. [Schwartz, Vanessa R.]

Novel technologies of representation Photography, which made a fledgling appearance in the late 1820s in the experiments of inventor Nicéphore Niépce, became firmly entrenched as a process by Louis Daguerre ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
The French Revolution and Napoleon by Hazen Charles
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-12 | Author:Hazen, Charles [Hazen, Charles]

CHAPTER VI THE DIRECTORY THE Directory lasted from October 27, 1795, to November 19, 1799. It took its name from the form of the executive branch of the Republic, as ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ken Alder

All that remained was to boil down those concatenated results into a single number: the meter. For the next few weeks, each commissioner calculated independently, using his own preferred method. ...
( Category: Geography October 13,2015 )
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Ruth Scurr [Scurr, Ruth]

It was Danton who gave Paris the signal. First he went home to Arcis and settled money on his seventy-year-old mother in case he was killed. Then he came back ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
The Man Behind the Iron Mask by John Noone
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:John Noone [Noone, John]

NOTES 1. Dauger or Danger: traditionally the name has been read as Dauger and that is why, for the sake of convenience, I use that reading here. 2. Blainvilliers: Zachèe ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
Napoleon A Life by Andrew Roberts
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Andrew Roberts [Andrew Roberts]

Once Junot had occupied Lisbon he formally deposed the absent Braganza dynasty and confiscated their property, imposed a ‘contribution’ of 100 million francs and promulgated a constitution which included religious ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )

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