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Letters to the Lost
epub |eng | 2015-04-23 | Author:Iona Grey [Grey, Iona]

21 2011 In Jess’s dream there was a fire. She couldn’t see it because everything was so black, but she knew it was there because she could hear its roar ...
( Category: Historical May 30,2015 )
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble
epub |eng | 2015-05-20 | Author:Antony Beevor [Beevor, Antony]

14 Thursday 21 December By the morning of 21 December, the Kampfgruppe Peiper was in a desperate situation, ‘pocketed without adequate supplies’, as its leader put it. He received a ...
( Category: World War II May 30,2015 )
Fusiliers
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mark Urban [Urban, Mark]

Having awaited the arrival of a reinforcement of several ships under his successor, Lord Howe had sailed from New York on 1 August. His vessels were older and less heavily ...
( Category: Great Britain May 30,2015 )
Men and Women
mobi |eng | | Author:Browning, Robert [Browning, Robert]

Thyrsus: the ivy-coiled staffer spear stuck in a pine-cone, symbol of Bacchic orgy. These, with the other Pagan tokens and pictures, mingle oddly but significantly with the references to the ...
( Category: General May 30,2015 )
Sophist
mobi |eng | | Author:Plato,

* * * SOPHIST by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Theodorus, Theaetetus, Socrates. An Eleatic Stranger, whom Theodorus and Theaetetus bring with them. The younger Socrates, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 30,2015 )
Cratylus
mobi |eng | | Author:Plato,

* * * End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Cratylus, by Plato * * * Cratylus A free ebook from http://manybooks.net/ Cratylus Table of Contents
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 29,2015 )
A Great and Monstrous Thing by Jerry White
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jerry White [White, Jerry]

Tainting from Beggars’: The Business of Pictures Art was one of the great industries of eighteenth-century London. The art took many forms and the artists came in many guises, but ...
( Category: England May 28,2015 )
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Andrew Marr [Marr, Andrew]

61 Devaluation and a Coup Events – dear boy – duly forced the devaluation option into centre stage. Decade by decade, government by government, the impact of energy policy on ...
( Category: European May 27,2015 )
A Cool and Lonely Courage by Susan Ottaway
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Susan Ottaway

CHAPTER 15 Didi Vanishes The day after Jacqueline had returned to England the Stationer circuit was sent a new wireless operator. René Mathieu (Aimé) arrived to take over from Maingard ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
Blitz Kids by Sean Longden
epub |eng | 2012-05-26 | Author:Sean Longden [Sean Longden]

Notes 1. Quoted in Ben Wicks, Waiting for the All Clear (London: Bloomsbury, 1990). 2. Peter Richards, Bombs, Bullshit and Bullets (London: Athena Press, 2007). 3. National Archives WO32/9847. 4. ...
( Category: World War II May 27,2015 )
The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization by Ward-Perkins Bryan
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-22 | Author:Ward-Perkins, Bryan [Ward-Perkins, Bryan]

Patterns of Change There was no single moment, nor even a single century of collapse. The ancient economy disappeared at different times and at varying speeds across the empire. If, ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2015 )
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Tragic, Compelling Story of the Last Tsar and his Family by Massie Robert K
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Massie, Robert K. [Massie, Robert K.]

Despite the huge losses of the previous autumn, the coming of spring 1915 found the Russian army again ready for battle. Its strength, down to 2,000,000 men in December 1914, ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2015 )
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
epub |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:David Edmonds & John Eidinow [Edmonds, David & Eidinow, John]

Fischer off-stage continues to command almost all the attention. In the press, much of it makes for uncomfortable reading. The Washington Post agonizes that “Fischer has alienated millions of chess ...
( Category: Chess May 27,2015 )
Death of Caesar : The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination (9781451668827) by Strauss Barry
epub |eng | | Author:Strauss, Barry

MARCH 17: RECONCILIATION That same day, March 17, the conspirators invited the Roman people to the Capitoline and a large number accepted. Brutus addressed them, speaking, it seems, either in ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2015 )
The Normans and Their World by Lindsay Jack
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Lindsay, Jack [Lindsay, Jack]

Chapter Eleven – Tenures, Fiefs, and Military Organization We now turn to a more detailed examination of what happened in England. Here we can see how a Norman takeover and ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )

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