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Kasztner's Train by Anna Porter
epub |eng | 2007-05-26 | Author:Anna Porter [Porter, Anna]

(22) Still Trading in Lives I had no confidence in Horthy or those around him. They were all lacking in courage… We had only one chance to gain time and ...
( Category: Holocaust May 27,2015 )
An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Nick Bunker [Bunker, Nick]

THE FIRST CONFRONTATION By the end of October, some observers already feared that when the tea arrived, a mob would board the ships and either burn their cargo or throw ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding May 27,2015 )
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Charlotte Gordon [Gordon, Charlotte]

Suicide had become more than an escape from suffering; it was a leap into eternal life. Feeling firm in her convictions and holding on to her vision of immortality, she ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )
Spitfire Women of World War II by Whittell Giles
epub |eng | 2007-05-26 | Author:Whittell, Giles [Giles Whittell]

13 Over Here Several months after disembarking at Liverpool – possibly on 27 March 1943, but she was coy about it in her letters home out of respect for the ...
( Category: Aviation May 27,2015 )
In Defence of the Terror by Sophie Wahnich
epub |eng | 2012-07-11 | Author:Sophie Wahnich [Wahnich, Sophie]

* * * 3 THE TERROR AS A LONG CYCLE OF VENGEANCE: TOWARDS A REINTERPRETATION OF THE LAWS OF TERROR * * * The establishment of the revolutionary tribunal on ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
Unknown Seas: The Portuguese Captains and the Passage to India by Watkins Ronald
mobi |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Watkins, Ronald [Watkins, Ronald]

In every other respect Vasco was provided with the very best Portugal had to offer to make the expedition a success. No expense was spared, so there must have been ...
( Category: Europe May 27,2015 )
The Secrets of Station X by Michael Smith
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Michael Smith [Michael Smith]

By the end of 1941, the increase in the numbers of people had brought a dramatic improvement in the social life. Phoebe Senyard spent her first Christmas of the war ...
( Category: General May 27,2015 )
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-04 | Author:Robert Macfarlane [Macfarlane, Robert]

V Eawl-leet – north Lancashire noun, variant pronunciation of owl-light, meaning ‘twilight, dusk’. Late in the afternoon, as dark was falling, Richard and I left the cottage and walked back ...
( Category: Historic May 27,2015 )
Georgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Lucy Inglis [Inglis, Lucy]

Scotland Yard served as the way in and out of 4 Whitehall Place, which was the police headquarters after the formation of the force, in 1829. By the late Victorian ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )
Admiral Collingwood by Max Adams
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Max Adams [Adams, Max]

9 Giddy with the multiplicities 1806–1808 Collingwood’s head was spinning too, and with good reason. In October 1805 he had been second-in-command to Nelson at a victory which was (and ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
The Spencer Family by Spencer Charles
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Spencer, Charles [Spencer, Charles]

13. Honest Jack Althorp George John’s will was left in the hands of a sole executor, his eldest son, John Charles, now Third Earl Spencer, but best-known to history as ...
( Category: Genealogy May 27,2015 )
The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me by Sofka Zinovieff
epub |eng | 2015-01-26 | Author:Sofka Zinovieff

WINNIE, PRINCESSE DE POLIGNAC READING THE PAPER ON THE PORCH AT FARINGDON NOT LONG BEFORE HER DEATH IN 1943 Among the permanent occupants of ‘the Dorch’ were the two great ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )
The Sun Sword by Michelle West
epub |eng | 2004-01-06 | Author:Michelle West [Michelle West]

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE TELAKAR'S dance was brief and graceful; Nugratz chose power A to make his statement. The winds howled beside him, like the face of a jagged cliff, and he ...
( Category: Epic May 26,2015 )
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Edward Gibbon [Gibbon, Edward]

86 As M. de Valois and the P. Ruinart are determined to change the Mosella of the text into Mosa, it becomes me to acquiesce in the alteration. Yet, after ...
( Category: Rome May 26,2015 )
Our Darkest Day by Patrick Lindsay
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Patrick Lindsay

We marched along the road in single file keeping to the right under cover of the hedge as much as possible – and about five minute intervals between platoons, till ...
( Category: France May 25,2015 )

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