Europe
epub |eng | | Author:Caitlin Davies

Thomas Burgess was one of seven swimmers, including Annette Kellerman, who in August 1905 attempted to swim the Channel. In 1911 he became the second person to succeed after Captain ...
( Category: England May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-09-03 | Author:Ben Macintyre

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Stowaway Spy CAPTAIN REGINALD SANDERSON Kearon, master of the merchant ship MV City of Lancaster, had spent his war being shot at by German torpedoes. He had taken ...
( Category: World War II May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Seamus Heaney

Get him, take him live or dead, every man fall to. Draw and quarter, pike and spit him, none will blame you. Still the horsemen followed across the north of ...
( Category: British & Irish May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-04 | Author:Vadim Birstein [Vadim J. Birstein]

In September 1939, Meshik was appointed head of the Investigation Unit of the NKVD Main Economic Directorate. At his trial in December 1953, Meshik claimed that he was not responsible ...
( Category: Europe May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Steven Johnson

IT IS POSSIBLE SNOW’S INTENSE ROUND OF QUESTIONING may have, on its own, diminished the spread of the epidemic. We know from Snow’s own account that he spoke with hundreds ...
( Category: Infectious Disease May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Neal Bascomb [Bascomb, Neal]

" Three Saints, what is keeping you?" Admiral Krieger telegraphed to Vishnevetsky at 10:10 A.M., spotting his second in command's squadron heading toward Tendra Harbor without the Potemkin at its ...
( Category: Naval May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Norman Davies [Davies, Norman]

The land from which the Casa Savoia took its name has now belonged to France for more than a century and a half. The départements of Savoie (chef-lieu Chambéry) and ...
( Category: Essays May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-05-24 | Author:Karl Tobien [Tobien, Karl]

Fourteen BUREPOLOM Our introduction to this transitional camp was rough indeed. We were put to work immediately and left to fend for ourselves among the camp’s most violent members. Because ...
( Category: Russia May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Castor, Helen

10 Fear of the fire Joan was ill. She had been a prisoner for ten months. For the last two she had been under interrogation, first in the intimidating public ...
( Category: Women May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Jon M. Sweeney [Sweeney, Jon M.]

12 RIDING ON AN ASS After the papal election of 1294, when the Church authorities came for him, Peter, by then eighty-four years old, must have thought that he would ...
( Category: Europe May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:Anne Applebaum

8. HAVA VOLOVICH Hava Volovich was born in 1916. She worked as a typesetter, then as a newspaper subeditor, in a small Ukrainian town, where she watched friends and family ...
( Category: Russia May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Anthony Pagden [Pagden, Anthony]

II Savages stood on the threshold of a complex history. They existed at the very beginning of human time. It was that, as we have seen, that made them so ...
( Category: World May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Jenny Diski [Diski, Jenny]

There were other versions of changing the world. For readers of Marcuse, even such as Tariq Ali, for example: . . . the long march did not mean “boring from ...
( Category: England May 25,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-06 | Author:Vera Brittain

10 Victor’s long letter had been written on March 24th from a sector near Arras. To-day, as I re-read his realistic phrases, they seem to me to be less infused ...
( Category: World War I May 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Haugen, Peter

Chapter 11 Loving Wisdom: The Rise and Reach of Philosophy In This Chapter Questioning the workings of the universe Crediting the influence of early philosophers Going Greek with Socrates, Plato, ...
( Category: World May 24,2015 )