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Exorcising Hitler by Frederick Taylor
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Frederick Taylor

At lunchtime today we were photographing a [German] family cooking their lunch on campfires in dixies on the blitzed main stair-case of the Palace of Justice at Cologne – one ...
( Category: Germany April 5,2015 )
White Boots & Miniskirts by Jacky Hyams
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:Jacky Hyams

CHAPTER SEVEN THE ’60S ARE OVER A large house on Islington’s Liverpool Road where a New Year’s Eve party is in full swing. People drift from room to room, voices ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Helen Rappaport

In the summer of 1918, the road out to the Koptyaki Forest – a dense area of ancient birch and pine forest nine miles north-west of Ekaterinburg – would take ...
( Category: Russia April 5,2015 )
A Magnificent Obsession: The Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Eleven ‘A Married Daughter I Must Have Living with Me’ In the spring of 1863 the British public resolutely shook off its gloom and enjoyed a few days of ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Judith Flanders

Adelaide Bartlett had a background that sounds suspiciously like that of a penny-dreadful heroine. Some contemporary crime historians have suggested that she was the illegitimate daughter of a son of ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )
Nancy Mitford by Nancy Mitford
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Nancy Mitford

9 NANCY PAID ANNUAL visits to her parents who had chosen to live apart in their old age—Lord Redesdale in a cottage at Otterburn, Northumberland, and Lady Redesdale at lonely ...
( Category: France April 5,2015 )
Unsolved London Murders by Jonathan Oates
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-19 | Author:Jonathan Oates

CHAPTER 12 Did Frederick Field Kill Annie Upchurch? 1931 There was no doubt that this case was going to be a bit of a stinker. As Spilsbury’s first biographer noted, ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )
The City of Falling Angels by Berendt John
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-09-25 | Author:Berendt, John [Berendt, John]

Friends of Olga’s, their suspicions already aroused, became alarmed when the episode of the missing papers occurred. Several people called Mary de Rachewiltz and implored her to come down to ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir (John MacRae Books) by Hilary Mantel
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-01 | Author:Hilary Mantel

Now that Grandad was retired, he had more time for testing me on spellings. First every day he oversaw my dinner, indulging me—take that piece of the loaf, it is ...
( Category: European April 5,2015 )
The Woman from Hamburg by Hanna Krall
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Hanna Krall

16 His conversations with his father, conducted in his maximum security cell, ended in a silence behind which Stefan W. could feel a stubborn, unreconciled disapproval. At first this had ...
( Category: Holocaust April 5,2015 )
Feckers by John Waters
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Waters

30 Ian Paisley Once, back in the 1970s, Paisley boasted of how John Hume had once turned to him in frustration and said, ‘Paisley, you’re just an Ulster Protestant.’ ‘I ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Isabel Fonseca

A Kalderash girl from Sintesti, Romania, 1994. Her back-tied head scarf and gold coins show that she is married. (photo credits 4.5) A hundred yards up a climbing dirt path ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 5,2015 )
The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago by Jacky Hyams
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Jacky Hyams

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UPPERS AND LOWERS The innate snobbery of many of the upper servants – governesses, for some reason, can be particularly snobbish towards the lowers, perhaps because they are ...
( Category: Class April 5,2015 )
The Pope Who Quit by Jon M. Sweeney
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Jon M. Sweeney

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 April 5,2015 )
The Victorian City by Judith Flanders
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Judith Flanders

A City chophouse, fitted out with standard booth-style seating, or ‘boxes’, as they were known. The waiter looks anxious to serve: he was not an employee, but instead he paid ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )

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