Europe
epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Jasper Rees

Hawddamor, glwysgor glasgoed … The less euphonious English version opposite has this down as ‘Greetings, splendid greenwood choir’. I feel like George Borrow bar the small discrepancy that I recognise ...
( Category: Wales March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Close, Frank [Close, Frank]

DAMAGE CONTROL Whereas for Gil’s friends in Abingdon this was a spy story come true, for others the implications of Pontecorvo’s defection were more serious. When news of Pontecorvo’s disappearance ...
( Category: Russia March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Juliet Nicolson

10 Release Early Winter 1919 The skies were filling with spectacular and record-breaking machines. Alcock and Brown’s recent crossing of the Atlantic by air in June was still on everyone’s ...
( Category: England March 21,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

Next morning, in Austria, there were notices up in every station announcing general mobilisation. The trains were full of recruits who had just joined up, flags waved, music boomed out, ...
( Category: Authors March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Marquis de Sade [de Sade, Marquis]

1. By point of departure Sade, always on the lookout for signals, or seeing them when they do not exist, is asking the marquise for the key to the code, ...
( Category: France March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:John Mullan [Mullan, John]

In Austen, as in the eighteenth-century novels from which she learned, pre-marital sex happens because a young woman gets into the hands of a rakish man, not because two people ...
( Category: European March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Gyles Brandreth [Gyles Brandreth]

According to the ‘confidential’ paper I have before me, honours are given for ‘outstanding service (not for merely successfully filling a job for a long period)’; ‘it is unusual for ...
( Category: European March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-20 | Author:Ben Macintyre [MacIntyre, Ben]

There were only a few uneasy and unkempt civilians to be seen. Everywhere there were soldiers in worn and torn coats, with tanned faces and thick beards, who went to ...
( Category: World War I March 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Notes Abbreviations CPR Calendar of Patent Rolls ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography PROME Parliament Rolls of Medieval England 1. See, for example, Ashdown-Hill, Royal Marriage Secrets, pp. 70–3. 2. ...
( Category: England March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Wilson

Chapter 7 ‘SHE SEEMETH TO BE VERY EARNESTLY BENT TO PROCEED’ 1581–4 ‘I content myself, Monsieur, that you assure yourself of me as of the most faithful friend that ever ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Penny Lawne [Lawne, Penny]

10 Return to England/ In Sickness and in Health 1371–1376 Alas what should I do, God, and love, if I were to lose the very flower of nobleness, the flower ...
( Category: Wales March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Dean King [King, Dean]

William Richardson With Stopford in the Basque Roads 1808–1809 THIS PASSAGE CONTINUES THE story of William Richardson, who was impressed into the Royal Navy while in Calcutta in 1793. In ...
( Category: Naval March 21,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Kaplan, Philip [Kaplan, Philip]

At the end of a raid, a belt of whisky and a quick bite usually awaited the returning fliers, along with an interrogation on their recent experience. Armorers bringing the ...
( Category: Pictorials March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Niccolò Capponi [Capponi, Niccolò]

This negative portrait notwithstanding, Machiavelli believed that the French would eventually prevail in the Italian struggle. France was the strongest country in Europe: “There is no ruler capable of confronting ...
( Category: Italy March 18,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Charles William Chadwick Oman [Oman, Charles William Chadwick]

Representation Of The Madonna Enthroned. (From a Byzantine Ivory.) (From "L'Art Byzantin." Par Charles Bayet. Paris, Quantin, 1883.) Leo died in 740, leaving the throne to his son, [pg 196] ...
( Category: Greece March 14,2015 )