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Blood, Tears and Folly by Len Deighton
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-04 | Author:Len Deighton

Bismarck now had everything he wanted. He looked for stability and was ready to concede the seas to Britain. But in 1888 a vain and excitable young emperor inherited the ...
( Category: Nuclear February 9,2015 )
The People of the Abyss
mobi |eng | 1999-03-01 | Author:Jack London

( Category: Communism & Socialism February 9,2015 )
Hundred Years War Vol 3: v. 3 by Sumption Jonathan
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Sumption, Jonathan [Sumption, Jonathan]

Unknown to the English Council the future of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance on which the southern strategy depended had already become extremely uncertain. In Portugal the war with Castile was proving ...
( Category: France February 9,2015 )
German Destroyers of World War II: Warships of the Kriegsmarine by Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke [Koop, Gerhard]

The end: Z 33 at Wilhelmshaven after the war, flanked by Otto Wünsche (right) and the torpedo boat T 17 (left). Between January and May 1945 1,420,000 individuals were evacuated ...
( Category: Naval February 8,2015 )
Kursk Down by Clyde Burleson
epub |eng | 2008-12-13 | Author:Clyde Burleson [BURLESON, CLYDE]

16 August 2000—0800 Hours—Barents Sea The fourth day dawned with a prediction of more storms. While that was disappointing, spirits rose with the arrival of another DSRV. This was a ...
( Category: History February 7,2015 )
Not I by Joachim C. Fest
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Joachim C. Fest [Fest, Joachim C.]

Father Johannes Wittenbrink, a neighbor and friend of the family, in a photo taken in the 1950s Around this time, I decided on my future profession. In Greek class Dr. ...
( Category: Germany February 6,2015 )
The Spartacus Road by Peter Stothard
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

He wrote on other subjects which scholars have reconstructed from the first discoveries at this palatial seaside villa. Much effort has been devoted to explaining his charred thoughts on sound ...
( Category: General February 6,2015 )
The Ugly Renaissance by Alexander Lee
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Alexander Lee [Lee, Alexander]

THE UGLY: MERCENARIES ON THE EDGE OF MADNESS If condottieri like Sir John Hawkwood and Federico da Montefeltro were bad, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta was the paradigm of all that was ...
( Category: History February 5,2015 )
Van Gogh: A Power Seething (Icons) by Julian Bell
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Julian Bell [Bell, Julian]

Towards the end of his busy summer tangling with pointillism in Asnières, Vincent had met up again with Émile Bernard, whose parents had a house there.36 The brainy ex-Cormon student ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers February 3,2015 )
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
epub |eng | 2007-08-22 | Author:E.M. Berens [Berens, E.M.]

CONSUS. Consus was the god of secret counsel. The Romans believed that when an idea developed itself spontaneously within the mind of an individual, it was Consus who had prompted ...
( Category: Greece February 3,2015 )
Magnifico by Miles J. Unger
epub |eng | 2008-07-27 | Author:Miles J. Unger [Unger, Miles J.]

Despite signs of impending trouble, Lorenzo did not seem entirely displeased with the new state of affairs. From the rubble of the old triple alliance had emerged a new confederation, ...
( Category: Italy January 29,2015 )
The Shakespeare Thefts by Eric Rasmussen
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Eric Rasmussen

(The Drayton mentioned here was Michael Drayton, a friend of Shakespeare’s; John Ward, an early vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, is the source for the anecdotal story of Shakespeare’s death: “Shakespear, Drayton ...
( Category: Shakespeare January 29,2015 )
The Third Horseman by William Rosen
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:William Rosen

CHAPTER EIGHT “She-Wolf of France” 1313–1320 The twelve-year-old who had celebrated the nuptial mass in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1308 had been a girl; a royal princess, to be sure, but still ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture January 29,2015 )
Cavalier by Worsley Lucy
epub |eng | 2008-12-20 | Author:Worsley, Lucy [Worsley, Lucy]

The two armies prepare for battle at Marston Moor They are drawn up on Marston Hill, beyond the road and ditch running east-west between the villages of Long Marston and ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )
Conversations with Stalin by Milovan Djilas
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Milovan Djilas

6 We returned via Kiev, and at our wish and that of the Soviet Government we remained two or three days to visit the Ukrainian Government. The Secretary of the ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism January 29,2015 )

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