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Oscar Wilde by André Gide
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:André Gide

III AS SOON AS HE LEFT PRISON, OSCAR WILDE CAME BACK to France. At Berneval, a quiet little village in the neighborhood of Dieppe, a certain Sebastian Melmoth took up ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )
The English by Jeremy Paxman
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Jeremy Paxman

By preserving the ruins, the National Trust feeds this belief that the worst is yet to come. Of course, the millions who visit historic houses and gardens have a gentle, ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )
Irish History Compressed by Bruce Gaston
epub |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Bruce Gaston [Gaston, Bruce]

Trouble in Northern Ireland In politics, there was a thawing of relations with Northern Ireland. Seán Lemass held a series of meetings with his counterpart, Terence O’Neill — the first ...
( Category: Europe January 26,2015 )
When Paris Went Dark : The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Rosbottom Ronald C
mobi |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Rosbottom, Ronald C. [Rosbottom, Ronald C.]

Finally, a coup de théâtre: on September 23, a small team managed to assassinate, in the cozy, German-preferred 16th arrondissement, General Dr. Julius Ritter, the head in Paris of the ...
( Category: Jewish January 26,2015 )
When Paris Went Dark : The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 (9780316365987) by Rosbottom Ronald C
epub |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Rosbottom, Ronald C.

Finally, a coup de théâtre: on September 23, a small team managed to assassinate, in the cozy, German-preferred 16th arrondissement, General Dr. Julius Ritter, the head in Paris of the ...
( Category: Jewish January 26,2015 )
The Makers of Scotland by Tim Clarkson
epub |eng | 2015-01-24 | Author:Tim Clarkson [Clarkson, Tim]

The Rise of the Picts Ecgfrith inherited from his father not only the kingship of Bernicia but that of Deira too. With the resources of a unified Northumbria at his ...
( Category: Scotland January 26,2015 )
Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson
epub, mobi |eng | 1964-01-24 | Author:Snorri Sturluson [Snorri Sturluson]

Chapter 144. The King Proceeds South along the Land with His Fleet But now we shall tell about the happenings touched on before, namely King Óláf’s sailing with his fleet ...
( Category: Medieval January 25,2015 )
A Short History of the Troubles by Brian Feeney
epub |eng | 2014-01-18 | Author:Brian Feeney [Brian Feeney]

7. Ballots and Bombs, 1986–1992 The years immediately following the Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) were a time when the communities in the North of Ireland operated more than ever in two ...
( Category: Great Britain January 23,2015 )
Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan
epub |eng | | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

CHAPTER NINE Transylvanian Voices It is on the plain that the regime really sank its teeth into the population. As in the Middle Ages, the mountains provided a measure of ...
( Category: General January 23,2015 )
Life in the Victorian Asylum: The World of Nineteenth Century Mental Health Care by Mark Stevens
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Mark Stevens [Stevens, Mark]

Entertainments The social side of life in the asylum is constantly promoted to the patients. Association is an important skill and easily tested in work and play, so we try ...
( Category: Great Britain January 20,2015 )
History Of Europe by Gordon Kerr
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Gordon Kerr [Kerr, Gordon]

The Thirty Years’ War The Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), a conflict about religion, fought in Germany by mercenary armies, involved most of the European powers and bankrupted a great many ...
( Category: Europe January 19,2015 )
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by Fernand Braudel
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Fernand Braudel

The ‘Balkanization’ of the Middle East The map of the Middle East had become extremely complicated. The simultaneous decline of Egypt and Mesopotamia and the collapse of the Hittite Empire ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 19,2015 )
The Queen: History in an Hour by Sinead Fitzgibbon
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sinead Fitzgibbon [Fitzgibbon, Sinead]

Settling into a Routine Aside from the sometimes fractious relationship with Margaret, and in stark contrast to the beginning of her reign, the latter years of 1950s were relatively free ...
( Category: Great Britain January 18,2015 )
1914 History in an Hour by Rupert Colley
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Rupert Colley [Colley, Rupert]

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary also planned on a dual offensive: one against Serbia (after all, it was their fight against Serbia that had set the whole conflict off) and the other against ...
( Category: World January 18,2015 )
Love and Friendship by Austen Jane
azw, epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Austen, Jane [Austen, Jane]

"Lord! No! (cried I) I think them terribly plain!" "Plain! (replied He) My dear Susan, you cannot really think so! Why what single Feature in the face of either of ...
( Category: Victorian January 17,2015 )

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