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Pirates: A History by Travers Tim
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Travers, Tim [Travers, Tim]

7 Death to the Pirates In the western world of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and along the coasts of the Americas, government forces were engaged in a concentrated campaign of ...
( Category: History December 27,2014 )
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Cornelius Ryan

On the flagship Augusta lying off the American beaches, Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley plugged his ears with cotton and then trained his binoculars on the landing craft speeding toward ...
( Category: World War II December 27,2014 )
Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London by Jones Nigel
epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Jones, Nigel [Jones, Nigel]

CHAPTER ELEVEN FALLEN FAVOURITES THE RELEASE FROM the Tower of Elizabeth and the Dudley brothers, along with genuine conspirators such as Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, was less the result ...
( Category: England December 27,2014 )
The Anne Boleyn Collection II: Anne Boleyn & the Boleyn Family by Ridgway Claire
epub |eng | 2013-09-22 | Author:Ridgway, Claire [Ridgway, Claire]

Figure 20 - St. Peter & St. Paul, Salle, Norfolk That all sounds rather far-fetched, but reputable historian Retha Warnicke5 also mentions witchcraft in her book on Anne. Warnicke writes ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Thief-Taker Hangings by Aaron Skirboll
epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Aaron Skirboll

XIV The Trial of Jack Sheppard Sheppard, the notorious housebreaker, who lately escaped from the New Prison and was retaken by Jonathan Wild and committed to Newgate, attempted to escape ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction December 27,2014 )
Secrets My Mother Kept by Hardy Kath
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-10 | Author:Hardy, Kath [Hardy, Kath]

27 My Secret Sister We had the phone connected when I was about seventeen and it had been a revelation. No more going to the phone box! Aunty was wary ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Christmas in the Trenches by Alan Wakefield
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Alan Wakefield

Christmas 1917 I send to all ranks of the Navy and Army my hearty good wishes for Christmas and New Year. I realize your hardships patiently and cheerfully borne and ...
( Category: World War I December 27,2014 )
Blood on the Tracks: A History of Railway Crime in Britain by Brandon David & Brooke Alan
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Brandon, David & Brooke, Alan [Brandon, David & Brooke, Alan]

Found: Body in a Tunnel The original Merstham Tunnel was built for the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1839. A new tunnel was built in 1899 alongside and ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva: The Eighteenth Century Gin Craze by Dillon Patrick
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Dillon, Patrick [Dillon, Patrick]

* * * It didn’t seem to put them off. Three months into prohibition, the gin was still flowing. And if reformers and politicians spent Christmas looking for signs of ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Vanished Smile by R.A. Scotti
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:R.A. Scotti [SCOTTI, R.A.]

While Leonardo ventured off to Milan, Lisa Gherardini stayed close to home. She must have been pretty and precocious, because just before her sixteenth birthday, she vaulted up the social ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions December 27,2014 )
All in One Basket by Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire
epub |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire [Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire]

The Organ Recital When two or three old people are gathered together in the name of lunch, you can be sure of the subject of conversation to start the ball ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Princesses by Flora Fraser
epub |eng | 2004-12-26 | Author:Flora Fraser

12 Passion Princess Amelia’s passion for General Fitzroy continued to rage, her open assertions of it causing difficulties in a household where feelings might run deep but were customarily confided ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Krueger's Men by Lawrence Malkin
epub |eng | 2008-03-23 | Author:Lawrence Malkin [MALKIN, LAWRENCE]

As the pressure of producing more pounds slacked off, and apprehension rose about progress toward acceptable replicas of dollars, the prisoners amused themselves and even satirized their jailers in a ...
( Category: Holocaust December 27,2014 )
Bringing Them Up Royal: How the Royals Raised their Children from 1066 to the Present Day by Cohen David
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Cohen, David [Cohen, David]

6 Victoria, Albert and the Dangers of Great Expectations (1821–63) George III’s fourth son, Edward, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn, played just a small part in the dramas of ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Kings and Castles by Morris Marc
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Morris, Marc [Morris, Marc]

10. The Best of Kings, the Worst of Kings: A Reassessment of Edward I On an otherwise unremarkable building opposite Holborn tube station, some five or six storeys above the ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )

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