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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust
mobi |eng | 1987-06-17 | Author:Miron Dolot

CHAPTER 15 ONE MORNING, upon reporting as usual to the collective farm labor office for my daily work assignment, I was told that I had to drive the kolhosp chairman ...
( Category: Sociology November 24,2014 )
Fire and Steam by Christian Wolmar
epub |eng | | Author:Christian Wolmar

ELEVEN FIGHTING TOGETHER – RELUCTANTLY The strategic importance of the railways in wartime had been realized as early as 1855 in the Crimean War when the army shipped out 900 ...
( Category: History November 24,2014 )
Christina Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric by Buckley Veronica
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Buckley, Veronica

Christina and Azzolino swiftly became important to each other for reasons apart from their mutual love. She became politically useful to him, and he, in turn, gave her something to ...
( Category: Sweden November 24,2014 )
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Kathryn Harrison [Harrison, Kathryn]

Joan and her army set out for Reims with the dauphin and his retinue on Monday, June 27, 1429. Cravant, Bonny, Lavau, Saint-Fargeau, Coulanges-la-Vineuse, Auxerre, Saint-Florentin, Brinon, Saint-Phal: all the ...
( Category: France November 24,2014 )
Mary Rose by David Loades
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:David Loades [Loades, David]

6 MARY, SUFFOLK & THE KING Suffolk’s marriage to Mary brought about significant changes in his life. Any child born to the couple would have a claim to the throne, ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
A Sweet and Glorious Land by John Keahey
epub |eng | | Author:John Keahey

Southern Basilicata/southern Puglia Chapter 11 Sunlight on Old Stones I arrived about midday. Taranto is a strange and wonderful city high on the inside of Italy’s heel. From the train ...
( Category: General November 24,2014 )
The Boleyns: The Rise & Fall of a Tudor Family by David Loades
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:David Loades [Loades, David]

It could hardly have been a more composed or orthodox departure, and even Chapuys was impressed. The formalities were quickly completed, and her body was committed for burial beside that ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
Head of State by Andrew Marr
epub |eng | 2014-06-01 | Author:Andrew Marr [Andrew Marr]

8 Tuesday, 19 September Referendum Day Minus Two The Campaign What a man. What a leader. Over the weekend, as Whitehall insiders knew, the prime minister had been working flat ...
( Category: Europe November 24,2014 )
Massacre by John M. Merriman
epub |eng | | Author:John M. Merriman

The young Montmartre resident Sutter-Laumann, who had gone to work at the mairie of the Eighteenth Arrondissement the day before, was among those drawing fire near place Clichy. He quickly ...
( Category: France November 23,2014 )
This Boy by Johnson Alan
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Johnson, Alan [Johnson, Alan]

If returning to unlovely North Kensington and the dreaded autumn term at Sloane was dispiriting after the glories of Denmark, I had the new football season to cheer me up. ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
Killers of the King by Charles Spencer
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-07 | Author:Charles Spencer

Peters had been tried alongside the lawyer John Cook, who had mounted a brilliant legal defence that led to awkward questions as to the validity, the procedure and the content ...
( Category: England November 23,2014 )
Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:William Manchester [MANCHESTER, WILLIAM]

Thus the rush of cataclysmic events came down to Tuesday, August 4, 1914, when at midnight Berlin time—11:00 P.M. in London—Grey’s ultimatum to Germany would expire. In Pear Tree Cottage, ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War by Sinclair Anne
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Sinclair, Anne [Sinclair, Anne]

The meeting between Paul and Picasso took place that summer before the end of the First World War. The Rosenbergs had taken a villa in Biarritz, a few hundred yards ...
( Category: France November 23,2014 )
Wheels Within Wheels by Dervla Murphy
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

My dearest Dervla, There is no need to tell you that Charlie Kerins met his death with the greatest possible courage and bravery. I was allowed to visit him on ...
( Category: Travel November 23,2014 )
Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty by Norton Elizabeth
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth [Norton, Elizabeth]

He marryed my mother, a lady bright; That is long sith I saw her with sight; I trust in Iesu [Jesus] wee shall meete with winne, & I shall maintaine ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )

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