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69 AD: The Year of Four Emperors by Morgan Gwyn
azw3, epub |eng | 2005-11-30 | Author:Morgan, Gwyn [Morgan, Gwyn]

8 The Beginning of the End: Vespasian through August 69 To understand the campaign by the Balkan legions that unseated Vitellius in late December 69, we must deal first with ...
( Category: Rome October 27,2014 )
Laws by Plato
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Plato

BOOK III ATHENIAN: Enough of this. And what, then, is to be regarded as the origin of government? Will not a man be able to judge of it best from ...
( Category: History & Theory October 27,2014 )
Toleration and Other Essays by Voltaire
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Voltaire

EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS (TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF COUNT DE CORBERA) ARTICLE I. ILLUSTRIOUS Romans, it is not the Apostle Paul who has the honour of addressing you. It ...
( Category: Renaissance October 27,2014 )
The Collapse by Mary Elise Sarotte
epub |ara, deu, eng, fra, rus | 2014-09-21 | Author:Mary Elise Sarotte [Sarotte, Mary Elise]

Following Harald Jäger’s decision to open the gates at the Bornholmer Street border crossing on the night of November 9, massive crowds flow through the final barrier gate of the ...
( Category: European October 27,2014 )
A Century of Railway Travel by Atterbury Paul
epub |eng | | Author:Atterbury, Paul

Tavern Car 1949 The first restaurant car was introduced in 1879 and by 1900 restaurant and bar cars, with supporting kitchen cars, were in regular use all over the British ...
( Category: History October 27,2014 )
Young Titan by Michael Shelden
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shelden

XVIII SOUND AND FURY The tall, creamy stucco house at one end of Eccleston Square—Number 33—was in a quiet part of London in those days, a leafy enclave tucked between ...
( Category: Great Britain October 27,2014 )
The Crisis — Complete by Winston Churchill
epub |eng | 2004-10-18 | Author:Winston Churchill [Churchill, Winston]

......................... That same Thursday, when the first families of the city were whispering jubilantly in each other's ears of the safe arrival of the artillery and stands of arms at ...
( Category: Classics October 16,2014 )
London Pride / Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. Braddon
epub |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:M. E. Braddon [Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)]

"At Lady Sarah Tewkesbury's." "So her major-domo swears; but her chairmen, whom I found asleep in the hall, say they set her down at the palace." "At Whitehall?" "Yes, at ...
( Category: British & Irish October 16,2014 )
Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. Blackmore
epub |eng | 2006-06-05 | Author:R. D. Blackmore [Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)]

CHAPTER XXXVIII EVERYBODY'S MASTER The peril of England was now growing fast; all the faster from being in the dark. The real design of the enemy escaped the penetration even ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. Blackmore
epub |eng | 2006-06-05 | Author:R. D. Blackmore [Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)]

CHAPTER XXX INLAND OPINION Whatever may be said, it does seem hard, from a wholly disinterested point of view, that so many mighty men, with swift ships, armed with villainous ...
( Category: British & Irish October 16,2014 )
Star Wars - 198 - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster
epub, mobi |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Alan Dean Foster [Foster, Alan Dean]

VIII AFTER replacing the marrow, the doctor had heat-sealed the bone, then folded muscle, flesh and skin around it to reform. An epidermal flush concluded the operation and assured that ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense October 16,2014 )
A Harvest of Sunflowers by Ruth Silvestre
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Ruth Silvestre [Ruth Silvestre]

A few days later I took another look at the decrepit old cupboard which still leaned against the wall in the new room. I knew that English, proprietary brand paint ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
Secret Lives of the Tsars by Michael Farquhar
epub |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Michael Farquhar [Farquhar, Michael]

* * * *1 While her son disdained all the ceremony and glitter of sovereignty, and opted to live quietly, his haughty, cold, and categorical mother, Dowager Empress Maria, reveled ...
( Category: Russia October 16,2014 )
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Jordan Don & Walsh Michael
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Jordan, Don & Walsh, Michael [Jordan, Don]

stroked all that were brought to him and then put about each of their necks a white ribbon with an angel of gold on it. In this manner His Majesty ...
( Category: Great Britain October 16,2014 )
A History of Britain - Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603 by Schama Simon
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Schama, Simon [Schama, Simon]

So as they emerged from the woods into the sight of the English, the Scots soldiers knelt to pray. Seeing this, amidst general merriment Edward asked his entourage: ‘What! Will ...
( Category: Great Britain October 16,2014 )

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