Europe
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Malachy McCourt [McCourt, Malachy]

The valley’s hushed and white with snow The Land of Derry What is it about Derry or Londonderry to put an air to? The town maintains historic political implications, even ...
( Category: Folk & Traditional September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Walling

9 THE SUFFOLK It profiteth the lord to have discreet shepherds, watchful and kindly, so that the sheep be not tormented by their wrath, but crop their pasture in peace ...
( Category: Animals September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Michael Asher [Asher, Michael]

10 The 19th Hussars under Lieut. Colonel Percy Barrow dashed up to the square to find it was all over. They had been tasked with skirmishing to the left, but ...
( Category: England September 22,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Moffat, Alistair [Moffat, Alistair]

* * * What Have the Romans Ever Done? There are few more distinguished historians of Wales than John Davies and his excellent one-volume history has no peers. Generously, he ...
( Category: Scotland September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Benjamin R. Merkle [Merkle, Benjamin R.]

With the battle of Edington won and the army of Guthrum decisively conquered, it would seem that the time for Alfred to begin his celebrations had come. Surely this hard-won ...
( Category: Great Britain September 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Martin Amis

Heavy Industry Soviet industry moved forward, and staggered about the place, like a titanic infant, with every manner of thunderous accident (collisions, explosions), with peasant boys twirling off frozen scaffolding, ...
( Category: Russia September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Ian Buruma [Buruma, Ian]

THIS WAS NOT the way Coubertin chose to read Taine. He was bowled over by Notes on England. In his excitement, he ignored the negative impressions described in the book ...
( Category: European September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Ronald McNair Scott [Ronald McNair Scott]

Bruce had used this raid to test the quality of the resistance he might expect, and having found it wanting he resolved to enlarge the scale of his invasion. Taking ...
( Category: Scotland September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Anna Reid [ANNA REID]

A few weeks later Kravchenko found himself collectivising in person. Eighty young activists were summoned to a pep talk by the local Party committee. Dnipropetrovsk region had fallen behind schedule, ...
( Category: Human Geography September 22,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Gordon Corrigan [Corrigan, Gordon]

Sir John Hawkwood. Painting by artist Paolo Uccello created in 1436, currently displayed at the Duomo in Florence, Italy. A highly competent military commander made redundant by Edward III after ...
( Category: England September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Preston Paul

8 The Sentimental Adventurer: George Steer and the Quest for Lost Causes In early 1938, Martha Gellhorn wrote to her friend and mentor, Eleanor Roosevelt: You must read a book ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yvonne M. Ward

Chapter 8 THE WELCOME FOREIGNER: PRINCE ALBERT TIME AND AGAIN, IT has been observed by biographers how unlike his father Albert was. Born in 1819, Albert was the second son ...
( Category: Great Britain September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Sanjeev Shetty

Scene III For now, Nigel Benn was isolated. The controversial nature of the Eubank–Watson fight and the immediate rematch meant his name wasn’t mentioned as a future opponent for either ...
( Category: Great Britain September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Palmer

Ungern spoke of the necessity of the ‘discipline of the rod’ which had served his military heroes, Frederick the Great and Nikolas I. Nobody was immune from being seized and ...
( Category: Rome September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Laura Quigley

Chapter Seven Declarations of War Many story-tellers criticise Mary as a ‘bad mother’, neglecting her children at Fitzford1, but during Sir Richard’s five-year absence, Mary did try to spend time ...
( Category: Great Britain September 22,2014 )