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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
epub, mobi, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Caroline Elkins [Elkins, Caroline]

No amount of pleading would arouse the sympathy of the headman and his Home Guards to agree to allow the poor woman to go to the farm. Even if her ...
( Category: England August 19,2014 )
Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

If Irwin and his policemen thought Gandhi’s arrest might end their troubles, as it had done in 1922, they were sorely mistaken. Noncooperation intensified over the next ten months. The ...
( Category: India & South Asia August 19,2014 )
The Last Empire by Plokhy Serhii
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Plokhy, Serhii [Plokhy, Serhii]

George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at a press conference after signing the START1 agreement on the reduction of nuclear arsenals. Gorbachev managed to persuade his military to agree to unprecedented ...
( Category: Diplomacy August 18,2014 )
To Lose a Battle by Alistair Horne
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Alistair Horne

Chapter 14 The Break-Out 15 May If our tanks are distinctly superior to those of the enemy, our fighters dominate perhaps even more the enemy air force. Le Temps, 16 ...
( Category: France August 14,2014 )
The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-04 | Author:Alistair Horne

Bon canon, mais ayant un peu trop de recul…2 Washburne wrote, ‘Trochu is dethroned, having remained long enough to injure the cause’, and later added that he had ‘proved himself ...
( Category: France August 14,2014 )
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-06-07 | Author:Robert Macfarlane [Macfarlane, Robert]

11 Roots On pilgrimage — ‘Bees of the Invisible’ — The Rule of Resonance — The Library of the Forest — A demonstration of dominion — The Mask of Henry ...
( Category: General August 14,2014 )
Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty by Mitchell Elizabeth
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Mitchell, Elizabeth [Mitchell, Elizabeth]

In 1884, one could walk down rue de Vigny toward boulevard de Courcelles and hear hammers ringing in the street. In Parc Monceau, children chased pigeons beside the flower beds. ...
( Category: Europe July 31,2014 )
The Alchemyst [Nicholas Flamel 1] by Michael Scott
mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Michael Scott

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Scathach was waiting by the enormous open doors when Sophie and Josh returned to the tree. The pterosaur hopped along behind them, and the other two circled low ...
( Category: Action & Adventure July 31,2014 )
A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 4 by George R. R. Martin
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:George R. R. Martin

SAMWELL Sam stood before the window, rocking nervously as he watched the last light of the sun vanish behind a row of sharp-peaked rooftops. He must have gotten drunk again, ...
( Category: Fantasy July 31,2014 )
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [4] by J. K. Rowling
mobi |eng | 2000-07-15 | Author:J. K. Rowling

The start of December brought wind and sleet to Hogwarts. Drafty though the castle always was in winter, Harry was glad of its fires and thick walls every time he ...
( Category: Fantasy July 31,2014 )
Hill of Squandered Valour by Ron Lock
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Ron Lock

Jubilant Boers wade the Tugela to carry off the abandoned British guns. (With the Flag to Pretoria) A Boer ‘Long Tom’, drawn by oxen, on the way to besiege Ladysmith. ...
( Category: Great Britain July 29,2014 )
Italian Cuisine Cultural History by Alberto Capatti Massimo Montanari
epub |eng | 2003-08-13 | Author:Alberto Capatti, Massimo Montanari [Montanari, Alberto Capatti, Massimo]

diluted soups or thin broths, featuring an entire series of imbricated operations and also requiring the creation of cold, preprepared or quickly prepared dishes. Alphabetical indexing nonetheless enjoyed limited success ...
( Category: Italian July 28,2014 )
Eating for England by Nigel Slater
epub |eng | 2007-07-26 | Author:Nigel Slater [ Slater, Nigel]

Pontefract Cakes Not in fact a cake, but a flat disc, shiny and black as a top hat, flavoured with liquorice and aniseed. According to Laura Mason and Catherine Brown ...
( Category: England July 27,2014 )
A History of the Crusades-Vol 3 by Steven Runciman
epub |eng | 1987-07-14 | Author:Steven Runciman [Runciman, Steven]

Plate I. The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his sons, Henry VI, King of the Romans and Frederick, Duke of Swabia. Plate II. Constantinople from the Asiatic coast. The sea of ...
( Category: Asia July 27,2014 )
A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
mobi, epub | | | Author:Ben Macintyre

See Notes on Chapter 11 12 The Robber Barons When did Aileen Philby, the former store detective, uncover the clues that proved her husband, the Foreign Office high-flier, the doting ...
( Category: Great Britain July 27,2014 )

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