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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Bertolt Brecht [Brecht, Bertolt]

SERGEANT. There’s a man here we don’t know the name of, but he has to be registered to keep the records straight. He bought a meal from you. Look at ...
( Category: German July 25,2014 )
Fighter-The True story of the battle of England by Len Deighton
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Len Deighton [Deighton, Len]

17 July This fact was demonstrated on a miserable day of rain and cloud when twelve Spitfires of 64 Squadron flying out of Kenley were 'bounced' off Beachy Head. The ...
( Category: England July 25,2014 )
The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas
epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Javier Cercas

PART FOUR ALL THE COUPS OF THE COUP The image, frozen, shows the left wing of the chamber of the Congress of Deputies: on the right are the benches, completely ...
( Category: World July 25,2014 )
100 Facts About British Executions by Eddleston John J
mobi |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Eddleston, John J [Eddleston, John J]

57 – The last woman executed in public was Frances Kidder, hanged at Maidstone on April 2nd, 1868. 58 – Most people believe that the last man executed in public ...
( Category: Great Britain July 25,2014 )
Becoming Queen Victoria by Kate Williams
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-22 | Author:Kate Williams [Williams, Kate]

In November, Parliament reassembled. The Lord Chancellor declared in the House of Lords: “The manner in13 which her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has hitherto discharged her duty in ...
( Category: Great Britain July 23,2014 )
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-05-05 | Author:Jacob Burckhardt

PART FOUR THE DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN Journeys of the Italians Freed from the countless bonds which elsewhere in Europe checked progress, having reached a high degree ...
( Category: Italy July 23,2014 )
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger & Michael Hofmann
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-05-04 | Author:Ernst Jünger & Michael Hofmann

These idyllic positions have the one drawback that one's superior officers like to visit them, which is a great dampener to the cosiness of trench life. That said, my left ...
( Category: World War I July 23,2014 )
A History of the Crusades-Vol 1 by Steven Runciman
epub |eng | 1987-07-14 | Author:Steven Runciman [Runciman, Steven]

Baldwin of Alost Robert of Normandy and Stephen of Blois decided to spend the winter comfortably in Calabria. But Robert of Flanders moved on almost at once to Bari with ...
( Category: Asia July 21,2014 )
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Antony C. Sutton
azw3, epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Antony C. Sutton

Morris Subsequently Morris, in Stockholm, requested disposal instructions for a $10,000 draft deposited in a Stockholm bank. His phrase "[this] has been my only connection with the affair" suggests that ...
( Category: Radicalism July 20,2014 )
Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Carroll Quigley

Lord Irwin's announcement of the Round Table Conference and of the goal of Dominion status, made in India on 31 October 1929, brought a storm of protest in England. It ...
( Category: European July 20,2014 )
The Culture of the Europeans (Text Only Edition) by Donald Sassoon
epub |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Donald Sassoon [Sassoon, Donald]

A Freer Society The panic about mass culture followed almost naturally from the less repressive attitude to censorship which some European governments adopted towards the end of the nineteenth century. ...
( Category: Cultural July 20,2014 )
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess by Weir Alison
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

7 ‘Turning Away the Wrath of God’ At the beginning of June 1381, as John of Gaunt lay at Knaresborough, an army of yeomen and peasants was amassing in Kent ...
( Category: Specific Groups July 19,2014 )
The Marriage Game by Weir Alison
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

1566 In the name of friendship, King Charles had graciously decided to bestow the Order of St Michael – France’s highest order of chivalry – upon two of Elizabeth’s subjects, ...
( Category: Renaissance July 19,2014 )
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII by Weir Alison
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

11 Shall I die without justice? ON THE DAY of Queen Katherine’s funeral, Chapuys noticed Henry paying marked attention to ‘Mrs Semel [sic]’ and giving her ‘very large presents’. During ...
( Category: England July 19,2014 )
Egret by Collins Helen
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Collins, Helen [Collins, Helen]

Chapter 10: The Upper West Side Apartment “Jodi!” Ronald stared, sleepy and amazed, looking at Jodi over the chain still connecting the apartment lock to the doorjamb. For once he ...
( Category: Decorative Arts & Design July 19,2014 )

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