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Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II by Best Nicholas
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Best, Nicholas [Best, Nicholas]

15 HITLER GOES TO VALHALLA AT THE CHANCELLERY, they were having a party. While Hitler retired to his room to kill himself, the soldiers in the upstairs canteen were drinking ...
( Category: World War II July 17,2014 )
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family by Higginbotham Susan
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Higginbotham, Susan [Higginbotham, Susan]

to aid and assist us against the queen, her blood adherents and affinity, which have intended and daily doth intend, to murder and utterly destroy us and our cousin, the ...
( Category: Great Britain July 17,2014 )
Art Deco House Styles by Trevor Yorke
epub |eng | 2012-03-18 | Author:Trevor Yorke

FIG 3.3: These houses built in 1935 were designed by Douglas Wood Architects and were part of an exclusive development laid out to the north of the new underground station ...
( Category: Residential July 16,2014 )
Poachers by Tom Franklin
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Tom Franklin

“I wish I knew—cheers—what to tell you.” I laugh. “What I wanted you to tell me was that you and Prissy never do it, either. At least then we’d be ...
( Category: Short Stories July 16,2014 )
How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Joan DeJean

This view of an elegant Parisian café promoted another advantage of street lighting: men and women from across the social spectrum spending an evening socializing in a public venue. French ...
( Category: France July 12,2014 )
chapter_1 by Unknown
epub |deu | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

One of the first things taught to a child is "DO NOT BREAK THE CIRCLE". This has both the internal meaning "don’t go after you own memories and the external ...
( Category: Europe July 10,2014 )
A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial by Hendricks Steve
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:Hendricks, Steve [Hendricks, Steve]

Chapter 7 Flight AVIANO AIR BASE has a history of renditions, although before the kidnapping of Abu Omar they seem to have been only of a leporine kind. On the ...
( Category: Espionage July 9,2014 )
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History (Contemporary Worlds) by Bickerton Ian J
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Bickerton, Ian J. [Bickerton, Ian J.]

The failure to reach an agreement over the West Bank at this time seems all the more tragic, since there were still relatively few settlers (less than 3,000) and they ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine July 8,2014 )
The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black
epub |eng | | Author:Edwin Black

19. Germany Will Crack This Winter * * * TIME was what the Reich needed. When the Reich could no longer pay its obligations, Germany would be bankrupt. That moment ...
( Category: Holocaust July 8,2014 )
Fighting for Christendom - Holy War and the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
epub |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Christopher Tyerman [Tyerman, Christopher]

15. The medieval ideal of the crusader knight. An English illustration from a mid-thirteenth-century psalter; piety and power. As holy war addressed fundamental issues of Christian identity and, it was ...
( Category: Christianity July 8,2014 )
Viking Age England by Julian D Richards
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-27 | Author:Julian D Richards

ANIMALS It is unlikely that the Vikings had much effect upon animal husbandry. There is nothing particularly Scandinavian about the bone assemblage at Coppergate, for example, and nothing to suggest ...
( Category: England July 8,2014 )
Henry V as Warlord by Seward Desmond
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-29 | Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]

One might easily count in the ditch ten or twelve dead to every one alive, who had died so quietly, without call or cry, as if they had died in ...
( Category: Historical July 7,2014 )
The Bourbon Kings of France by Seward Desmond
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]

‘The Suicide of France’ LOUIS XVI (1774–1793) _____________ ‘I should like to be known as “Louis the Serious” ’ No king has been more unfortunate than Louis XVI. Yet had ...
( Category: France July 7,2014 )
The Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Desmond Seward

On Sunday 11 August 1415, a bright sunny day, Henry V and his armada set sail. There was only a slight breeze so the voyage across the Channel took three ...
( Category: European July 7,2014 )
The Last White Rose by Desmond Seward
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Desmond Seward [Seward, Desmond]

All matters there he mars, Clapping his rod in the board, No man dare speak a word: For he hath all the saying without any renaying. He rolleth in his ...
( Category: Great Britain July 7,2014 )

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