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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Amin Maalouf

9 The Rush for the Nile ÝMy uncle ShÐrkÙh turned to me and said, “YÙsuf, pack your things, we’re going.” When I heard this order, I felt as if my ...
( Category: Islam June 25,2014 )
Armies of Heaven by Jay Rubenstein
epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Jay Rubenstein

Siege warfare as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry—violent but on a small scale (Scala/White Images/Art Resource, NY) Even in the worst cases, however, the small scale of the fortifications would ...
( Category: Europe June 25,2014 )
The Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Thomas F. Madden [Madden, Thomas F.]

Illustration 1. Peter the Hermit leading the First Crusade. Miniature from Egerton Manuscript 1500, f. 45v. © De Agostini/The British Library Board. Illustration 2. Templar riding into battle. Fresco from ...
( Category: General June 25,2014 )
The Dream and the Tomb by Robert Payne
epub |eng | 2000-06-24 | Author:Robert Payne

Three Letters EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER FROM TERENCE, MASTER OF THE TEMPLE, TO ALL COMMANDERS AND BRETHREN OF THE ORDER, FROM TYRE, NOVEMBER 1187 BROTHER TERENCE, known as Grand Master ...
( Category: General June 25,2014 )
The Admiral and the Ambassador by Scott Martelle
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Scott Martelle

The search began in earnest in late June 1899, with a series of letters and inquiries to various French political figures and bureaucrats. Vignaud, a voracious reader of the Parisian ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 23,2014 )
Citizen Emperor by Philip Dwyer
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Philip Dwyer

The king’s appeal met with a limited popular response: 1,400 men joined the Hanseatic Legion as infantry and another 200 as cavalry in the first days of liberation, often supplying ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State June 23,2014 )
The Bombers and the Bombed by Richard Overy
epub |eng | 2014-02-19 | Author:Richard Overy

“Will Germany Crack?”: 1944–45 In February 1944, Heinrich Himmler, appointed minister of the interior in August 1943, in addition to his other offices, announced that “no German city will be ...
( Category: World War II June 23,2014 )
Bradshaw's Handbook (Old House) by Bradshaw George
mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Bradshaw, George [Bradshaw, George]

BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN. Belfast to Newtownards & Downpatrick. Down, a maritime county, bounded east and south by the Irish sea, returns two members. Its surface is extremely irregular; in ...
( Category: Travel June 23,2014 )
The Dictators by Richard Overy
epub |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Richard Overy

The command economies performed the functions of choice and allocation normally associated with the market under liberal capitalism. The consequence of displacing the market was a fundamental restructuring of the ...
( Category: European June 23,2014 )
The Essentials of Business Etiquette by Barbara Pachter
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Barbara Pachter

52. Wine Tales: Don’t Wave Your Hand over the Glass A dining scene from Last Holiday, a 2006 comedy with Queen Latifah, caught my attention recently as I was channel ...
( Category: Etiquette June 23,2014 )
The Crusades 1095-1197 by Jonathan Phillips
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-07-04 | Author:Jonathan Phillips [Phillips, Jonathan]

9 The Frankish rulers of the Levant: Power and succession, c. 1100-74 Two of the most important issues for the rulers of the Latin States to confront were the establishment ...
( Category: Europe June 23,2014 )
Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War by R. M. Douglas
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:R. M. Douglas [Douglas, R. M.]

9 THE WILD WEST Kazimierz Trzciński was one of hundreds of thousands of eager colonists from central Poland who flocked to the Recovered Territories in 1947 in search of fortune. ...
( Category: World War II June 20,2014 )
A Nation on Trial by Norman G. Finkelstein
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Norman G. Finkelstein

Notes Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s “Crazy” Thesis: A Critique of Hitler’s Willing Executioners 1. New York, 1996. 2. The New York Times, 27 March, 2 April, 3 April 1996. The New ...
( Category: Holocaust June 20,2014 )
The History of Work by Richard Donkin
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Richard Donkin

We worked in the huge Buna plant, to which we were herded each morning about 3 a.m. At midday our food consisted of potato and turnip soup, and in the ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations June 20,2014 )
Victims of Yalta by Nikolai Tolstoy
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nikolai Tolstoy

12 THE END OF GENERAL VLASOV On 28 January 1945 it was officially announced in Berlin that the Russian army commanded by General Vlasov was no longer part of the ...
( Category: World War II June 9,2014 )

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