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The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933 by Elon Amos
epub |eng | 2013-04-25 | Author:Elon, Amos [Elon, Amos]

Walther Rathenau. The pose in this painting by Edvard Munch suggests pride, power, and hauteur. By permission of the Maerkisches Museum, Berlin; Photo—Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin Rathenau’s vocabulary ...
( Category: Jewish June 6,2014 )
Between Two Evils by Lucyna B. Radlo
epub |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Lucyna B. Radlo

14 Obshchina Soon after our arrival in Regensburg, we were told of a Russkaya obshchina (Russian community center), which was housed in that city in a rented German Gasthaus (restaurant) ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2014 )
School for Barbarians by Erika Mann
epub |eng | 1938-05-31 | Author:Erika Mann [Mann, Erika]

THE STATE YOUTH AT THE CENTER OF THREE concentric circles stands the German child, with no escape, surrounded by the Men in Power. The closest circle is the family; but ...
( Category: World War II June 6,2014 )
spain 1808 by carr
epub |eng | | Author:carr

respectable and solid class than the nouveaux riches of the midcentury. The career of Juan March, who became the richest man in modern Spain, represents the persistence of an earlier ...
( Category: History June 6,2014 )
The Inquisition by Michael Baigent & Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh
epub |eng | 2009-01-23 | Author:Michael Baigent & Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh

Any attempt to dismiss Teresa as a mere neurasthenic or hysteric would be negated by her autobiography and her letters, which display a surprising secular shrewdness, an admirable pragmatism and ...
( Category: Europe June 6,2014 )
Inquisition by Green Toby
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-18 | Author:Green, Toby [Green, Toby]

Santiago de Compostela 1609 IN GALICIA, spiritual heartland of Spain, destination of the great pilgrimages from France and across Spain, all was not well between the two inquisitors. As a ...
( Category: Europe June 6,2014 )
God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Murphy Cullen
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:Murphy, Cullen [Murphy, Cullen]

“Let’s Not Make a Jonah of Him” The long, haunting ordeal of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, one of the premier Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, began a little more ...
( Category: Religious Intolerance & Persecution June 6,2014 )
Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of MAGELLAN by Stefan Zweig
epub, azw3 |eng | 1938-01-31 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

Chapter 8 - Page 173 MUTINY (2 April 1520 - 7 April 1520) Trapped up as they were in Port San Julian, which, though well sheltered, was a gloomy place ...
( Category: Historical June 5,2014 )
La Roja: How Soccer Conquered Spain and How Spanish Soccer Conquered the World by Jimmy Burns
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Jimmy Burns

Herrera expressed his disappointment publicly on behalf of the team—without directly raising the issue of politics, still less blaming Franco. The official rumor mill suggested that this had little to ...
( Category: History of Sports June 1,2014 )
Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Alan Dean Foster [Foster, Alan Dean]

XII WHEN the last drop of blood had dried to a black crust on the cave floor, the refugees gathered together to decide what to do next. Halla was talking ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 1,2014 )
Winter of the World by Ken Follett
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Ken Follett

9 1941 (II) The phone rang on Greg Peshkov’s desk on a hot morning in July. He had finished his penultimate year at Harvard, and was once again interning at ...
( Category: Military May 30,2014 )
A History of Scotland by Neil Oliver
epub |eng | 2009-12-17 | Author:Neil Oliver [Oliver, Neil]

Mary had no such qualms and gamely set out to survey the field for a suitable husband. (This behaviour can only have added to Knox’s rage. While he was almost ...
( Category: Europe May 29,2014 )
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II by Gregory A. Freeman
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-02 | Author:Gregory A. Freeman [Freeman, Gregory A.]

Established in June 1942 as the country revved up for full-scale war with the Axis, the OSS was charged with collecting and analyzing strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs ...
( Category: Europe May 29,2014 )
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I by Miranda Carter
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Miranda Carter [Carter, Miranda]

For George, the new century had brought a few, though hardly momentous, changes. He’d taken up golf, cycling, bridge and the new sine qua non of royal luxury life, cars ...
( Category: Royalty May 29,2014 )
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-15 | Author:Saul Friedländer [Friedländer, Saul]

The total confusion about what was happening to the deportees, from whom nothing was heard directly once they had boarded the transports, reappears in Paris at the end of 1942. ...
( Category: Holocaust May 29,2014 )

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