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Thames by Peter Ackroyd
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

There was an unusual condition of the weather that materially affected the life and nature of the Thames in previous centuries. The river had a propensity to freeze at the ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
Many Not the Few by Richard North
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Richard North [North, Richard]

It was clear that nerves were raw. There were “many expressions of bitterness” at the apparent impossibility of stopping German raiders from doing what they liked. This issue was “bewildering ...
( Category: Investing March 26,2014 )
Many Not The Few by Richard North
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Richard North

It was clear that nerves were raw. There were “many expressions of bitterness” at the apparent impossibility of stopping German raiders from doing what they liked. This issue was “bewildering ...
( Category: Investing March 26,2014 )
In Danger's Hour by Douglas Reeman
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-04-15 | Author:Douglas Reeman [Reeman, Douglas]

One of Their Own Sub-Lieutenant Tudor Morgan lifted his face from the wheelhouse voicepipe and squinted into the fierce glare. 'Steady on zero-four-five, sir!' Ransome crossed to the opposite side ...
( Category: War March 26,2014 )
The Thirties: An Intimate History by Gardiner Juliet
epub |eng | 2010-01-29 | Author:Gardiner, Juliet [Gardiner, Juliet]

SEVENTEEN Choosing Between Gas Masks and God’s Tasks I believe that Christ was neither meek nor mild, nor frail, but a man magnificently built, tall and strong and that His ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
epub, azw3 |eng | 1937-03-07 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

PART TWO 8 The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear. In the earlier chapters of this book ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 26,2014 )
The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Simon Winchester

The main outcrop of the Jurassic rocks in England. The Jurassic rocks here had been given names that were almost as sonorous as the villages on which they lay. The ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe by Andrew Roberts
epub |eng | 2005-07-04 | Author:Andrew Roberts [Roberts, Andrew]

They had two more hours of such hell to go before the cavalry attacks — some counted fourteen in all — ceased. There was some vigorous countercharging by British cavalry ...
( Category: Strategy March 26,2014 )
The Black Death by Philip Ziegler
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Philip Ziegler [Philip Ziegler]

He claimed that this figure had been confirmed by his study of the Charters of King Edward III. Camden claimed to have seen the same inscription but, in his recollection, ...
( Category: Infectious Disease March 26,2014 )
Afgantsy by Sir Rodric Braithwaite
epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Sir Rodric Braithwaite [Braithwaite, Sir Rodric]

The road starts in the fertile plains of the north, and then winds its way up increasingly bleak mountains to Pul-i Khumri, which is about the halfway point. It then ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
A Brief History of the Celts by Peter Berresford Ellis
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peter Berresford Ellis [Ellis, Peter Berresford]

The Vedas and Upanishads show that the Hindu year was indeed divided into two halves in a fashion analogous to the Celtic year. The Vedic references, such as the Bhadaranyaka, ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer by Frederick Turner
epub |eng | 2011-12-12 | Author:Frederick Turner [Turner, Frederick]

( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
epub |eng | | Author:Alistair Horne

Preoccupations in France Less readily visible to the army and pieds noirs alike in Algeria was one fundamental reason for de Gaulle’s dilatoriness in formulating an Algerian policy: his preoccupation ...
( Category: North Africa March 26,2014 )
In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Tom Holland [Holland, Tom]

The Great War Around Easter, AD 600, the plague returned to Galilee. So virulently did the outbreak rage that it had soon spread beyond the Golan Heights and into the ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
4) Empire 1 - Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E Feist
epub |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:Raymond E Feist [Raymond E Feist]

The boy's eyes opened wide. Seated on his mat before the outer screen, the runner turned towards his mistress with a wondering look upon his face. The boy was new ...
( Category: Epic March 26,2014 )

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