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Great Tales from English History - Volume 2 by Robert Lacey
mobi |eng | 2009-11-29 | Author:Robert Lacey

ELIZABETH - QUEEN OF HEARTS 1559 ELIZABETH I WAS CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER Abbey on 15 January 1559 — a date selected by her astrologer, Dr John Dee. Cheering crowds had ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Bella Bathurst

SIX Skerryvore The helicopter skims low over Mull, dipping past swatches of forestry and fox-red moorland. Out beyond, past Staffa and Fingal’s Cave, lies the Atlantic, placid today but easily ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
A History Of Scotland by Neil Oliver
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-17 | Author:Neil Oliver

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 March 25,2014 )
The fracture zone: a return to the Balkans by Simon Winchester
mobi |eng | 1999-12-15 | Author:Simon Winchester

The frontier with Montenegro is half an hour’s drive from the outskirts of Dubrovnik. From the main road it is possible to see—impossible to avoid, in fact—the zigzag track that ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Timothy Snyder

Home to much of the Polish educated classes and to Europe’s largest society of Jews, Warsaw was a metropolis that had no place in the Nazi worldview. As of spring ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
The Last Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Edvard Radzinsky

A GAME FROM THE GRAVE Indeed, by then it had already begun. This happened on New Year’s Eve: In the Church of the Protective Veil of the Virgin, where the ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
Prague pictures: portraits of a city by John Banville
mobi |eng | 2004-03-15 | Author:John Banville

4 GREAT DANE, LITTLE DOG The once Danish, now Swedish, island of Hveen, or Hven, or simply Ven - let us choose a middle course and call it Hven - ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
Waterloo by Andrew Roberts
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-07-06 | Author:Andrew Roberts

4 The Fourth Phase ALTHOUGH THE DEFENCE of La Haye Sainte had been heroic, Major Baring’s increasingly desperate requests for ammunition had not been heeded. Wellington freely admitted after the ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars March 25,2014 )
The Rape of Belgium by Zuckerman Larry
mobi |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Zuckerman, Larry [Zuckerman, Larry]

The chancellor had said more than he perhaps knew. To invoke the Somme while waving away Belgium’s “difficulties” was to endorse the policy of thrusting German costs, with interest, onto ...
( Category: Belgium March 25,2014 )
Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend by Mark Collins Jenkins
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Mark Collins Jenkins

WITCHES AND WEREWOLVES In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull making witchcraft a heresy in Catholic Europe. Yet, the hysteria that overtook Europe in the 16th and 17th ...
( Category: Occultism March 25,2014 )
The French Revolution: from its origins to 1793 by Georges Lefebvre
mobi, epub | | 2001-12-14 | Author:Georges Lefebvre

Table of Contents I: The Heralds of the Revolution ........................................................ 6 II: The Influence OF America .......................................................... 21 III: The Summons of the States-General .......................................... 36 IV: The Meeting of ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Tony Judt

The Sixties ended badly everywhere. The closing of the long post-war cycle of growth and prosperity dispelled the rhetoric and the projects of the New Left; the optimistic emphasis on ...
( Category: Adult & Continuing Education March 25,2014 )
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Norman Davies

Only solace of my heart and soul, my fairest, most beloved Marysienka! Our Lord and God, Blessed of all ages, has brought unheard victory and glory to our nation. All ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-30 | Author:Peter H. Wilson

SPAIN INTERVENES Wallenstein’s Secret Diplomacy Peace was impossible as long as Swedish power in southern and central Germany remained unbroken. The task of ejecting the Swedes devolved to Wallenstein and ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History by Peter Heather
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Peter Heather

7 ATTILA THE HUN FOR OVER A DECADE, from 441 to 453, the history of Europe was dominated by military campaigns on an unprecedented scale – the work of Attila, ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )

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