epub |eng | 2015-08-09 | Author:Gareth Glover

The stallion was reputedly captured in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo and ownership soon transferred to a John Angerstein, the son of a City financier, whose superb art collection ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-17 | Author:Nigel Cave

The officers of 2/DLI commissioned a painting of the action at Hooge after the war—the only action of the whole of that conflict which they chose to remember in this ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-11 | Author:James Chambers [James Chambers ]

In her isolation at Cranbourne Lodge Charlotte was at least allowed to see newspapers. She read that the motion had been withdrawn. The week went by. The sense of being ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-29 | Author:Gonzalez, Oscar & Steinke, Thomas & Tannahill, Ian

“Just behind the frontier is a trench across the street, seventy metres behind that a barricade of paving stones. Another seventy metres behind that another cross-trench. The earthworks removed from ...

epub | | 2013-09-07 | Author:Unknown

While reserves from all along the American front were moved towards the Ardennes, divisions that had just arrived in England from the States were rushed across to the Continent to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

IN THE MORNING, the North Shores’ ‘A’ Company had moved right to link up with the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, only to walk straight into a German counterattack. Under a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Stan Hieronymus [Hieronymus, Stan]

Allagash Brewing Nobody offered Rob Tod a manual when he started to brew Belgian-inspired beers. He was left to figure out much of it on his own. “There are things ...