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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

After his dazzling performance, the new abbot of Bobbio accompanied the emperor and Archbishop Adalbero to Rome. There, at an Easter synod, Gerbert saw his Catalan friend Miro Bonfill, bishop ...

epub |eng | 2009-11-18 | Author:Alex Lochrie

Groups of Tchadien soldiers were roaming the streets, no one seemed to be in charge and most were under the influence of alcohol or drugs. They were looting the shops ...

azw |eng | 2006-07-31 | Author:Salazar, Jaime [Salazar, Jaime]

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Meg Cabot [Cabot, Meg]

[An asp, for those of you who don’t get Animal Planet, is a poisonous snake. And how cool would it be if money had Britney Spears’s picture on it? Like, ...

epub |eng | 1981-07-11 | Author:Victoria Holt [Holt, Victoria]

There seemed no point then in holding Court at Versailles; why should I not spend more and more time at the Pent Trianon, where life was so much more fun, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-31 | Author:Laurence Sterne [Sterne, Laurence]

THE PASSPORT. THE HOTEL AT PARIS. I could not find in my heart to torture La Fleur’s with a serious look upon the subject of my embarrassment, which was the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-26 | Author:Graham Robb [Robb, Graham]

Chacun soit content de ses biens, Qui n’a souffisance il n’a riens…* It was there, one might imagine, that the man with the camera pondered the scraps of information he ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Paul Johnson

Other famous German creators were more circumspect but equally dismissive. At the spectacular meeting of kings and princes at Erfurt in the autumn of 1808, Goethe, as Germany’s leading writer ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Holger H. Herwig

* A term famously coined by Muhammad Ali for the “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in October 1974 at Kinshasa, Zaire. *Interestingly, in 1934 King Albert of Belgium ...

mobi, epub, pdf |pol | 2012-07-24 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

Chapter 8 The First Five Days of June On June 1, the second day on which the Allied troops and vehicles in Britain were being loaded on board ship, 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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Antonia Fraser

The fate of that other young woman, Angelique, whose duty was no more than to divert the King of France, was in the end not much better, if less protracted ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

The fate of that other young woman, Angelique, whose duty was no more than to divert the King of France, was in the end not much better, if less protracted ...