France
epub |eng | 2007-04-21 | Author:Nancy Goldstone
Sanchia alt="image"/> Purses, symbols of money. CHAPTER XIV A ROYAL WINDFALL Beauty can be as effective a social or political tool as wealth or breeding, but it must be coupled ...
( Category:
England
April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Jonathan Beckman [Beckman, Jonathan]
18 Questions, Questions 11 January 1786 A FREEZING ROOM in the Bastille. On one side of the table, Titon, still snivelling and tetchy from the cold that had delayed the ...
( Category:
France
April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-09 | Author:James R. Gaines
All through 1788, in each of the thirteen states, Americans debated the strengths and weaknesses of their new Constitution, whose agenda was in some ways identical to the one emerging ...
( Category:
Revolution & Founding
April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Peter Jacobs
Noor Inayat Khan’s report from SOE’s Finishing School at Beaulieu dated 21 May 1943. The report has been underlined and scrawled over with comments such as ‘Nonsense’ and ‘We don’t ...
( Category:
Intelligence & Espionage
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:David A. Bell [Bell, David A.]
7 Days of Glory Today . . . no government would dare say to its nation: Let us go conquer the world. —BENJAMIN CONSTANT, 1813 I wanted to rule the ...
( Category:
France
March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]
Déjà j’entends l’orage du tambour, De cent heros je vois briller la rage, Déjà je vois envahir cent états Et tant d’humains moissonnés avant l’âge. This may not have been ...
( Category:
France
March 11,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Caroline Moorehead
CHAPTER ELEVEN Hordes of Vagabond French Their boat left Calais for Dover at eleven o’clock at night. Though the south-easterly wind was light and the sky cloudless, Frédéric immediately took ...
( Category:
France
February 15,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Leon Werth [Werth, Leon]
Aufresne is washing and polishing his unusable car, which has a leaky piston rod. He prunes a hedge. He knows how to kill a rabbit and turn its skin inside ...
( Category:
World War II
January 30,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-17 | Author:Sean McGlynn [McGlynn, Sean]
Winter and Spring: The Diplomatic War The first half of 1213 saw a respite in crusading, a war of words replacing the war of weapons. The diplomatic activity was intense ...
( Category:
France
January 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Nathan Prefer [Prefer, Nathan]
That attack came the next morning after an intense artillery and mortar barrage. Communications between Sergeant Bell and the rest of Company I were disrupted by the intense shellfire, and ...
( Category:
Germany
January 13,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Mike Rapport [Rapport, Mike]
6. Public bonfires of British contraband, like this one in Amsterdam in 1812, were aimed at reinforcing Napoleon’s blockade of Europe, but they also appalled mercantile communities already suffering from ...
( Category:
France
January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Cohen, Paul A
THE DIMMING OF POPULAR MEMORY: JOAN OF ARC AFTER THE WAR Joan of Arc is visually omnipresent in today’s France. “A high percentage of churches,” according to one observer, “have ...
( Category:
Jewish
December 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Charlesworth, Brian & Deborah Charlesworth [Charlesworth, Brian]
To illustrate selection of an advantageous mutation, consider the arms race between humans and rats, in which we try to develop rat poisons, and rats evolve resistance. The rat poison ...
( Category:
France
December 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Blanchard, Jean-Vincent [Blanchard, Jean-Vincent]
Chapter 8 War (1635–1637) In the busy morning hours of May 19, 1635, the guards at Brussels’s Hau gate witnessed a curious spectacle. A proud-looking man arrived on horseback, wearing ...
( Category:
France
December 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Peter Grose
11 Smugglers The money that was smuggled to the Plateau from Switzerland appears to have been delivered by a relay team rather than a single courier. As already mentioned, one ...
( Category:
Holocaust
December 15,2015 )
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