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J. D. Bernal by Brown Andrew;
epub |eng | 2005-04-24 | Author:Brown, Andrew;

14 Rebuilding Bernal’s wartime contact with Birkbeck College was slight and somewhat peevish. Breams Buildings had closed after being hit by incendiary bombs in September 1940, but reopened the following ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2017 )
The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau by Julie Ferry
epub |eng | 2017-04-21 | Author:Julie Ferry

Prince Leopold would always hold Minnie in high esteem, and even after her marriage he still wrote to her frequently, his letters filled with compliments. ‘You were much admired yesterday, ...
( Category: Women in History April 22,2017 )
Operation Kronstadt by Harry Ferguson
epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Harry Ferguson [FERGUSON, HARRY]

11 Gefter Paul lay in Michael Semashko’s tomb and took stock of his situation. He could hear the deep boom of naval gunfire somewhere out in the Gulf. Sadly, Paul ...
( Category: Espionage April 7,2017 )
God & Churchill: How the Great Leader's Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours by Jonathan Sandys & Wallace Henley
epub |eng | 2015-09-30 | Author:Jonathan Sandys & Wallace Henley [Sandys, Jonathan]

The Britain of Churchill’s early years “had an air of careless supremacy” and a mind-set of “splendid isolation,” writes Tuchman. The British “felt no need of allies and had no ...
( Category: Great Britain March 23,2017 )
Medieval Pirates by Jill Eddison
epub |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:Jill Eddison

NOTES 78 Vale, Origins, p. 176; Childs, Anglo Castilian Trade, pp. 12–15 79 Rodger, Safeguard, p. 82; Rousson, p. 354 80 Eddison, Catastrophic Changes, p. 70; Nicholas 1, p. 270 ...
( Category: Great Britain March 23,2017 )
The Challenge of Islam to Christians by David Pawson
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:David Pawson [Pawson, David]

8 Reality ‘All the religions in the world could be wrong but only one can be right!’ These were the words with which I began to address a grammar school ...
( Category: Christianity February 26,2017 )
Men with a Mission, 1837-1841 by David J. Whittaker & James B. Allen & Ronald K. Esplin
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:David J. Whittaker & James B. Allen & Ronald K. Esplin [Whittaker, David J.]

^2. A good introduction to early Church literature is Crawley, "Bibliography of the Church." We have also benefited from access to Crawley's unpublished "Descriptive Bibliography." ^3. See Ellsworth, "History of ...
( Category: England February 26,2017 )
Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade
epub |eng | 2016-08-27 | Author:Philip Eade

* Originally entitled ‘Mr Cruttwell’s Little Outing’, which would not have been wholly inappropriate as Cruttwell was to end his life insane. * Many years later, Diana Cooper wrote to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 9,2017 )
Hemingway at War by Terry Mort
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Terry Mort

To Hemingway, Paris was a city of memory and nostalgia, the place where he had served his apprenticeship as a writer, the place where he and his first wife, Hadley, ...
( Category: World War II December 9,2016 )
Empire and Revolution by Richard Bourke
epub |eng | 2015-12-06 | Author:Richard Bourke

X A DREADFUL STATE OF THINGS MADRAS AND BENGAL, 1777–1785 10.1 Introduction As Burke pondered the implications of a formal pact with the American colonies that might help bring to ...
( Category: History & Theory December 7,2016 )
Aristocratic Vice by Donna T. Andrew
epub |eng | 2013-11-08 | Author:Donna T. Andrew

“Mild-Mays too often deceive.…”:129 The Roseberry Affair Only a month after Lady Roseberry eloped with Sir Henry Mildmay, leaving her husband and four children for her widower brother-in-law with whom ...
( Category: England November 9,2016 )
All Out War by Tim Shipman
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Tim Shipman

17 Aunty Beeb Craig Oliver was furious. He had just tuned in to his first BBC bulletin of the day, and his former employers were leading with a row orchestrated ...
( Category: European November 7,2016 )
Losing Small Wars by Frank Ledwidge
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Ledwidge

Colonel David Benest, another scholar and expert on British counterinsurgency history, takes the view that: Participation by officers in one or more I[nternal] S[ecurity] operation in other parts of the ...
( Category: Great Britain July 20,2016 )
Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Norman Davies [Davies, Norman]

Travellers usually reached Chambéry from France by crossing the frontier station on the River Guiers at le Pont de Beauvoisin, some 15 miles west of the city. St John reported ...
( Category: Great Britain July 19,2016 )
The Forgotten Tudor Women: Margaret Douglas, Mary Howard & Mary Shelton by Sylvia Barbara Soberton
mobi |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Sylvia Barbara Soberton

Chapter 12: The King’s pawns Mary Shelton’s feelings about Henry Norris’s tragic death are nowhere recorded, and the absence of her name in the court records for the period of ...
( Category: Great Britain July 11,2016 )

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