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Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II by Niall Barr
epub, azw |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Niall Barr [Barr, Niall]

While Baytown appeared a relatively straightforward operation, Eisenhower always recognised that not only was Avalanche a more risky venture but that the US Fifth Army was something of an unknown ...
( Category: Treaties December 20,2015 )
Churchill : The Unexpected Hero by Churchill; The Unexpected Hero
epub |eng | 2005-12-19 | Author:Churchill; The Unexpected Hero

SIX The Making of a Hero, 1939–1945 On 15 March 1939 German troops marched into Prague and the Czechoslovak state ceased to exist. The moral case for the Munich agreement––that ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
Churchill Unexpected Hero by Paul Addison
mobi |eng | 2005-01-13 | Author:Paul Addison

So long frustrated, the two great ambitions of Churchill’s youth–to be a military hero and a hero of democracy––had come together in a blaze of glory in his sixty–sixth year. ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
The Western Front 1915 by Peter F Batchelor
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Peter F Batchelor

Battle of Festubert After sixty hours – the longest artillery bombardment of the war to date – the battalion, having moved up to its assembly positions during the night, prepared ...
( Category: Veterans December 17,2015 )
Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )
Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945 by Hartmann Christian
epub |eng | 1945-12-14 | Author:Hartmann, Christian

ILLUSTRATION 6. Soviet prisoners of war take a journey into captivity from which many of them would never return At first, ‘only’ two groups of prisoners were explicitly condemned to ...
( Category: Great Britain December 15,2015 )
Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Salway Peter
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-17 | Author:Salway, Peter [Salway, Peter]

Map 7. The changing general arrangement of provinces down to the early 4th century (details uncertain, particularly for the 4th century). The planned conquest of Scotland was called off—but only ...
( Category: Great Britain December 14,2015 )
The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction by Guy John
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-10 | Author:Guy, John [Guy, John]

The Court of Philip and Mary Philip was accorded his own royal household. The queen’s household was located in what, during her father’s and brother’s reigns, was the part of ...
( Category: Great Britain December 14,2015 )
Medieval Mysteries by Karen Ralls
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Ralls

STAGES OF COURTLY LOVE Attraction to the lady, usually via eyes or a glance Worship of the lady from afar Declaration of passionate devotion Virtuous rejection by the lady Renewed ...
( Category: Christianity December 11,2015 )
Lizzie Siddal by Lucinda Hawksley
epub |eng | 2005-06-04 | Author:Lucinda Hawksley [Hawksley, Lucinda]

Lonely without Lizzie, Rossetti spent New Year’s Eve 1855 with the Madox Browns; contrarily, his animosity for Emma had dissipated now that she was no longer able to spend time ...
( Category: Great Britain December 5,2015 )
The Love-Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Lara Feigel

When he suggested having Mark, I thought to myself, ‘You’ve had all these women and you live with them and you say you love them and then come back after ...
( Category: World War II December 5,2015 )
Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Whittock Martyn
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Whittock, Martyn

The abuses and limitations of the law As with all systems, the system of law in the Middle Ages was open to abuse. Royal justices were at times accused of ...
( Category: England December 3,2015 )
The Hidden Threat by Jim Crossley
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jim Crossley

An idea of the work of paddle sweepers at this time can be given by quoting an account of an incident off Dunkirk in June 1917. Dunkirk was close to ...
( Category: Conventional December 3,2015 )
River of Fire by John MacLeod
mobi |eng | 2011-08-21 | Author:John MacLeod

8 ‘A PICTURE OF HEART-RENDING TRAGEDY …’ He was John Bowman; he was a young soldier from Clydebank, and he had – this mid-March weekend in 1941 – just won ...
( Category: Scotland November 30,2015 )
Edie by George Plimpton & Jean Stein
epub |eng | 2010-02-23 | Author:George Plimpton & Jean Stein [George Plimpton and Jean Stein]

Edie and Gerard Malanga in the torture sequence, Vinyl, March, 1965 I worked on getting rid of characters. Andy had said, “Get rid of plot.” Of course, Samuel Beckett had ...
( Category: England November 30,2015 )

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