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Zulu Rising by Ian Knight
epub |eng | 2015-11-26 | Author:Ian Knight [Knight, Ian]

‘Lightning, lightning of heaven’, he called, ‘it glitters and it shines; the sun, the sun of the Zulus, it consumes all!’ It was a quick-witted retort, seizing on the apparent ...
( Category: Great Britain November 27,2015 )
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Bill Buford [Buford, Bill]

DAWES ROAD, FULHAM I was reading the morning newspapers in the coffeehouse in Ober Sankt Veit. I can still feel the indignation that overwhelmed me when I took hold of ...
( Category: Essays November 27,2015 )
The Homicidal Earl by Saul David
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Saul David [David, Saul]

At the end of April 1842, shortly after the replacement of Prince Albert by General Sir Arthur Clifton as colonel of the regiment, the 11th Hussars was relieved of the ...
( Category: England November 27,2015 )
Bosworth 1485 by Michael K. Jones
epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Michael K. Jones

Alien they seemed to be: No mortal eye could see The intimate welding of their later history. How their collision happened will be the surprising part of the story. Few ...
( Category: England November 25,2015 )
Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown
epub |eng | 2015-07-08 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

Five The Knights The knight is the last piece to place on the chessboard, for knights, as we think of them, in shining armor, were unknown in the North in ...
( Category: Scotland November 23,2015 )
Histories of the Hanged by David Anderson
epub |eng | 2005-11-19 | Author:David Anderson

Terrorizing the Tai-tai Nairobi’s number one tai-tai was Tom Mbotela. As a member of the executive committee of the KAU and as a senior official on Nairobi’s African Advisory Council, ...
( Category: African November 20,2015 )
UnRoman Britain by Miles Russell
epub |eng | 2011-09-18 | Author:Miles Russell

* * * 109Russell 2006, 181-93; McWhirr 1981. 110Palladius Lausiac History LXI. 6 BRITANNIA – REBEL EMPIRE IT probably can’t be emphasised enough the extent to which Britain’s fate within ...
( Category: England November 19,2015 )
0593059026 (H) by James Fergusson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Fergusson [Fergusson, James]

5 The Chinooks Push the Envelope The aviator's phrase 'pushing the envelope', first used by test pilots in World War Two, was decisively back in fashion during Herrick 4. The ...
( Category: African November 16,2015 )
Thetis Down by Tony Booth
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Tony Booth

Chapter 10 Raising the Dead Although Cammell Laird received several letters from funeral directors offering their services for the burial arrangements, many more enquiries came from people wanting to enter ...
( Category: Great Britain November 15,2015 )
Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Woman's Lives 1540-1714 by Dr. Sara Read
epub |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:Dr. Sara Read

Superstitions Surrounding Pregnancy Thomas Raynalde wrote that if a pregnant woman wanted to discover whether she was carrying a ‘man or a woman,’ she should squeeze a drop of milk ...
( Category: Great Britain November 13,2015 )
The Profession of Violence by John Pearson
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:John Pearson

TEN Organized Crime Just eight weeks after Reggie emerged from Wandsworth, all three Kray brothers were in trouble with the Law. First Reggie – he was accused of petty house-breaking ...
( Category: England November 12,2015 )
Lady Constance Lytton by Lyndsey Jenkins
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Lyndsey Jenkins [Lyndsey Jenkins]

There was no keeping her name or her face out of the paper now. The photo of her in the Daily Mirror took up half a page. Beatrice Webb saw ...
( Category: Women in History November 12,2015 )
Basil Street Blues by Michael Holroyd
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Holroyd [Holroyd, Michael]

15 Legal and Military My first half-dozen years after leaving Eton were strikingly indecisive. They began with two minor operations. The first – to correct some complications in my right ...
( Category: Great Britain November 12,2015 )
The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Mary S. Lovell

If you could have a look, as I have, at some of the less agreeable results of fascism in a country [she wrote to Sydney], I think you would be ...
( Category: England November 11,2015 )
The Irish Revolution, 1916-1923 by Marie Coleman
epub |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Marie Coleman [Coleman, Marie]

THE GEOGRAPHY OF WAR The question of why certain young men joined the IRA is linked to the question of why the IRA was more active in certain areas of ...
( Category: European November 10,2015 )

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