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Thomas Becket by John Guy
epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:John Guy [Guy, John]

SUNDAY WAS MEANT to be a day of rest, but Becket spent it at the priory in earnest, anxious conclave with his clerks. “Scarcely,” reports William fitz Stephen, “was there ...
( Category: England November 5,2015 )
Sketches By Boz by Dickens Charles
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

V. Horatio Sparkins ‘Indeed, my love, he paid Teresa very great attention on the last assembly night,’ said Mrs. Malderton, addressing her spouse, who, after the fatigues of the day ...
( Category: General November 4,2015 )
The Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Bates [Bates, Stephen]

By 1815 Captain Barclay was having troubles of his own and he was certainly not fighting Napoleon, having retired from the army after the Walcheren expedition so he could devote ...
( Category: Great Britain November 4,2015 )
The Bedford Triangle by Martin W. Bowman
epub |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:Martin W. Bowman

Carpetbagger missions were flown in earnest throughout May. William G. McKee’s crew, for instance, flew seven night missions that month, all of them to France. On the night of 28/29 ...
( Category: England November 2,2015 )
Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Michael Shelden [Shelden, Michael]

XVIII SOUND AND FURY The tall, creamy stucco house at one end of Eccleston Square—Number 33—was in a quiet part of London in those days, a leafy enclave tucked between ...
( Category: Great Britain November 1,2015 )
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons by Geoffrey Hindley
epub |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Geoffrey Hindley [Hindley, Geoffrey]

In the winter of 872 Burgred of Mercia was forced to negotiate a peace deal with the Danish main force now at Torksey in Lindsey. Late the next year, a ...
( Category: Great Britain October 30,2015 )
Camp Z by Stephen McGinty
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Stephen McGinty

While explaining that such rumour and speculation was only circulating by private conversation, Campbell explained that there was an ‘undefinable’ but widely held feeling of apprehension and uncertainty that was ...
( Category: Great Britain October 29,2015 )
August Niemann by Coming Conquest of England
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Coming Conquest of England [England, Coming Conquest of]

XX A FRIEND IN NEED Whilst the Russians were digging their cooking trenches somewhat aside from the main camp, and making all necessary arrangements for bivouacking, Heideck had an opportunity ...
( Category: England October 28,2015 )
Cultural Capital by Robert Hewison
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Robert Hewison

The debate about the value of culture was part of a wider debate about how to express the value of government itself. After more than twenty years of neoliberalism and ...
( Category: Cultural Policy October 24,2015 )
The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-07 | Author:Bill Bryson

Chapter 14 East Anglia I ON A LOVELY bright summer’s morning, I was walking the Norfolk coast path between Holkham and Blakeney when I came round a bend and found ...
( Category: General October 24,2015 )
Poles in Defence of Britain: A Day-by-Day Chronology of Polish Day and Night Fighter Pilot Operations: July 1940 - June 1941
epub |eng | 2005-10-19 | Author:Robert Gretzyngier [Gretzyngier, Robert]

Hurricane V7235/RF-M was Paszkiewicz’s lucky mount and he used it during most of his sorties. (Author’s collection) S/Ldr Zdzisław Krasnodębski, the Polish OC 303 Sqn, resting in the shade of ...
( Category: World War II October 21,2015 )
The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940 by Holland James
epub |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Holland, James [Holland, James]

Air Chief Marshal Dowding was also continuing to make good use of the respite, for with the rapidly changing situation since 10 May his defensive system had needed urgent and ...
( Category: Great Britain October 21,2015 )
Discourse and Defiance under Nazi Occupation: Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1940–1945 by Jorgensen-Earp Cheryl R
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Jorgensen-Earp, Cheryl R. [Jorgensen-Earp, Cheryl R.]

( Category: Great Britain October 21,2015 )
In the Land of Giants by Adams Max
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Adams, Max [Adams, Max]

CWM LLAN ASIDE FROM the fact that my great-grandfather Alf Richmond died in a boating accident off Cemaes Bay in 1895, my knowledge of Anglesey’s history is limited to a ...
( Category: Great Britain October 20,2015 )
Blood of the Celts by Jean Manco
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Jean Manco

71 Caesar’s campaigns in Gaul. The southern part of the lands of the Gauls had been taken by the Romans before Caesar’s day. As governor of Cisalpine Gaul and Gallia ...
( Category: Ethnic & Tribal October 20,2015 )

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