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The Normans and Their World by Lindsay Jack
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Lindsay, Jack [Lindsay, Jack]

Chapter Eleven – Tenures, Fiefs, and Military Organization We now turn to a more detailed examination of what happened in England. Here we can see how a Norman takeover and ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )
An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Nick Bunker [Bunker, Nick]

THE FIRST CONFRONTATION By the end of October, some observers already feared that when the tea arrived, a mob would board the ships and either burn their cargo or throw ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding May 27,2015 )
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Charlotte Gordon [Gordon, Charlotte]

Suicide had become more than an escape from suffering; it was a leap into eternal life. Feeling firm in her convictions and holding on to her vision of immortality, she ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )
The Secrets of Station X by Michael Smith
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Michael Smith [Michael Smith]

By the end of 1941, the increase in the numbers of people had brought a dramatic improvement in the social life. Phoebe Senyard spent her first Christmas of the war ...
( Category: General May 27,2015 )
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-04 | Author:Robert Macfarlane [Macfarlane, Robert]

V Eawl-leet – north Lancashire noun, variant pronunciation of owl-light, meaning ‘twilight, dusk’. Late in the afternoon, as dark was falling, Richard and I left the cottage and walked back ...
( Category: Historic May 27,2015 )
Georgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Lucy Inglis [Inglis, Lucy]

Scotland Yard served as the way in and out of 4 Whitehall Place, which was the police headquarters after the formation of the force, in 1829. By the late Victorian ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )
Admiral Collingwood by Max Adams
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Max Adams [Adams, Max]

9 Giddy with the multiplicities 1806–1808 Collingwood’s head was spinning too, and with good reason. In October 1805 he had been second-in-command to Nelson at a victory which was (and ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me by Sofka Zinovieff
epub |eng | 2015-01-26 | Author:Sofka Zinovieff

WINNIE, PRINCESSE DE POLIGNAC READING THE PAPER ON THE PORCH AT FARINGDON NOT LONG BEFORE HER DEATH IN 1943 Among the permanent occupants of ‘the Dorch’ were the two great ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )
Our Darkest Day by Patrick Lindsay
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Patrick Lindsay

We marched along the road in single file keeping to the right under cover of the hedge as much as possible – and about five minute intervals between platoons, till ...
( Category: France May 25,2015 )
Downstream by Caitlin Davies
epub |eng | | Author:Caitlin Davies

Thomas Burgess was one of seven swimmers, including Annette Kellerman, who in August 1905 attempted to swim the Channel. In 1911 he became the second person to succeed after Captain ...
( Category: England May 25,2015 )
The Sixties by Jenny Diski
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Jenny Diski [Diski, Jenny]

There were other versions of changing the world. For readers of Marcuse, even such as Tariq Ali, for example: . . . the long march did not mean “boring from ...
( Category: England May 25,2015 )
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-06 | Author:Vera Brittain

10 Victor’s long letter had been written on March 24th from a sector near Arras. To-day, as I re-read his realistic phrases, they seem to me to be less infused ...
( Category: World War I May 24,2015 )
Ministers at War : Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet (9780465040582) by Schneer Jonathan
epub |eng | | Author:Schneer, Jonathan [Schneer, Jonathan]

CHAPTER 10 The Impact of Professor Beveridge IN JUNE 1940, AFTER NEGOTIATIONS WITH MUSSOLINI HAD BEEN RULED out and a fight to the finish against Germany agreed upon, socialists and ...
( Category: History & Theory May 19,2015 )
Ministers at War : Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet by Schneer Jonathan
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Schneer, Jonathan [Schneer, Jonathan]

The audience roared its approval. Beaverbrook was at the peak of his powers and riding the crest of the wave. What might he not aspire to, given his reception at ...
( Category: History & Theory May 19,2015 )
The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 by Carpenter David
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-08 | Author:Carpenter, David [David, Carpenter,]

John played for time, and postponed consideration of these matters to a council due to meet at Oxford at the end of April 1215. Yet his position continued to weaken. ...
( Category: Wales May 10,2015 )

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