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Joan of Kent: The First Princess of Wales by Penny Lawne
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Penny Lawne [Lawne, Penny]

10 Return to England/ In Sickness and in Health 1371–1376 Alas what should I do, God, and love, if I were to lose the very flower of nobleness, the flower ...
( Category: Wales March 21,2015 )
Every Man Will Do His Duty by Dean King
epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Dean King [King, Dean]

William Richardson With Stopford in the Basque Roads 1808–1809 THIS PASSAGE CONTINUES THE story of William Richardson, who was impressed into the Royal Navy while in Calcutta in 1793. In ...
( Category: Naval March 21,2015 )
Allied Bombing Raids: Hittiing Back at the Heart of Germany: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War) by Kaplan Philip
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Kaplan, Philip [Kaplan, Philip]

At the end of a raid, a belt of whisky and a quick bite usually awaited the returning fliers, along with an interrogation on their recent experience. Armorers bringing the ...
( Category: Pictorials March 21,2015 )
The Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Customs of Britain by Marc Alexander
epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Marc Alexander

M MABINOGION, THE Based on a fourteenth-century manuscript known as The Red Book of Hergest, The Mabinogion was the work of Lady Charlotte Guest, published in 1840. It consisted of ...
( Category: Great Britain March 6,2015 )
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Colley Linda
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Colley, Linda. [Colley, Linda]

‘A View of the Town of Rio Janeiro’. Pencil drawing by Alexander Buchan, 1768. Because of the bad weather it had suffered, and of not being able to refit and ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The King in the North by Max Adam Max Adams
epub, mobi | | | Author:Max Adam, Max Adams [Adams, Max]

It is also a tradition which has become proverbial, that he died with a prayer on his lips. When he was beset by the weapons of his enemies and saw ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Three Edwards by Thomas B. Costain
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Thomas B. Costain [Costain, Thomas B.]

Isabella decided that she would exercise the duties of a regent, even though the title and recognition had been withheld. Mortimer and Adam of Orleton had been given places on ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
White Mughals by William Dalrymple
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:William Dalrymple

The scale of William’s ambitions has echoes of the world of Conrad, with its steamships, up-country logging stations, ivory hunters, uncharted malarial forests and riverboats. Yet, driven forward with an ...
( Category: General March 4,2015 )
A People's History of Scotland by Chris Bambery
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chris Bambery

ELEVEN The Great Depression: Suffering and Resistance Another day thus upon the mountain And great Scotland under the doom of beasts Her thousands of poor exploited Beguiled to a laughing ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )
There is No Alternative by Claire Berlinski
epub |eng | 2012-02-02 | Author:Claire Berlinski

I offered Scargill the chance to reply to Kinnock’s characterization of him, but he didn’t take me up on it. Linda Sheridan, however, held forth with gusto. Dear Claire I ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
The Greatest Traitor by Mortimer Ian
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

* On the day of the coronation the Scots had launched an exploratory raid on Norham Castle. They had been beaten back, but in March the court was informed by ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Story of England by Wood Michael
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Wood, Michael [Wood, Michael]

Man be ware and be no fool; Thinke upon the ax, and of the stool! The revolt had unleashed savage class antagonisms and exposed deep fissures between the rulers and ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Simon Schama [Schama, Simon]

The Indian Mutiny, 1857–8. On 30 June an attempted counter-attack under Sir Henry’s command was ambushed disastrously at Chinhat by rebel troops led by, among others, the fighting Maulvi, Ahmadullah ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
In Search of England by Michael Wood
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-09 | Author:Michael Wood

Mounted strength: a numberless host of cavalry. Eventually the voice of protest roused the king; Not to let himself be branded thus: That his people had meekly given in to ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Wreckers by Bella Bathurst
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bella Bathurst [Bathurst, Bella]

I regret to have to report that matters relating to wreck and salvage in those islands [the Hebrides], especially in South Uist and Barra, are as unsatisfactory as they can ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )

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