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Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685 by Harris Tim
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-26 | Author:Harris, Tim [Harris, Tim]

CONCLUSION The challenge of the Whigs, then, was met by an ideological counterchallenge from the Tories. The Tory propaganda counter-offensive was highly sophisticated, designed to target a socially diverse audience, ...
( Category: Great Britain February 15,2015 )
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 by Harris Tim
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-25 | Author:Harris, Tim [Harris, Tim]

ABDICATION OR DESERTION? THE DEPOSING OF KING JAMES In his letter to the Convention, read on 22 January, the opening day of the session, William told those assembled that he ...
( Category: England February 15,2015 )
The Making of the Fittest by Sean B. Carroll
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:Sean B. Carroll [Carroll, Sean B.]

VCRDWFKETACRHAKSLGNCRTSQKYRANCAKTCELC ZFTNVSCTTSKECWSVCQRLHNTSRGKCMNKKCRCYS CRIONQKCFQHLDDCCSRKCNRFNKCG ZPLRKLCILHRNPGRCYQKIPAFYYNG KKKQCEGFTWSGGCGGNSNRFKTIEECRRTCIRKD Do any similarities pop out at you? No? Well, don’t feel bad. I don’t see any either, but they do have something in common. Here ...
( Category: England February 15,2015 )
A Needle in the Right Hand of God by R. Howard Bloch
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:R. Howard Bloch [Bloch, R. Howard]

Fragment of textile from Oseberg, Norway, buried ca. A.D. 950 © MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, NORWAY Unlike the Bayeux Tapestry, the Oseberg textile contains no writing and ...
( Category: England February 15,2015 )
King Rufus by Emma Mason
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Emma Mason

NOTES 1 On the terrain, see W.E. Kapelle, The Norman Conquest of the North. The Region and its Transformation 1000–1135 (Croom Helm, London, 1979), pp.6-9. 2 A.P. Smyth, Warlords and ...
( Category: England February 13,2015 )
Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:William Manchester

FOUR VORTEX ON the Saturday before Parliament’s Munich debate, Winston was at Chartwell, vigorously slapping bricks into place and awaiting a visitor, a twenty-six-year-old BBC producer, unknown then but destined ...
( Category: Great Britain February 13,2015 )
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Ferguson Niall
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Ferguson, Niall [Ferguson, Niall]

TORY-ENTALISM For many British officials in India, toiling for years on end in a far-flung land, the thought of ‘home’ – not simulated in Simla, but the real thing, to ...
( Category: Great Britain February 13,2015 )
In the Valley of the Kings by Daniel Meyerson
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Daniel Meyerson [Meyerson, Daniel]

AS 1900 APPROACHED, THE TURN OF THE CENTURY BROUGHT Carter a great surprise. The excellence of his work for the last five years had been noted by Gaston Maspero, director ...
( Category: Great Britain February 11,2015 )
Sniping in France by H. Hesketh-Prichard
mobi |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:H. Hesketh-Prichard

In the morning, when the light was bad owing to the position of the sun, it was very hard to spot the shell hole, and the beam was invisible, but ...
( Category: Conventional February 10,2015 )
Blood, Tears and Folly by Len Deighton
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-04 | Author:Len Deighton

Bismarck now had everything he wanted. He looked for stability and was ready to concede the seas to Britain. But in 1888 a vain and excitable young emperor inherited the ...
( Category: Nuclear February 9,2015 )
The People of the Abyss
mobi |eng | 1999-03-01 | Author:Jack London

( Category: Communism & Socialism February 9,2015 )
The Shakespeare Thefts by Eric Rasmussen
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Eric Rasmussen

(The Drayton mentioned here was Michael Drayton, a friend of Shakespeare’s; John Ward, an early vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, is the source for the anecdotal story of Shakespeare’s death: “Shakespear, Drayton ...
( Category: Shakespeare January 29,2015 )
The Third Horseman by William Rosen
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:William Rosen

CHAPTER EIGHT “She-Wolf of France” 1313–1320 The twelve-year-old who had celebrated the nuptial mass in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1308 had been a girl; a royal princess, to be sure, but still ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture January 29,2015 )
Cavalier by Worsley Lucy
epub |eng | 2008-12-20 | Author:Worsley, Lucy [Worsley, Lucy]

The two armies prepare for battle at Marston Moor They are drawn up on Marston Hill, beyond the road and ditch running east-west between the villages of Long Marston and ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )
Heligoland by George Drower
epub |eng | 2011-10-21 | Author:George Drower

7 Churchill Prepares to Invade In early August 1914 a large German ship anchored off Heligoland. It had come to abruptly move the 3,427 inhabitants. They were given just six ...
( Category: Germany January 29,2015 )

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