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Traditional Enemies: Britain's War With Vichy France 1940-42 by John D Grainger
epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:John D Grainger

Chapter 9 Islands and Raids In the year since the Franco-German armistice the undeclared war between the former allies Britain and France had ranged over Africa, the Middle East, and ...
( Category: Great Britain October 19,2015 )
Heraldry by Fox-Davies Arthur Charles
epub |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles

Arms from the Weingarten and Heidelberg minnesinger songbooks. 1. Reginald H. Drummond. 2. William R Macdonald 3. Albemarle O. Dewar. 4. Sir Thomas Wright. 5. J. W. Melles 6. Matthew ...
( Category: Great Britain October 19,2015 )
Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government by Arnn Dr. Larry
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Arnn, Dr. Larry [Arnn, Dr. Larry]

10 THE CONSTITUTIONALIST Churchill wrote that a Municipal Trust would be more dangerous than the Beef Trust. Something must be done, he thought, for the victims of the Beef Trust ...
( Category: Great Britain October 18,2015 )
Dowding's Eagles: Accounts of Twenty-Five Battle of Britain Veterans by Norman Franks
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Norman Franks

The operation was another Circus – Circus No.4 – six Blenheims attacking the docks at Dunkirk. The attackers were 109s from IV/JG51 and I/LG2, which bounced 249, shooting down one ...
( Category: Great Britain October 18,2015 )
The Falklands War by Martin Middlebrook
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [ Middlebrook Martin]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN May the 25th In an attempt to help with the intense air battle, Admiral Woodward had posted two of his ships, Coventry and Broadsword, as a ‘42–22 combination ...
( Category: Argentina October 17,2015 )
The Yompers by Ian Gardiner
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Ian Gardiner [Gardiner, Ian R]

The rucksacks with our spare rations were flown in at first light so we were not very hungry for very long. However, from now on, men started building up little ...
( Category: Great Britain October 14,2015 )
That Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present by Isabelle Tombs & Robert Tombs
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Isabelle Tombs & Robert Tombs [Tombs, Isabelle]

PILGRIMS OF PLEASURE: THE PRINCE OF WALES AND OSCAR WILDE I want to make my life itself a work of art. I know the price of a fine verse, but ...
( Category: Great Britain October 13,2015 )
Hampshire Murders by Nicola Sly
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-17 | Author:Nicola Sly

Wellington Street, Aldershot, 1920s. (Author’s collection) No details about the nature of the ‘fresh information’ were published in the newspapers of the day, but is has since emerged that, just ...
( Category: Great Britain October 13,2015 )
The Pursuit of History by Tosh John
epub |eng | | Author:Tosh, John

In classical mythology Clio was the muse who inspired historians, just as other muses inspired poets and musicians, etc. When Clio is invoked today, the implication is that history is ...
( Category: Historiography October 12,2015 )
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Ray Monk [Monk, Ray]

I have wanted to show by means of language-games the vague way in which we use ‘language’, ‘proposition’, ‘sentence’.5 There are many things, such as orders, which we may or ...
( Category: Philosophers October 12,2015 )
Sex with the Queen by Eleanor Herman
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-10-06 | Author:Eleanor Herman [Herman, Eleanor]

SIX EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE: POWER, PASSION, AND POLITICS With mine own tears I wash away my balm, With mine own hands I give away my crown, With mine own tongue deny ...
( Category: Great Britain October 11,2015 )
Great British Railway Journeys by Charlie Bunce
epub |eng | | Author:Charlie Bunce

So innovative was the first iron bridge, it lent its name to the town in Shropshire where it was built and became a symbol of the industrial revolution. © Alan ...
( Category: Travel October 11,2015 )
The Scum of the Earth by Colin Brown
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Colin Brown

Late in the day I was called by some officers of the 3rd Guards defending Hougoumont to use my best endeavours to send them musket ammunition. Soon afterwards I fell ...
( Category: Great Britain October 11,2015 )
God and Mrs Thatcher by Eliza Filby
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Eliza Filby [Eliza Filby]

The religious delegation, though, pressed ahead and over the next three months senior church representatives from all denominations in Wales, Scotland and England, met with the NUM and eventually Walker ...
( Category: Great Britain October 11,2015 )
Last Curtsey by Fiona MacCarthy
epub |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:Fiona MacCarthy [Fiona MacCarthy]

Not surprisingly these optimistic travel plans very often went awry. One summer evening I thought I had caught a train to Newbury but discovered when I got to Reading that ...
( Category: Great Britain October 10,2015 )

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