European History
epub |eng | | Author:Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE [Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE]

We have an interesting picture of him on that morning from eye-witnesses. He was a strange figure—suffering from inflammation of the eyes, he had put on not his cocked hat ...
( Category: European History February 9,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE [Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE]

Of the other members{361} of the Supreme Junta, the Bailiff Valdez and Francisco Palafox, fresh from his brother’s triumphs at Saragossa, were perhaps the best known. Among the rest we ...
( Category: European History February 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-02 | Author:Laurence Rees [Rees, Laurence]

However, the reality was not as straightforward as either Maisky or Churchill perceived it. Yes, the Germans had made great progress in the south of the Soviet Union and had ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Alistair Smith

This is a clearer shot of the Avro 504k after it has belly-flopped onto a railway line. The fortunes of the Avro Company began to wane under the control of ...
( Category: European History February 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Rüdiger von der Goltz [von der Goltz, Rüdiger]

Unfortunately it became increasingly evident that the members of the government of Latvia did not fulfill any of these self-evident preconditions. Deceitful and false, they could not change their nature ...
( Category: European History February 7,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Hollingsworth [Hollingsworth, Mary]

a Now the Fondaco de’ Turchi. b The rooms themselves no longer exist and their contents were dispersed at the end of the sixteenth century. FRANCESCO MARIA DELLA ROVERE (1490–1538) ...
( Category: European History February 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:John Wilks

6 The Advance to the Tagliamento 6.1The Tagliamento and its Bridges The Tagliamento presents a substantial barrier to an invading army, as was once stressed by Napoleon.1 For much of ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Michael Foley

An SE5, an aircraft that was an important part of the defence against German attacks. French’s letter was answered on 10 July by the War Office. It stated that the ...
( Category: European History February 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-19 | Author:Gershom Gorenberg [Gorenberg, Gershom]

“ACCORDING TO A report from a good source,” the German message said, the British Seventh Armored Brigade in Egypt was “apparently being reconstituted,” meaning that for the moment it was ...
( Category: European History February 4,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-19 | Author:Unknown

Piccadilly Circus station on the Bakerloo Line is unusual in that, not only is it not built to traditional island platform layout, but you are able to see either northbound ...
( Category: European History February 4,2021 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-12-17 | Author:Patrick E. McGovern

SIX SAILING THE WINE-DARK MEDITERRANEAN MY WIFE AND I CAUGHT our first glimpse of the azure Mediterranean in 1971, when we traveled south from Germany to Italy, on our way ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference February 4,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-26 | Author:Charles M. Blow

Black density wouldn’t prove beneficial only for political reasons. Black people also need to reunite to combine purchasing power, brainpower, and cultural power. Our dispersal has exposed us to exploitation, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-19 | Author:John Matthews [Matthews, John]

( Category: Catholicism February 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Castle, Ian;

53 Severndroog Castle Shooter’s Hill, London An 18th century folly with a 20th century anti-Zeppelin role Severndroog Castle, standing on the highest point in south London, is not a castle ...
( Category: European History February 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-15 | Author:Philip Stephens [Philip Stephens]

NOTES 1 Interview with author. 2 Ibid. 3 Thatcher, Margaret, The Path to Power, HarperCollins, London, 1995, p. 57. 4 Margaret Thatcher Foundation, speech at Kensington Town Hall, 19 January ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 3,2021 )