Great Britain
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-09 | Author:Korda, Michael [Korda, Michael]
What the Germans had in mind was a vast aerial equivalent of the pincer movement beloved of the German general staff, using, for the first time, the full strength of ...
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Great Britain
March 26,2014 )
epub |zho | 2009-11-09 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]
The promise of serving together proved powerful. In Liverpool the earl of Derby, the great mover and shaker of the commercial northwest (and subsequently director-general of army recruiting), called on ...
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Engineering
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Peter Clarke
Preparations for the San Francisco conference continued throughout March and April regardless of the change of President in Washington. Truman, poorly briefed on the Yalta understandings, had no ambition to ...
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Great Britain
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Thomas B. Costain [Costain, Thomas B.]
3 During the last visit he paid to England before becoming King, Richard had been in the offices of the chancellery; briefly, because of his dislike for his bastard brother ...
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Royalty
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Ronald Hutton [Ronald Hutton]
Witchcraft One spectacular expression of those tensions was the trial and execution of individuals suspected of witchcraft: that is, of harming other human beings, or their possessions, by the use ...
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Great Britain
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Nicholas Vincent [Nicholas Vincent]
6 EDWARD I TO EDWARD III, 1272–1377 In the 1080s, Robert Curthose, son of William the Conqueror, had declared that he would become King of England even if he were ...
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Great Britain
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Stuart Laycock
CHAPTER 6 The Last of Rome Whatever may or may not have happened in 367-369, the account by Ammianus of the so-called ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’ is significant in another way. It ...
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Archaeology
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Sarah Wise [Wise, Sarah]
This wasn’t quite the rising of the Somerset yeomanry that Lady Lytton had predicted. Still, the Somerset County Gazette, while acknowledging ‘her undoubted peculiarities of temper’ and admitting that she ...
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Historical Study & Educational Resources
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]
On May 12, John left the Savoy; he could have had no idea that he would never see his beautiful palace again. Katherine probably rode northward with him via Hertford, ...
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Women
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-29 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]
Already people expected the prisoners to be convicted. On May 11, before any trial had taken place, the Abbot of Cirencester wrote informing Cromwell that he had already promised Sir ...
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Great Britain
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]
Philippa and Katherine now had much in common: both were essentially femmes soles, both had dedicated a daughter to God, both were rearing sons called Thomas who were of similar ...
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Women
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]
12. Conspiracies Dominic Mancini left England during the week after the coronation, and his account, sadly for us, ends there. He says that, before his departure, the Princes had 'ceased ...
( Category:
Royalty
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-10-15 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]
So how did Darnley die? The plot to kill him was masterminded by Maitland and Moray, Maitland being the active partner, Moray the passive one but the ultimate beneficiary. Their ...
( Category:
Royalty
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]
Elizabeth was passionate about the theatre, and actively protected it from the Puritans who wanted it banned. In 583, she formed her own theatre company, the Queen's Men, of whom ...
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Great Britain
March 26,2014 )
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