Great Britain
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Anne Sebba

… I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-03 | Author:Max Hastings

Back in Cairo on August 17, Churchill briefly lapsed into exhaustion. After a rest, however, he quizzed Alexander about the prospective desert offensive, which there were hopes of launching in ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-24 | Author:Kate Williams

CHAPTER 31 The Battered Hero I feel myself highly honoured and flattered by your ladyship's charming letter," enthused Earl St. Vincent, Nelson's commander, to Emma in May 1798. "The picture ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:The Countess Of Carnarvon

12 War Heroes After six months of listening to horror stories from the Western Front and tending desperate patients, the familiarity of the winter trip to Egypt must have felt ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-12-29 | Author:Alison Weir

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 ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:John Piper & Jonathan Aitken

AmazingGraceLWW.48754.i04.qxd 12/6/06 1:59 PM Page 43 A Multitude of Christlike Causes 43 only of the clergy. In a chance meeting with James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s biographer, he spent time into ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Ian Mortimer

The events of the next three weeks were momentous for Flanders. To some men of Ghent, van Artevelde was pursuing the alliance with the English for his own personal gain. ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Paul Johnson

Chapter Five The Unregarded Prophet Now began the hardest, harshest period of Churchill’s life. He was lucky to have a safe seat where he was active, was much loved, and ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-07-08 | Author:Alison Weir

Northumberland was at King's College, Cambridge when, on the morning of 20 July, he heard that Mary had been proclaimed in London. In a desperate attempt to save his neck, ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-22 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

One unwelcome novelty of the latter half of the twentieth century, for example, was the race riot, among the most notable being those of Notting Hill in 1958 and of ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-26 | Author:Julia Fox

You shall understand that I have submitted me unto the law, and so I am come hither to obey and fulfill the law. And so I can say no more, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Geoffrey Robertson

Cooke publicly defied his would-be murderers: ‘It is for a Cain to be afraid that every man that meets him will slay him.’17 He did not care whether he was ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-07 | Author:Jennifer Worth

CABLE STREET Pre-war Stepney, just east of the City, with Commercial Road to the north, the Tower and Royal Mint to the West, Wapping and the Docks to the South, ...
( Category: Medical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-11-15 | Author:Andrew Bridgeford

13 The Tanner's Grandsons The Bayeux Tapestry gives us only a snapshot of the colourful life of Bishop Odo of Bayeux.1 It is a mere cross-section of a long career, ...
( Category: Historiography March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Eliot

Chapter 20 In less than a week from that time, Caterina was persuaded to travel in a comfortable carriage, under the care of Mr. Gilfil and his sister, Mrs. Heron, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )