Great Britain
epub |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:John Warwicker

Inclusion of the .22-inch rifle is important confirmation of the dangerous commitments expected from Auxiliers. In his August 1940 report to the Prime Minister, Duncan Sandys had acknowledged that sniping ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian May 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Bede

Chapter 30: During a plague the East Saxons lapse into idolatry, but are quickly recalled from their errors by Bishop Jaruman [a.d. 665] At the same time, the kings Sighere ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Conrad Russell [Conrad Russell]

He spoke too soon: not for the first time, the insistence that religious dissent was disloyal proved a self-fulfilling prophecy, and this officer, John Barry, became within the year a ...
( Category: Great Britain April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Linda Porter

CHAPTER TWELVE The Protestant Whore ‘Hard by Pall Mall lives a wench call’d Nell. King Charles II he kept her. She hath got a trick to handle his prick, But ...
( Category: Great Britain April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miller, Phil;

Holworthy confirmed everything he had written in the files 30 years ago. KMS’s protégées were involved in systematic war crimes in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province. And worse was to come. ...
( Category: True Crime April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-11-30 | Author:Robert Lacey [LACEY, ROBERT]

‘WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!’ – THE BIRKENHEAD DRILL 1852 STEAMING OFF THE COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA late in February 1852, HM Troopship Birkenhead, a paddle-steamer, was one of the first ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:John Hughes-Wilson [Hughes-Wilson, John]

This despatch is to be considered a war warning . . . an aggressive move by Japan is expected within the next few days. Crucially, the signal goes on: The ...
( Category: History & Theory April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-03 | Author:Simon Heffer [Heffer, Simon]

MPs praised Forster for his measure, and for his courage. However, dissenters did not wish to subsidise Church of England schools – or to be forced to send their children ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Robert Harvey [Harvey, Robert]

CHAPTER 16 Plassey In this dismal encampment, far removed from the decadent baroque palace of Chandernagore, Clive had to make the most agonising decision of his life. Before him lay ...
epub |eng | 2020-03-26 | Author:Thomas Leahy [Leahy, Thomas]

( Category: Great Britain April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-22 | Author:Anna Beer

Quite apart from the fact that Ralegh appears unaware that presenting himself as the ideal father figure (and the boy did indeed admire Sir Walter) might alienate rather than flatter ...
( Category: Europe April 3,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Mike Pitts [Pitts, Mike]

In recent years there has been an unprecedented amount of archaeological fieldwork around Stonehenge, much of it still under analysis. Our understanding of ancient landscapes is changing profoundly. And nowhere, ...
( Category: Great Britain April 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-14 | Author:Terry Deary [Deary, Terry]

Chorus: Come home, come home, come home, Please father, dear father, come home. Hear the sweet voice of the child, Which the night winds repeat as they roam! Oh! Who ...
( Category: General March 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rene Chartrand

Junot regroups to face the British To the French, it was now clear that, except for the troops holding out in the fortress of Almeida, the north of Portugal was ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Carlo D'Este

The last British soldier at Dunkirk the morning of June 3, 1940, was an aristocratic, unflappable Guards officer in charge of the British rear guard. Major General Harold Alexander, best ...
( Category: World War I March 28,2020 )