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The Dominici Affair by Martin Kitchen
epub |eng | 2017-07-28 | Author:Martin Kitchen [Kitchen, Martin]

In Jean Giono’s novel The Hussar on the Roof (1955), set in Basses-Alpes, Pauline says, “We have fallen among monsters!” Angelo replies, “No, we have fallen among something worse than ...
( Category: Europe October 19,2017 )
A Perfidious Distortion of History by Jurgen Tampke
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2017-01-30 | Author:Jurgen Tampke

CHAPTER FIVE Weimar After the wounds left by the bitter division over Germany’s role in the war, chances that a united workers’ movement would give strength to the newborn republic ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 18,2017 )
The Race Against the Stasi by Herbie Sykes
epub |eng | 2014-10-18 | Author:Herbie Sykes

My writing to Sylvia wasn’t a way of rebelling as such, but I was conscious of the fact that I was exercising a basic human right. I hadn’t intended it ...
( Category: Biographies October 18,2017 )
Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War by Ronald Fraser
mobi |eng | 2012-06-28 | Author:Ronald Fraser

* * * The only dilemma is this: either victory over Franco through a revolutionary war, or defeat. Camillo Berneri, Italian anarchist (Barcelona, November 1936) * * * The libertarians ...
( Category: Military October 18,2017 )
Blood of Spain by Ronald Fraser
epub |eng | | Author:Ronald Fraser

* * * The reformists, the republicans also say they want to make the revolution. But they tell you that they want an orderly, well-made revolution; Lenin also came up ...
( Category: Military October 18,2017 )
The Great Cat Massacre: and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton
epub, azw3 |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Robert Darnton [Darnton, Robert]

( Category: Europe October 18,2017 )
The New Wild West by Blaire Briody
epub |eng | | Author:Blaire Briody

26. DONNY NELSON It wasn’t easy to find Donny Nelson. When I first arrived in the area, I wanted to find someone who was outspoken against the oil and gas ...
( Category: Americas October 18,2017 )
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria by Justin Pollard
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Justin Pollard

Then trouble arose, because ignorant rebels interrupted in the South the works on the Throne-of-the-gods [i.e., the temple of Edfu]. The rebellion raged in the South until year 19 of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 18,2017 )
Foundation by Peter Ackroyd
mobi |eng | 2012-09-20 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

The brief supremacy of Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, lasting from the autumn of 1326 to the autumn of 1330, was not itself a glorious one. The lands and treasures ...
( Category: Europe October 18,2017 )
Hard News by Seth Mnookin
epub |eng | 2004-11-09 | Author:Seth Mnookin

THE TIMES’S REPORT On Saturday, May 10, Catherine Mathis was at her weekend home in New Jersey. Mathis, the Times’s relentlessly cheery spokeswoman, openly admits she has “drunk the Kool-Aid” ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 17,2017 )
A Child's War by Mike Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Brown

SOME WARTIME RECIPES All these recipes are taken from some of the many recipe books and leaflets printed at the time. Like many of the recipes of the period, they ...
( Category: Military October 17,2017 )
The Sugar Girls by Duncan Barrett
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Duncan Barrett

With the new Blue Room came a number of new workers. While Gladys’s friend Betty had an uncle and a sister at the factory, fresh recruit Eva Browning seemed to ...
( Category: Sociology October 17,2017 )
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Mark Mazower [Mazower, Mark]

The late Ottoman Balkan peninsula BEYOND ORTHODOXY TO THE OTTOMAN AUTHORITIES what had always mattered were religious rather than national or linguistic differences: Balkan Christians were either under the authority ...
( Category: Europe October 17,2017 )
The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rick Bragg

chapter four homer’s odyssey He lay in the freezing mud, Germans thick as blackbirds in the distant hedgerows, thousand-pound bombs falling, falling into the earth. Around him the forests splintered, ...
( Category: Americas October 17,2017 )
Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side by Sanders Ed
epub |eng | 2011-12-12 | Author:Sanders, Ed [Sanders, Ed]

A Call from Jack Kerouac Kerouac called me at the Peace Eye Bookstore one night in the late summer. He wanted me to jot down a poem, so I did. ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 17,2017 )

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