Historical Study & Educational Resources
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-09-25 | Author:Berendt, John [Berendt, John]

Friends of Olga’s, their suspicions already aroused, became alarmed when the episode of the missing papers occurred. Several people called Mary de Rachewiltz and implored her to come down to ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Hanna Krall

16 His conversations with his father, conducted in his maximum security cell, ended in a silence behind which Stefan W. could feel a stubborn, unreconciled disapproval. At first this had ...
( Category: Holocaust April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Isabel Fonseca

A Kalderash girl from Sintesti, Romania, 1994. Her back-tied head scarf and gold coins show that she is married. (photo credits 4.5) A hundred yards up a climbing dirt path ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-27 | Author:Gillen D'Arcy Wood

A CATASTROPHE, BUT NOT CATASTROPHISM Now largely forgotten outside Switzerland, the 1818 Val de Bagnes disaster was nevertheless widely reported in the European press and became a major talking point ...
( Category: Rivers April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Jacky Hyams

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UPPERS AND LOWERS The innate snobbery of many of the upper servants – governesses, for some reason, can be particularly snobbish towards the lowers, perhaps because they are ...
( Category: Class April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Judith Flanders

A City chophouse, fitted out with standard booth-style seating, or ‘boxes’, as they were known. The waiter looks anxious to serve: he was not an employee, but instead he paid ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-08 | Author:Harvey Rachlin

The Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln’s hallowed manifesto of liberty and freedom, is a curious anomaly. After the states of the South seceded from the United States to form the ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Florence Williams

• 9 • HOLY CRAP: HERMAN, HAMLET, AND THE ALL-IMPORTANT HUMAN GUT O, thou with the beautiful face, may the child Reared on your milk, attain a long life, like ...
( Category: Obstetrics & Gynecology April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Jesse Browner

CHAPTER VI GERMANS! A great many things keep happening some of them good, some of them bad. The inhabitants of different countries keep quarrelling fiercely with each other and kings ...
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jill Jonnes

By July 16, the sunny summer days had been blown away by heavy winds, followed by day after day of cold, rainy weather. This suited the mood of Minister Antonin ...
( Category: France April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Mackrell, Judith [Mackrell, Judith]

Chapter Nine NANCY When Tallulah made her debut in The Green Hat, she was not the only woman in London reputed to be the inspiration for its lovely, errant heroine, ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-06 | Author:Ariely, Dan [Ariely, Dan]

( Category: Interpersonal Relations April 1,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

“Zoom! Boom! Ta-ra-ra!” aided and abetted Detective Duncarry with enthusiasm. A waiter approached and whispered something in the Saint’s ear. “Spill the rest for yourself, Dun, and get yourself hated,” ...
( Category: Vigilante Justice March 30,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Paul D'Amato

The Myth of “State” Socialism The single worst legacy of Stalinism was to reinforce the mistaken notion that socialism can be measured by the degree of state control of the ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 27,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-07-06 | Author:Margaret MacMillan

Anyone who has ever had an argument and said, “You always do that” or “I trusted you” or “You owe me one,” is using history to gain an advantage in ...
( Category: History & Theory March 23,2015 )