Reference
epub |eng | | Author:Nicola Tyrer

When the call for duty rang out, I was one of those thousands who decided that our homes and farms were worth fighting for. We left behind those who were ...
( Category: World War II December 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-26 | Author:Tom Curran

CHAPTER 6 The Dardanelles Commission A combination of public criticism and Parliamentary pressure forced the Asquith government to convene a Royal Commission enquiry in 1916 to determine how and why ...
( Category: World War I June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Jack Lynch [Lynch, Jack]

and will miss the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica… . But we live in a complex world, too big for a few hundred people to cover completely, and too fast-moving for print ...
( Category: History May 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Trombley [Trombley, Stephen]

Jaspers’s ‘pre-philosophical’ period Jaspers studied law, then took PhDs in both medicine and psychology at Heidelberg, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. His early influences were Kant, Nietzsche and ...
( Category: History & Surveys May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Captain Charles Johnson

CAPTAIN JOHN PHILLIPS, AND HIS CREW CAPTAIN JOHN PHILLIPS, AND HIS CREW JOHN PHILLIPS was bred a carpenter, but sailing in a West Country ship to Newfoundland, was taken by ...
( Category: History April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

Chapter VII Dick Makes Himself Useful The effect of Geoffrey's incidental allusions to Mr. Shiner was to restrain a considerable flow of spontaneous chat that would otherwise have burst from ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
epub | | 2016-01-06 | Author:Barrett Tillman [Tillman, Barrett]

LCVP: U.S. Army via Martin K.A. Morgan. Landing Craft, Assault (LCA) The British variant of the Higgins Boat (LCVP) differed primarily from the U.S. design in being lightly armored. Consequently, ...
( Category: Military January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Paul Cartledge [Cartledge, Paul]

10 THEBES This has come from my counsel: Sparta has cut the hair of her glory: Messene takes her children in: a wreath of the spears of Thebe has crowned ...
( Category: Greece January 5,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Hatch, Mary Jo [Hatch, Mary Jo]

The politics of identity and diversity Feminists often argue that stereotypes cause us to discredit and devalue some members of society. They point to the fact that the high-paying, prestigious ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bryan Perrett

When the troops, having been briefed on the operation, marched out of camp at 04:30 on 20 October, their muttered opinion of the generals was ripe, to say the least. ...
( Category: Strategy November 24,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Daniel Rosenberg

[11] * * * J. Pearson’s Historical and Astronomical Diagram from 1846 is marked out at regular one-year intervals from 31 BCE to 37 CE. Pearson strives to correct William ...
( Category: Historic November 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Henry I. Shaw [Shaw, Henry I.]

More than 200 Japanese soldiers alone were killed in a frenzied attack in the sandspit where the Tenaru River flows into Ironbottom Sound (Sealark Channel). On the 9th, Whaling’s force, ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Arthur Schopenhauer [Schopenhauer, Arthur]

* * * HUMAN NATURE. Truths of the physical order may possess much external significance, but internal significance they have none. The latter is the privilege of intellectual and moral ...
( Category: Reference July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laura Lee Hope [Hope, Laura Lee]

"You could bring him a lot of little puppy cakes, and they would be the same as one big dog-biscuit, maybe," said Sue. "No, I'll bring him a regular cake, ...
( Category: England July 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-18 | Author:Laura Lee Hope [Hope, Laura Lee]

* * * CHAPTER XIV THE RAGGED BOY "Ding-dong! Ding-ding! Ding-dong!" rang the breakfast bell in Camp Rest-a-While. Bunny Brown and his sister Sue, snug in their cots, heard it, ...
( Category: Reference July 19,2015 )