Military
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Desmond Seward [Seward, Desmond]

All matters there he mars, Clapping his rod in the board, No man dare speak a word: For he hath all the saying without any renaying. He rolleth in his ...
( Category: Great Britain July 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]

In Egypt, Vespasian installed himself and his staff at Alexandria, the capital. Founded by Alexander the Great, this was for all intents and purposes a Greek city, with very few ...
( Category: Jewish July 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Desmond Seward

THE PRIME OF EDWARD IV, 1471–83 26 WILLIAM HASTINGS, LIEUTENANT OF CALAIS, 1471 WILLIAM HASTINGS The Lord Hastings had become an even greater power in the land. No one had ...
( Category: Great Britain July 7,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Ann Scott Tyson

CHAPTER 20 ONE WARM SPRING EVENING under a sky brimming with stars, Noor Afzhal rose from a wooden cot in the courtyard of his Mangwel qalat. The village was quiet ...
( Category: United States July 7,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Grimes, Martha [Grimes, Martha]

23 Which he did, after tea, when she was feeding hounds. As the cage of the kennel clicked shut behind, the raucous outcry he’d heard in the distance had died; ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives July 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-19 | Author:Tom Wareham [Wareham, Tom]

The move was quite probably equally unwelcome to the seamen also. The Melampus herself was also to be placed under Bridport’s command. For nearly two weeks, the frigates waited for ...
( Category: History July 3,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Morris

Figure 5.11. Overwhelmed: a German artilleryman despairs as the biggest tank battle in history, at Kursk in July 1943, ends Hitler’s hopes of defeating the Soviet Union. Learning to Love ...
( Category: General June 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Christopher Tyerman [Tyerman, Christopher]

Jihad, a pillar of the Muslim faith, means “struggle.” The greater jihad is the internal or personal struggle, and the lesser jihad is the struggle in the believer’s daily activity. ...
( Category: Christianity June 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Amin Maalouf

9 The Rush for the Nile ÝMy uncle ShÐrkÙh turned to me and said, “YÙsuf, pack your things, we’re going.” When I heard this order, I felt as if my ...
( Category: Islam June 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Thomas F. Madden [Madden, Thomas F.]

Illustration 1. Peter the Hermit leading the First Crusade. Miniature from Egerton Manuscript 1500, f. 45v. © De Agostini/The British Library Board. Illustration 2. Templar riding into battle. Fresco from ...
( Category: General June 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-23 | Author:Winston Groom

JAKE EXULTED SILENTLY when he received the radio signal that told him his letter to Joe Rochefort had made its way to Washington and been accepted. He had maintained the ...
( Category: World War II June 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Scott Martelle

The search began in earnest in late June 1899, with a series of letters and inquiries to various French political figures and bureaucrats. Vignaud, a voracious reader of the Parisian ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-19 | Author:Richard Overy

“Will Germany Crack?”: 1944–45 In February 1944, Heinrich Himmler, appointed minister of the interior in August 1943, in addition to his other offices, announced that “no German city will be ...
( Category: World War II June 23,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-07-04 | Author:Jonathan Phillips [Phillips, Jonathan]

9 The Frankish rulers of the Levant: Power and succession, c. 1100-74 Two of the most important issues for the rulers of the Latin States to confront were the establishment ...
( Category: Europe June 23,2014 )