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epub |eng | 2010-07-13 | Author:O'Connell, Robert L. [O'Connell, Robert L.]

[5] As the sun rose on Tuesday, the second day in August, the scarlet tunic signifying battle could be seen displayed above the tent of Terentius Varro, whose turn it ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Hoobler, Dorothy [Hoobler, Dorothy]

Apollinaire was smoking a short-stemmed pipe and expiating on Petronius and Nero to some rather vulgar-looking people.… He was wearing a stained light-colored suit, and a tiny straw hat was ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Bernstein, William J. [Bernstein, William J.]

The VOC quickly recognized that if it was to monopolize the spice trade, the Bandanese would have to go. And go they did, with a brutality and efficiency that would ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-19 | Author:Lehrack, Otto [Lehrack, Otto]

THE ATTACK ON NAM YEN 3 As Hotel, 2/4’s 1st and 3d platoons closed on Nam Yen 3 the first sign of life from the village was a black-pajama-clad man ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Tuchman, Barbara W. [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

15 “The Cossacks Are Coming!” ON AUGUST 5 IN ST. PETERSBURG Ambassador Paléologue of France drove past a regiment of Cossacks leaving for the front. Its general, seeing the French ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-18 | Author:Leick, Gwendolyn [Leick, Gwendolyn]

— F r e d e r i c k M a r i o F a l e s — the written sources of the seventh century BC, engaged ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1955-01-01 | Author:Bernstein, William [Bernstein, William]

THE TORCH IS PASSED James was a rabid Catholic, but the opposing Dissenters and parliamentarians were not alarmed by his religious beliefs. James was past fifty years old when he ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Westad, Odd Arne [Westad, Odd Arne]

ANY SOCIETY PUT UNDER the stress of massive warfare will suffer, not just at the time but for years to come. China was no exception. Everywhere the Japanese armies went, ...
( Category: Asia April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Herwig, Holger H. [Herwig, Holger H.]

* A term famously coined by Muhammad Ali for the “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in October 1974 at Kinshasa, Zaire. *Interestingly, in 1934 King Albert of Belgium ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Freeman, Charles [Freeman, Charles]

15 INTERLUDE Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and the Defence of Paganism Among the thousands of items on display in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, it is ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:French, Howard W. [French, Howard W.]

CHAPTER EIGHT Castles in the Sand My second visit to Mali came more than a decade after my first. In lieu of a goatskin sack and a battered tape player, ...
( Category: Africa April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Diamond, Jared [Diamond, Jared]

( Category: Social Sciences April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-18 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]

‘HELL HAS BROKEN OUT’ I On the Eastern Front, the defeat of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad marked the beginning of a long retreat that was only to end ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-15 | Author:Elliott, John H. [Elliott, John H.]

CHAPTER 10 War and Reform The Seven Years War (1756-63) and imperial defence The great international conflict known to the colonists as the French and Indian War, and to Europeans ...
( Category: Americas April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]

II The complacent belief of Franz von Papen and his friends that they had Hitler where they wanted him did not last long. The Nazis occupied only three cabinet posts. ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )