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Weapons of World War II: A Photographic Guide to Tanks, Howitzers, Submachine Guns, and More Historic Ordnance by G.M. Barnes
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:G.M. Barnes

This is one of the many antiaircraft gun positions protecting the harbor of Cherbourg from possible Luftwaffe attacks. Two caliber .50 machine guns and one 37-mm A.A. automatic gun constitute ...
( Category: Military April 19,2018 )
What Regency Women Did For Us by Rachel Knowles
epub |eng | 2017-04-19 | Author:Rachel Knowles

A humble approach Jane approached the whole project with considerable diffidence. She felt that she was a relative novice and hesitated to publish a work that some might think presumptuous. ...
( Category: World April 19,2018 )
Judgment Before Nuremberg by Greg Dawson
epub |eng | | Author:Greg Dawson

CHAPTER SIXTEEN A sharp unmelodic jangle pierced my sleep, jolting me awake but disoriented in total darkness. The phone! I scrambled out of bed to a small desk and grabbed ...
( Category: World April 19,2018 )
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Roberto Calasso

Chateaubriand saw life in Paris during the years of the Revolution as like the “collection of ruins and tombstones from every century, heaped up in disarray in the cloisters of ...
( Category: Europe April 19,2018 )
The Light of Truth by Ida B. Wells
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Ida B. Wells

CHAPTER VIII Miss Willard’s Attitude No class of American citizens stands in greater need of the humane and thoughtful consideration of all sections of our country than do the colored ...
( Category: World April 19,2018 )
Revolution in the Air by Max Elbaum
epub |eng | | Author:Max Elbaum

Members of El Comité-MINP marching as a contingent in a New York City demonstration in the mid-1970s. Photo by George Cohen. Lynn Wells, a leader of the October League, then ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 19,2018 )
THE COLONEL WHO WOULD NOT REPENT: by Salil Tripathi
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:Salil Tripathi [Tripathi, Salil]

SEVEN THE BRAVE ONES here is a sense of finality about death. Someone dies; those who loved the person grieve. The person who has died is now beyond pain, feeling ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 19,2018 )
Daughters of the Winter Queen by Nancy Goldstone
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Nancy Goldstone

ALTHOUGH THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA and her family had been forced by the Treaty of Westphalia to cede the Upper Palatinate to the elector of Bavaria, the agreement was nonetheless ...
( Category: World April 19,2018 )
In the Name of Humanity by Max Wallace
epub |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Max Wallace

Jean-Marie Musy was born in 1876 in the tiny village of Albeuve in Fribourg, one of the seven Catholic Sonderbund cantons defeated in a civil war against the Protestant-dominated central ...
( Category: World April 19,2018 )
Rescue Board by Rebecca Erbelding
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Rebecca Erbelding

15 Adrift IN SURVEY GRAPHIC MAGAZINE’S September 1944 issue, John Pehle shared the story of a boy who had escaped certain death thanks to Ira Hirschmann’s efforts in Turkey. Under ...
( Category: World April 19,2018 )
When Montezuma Met Cortes: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History by Matthew Restall
azw3 |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Matthew Restall [Restall, Matthew]

* * * Cortés stood on the beach, waving his sword, yelling at Martín de Castro. Write this down, he told Castro, the senior notary among the men and horses ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 19,2018 )
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
epub |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Barbara Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara]

At Belgian Army Headquarters in Louvain on August 17, the day when Sir John French was meeting Lanrezac and Rupprecht was demanding permission to counterattack, Premier de Broqueville came to ...
( Category: Military April 18,2018 )
Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era (Film and Culture Series) by Noah Isenberg
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Noah Isenberg [Isenberg, Noah]

[ NINE ] * * * METROPOLIS (1927) CITY, CINEMA, MODERNITY * * * ANTON KAES One of the crucial antinomies of art today is that it wants to be ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 18,2018 )
The Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston
epub |eng | 2006-04-18 | Author:Paul Preston [ Preston, Paul]

SEVEN Politics behind the Lines: Reaction and Terror in the City of God If Stalin was cautious in helping the Spanish Republic, Hitler and Mussolini were by comparison unstinting in ...
( Category: Europe April 18,2018 )
Halal Food by Febe Armanios & Boğaç Ergene
epub |eng | 2018-04-18 | Author:Febe Armanios & Boğaç Ergene

“No Bacon Here!”: Magazines and Blogs “Cuisine” can be defined as a style of cooking and eating but also as the reliance on a creative toolbox of techniques, specific ingredients, ...
( Category: Islam April 18,2018 )

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