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Coming of the Third Reich, The by Richard J. Evans
mobi |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Richard J. Evans [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 March 9,2018 )
Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore by Wendy Moore
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Wendy Moore

When the general election was finally declared at the end of March, Bowes was summoned north to justify his woeful parliamentary record to the disgruntled voters in Newcastle with Mary ...
( Category: World March 9,2018 )
The Accountant's Story by David Fisher
mobi |eng | 2009-02-24 | Author:David Fisher

Six FOR MANY YEARS WE WERE CONTINUALLY ON THE MOVE, always watching the movements around us. It began with just the Colombian police and military searching for us, but eventually ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 9,2018 )
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 2) by Edward Gibbon
mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Edward Gibbon

Part VI. Athanasius had indeed escaped from the most imminent dangers; and the adventures of that extraordinary man deserve and fix our attention. On the memorable night when the church ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 9,2018 )
1492: The Year the World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

and similar hordes in the care of other officials and in provincial palaces, “my treasure and my treasures, wherever they shall be.” 25 The year 1492 was the decisive one ...
( Category: World March 9,2018 )
Blood and Rage by Michael Burleigh
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-04 | Author:Michael Burleigh

III DELIVERING CHAOS If all Irish terrorists were psychopathic criminals like Murphy, there would be no demonstrable ebb and flow to the violence, or shifts in how it was used ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 9,2018 )
The Story of the Scrolls by Geza Vermes
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-29 | Author:Geza Vermes

4. The War Scroll (1QM, 1Q33, 4Q471, 491–7) The rules of the War Scroll concern not the present but the future age, laying down in advance the scenario and the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 9,2018 )
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Mark Greengrass

PROTESTANT DIVISIONS The Reformation placed the spotlight on controlling the relationship between what people believed and how they behaved. The significance of the written ‘Confession’ was that it sought to ...
( Category: History March 9,2018 )
Story of Christianity, Volume 1 by Justo L. Gonzalez
epub |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Justo L. Gonzalez

Finally, after almost a century of Vandal rule, the area was conquered by General Belisarius, of the Byzantine Empire. That empire, with its capital in Constantinople, was enjoying a brief ...
( Category: History March 9,2018 )
Story of Christianity, Volume 2 by Justo L. Gonzalez
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Justo L. Gonzalez

THE MID-ATLANTIC COLONIES The colonies founded between New England and Maryland—New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware—did not initially serve as a refuge for any particular religious group. We have ...
( Category: History March 9,2018 )
Complicity by Anne Farrow
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Anne Farrow

The rebellion aboard the Spanish vessel Amistad, depicted here, is remembered as a victory in America’s fight against slavery. The Amistad incident, however, occurred at almost the same time as ...
( Category: Sociology March 9,2018 )
Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind by Sarah Wildman
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Sarah Wildman [Wildman, Sarah]

Perhaps Valy and my grandfather sang it to each other once, perhaps they saw the play together. But now the words “and I shall wait, as I promised before” have ...
( Category: World March 9,2018 )
Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 by Beevor Antony & Cooper Artemis
epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Beevor, Antony & Cooper, Artemis [Beevor, Antony & Cooper, Artemis]

Part Three INTO THE COLD WAR 19 The Shadow-Theatre: Plots and Counter-Plots The institution which was most disturbed by de Gaulle’s resignation was the officer corps. There was nobody left ...
( Category: Military March 9,2018 )
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Margaret MacMillan [MacMillan, Margaret]

1. Woodrow Wilson’s triumphal arrival in Paris before the start of the Peace Conference. His promise to establish a League of Nations to end war and to allow self-determination for ...
( Category: Military March 9,2018 )
IDEAS. A HISTORY OF THOUGHT AND INVENTION, FROM FIRE TO FREUD by watson peter
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:watson, peter [watson, peter]

At more or less the time that Veronese was appearing before the Inquisition in Venice, and the camerata were meeting in Florence, something equally noteworthy was happening in London. ‘Contemporaries ...
( Category: World March 8,2018 )

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