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Bolitho #21 - Beyond the Reef by Alexander Kent
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]

So many ifs and maybes. Suppose the plan to land on and capture the French islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe misfired? Without overwhelming superiority at sea the scheme would certainly ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 19,2017 )
The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Alex Butterworth [Butterworth, Alex]

‘Two thousand men who smoke, drink and chat, and seven or eight hundred women who laugh, drink, smoke, and offer the greatest gaity in the world,’ marvelled one Russian aristocrat ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 19,2017 )
The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Smith Stephanie J.;
epub |eng | | Author:Smith, Stephanie J.;

The Long Road Home Unfortunately for Reyes, the PCM’s renewed commitment toward a greater inclusion of women came too late. Indeed, on 1 June 1940, La Voz de México published ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 18,2017 )
The Village by Ivan Bunin
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-10-06 | Author:Ivan Bunin

3 In that distant time when Ilya Mironov had lived for a couple of years in Durnovka, Kuzma had been no more than a child, and there remained in his ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 18,2017 )
Burke and Wills: The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers by Peter Fitzsimons
epub |eng | 2017-10-30 | Author:Peter Fitzsimons [Fitzsimons, Peter]

As exhausted as he is, Wills’s thoughts turn guiltily to poor Gray. How many times had they looked askance at his shambling gait, his constant insistence on resting, his slowness ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania December 18,2017 )
The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King by Michael of Kent
mobi |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:Michael of Kent

De tant de mathématique? Quelle princesse entend mieux Du grand monde la peinture Les chemins de la nature Et la musique des cieux? (Is there another lady who possesses such ...
( Category: Europe December 18,2017 )
Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax by Kate Berridge
mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Kate Berridge

10 Vide et Crede! The Lyceum Theatre, London ONE OF PHILIPSTAL’S programmes of entertainment in London was entitled ‘A Magical Deception’. But unfortunately it was not just on stage that ...
( Category: World December 18,2017 )
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History by Kati Marton
mobi |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Kati Marton

BETTY, A BORN PERFORMER, loved the role. Like Jacqueline Kennedy, though from another world, she understood the symbolic power of her undefined position. She grasped what Pat Nixon did not: ...
( Category: Historical December 18,2017 )
The Far Traveler by Nancy Marie Brown
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-04 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

Chapter 7: Land of Wine or Walrus A ship came to Greenland from Norway that summer. Its captain was a man named Thorfinn Karlsefni. He was the son of Thord ...
( Category: Europe December 18,2017 )
Mary Tudor by Linda Porter
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-08 | Author:Linda Porter

The picture of Mary as a woman who had little grasp of what was going on, who could not work with her politicians and was essentially run by her cousin, ...
( Category: World December 18,2017 )
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times by Michael Burleigh
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Burleigh

The sharp-eyed will notice that Xi Jinping holds the highest cards, with close connections to the PLA as well as experience governing booming provinces. After graduating, through gritted teeth, in ...
( Category: Americas December 18,2017 )
The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo by Walter Lord
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Walter Lord [Lord, Walter]

These instructions reached Gort during the afternoon, and he read them aloud at a final GHQ, conference that assembled in his beachfront villa at 6:00 p.m. Besides General Barker, commanding ...
( Category: Europe December 18,2017 )
Watkin Tench's 1788 by Flannery Tim; Tench Watkin;
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Flannery, Tim; Tench, Watkin;

† Sailors were in the habit of calling the salt meat they ate on long voyages ‘junks’, but the word was also used synonymously with ‘chunks’. †† A dirk was ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania December 17,2017 )
A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Orlando Figes [Figes, Orlando]

This at last was mutiny: having been denounced as a rebel, Kornilov chose to rebel. Several senior generals declared their support for him. Now Kerensky had a real 'counter-revolution' to ...
( Category: Russia December 17,2017 )
A Circle of Sisters by Judith Flanders
epub |eng | 2006-12-17 | Author:Judith Flanders

The mother’s care and … attentions have completely demoralized me and … I have decided that when I marry it must be a lady well versed in domestic knowledge, not ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )

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