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Battle Story by Chris Brown
epub |eng | 2012-08-13 | Author:Chris Brown [Brown, Chris]

35. Typical pre-war ‘atap’ house of the kind found in kampongs (villages) the length and breadth of Malaya and Singapore. (Author’s collection) 36. Typical pre-war shop-houses of the kind found ...
( Category: Europe August 19,2017 )
The decline and fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Piers Brendon [Brendon, Piers]

This verdict was heard in other parts of Africa painted red on the map. Settler colonies in particular seemed bent on following the Boer example: one Cewa chief complained that ...
( Category: Europe August 19,2017 )
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married by Nancy Rubin Stuart
mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Nancy Rubin Stuart

9 “Yet We Wade On” IF PEGGY’S PERSONAL STAR was on the rise, Arnold’s was in freefall as their respective ships headed into the high seas. The Rebel, an American ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2017 )
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset
epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Anne Somerset [Somerset, Anne]

SEVEN A COURT IN CHAOS There were many people who believed that in 1670 the King’s English sister-in-law, Henriette-Anne, Duchesse d’Orléans, had been killed by poison. Her death had been ...
( Category: Europe August 19,2017 )
Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Andrea Stuart [Stuart, Andrea]

11 The history of liberty is a history of resistance. —WOODROW WILSON WHILE THE ISLANDERS strove to further consolidate their sugar empire, the outside world was once again nipping at ...
( Category: Americas August 19,2017 )
The Arch Conjuror of England by Parry Glyn
epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Parry, Glyn [Parry, Glyn]

CHAPTER 17 The Magnificent Master Alchemist BEFORE DEE and Kelley left, all states had been warned against Dee's ‘religious innovations’. The city of Erfurt in Thuringia refused them leave to ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2017 )
In the Land of White Death by Valerian Albanov
epub, azw3 |eng | 2001-01-19 | Author:Valerian Albanov

ALEXANDRA LAND JUNE 28 I had to neglect my diary for two full days because I had neither the time nor the peace and quiet I needed to record my ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica August 19,2017 )
Winston S. Churchill by unknow
mobi |eng | 2011-03-19 | Author:unknow

Strategic divergences between Clinton and Cornwallis now brought disaster to the British and Loyalist cause. Cornwallis had long chafed under Clinton’s instructions, which tethered him to his base at Charleston. ...
( Category: Military August 19,2017 )
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak
mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Geert Mak

Chapter THIRTY-FOUR Leningrad ON DISPLAY IN ST PETERSBURG'S MUNICIPAL MUSEUM IS THE THIN, light-blue diary of eleven-year-old Tanya Savitsyeva. The only entries for 1941–2 are these: Zyenya died, 28 December, ...
( Category: Europe August 18,2017 )
A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People by Christopher Hill
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Hill

20. The Holy War Mansoul it was the very seat of war. Diabolus: ‘If we get them a second time they shall be ours for ever’. BUNYAN1 i. Allegory and ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 18,2017 )
Luther's Fortress by James Reston
epub |eng | | Author:James Reston [Reston, James]

Ten A CLANDESTINE MISSION IN LATE NOVEMBER LUTHER DECIDED THAT HE NEEDED TO SEE the volatile situation in Wittenberg for himself, and for good reason. In early December, a mob ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership August 18,2017 )
The Reformation Experience by Eric Ives
epub |eng | 2012-08-18 | Author:Eric Ives

by good works we mean not the superstitious works of men’s own invention, which be not commanded by God, nor approved by his word, in which kind of works many ...
( Category: Europe August 18,2017 )
Enemies of the Enlightenment by McMahon Darrin M.;
epub |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:McMahon, Darrin M.;

History If in the microcosm of the family anti-philosophes found a rich source of principles from which to create their image of the well-constituted society, they turned with equal relish ...
( Category: Philosophy August 18,2017 )
The Little Book of Big History by Ian Crofton
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-08-18 | Author:Ian Crofton

LAND, LABOUR AND POWER From the early days of settled agricultural societies, control over land was a crucial feature of economics, society and politics in many parts of the world. ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 18,2017 )
With Hitler in the West by Heinrich Hoffmann
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Heinrich Hoffmann

The Führer visits the graves of German soldiers in Flanders. On the right of the Führer is the Commanding General of an Army Corps, General of the Infantry von Schwedler. ...
( Category: Photography & Video August 18,2017 )

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