World
epub |eng | | Author:Caryl, Christian [Caryl, Christian]

16 Back to the Future The regime in Warsaw was, of course, deeply entrenched. It had enjoyed thirty-five years of unchallenged rule. It was Stalin himself, backed by the full ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Tom Bissell

This is the only time in the gospel tradition that the author turns to his audience and claims to be witness to the events recorded. It would seem that this ...
( Category: Christianity March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Svetlana Boym [Boym, Svetlana]

The main feature of Berlin in transition is a cohabitation of various nostalgias and a superimposition of Eastern and Western ways of commemoration. Recent postcards of Berlin incorporate the nostalgias ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:Leuchtenburg, William E.

“And”—Johnson broke off his sentence for a moment; then, raising his arms, resumed—“we shall overcome.” His biographer Robert Dallek has described the response by the members of Congress and the ...
( Category: United States March 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Hermann Hoth [Hoth, Hermann]

RUSSIAN RELIEF ATTACKS AGAINST THE EASTERN AND NORTHERN FRONTS OF PANZER GROUP 3, 18-27 JULY (MAPS 12 AND 13) As cover against the eastern and northern sides of the Smolensk ...
( Category: Russia March 19,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:Terry Goldsworthy [Goldsworthy, Terry]

The concentration-camp system was just too big, and the Waffen-SS too closely entwined for the soldiers of the Waffen-SS not to have known about the activities that were going on ...
( Category: Holocaust March 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:Noam Chomsky

4. Securing the Victory The United States was the “regime’s most reliable ally,” Thomas Skidmore observes in the most comprehensive scholarly study of what came next. US aid “saved the ...
( Category: World March 18,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Barham [Barham, Andrea]

Scottish explorer Dr Livingstone got lost in the Congo In the popular imagination, Scottish missionary Dr David Livingstone has gained the reputation of being a rather feckless explorer, since many ...
( Category: History March 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Ruth Goodman

9. The Midday Meal Taken at noon, the midday meal was known as ‘lunch’ or ‘dinner’. The name largely depended upon social background, but it was also dictated by the ...
( Category: Europe March 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bruce Feiler

We entered Nebuchadnezzar II’s palace. Reconstructed walls of caramel-colored bricks climbed forty feet high, topped with hundreds of small pyramidal merlons. The walls were interrupted with elongated arches, more than ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Levine [Levine, Joshua]

In a letter to a friend, a woman from west London describes a Canadian soldier she had met – and perhaps gives a hint of their attraction to British women: ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:Frankopan, Peter [Frankopan, Peter]

19 The Wheat Road The British magazine Homes & Gardens has long prided itself on being at the cutting edge of interior design. ‘Mixing beautiful features with gorgeous real-life homes ...
( Category: Historic March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Bostridge

By early 1931, after nursing the new baby for six months, Vera was writing Testament of Youth almost every day, in addition to contributing a regular column to the periodical, ...
( Category: World War I March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-14 | Author:Unknown

* * * Athos and Helikon marched up the rain-drenched hill to an old Roman wall that spanned nearly half of the lush green countryside. Athos’ fingers were tightly wound ...
( Category: Genealogy March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Reza Aslan [Aslan, Reza]

The debate between the Rationalist and the Traditionalist Ulama continued for a few hundred years, with each school alternating in influence, until the end of the thirteenth century, when, partly ...
( Category: Islam March 14,2016 )