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epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Jenny Uglow
Rowlandson, Perry’s Dock at Blackwall, 1806 The war prompted many inventions. The artillery had already adopted Colonel Shrapnel’s ‘spherical case-shot’ with its fuse exploding an inner shell, scattering shot as ...
( Category:
Great Britain
March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Harvey
In the Soviet State This was the state of the power structure on the eve of the most astonishing transformation since the 1917 revolution. The conflicts within it resulted in ...
( Category:
Communism & Socialism
March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:David I. Kertzer [Kertzer, David I.]
13. The Pope's Body A FEW DAYS BEFORE he was elected pope, Gioacchino Pecci, in his role as chamberlain, called in the dead pontiff's relatives for a reading of his ...
( Category:
Christianity
March 3,2015 )
epub |rus | 2011-05-25 | Author:Stevenson, David [Stevenson, David]
SHIPPING These discussions are a reminder that immense construction, manufacturing, and repair programmes underpinned the Allies’ triumph. British mine and depth charge output trebled between 1917 and 1918; that of ...
( Category:
European
March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Farage, Nigel [Farage, Nigel]
10 PROS AND CONS Yes, we are amateurs and oddballs. We have to be, don’t we, to stand out from the crowd, to reject protection and the assurances afforded by ...
( Category:
Great Britain
March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Menzies, Gavin; Hudson, Ian
THE SUBSTANCE OF LIU GANG’S MAP Liu Gang’s map provides remarkable information about Zheng He’s voyages. A full rendering of every place-name and the nomenclature of mountains, rivers, bays, inlets, ...
( Category:
Expeditions & Discoveries
March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Marione Ingram
A view of Hasselbrook Street after the bombing. We were stopped again as we approached the main train station. While two helmeted Tommies lifted the lids on the milk canisters, ...
( Category:
Holocaust
March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Derek Wilson [Derek Wilson]
Many Poles, in 1848, were under Austrian or Prussian rule, but the greater part of their land had been incorporated into Russia. The people were suffering appallingly. Polish universities were ...
( Category:
History
March 3,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-14 | Author:Alex Ross [Ross, Alex]
On January 30, 1939, Hitler celebrated the sixth anniversary of his regime by delivering a major address to the Reichstag. Since the burning of the Reichstag building in 1933, the ...
( Category:
Classical
March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi | | 2005-10-13 | Author:David Grann [Grann, David]
Still, Holt was determined to see the expedition through, and went to Rio to collect supplies. Fawcett, meanwhile, was turning over in his mind every aspect of Holt's performance: each ...
( Category:
Expeditions & Discoveries
March 3,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-27 | Author:Ian Morris [Morris, Ian]
Figure 5.16. Eastern and Western war-making capacity, 200 BCE–1600 CE. The shape of the curves for Western and Eastern war-making capacity between 200 BCE and 1500 CE (figure 5.16) suggests ...
( Category:
Specific Topics
March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Anthony Brandt [Brandt, Anthony]
The polar sea was not open after all. They would not be going anywhere until the ice broke up. So began yet another minuet with the ice. It retreated from ...
( Category:
Americas
March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-02 | Author:Hardy, Henry, Banville, John, Berlin, Isaiah
Appendix: Violence and Terror TWO EXCERPTS FROM MAISTRE’S SOIRÉES I The Violence of Nature THE FIRST EXCERPT IS THE FULL text of the passage from Maistre translated in part on ...
( Category:
Good & Evil
March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Hugh Thomas [Thomas, Hugh]
Book Five BALBOA AND PEDRARIAS How the Germans saw the New World. Woodcut, 1505. (Illustration credit 5.1) 24 “They took possession of all that sea” And in the presence of ...
( Category:
Expeditions & Discoveries
March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Roger Crowley
11 Terrible Engines APRIL 25–MAY 28, 1453 There is a need for machines for conducting a siege: different types and forms of tortoises … portable wooden towers … different forms ...
( Category:
Islam
March 3,2015 )
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