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Bravo two zero by Andy McNab
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-10-15 | Author:Andy McNab

9 They must have been thousand-pounders. We heard several explosions; the area was getting severely hammered. The pressure waves hit us and the car rattled. The guards cursed. The vehicle ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
Islamic Gunpowder Empires by Streusand Douglas E
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Streusand, Douglas E. [Streusand, Douglas E.]

IMAGE 4.3 Caravanserai at the Ganj ‘Ali Khan Complex (1598-1619), Kerman. Ganj Ali Khan served as Shah Abbas I’s governor of Kerman, Qandahar, and Sistan. A great patron of public ...
( Category: Conventional March 25,2014 )
The Secret History of the World by Jonathan Black
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Black

WHAT IS LESS WELL KNOWN IS THAT ANOTHER enemy was at work on the other side of the world. There an initiate wielded a blacker, more powerful magic than that ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Katherine Ashenburg

The poor were not the only ones who found bathing suspect. Earnest and self-denying, the middle class and the more religious circles of the upper class distrusted the self-indulgence of ...
( Category: Social Work March 25,2014 )
Secret Societies by John Lawrence Reynolds
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-23 | Author:John Lawrence Reynolds

EIGHT THE MAFIA AND COSA NOSTRA WISE GUYS AND BUSINESSMEN NOTHING DISTINGUISHES THE MAFIA FROM OTHER SECRET societies more than omerta, its rigid code of silence. And nothing more clearly ...
( Category: Freemasonry March 25,2014 )
Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Stephanie Coontz

Chapter 13 Making Do, Then Making Babies: Marriage in the Great Depression and World War II In September 1929, twenty-year-old Cora Winslow was not worrying about the future of marriage. ...
( Category: Marriage & Family March 25,2014 )
A History of the World by Andrew Marr
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Andrew Marr

And Yet It Moves A day in August 1609: in one of the most gorgeously decorated rooms in the world, the Hall of the College in the Doge’s Palace in ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Niall Ferguson

5 Safe as Houses It is the English-speaking world’s favourite economic game: property. No other facet of financial life has such a hold on the popular imagination. No other asset-allocation ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
Reappraisals by Tony Judt
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Tony Judt

CHAPTER XIV The Stateless State: Why Belgium Matters Belgium gets a bad press. A small country—the size of Wales, with a population of just ten million—it rarely attracts foreign notice; ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Hope and History by Josef Pieper
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Josef Pieper

IV In both scope and depth, the most penetrating statement on the topic of “hope” to be found in present-day literature is undoubtedly the work of Ernst Block. The subject ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS
mobi | | | Author:Erik Larson

( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Richard J. Evans

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: Fascism March 25,2014 )
The Wars Against Napoleon: Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars by General Michel; Weider Franceschi
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-02-01 | Author:General Michel; Weider Franceschi

Britain Saved by its Navy at Trafalgar With due allowance for the differences, the Franco-British confrontation may be compared to that between Rome and Carthage during the Punic Wars, with ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi by Olivier Magny
mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Olivier Magny

House Parties Tourists visiting Paris may be disappointed by the Parisian bar and going-out scene. The main reason behind this is that young Parisians do not go out as much ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
Citizens by Simon Schama
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-21 | Author:Simon Schama

une bonne vie bourgeoise, an excellent table; all the pleasures allowed to men of the world; all the delicacies afforded by opulence… you frequent the best company; you receive a ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )

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