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The Making Of The British Army by Allan Mallinson
epub |zho | 2009-11-09 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

The promise of serving together proved powerful. In Liverpool the earl of Derby, the great mover and shaker of the commercial northwest (and subsequently director-general of army recruiting), called on ...
( Category: Engineering March 26,2014 )
The Conquering Family by Thomas B. Costain
epub, mobi |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Thomas B. Costain [Costain, Thomas B.]

3 During the last visit he paid to England before becoming King, Richard had been in the offices of the chancellery; briefly, because of his dislike for his bastard brother ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Simon Jenkins

Painted ceiling in the Royal Hospital in Greenwich: though firm Protestants, William and Mary revelled in Stuart grandeur and understood the potency of monarchical symbols. Anne, last of the Stuart ...
( Category: England March 26,2014 )
1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Stephen Clarke

15 The Guillotine, a British Invention ‘There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.’ P. G. Wodehouse Before France ...
( Category: European March 26,2014 )
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe by Anne Applebaum
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Anne Applebaum [Applebaum, Anne]

Chapter 12 INTERNAL ENEMIES The Party promises only one thing: after the victory, one day when it can do no more harm, the material of the secret archives will be ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Anne Applebaum [Applebaum, Anne]

Chapter 12 INTERNAL ENEMIES The Party promises only one thing: after the victory, one day when it can do no more harm, the material of the secret archives will be ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimons
epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Peter Fitzsimons [Fitzsimons, Peter]

CHAPTER ELEVEN A WEARY WAY TO GO… Kono kuso ame! While the Japanese language has no real equivalent to the western notion of swearing, this phrase loosely translates to ‘this ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
Everything Is Broken by Emma Larkin
epub |eng | 2010-03-28 | Author:Emma Larkin

MONKS IN MANDALAY were said to be holding out against the soldiers. Whenever soldiers approached the monasteries there, the temple bells were rung and monks would mass together to form ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson
epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Perry Anderson

1 Judith Brown, Nehru: A Political Life, New Haven 2003, p. 87. 2 An Autobiography, London 1936, pp. 72, 374, 84–85, 370–371, 507–508, 591; Brown, Nehru, p. 133. 3 An ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
The discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jawaharlal Nehru [Nehru, Jawaharlal]

attitude was necessary and no truck with nationalism and sedi- tion. The Aligarh College group had become the leaders of the new Moslem intelligentsia and influenced sometimes openly, more often ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
The Rape Of Nanking by Iris Chang
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Iris Chang [Chang, Iris]

In January 1938, not one shop was officially open in Nanking except for a military store and the International Committee’s rice shop. The harbor was practically empty of ships. Most ...
( Category: China March 26,2014 )
Little America by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
epub |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Rajiv Chandrasekaran [Chandrasekaran, Rajiv]

The amusements grew tiresome after a while. Some staffers retreated to their trailers to watch movies on their laptops. Others grew homesick and despondent. The embassy health clinic doled out ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire by Anthony Everitt
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Anthony Everitt [Everitt, Anthony]

As soon as the ships were completed, they were launched and the crews went aboard for some “real-life” practice. Under the command of a consul-admiral, they then set sail for ...
( Category: Political Science March 26,2014 )
Lords of the Sea by John R. Hale
epub |eng | | Author:John R. Hale

THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION, 415-413 B.C. He went peacefully, leaving Nicias and Lamachus in charge of the expedition. At one of the landing places on the Italian coast, however, Alcibiades eluded ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
Persian Fire by Tom Holland
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-06-11 | Author:Tom Holland [Holland, Tom]

Clearing the Decks The notion that any man had only to clap his hands to have a canal dug, a bridge built or a whole continent summoned teeming into arms ...
( Category: Greece March 26,2014 )

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