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12641) The Olive Grove
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A must read for fans of Rosie Thomas, Victoria Hislop and Rosanna Ley! An English woman searching for a different future A man desperate to escape his war-ravaged past Can these two find what they are looking for on the beautiful Croatian island of Korčula? Antonia Butler is on the brink of a life-changing decision and a job advert looking for a multilingual housekeeper at a beautifully renovated Croatian farmhouse, Vila Maslina, is one she can't...
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Extrait: "Les Gaulois, les peuples des Îles Britanniques, ceux de l'Illyrie et de l'Espagne, portèrent jadis indistinctement le nom de Celtes. La conformité des mœurs et des coutumes de ces peuples, l'affinité de leur langage qui ne différait que par la diversité des dialectes, la terminaison semblable de plusieurs noms propres et appellatifs, prouvent clairement que ces divers peuples descendent d'une même famille."
12643) Traitor to the Crown: The Untold Story of the Popish Plot and the Consipiracy Against Samuel Pepys
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1679, England: Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism have provoked panic in politicians and a zealous reaction from the legal system. Everywhere, or so it is feared, Catholic agents are plotting to overthrow the King. Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, finds himself charged with treason and facing a show trial and execution. Imprisoned in the Tower of London, Pepys sets to work investigating his mysterious accuser, Colonel John Scott,...
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A pictorial history of buses in the south west of England and a traveler's guide to things to see and do along the breathtaking South West Coast Path.
When one thinks of public transport in the south west over the years, two names tend to dominate, Western National and Devon General. But as this book with a difference shows, there was much more to it. While it features buses past and present from a variety of operators large and small, it does so...
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The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the skills necessary for hunting down and capturing partisan fighters in their camps in the forests of the Eastern Front. Their numbers were soon increased by others who were eager for a way out of imprisonment-including...
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The inventions of shares of stock and of a stock exchange are arguably as formative to the development of the world we live in as the discovery of the telescope or of the laws of motion. And those financial innovations were born in Amsterdam. Lodewijk Petram takes us back to 1602, when it all began, and shows how the major elements of the financial life of our time came into being. A clear and vital book.
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This is one boy's tale of growing up in Oxford in the forties and fifties. It is a foreign land of being caned on hand and bottom, of teachers washing out a child's mouth with soap as punishment for swearing. It was a time of conkers, fag cards and prozzie watching, when children asked strangers to take them in to the 'flicks' of collecting autographs in the Parks where that nice man asked the way to the gents... For this boy a scandalous act opened...
12648) The Russian Revolution
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February 23rd, 1917 was one of the most important days of the twentieth century. On February 23rd-International Women's Day, and lasting through until February 27th-the city of Petrograd went on strike, rebelled against the Tsarist government and overthrew it. Support quickly came from the countryside. Tsarist Russia had fallen. It sparked a series of protests and agitations that culminated in the Bolshevik revolution of October. The process whereby...
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Set during the same years of Henry VIII's life as The Tudors, this book charts his rise as a magnificent and ruthless monarch
Immortalized as a domineering king, notorious philanderer, and the unlikely benefactor of a new church, Henry VIII became a legend during his own reign. Who, though, was the young royal who would grow up to become England's most infamous ruler? Robert Hutchinson's Young Henry examines Henry Tudor's childhood beginnings and...
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Because of his foppish and dandified appearance, emphasised by the cigarette holder he always used, the Crown Prince was regarded by the British during the Great War as a figure of ridicule, known to them as Little Willy. He was born in Potsdam on 6 May 1882, the eldest of Kaiser, and his memoirs begin with his childhood and early years and the development of his relations with his father, a somewhat remote figure…When war came he was given command...
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Illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War. In this fascinating volume of letters and memoirs, the history of the Crimean War is full brought to life by Lt.-Col. Calthorpe. Lt.-Col. Calthorpe, later 7th baron Calthorpe (1831-1912), edited and initially published these letters anonymously that he had sent to friends from the Crimea, where he served as aide-de-camp...
12652) Barbarossa & the Retreat to Moscow: Recollections of Soviet Fighter Pilots on the Eastern Front
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The onset of war in the summer of 1941 was a disaster for the Soviet Air Force. In a few weeks, faced by the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, most of the Soviet frontline aircraft were destroyed, and the casualty rate among the pilots was cripplingly high. Yet the surviving few gained precious battle experience and they formed the core of the fighter force that turned the tables on the Germans and eventually won air superiority over the Eastern Front....
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An acclaimed military historian examines the vital role of British naval intelligence from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Cold War.
In this comprehensive account, Andrew Boyd brings a critical new dimension to our understanding of British naval intelligence. From the capture of Napoleons signal codes to the satellite-based systems of the Cold War era, he provides a coherent and reliable overview while setting his subject in the larger...
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Davide Rodogno is Fonds National Suisse Research Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is the author of Fascism's European Empire.
Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions...
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Tras la I Guerra Mundial y al centro de fuertes tensiones políticas, Berlín se convierte en un foco de creatividad y transgresión
El Berlín de entreguerras fue un hervidero artístico. Y su epicentro se situaba en el Romanisches Café. No es extraño que las visitas guiadas de la época se detuvieran a sus puertas y lo calificaran como «el olimpo de las artes inútiles, la sede de la bohemia berlinesa». Los visitantes podían encontrarse, con...
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The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, but history shows that, in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable combination of factors and circumstances combined to give birth to Britain as the first manufacturing nation. Further factors allowed it to remain top manufacturing dog well into the twentieth century while other countries were busy playing...
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There was a time when society was inspired by Christian principles. Art, government, society emulated, as much as possible, the search for perfection dictated by the call to virtue. Ultimately, the twentieth century's many disasters and Christendom's failure to stop revolution and world war have discredited Christianity itself in the eyes of many.
Nevertheless, I am convinced that only Christianity can revitalize a culture that has lost most of its...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Isaac Newton y su teoría de la gravitación universal, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Profundizar en la vida y obra de Isaac Newton, así como el contexto de su época, marcada por profundos cambios tanto en los saberes, muy influidos por la revolución copernicana, como en la política, con una...
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Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers is a biographical book written by Edith C. Hubback and J. H. Hubback, which explores the lives of Jane Austen's two brothers, Francis and Charles. The authors recount the brothers' service in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, drawing upon letters, journals, and other historical documents. Through their research, the authors paint a vivid picture of life in the Royal Navy during the late 18th...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Charles de Gaulle, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Profundizar en la biografía de Charles de Gaulle, enmarcada en un contexto histórico convulso condicionado por las dos guerras mundiales, y ver su evolución en el plano militar y político hasta que se convierte en un icono para los franceses
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