Western Europe category: 1822 books
by M D Conway, D H Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
The Great Show at Paris 1867 contains three reports from Paris for the American People. A report from the opening days, one from several months later, both of which cover the exhibitions. The third report is about the cafe, saloon and restaurant scene at the Champ de Mars.
by Lucien Louis-Lande
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
“ Depuis le moyen âge, on désigne sous le nom de cagots toute une classe de malheureux, véritables parias, répandus naguère encore sur le versant septentrional de la chaîne des Pyrénées. Objets de l’aversion générale, les cagots passaient pour malsains: ils avaient, disait-on, l’haleine...
L'Europa in Senato
Conferenza straordinaria dei presidenti dei parlamenti dell'Unione europea, 17 marzo 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2018
L'Europa in Senato contiene i discorsi pronunciati nell'Aula del Senato in occasione della Conferenza straordinaria dei Presidenti dei Parlamenti dell'Unione europea del 17 marzo 2017, tratti dal Resoconto stenografico.
«Multilateralismo, solidarietà, diplomazia e pluralismo sono i fondamenti...
Fracture
Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed,...
by Kevin Stringer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Swiss-Made Heroes provides a biographical array of nine military officers, all with Swiss roots, in a single volume that covers a period from the Middle Ages to World War II. This unique set of leaders had an enduring impact on military history, and their deeds proved critical to the development and...
by LÉON PALUSTRE
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Durant plus de deux siècles, il a été de mode chez nous de considérer comme une époque d’impuissance et de barbarie la période plus que millénaire qui sépare la chute de l’art gréco-romain, à la suite des invasions, de son rétablissement...
by Grace Dalrymple Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The cost of love and intrigue for real-life Scottish socialite and courtesan, Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1758–1823), was nearly a trip to the guillotine. Mistress to the Duc d'Orleans and in the center of Paris social life, Elliott was arrested and spent 18 months in prison, all the while expecting...
by Anthony Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Here, from British historian and New Yorker senior writer Anthony Bailey is the dramatic story of the Low Countries - Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg - from the early days of nomads and barbarian invaders to the birth of towns and cities to the rise and decline of world prominence and finally to the dark and tragic days of World War II.
Dramas in de wolken (Geïllustreerd)
Luchtreizen en luchtreizigers
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
In de geschiedenis der beschaving is misschien geen tweede voorbeeld te vinden van de geestdrift, door de ontdekking der luchtballons opgewekt. Nog nimmer, zoo scheen het, had het menschelijk genie eene zoo schitterende overwinning behaald. De natuurwetenschap had nu op eene uitkomst te wijzen, die...
De celliste van Auschwitz
hoe een jonge muzikante Auschwitz en Bergen-Belsen overleefde
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Zelfs op de zwartste plek op aarde werd schoonheid gevierd: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was De celliste van Auschwitz. Met het uitbreken van de oorlog wordt het Joodse gezin waaruit Anita Lasker komt, uiteengerukt. Haar ouders worden gedeporteerd naar Polen en overlijden daar. Zus Marianne weet te ontkomen...
by Clinton D. Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
From its earliest appearance in the mid-1600s, the lyric theater form of zarzuela captivated Spanish audiences with its witty writing and lively musical scores. Clinton D. Young’s Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, 1880–1930 persuasively links zarzuela’s celebration of Spanish history...
Defiant Diplomat
George Platt Waller: American Consul in Nazi-Occupied Luxembourg, 1939–1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942–1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller’s memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In vivid prose, he recalls the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the “Phony War,” the German...
by Ashleigh Jenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
EXTRACT:Although popular culture depicts the Chateu Vert pageant as being the moment Henry fell in love with Anne, it is not clear when the king did notice her. What is clear, is that from 1522 onwards, Anne’s prospective suitors at court were stopped in their tracks by Henry VIII. Whether...
Strategy Six Pack 3 (Illustrated)
Sea Power, Xerxes, Joan of Arc, Elements of Military Art and Science, Andrew Jackson, Aircrafts and Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
- Michael Porter.
Strategy Six Pack 3 presents a classic sextet of tactical texts:
Sea Power by Cyprian Bridge.
Xerxes by Jacob Abbott.
Joan of Arc by Edward Shepherd Creasy.
Elements of Military Art and Science by H. W. Halleck.
Andrew...