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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), (1492-1549), was the sister of Francis I, King of France. She was highly-educated and was courted by the future Henry VIII of England. However, at the...
7 hours 37 minutes
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George Manington - Soldier Of The Legion;
An Englishman's Adventures Under The French Flag in Algeria And Tonquin
An educated gentleman, Mr Manington has given an insight into the unusual experiences of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, such as no ordinary «mercenary» could have done. Most of the narrative deals with...
7 hours 56 minutes
War & Military
405
N. P. Dawson - Good Soldier; A Selection Of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918
“Here are boys, all sorts of boys: French, English, Italian, American… These are soldiers’ letters written home. But reading, one finds that he does not think of them as letters at all, but as boys… but the spirit of...
3 hours 57 minutes
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440
Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart (version 2)
The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere,...
6 hours 24 minutes
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John Arthur Ransome Marriott - England Since Waterloo
«England Since Waterloo» by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945) was first published in 1913 and went through many editions. The author taught history at Worcester College, Oxford for thirty-six years and...
25 hours 14 minutes
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436
E. W. Hornung - Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front
In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was only 20. Two years later E W Hornung volunteered to help run one of the YMCA...
5 hours 33 minutes
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Justin McCarthy - Reign of Queen Anne, Volume II
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the deposed Catholic king, James II, but was of the Anglican faith. Liberal, Irish...
11 hours 44 minutes
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Theodore Winthrop - Theodore Winthrop: A Civil War Narrative Aborted by Death
Theodore Winthrop (1828 – 1861) was a charismatic writer, lawyer, and world traveler. In the New York Seventh Regiment, he was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War. He wrote two articles...
2 hours 45 minutes
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Lloyd Charles Sanders - Life of Viscount Palmerston
This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, and Prime Minister. Sanders writes that by 1841...
8 hours 38 minutes