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Dunkirk: Retreat to Victory - Julian Thompson - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=gdRW9HZe-UwC&pg=PA242&lpg=PA242&dq=%22Fagalde%22+Altmayer&source=bl&ots=MLV55tnrQS&sig=dTV0JKNij
A masterly work of military history, Dunkirk: Retreat to Victory is also a tribute to the soldiers whose courage and self belief sustained them through their darkest hours.The evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk is one of the pivotal moments in the…
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Phan Châu Trinh and His Political Writings - Chu Trinh Phan - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=EVclx5JdRPAC&pg=PA29&dq=%22T%C5%8Dkai+Sanshi%22+1852&hl=de&sa=X&ei=MmQ5U5qRF4nMygPC4oHYAQ&ved=0C
Phan Chau Trinh (1872-1926) was the earliest proponent of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam. Throughout his life, he favored a moderate approach to political change and advised the country's leaders to seek gradual progress for Vietnam within the…
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Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520 - Christopher Dyer - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=82zXFn-EDisC&pg=PA63#v=onepage
Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian…
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Venetian floods the setting for Filippo Perocco's Aquagranda at La Fenice | von Bachtrack für Rezensionen von klassischen Konzerten, Opern, Ballet- und Tanzvorstellungen
https://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-aquagranda-perocco-michieletto-la-fenice-venice-november-2016
Fifty years ago, on 4 November 1966, Venice was struck by a terrible flood. Now this is the subject of a new opera by composeer Filippo Perocco premiered at the Teatro La Fenice.
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صوت من العالم الآخر: ancient egyptian tales - Naguib Mahfouz - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Yw9skdxb45YC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=Mohamed+Mahmoud+Khalil+Bey&source=bl&ots=r2KRk7Dh0d&sig=bVuWqK
The forces of law and order disturb a district's too-perfect peace at the dawn of Egyptian civilization. A wise and popular pharaoh is betrayed by his own son, and by his dearest friends - then makes a most peculiar decision. A mummy returns to life after…
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Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary - Avraham Tory - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=N3FI3HAS36oC&pg=PR14
This remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, was written under conditions of extreme danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the Jewish Council. After the war, in order to escape…
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Kievan Russia - George Vernadsky - Google Êíèãè
https://books.google.de/books?id=1HEdAP9N6ikC&pg=PA30&dq=evarnitsky&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTkoP4lsDMAhVDYZoKHSOoDoIQ6AEIWzAJ#v=o
Kievan Russia was originally published in a clothbound edition in 1948 as volume two in George Vernadsky's comprehensive series, A History of Russia. It is now available for the first time in a paperbound edition. At the time of its publication Kievan…
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Conrad II, 990-1039: Emperor of Three Kingdoms - Herwig Wolfram - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=zuKIX5g6MgoC&pg=PA362&dq=Gisela+von+Schwaben+Limburg&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiC3_eNh-TLAhXG1SwKHW
In this biography of the German emperor Conrad II (990&–1039), internationally renowned medievalist Herwig Wolfram paints a fascinating portrait of a consummate politician set against the background of a Europe entering a new millennium. Conrad was the…
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Mao's Last Revolution - Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=mCKPmUzKeZUC&pg=PA402
The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the Peopleâe(tm)s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able…
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