He’s also the only double agent Britain ever managed to get out of the Soviet Union alive. John le Carré called The Spy and the Traitor the “best true spy story” he had ever read, and it was shortlisted for the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize as one of the best nonfiction books ...
On September 10, 1622, Japanese officials burned alive or beheaded 55 missionaries and laypeople alike. The violence coincided with Japan's push to expel all foreign influences September 10, 2024 A Century Ago, a Mob Brutally Attacked an American Diplomat in Persia. His Death Shaped U.S.-Iran...
The Western Front by bestselling military historian Nick Lloyd is the first volume of an epic trilogy covering World War I. It casts a terrible conflict often portrayed as futile in a new light and tries to bring it alive from both sides. Volumes about the Eastern Front and Africa and the...
Descriptions of heaven vie for superlatives, for here everything must be the best imaginable: from the delectable boar that feeds the crowds ofValhalla(the heavenly abode in Norse mythology), boiled every day and coming alive again every evening, to the perfumedparadiseextolled by the BuddhistSukha...
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Based on the highly successful Humanities Alive series, History Alive 10 for the Australian Curriculum and eBookPLUS provides the most engaging and fascinating coverage of the new Australian Curriculum for History for year 10...Robert Darlington...
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Some of the survivors from the ship would go on to found Africatown, an Alabama community that aimed to keep their traditional African traditions and language alive. This documentary follows the descendents of Africatown and Clotilda passengers in the present day. Watch It Now The Martha ...
Despite his conservative connections, the new president declared his goal to be the transformation of France into “an advanced liberal society.” He chose as prime minister the young and forcefulJacques Chirac, leader of the Gaullist minority that had bolted the UDR in Giscard’s favour. The ...
figuring out the highest federal official still alive after an attack and designating that person president of the united states. beginning during the cold war and continuing up to the present day, fema’s central locater system tracks the whereabouts of all the officials who are in the ...