[PDF] Chronicle Into History eBook

Author : Nancy Wake
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1743346379

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Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling. After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman and settled in Marseilles. Her idyllic new life was ended by World War II and the invasion of France. Her life shattered, Nancy joined the French resistance and, later, began work with an escape-route network for allied soldiers. Eventually Nancy had to escape from France herself to avoid capture by the Gestapo. In London she trained with the Special Operations Executive as a secret agent and saboteur before parachuting back into France. Nancy became a leading figure in the Maquis of the Auvergne district, in charge of finance and obtaining arms, and helped to forge the Maquis into a superb fighting force. During her lifetime, Nancy Wake was hailed as a legend. Her autobiography recounts her extraordinary wartime experiences in her own words.

Author : Glyn German
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2021-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780578959771

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An American Chronicle: A Comprehensive History of the United States of America from 1941 through the Present is the second of a two-volume work on the social, cultural, political, technological and economic history of the United States. The volume covers events from 1941 to President Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021. This first volume consists of 14 chapters offering a detailed, fact-based, year-by-year presentation of the key events that have marked American history. Each chapter begins with an introduction explaining how each successive period is bound to those which precede and follow. These books have been designed to serve as a convenient ready-reference and guide. Extensive contextualization and cross-referencing have been incorporated to assist the reader in making complex links between various events which are sometimes separated by decades or even centuries. This will help the reader understand developments which, at first glance, may appear totally unrelated. This technique aims to demonstrate the underlying continuity and cohesion which unifies US history.

Author : Philip Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0199670676

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This book examines the cultural and political history of the Church of the East, the main Christian church in Iraq and Iran. Philip Wood uses medieval Arabic sources to examine history-writing by Christians in the fifth to ninth centuries AD.

Author : Gül Şen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004510419

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In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā, Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle

Author : DK Publishing, Inc
Publisher : Dk Pub
Page : 1175 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780789403346

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A chronological summary of world events from 3.5 million years B.C. to the present day depicts the history of humanity in its entirety

Author : Jeanne de Jussie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226417077

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Jeanne de Jussie (1503–61) experienced the Protestant Reformation from within the walls of the Convent of Saint Clare in Geneva. In her impassioned and engaging Short Chronicle, she offers a singular account of the Reformation, reporting not only on the larger clashes between Protestants and Catholics but also on events in her convent—devious city councilmen who lied to trusting nuns, lecherous soldiers who tried to kiss them, and iconoclastic intruders who smashed statues and burned paintings. Throughout her tale, Jussie highlights women’s roles on both sides of the conflict, from the Reformed women who came to her convent in an attempt to convert the nuns to the Catholic women who ransacked the shop of a Reformed apothecary. Above all, she stresses the Poor Clares’ faithfulness and the good men and women who came to them in their time of need, ending her story with the nuns’ arduous journey by foot from Reformed Geneva to Catholic Annecy. First published in French in 1611, Jussie’s Short Chronicle is translated here for an English-speaking audience for the first time, providing a fresh perspective on struggles for religious and political power in sixteenth-century Geneva and a rare glimpse at early modern monastic life.

Author : Jean Cooke
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780517340004

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Presents a timeline of world history.

Author : Wolfgang Wild
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781452169507

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This revolutionary photography collection is as close to time travel as it gets. Featuring 120 historic black-and-white photographs thoroughly restored and rendered in color, this book illuminates some of the most iconic moments in history, from the sinking of the Titanic to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Brought to life with vibrant color, these incredible images effectively blur the distinction between past and present and bring history within arm's reach. With a timeline spanning more than 100 years, from 1839 to 1949, this unique collection will amaze history and photography buffs alike, offering new perspectives on significant moments of the 19th and 20th centuries.