This book is an essential introduction to the major political problems debates & conflicts which are central to the history of the Third Republic in France from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1 to the fall of France in June 1940. Illuminating the contemporary issues of the day through a wealth of primary sources including memoir literature personal correspondence parliamentary debates public speeches contemporary newspapers & government documents. The Third Republic in France 1870-1940 provides an engrossing first-hand account of life in this defining period of French history. This book provides original sources detailed commentary & helpful chronologies & bibliographies on: the emergence of the regime & the Paris Commune of 1871 Franco-German relations the character of the Third Republic & the nature of French Republicanism & Socialism anti-Semitism & the Dreyfus Affair the role of women & the importance of the national birth-rate the character of the French Right & of French fascism. ...

What is the Third Secret? It is rumoured to be a prediction so shocking that it has been locked away for over eighty years. Could this be what is drawing Pope Clement XV to the Vatican archive night after sleepless night? When Father Colin Michener is sent on a secret mission to the highlands of Romania he is pitched into a vortex of suspicion deceit murder & forbidden passion. Suddenly he is forced to face the very thing that has so distressed the Pope
- & to unravel a mystery that will shake the world.
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Russia 1855. After forty years of peace in Europe war rages. In the Crimea the city of Sevastopol is besieged. In the north Saint Petersburg is blockaded. But in Moscow there is one who needs only to sit & wait
- wait for the death of an aging tsar & for the curse upon his blood to be passed to a new generation. As their country grows weaker a man & a woman
- unaware of the hidden ties that bind them
- must come to terms with their shared legacy. In Moscow Tamara Valentinovna Komarova uncovers a brutal murder & discovers that it not the first in a sequence of similar crimes merely the latest carried out by a killer who has stalked the city since 1812. & in Sevastopol Dmitry Alekseevich Danilov faces not only the guns of the combined armies of Britain & France but must also make a stand against creatures that his father had thought buried beneath the earth thirty years before..


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Bodyguard & ex-special forces soldier Charlie Fox is slowly recovering from gunshot wounds but is desperate to prove herself to her new boss. Little does she know theres a personal matter on the horizon thats going to take up all of her attention
- her father is in trouble & needs her help. It seems he has upset the wrong crowd & theyre using increasingly violent methods to systematically destroy the mans immaculate reputation. Its up to Charlie to find out why & stop the situation from getting seriously out of h&.
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Darrell & her friends grow together as they share their school days. There are new students to induct sporting matches to be won tempers to control & tricks to play on teachers. This work presents stories about life at boarding school as readers follow the girls' lives through 6 years at Malory Towers. ...

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Includes:: 300 puzzles from prolific & popular puzzle & sudoku author
- Frank Longo.


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This title

Includes:: 300 puzzles from prolific & popular puzzle & sudoku author
- Frank Longo. It takes


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This title

Includes:: 300 puzzles from prolific & popular puzzle & sudoku author
- Frank Longo. It takes


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5 000 year old vampire Alisa Perne has always outsmarted all her adversaries. But now that shes trapped in a new body shes far from her best. With the immortal race the Telar threatening to release a virus to decimate humanity time is fast running out. Alisa will have to turn to humans to help destroy the enemy. ...

The Thirteen Treasures have become the Thirteen Curses. When fairies stole her brother Red vowed to get him back. Now trapped in the fairy realm she begs an audience with the fairy court where she strikes a bargain. Her brother will be returned
- but only if she can find the thirteen charms of Tanya's bracelet that have been scattered in the human world. Returning to Elvesden Manor Red is assisted by Tanya & Fabian & a desperate hunt begins. Soon they make a shocking discovery. The charms now have twisted qualities of the thirteen treasures they represent...and the longer they are missing the worse the consequences will be. Can Red Tanya & Fabian find all the charms? & even if they do will the fairies keep their promise?
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