Tag: Palace

Palace of Spies


Free Download Sarah Zettel, "Palace of Spies"
English | 2013 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 0544074114, 0544336178 | EPUB | 1,2 mb
A warning to all young ladies of delicate breeding who wish to embark upon lives of adventure: Don’t.

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Palace Cobra A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War


Free Download Ed Rasimus, "Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1250038685, 031294876X | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.4 mb
Palace Cobra picks up where Ed Rasimus’s critically acclaimed When Thunder Rolled left off. Now he’s flying the F-4 Phantom and the attitude is still there.

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The Accidental Palace The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul


Free Download The Accidental Palace: The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies) by Deniz Türker
English | May 23, 2023 | ISBN: 0271093919 | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 82.6/83.6 MB
This book tells the story of Yıldız Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul’s urban memory. At its peak, however, Yıldız was a global city in miniature and the center of the empire’s vast bureaucratic apparatus.

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Death at Blenheim Palace


Free Download Robin Paige, "Death at Blenheim Palace"
English | 2005 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0425200353, 0425202372 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Invited to Blenheim Palace, home of the Duke and Duchess of Marborough, to work on a book about a centuries-old scandal involving the murder of a young mistress of King Henry II, husband and wife scholars Charles and Kate Sheridan find themselve investigating the all-too-current kidnapping of a young maid and the mysterious disappearance of the duke and his mistress.

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The Palace From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court [Audiobook]


Free Download The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4VRBTF5 | 2023 | 14 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 386 MB
Author: Gareth Russell
Narrator: John Telford

The popular and "scrupulous historian" (Daily Mail, London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred years of British history-from King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II-as seen through the doorways of the exquisite Hampton Court Palace. Architecturally breathtaking and rich in splendid art and décor, Hampton Court Palace has been the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James’s version of the Bible, the staging of many of Shakespeare’s plays, and Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation ball. Accessible, engaging, and unputdownable, The Palace takes us into every room in the castle, revealing the ups and downs of royal history and illustrating what was at play politically, socially, and economically at the time. An engaging and charming history book, The Palace makes you feel as if you were in the room as history was made.

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