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A Countess in Limbo

Author : Olga Hendrikoff
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480835382
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book A Countess in Limbo written by Olga Hendrikoff and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diaries reveal details of a remarkable life of a woman born in Imperial Russia who refused to complain about the luxurious life she left behind. CTV National News Its a miraculous tale that takes the readers through revolutions and world wars and chronicles Hendrikoffs transformation from a wealthy privileged lady in-waiting for the Russian empresses to desperate survivor scavenging for coal in a Nazi-occupied France. Calgary Herald Countess Olga Lala Hendrikoff was born into the Russian aristocracy, serving as lady-in-waiting to the empresses and enjoying a life of great privilege. But on the eve of her wedding in 1914 came the first rumors of an impending wara war that would change her life forever and force her to flee her country as a stateless person with no country to call home. In A Countess in Limbo, Countess Hendrikoff tells her remarkable true story that includes the loss of her brother in the Russian gulag, her sister-in-law murdered with the Russian Imperial family, and herself being robbed at gunpoint and accused of being a spy by the Nazis. She also speaks of the daily life that continues during wartime: ration cards and food restrictions, the black market, and the struggle just to get by another day. Her gripping story and thoughtful analysis provide a valuable look at life and humanity in the face of war. Spanning two of the most turbulent times in modern historyWorld War I in Russia and World War II in ParisCountess Hendrikoffs journals demonstrate the uncertainty, horror, and hope of daily life in the midst of turmoil. Her razor-sharp insight, wit, and sense of humor create a fascinating eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution and the occupation and liberation of Paris.

A Countess in Limbo

Author : Olga Hendrikoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480835375
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book A Countess in Limbo written by Olga Hendrikoff and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The diaries reveal details of a remarkable life of a woman born in Imperial Russia who refused to complain about the luxurious life she left behind." --CTV National News "It's a miraculous tale that takes the readers through revolutions and world wars and chronicles Hendrikoff's transformation from a wealthy privileged lady in-waiting for the Russian empresses to desperate survivor scavenging for coal in a Nazi-occupied France." --Calgary Herald Countess Olga "Lala" Hendrikoff was born into the Russian aristocracy, serving as lady-in-waiting to the empresses and enjoying a life of great privilege. But on the eve of her wedding in 1914 came the first rumors of an impending war--a war that would change her life forever and force her to flee her country as a stateless person with no country to call home. In A Countess in Limbo, Countess Hendrikoff tells her remarkable true story that includes the loss of her brother in the Russian gulag, her sister-in-law murdered with the Russian Imperial family, and herself being robbed at gunpoint and accused of being a spy by the Nazis. She also speaks of the daily life that continues during wartime: ration cards and food restrictions, the black market, and the struggle just to get by another day. Her gripping story and thoughtful analysis provide a valuable look at life and humanity in the face of war. Spanning two of the most turbulent times in modern history--World War I in Russia and World War II in Paris--Countess Hendrikoff's journals demonstrate the uncertainty, horror, and hope of daily life in the midst of turmoil. Her razor-sharp insight, wit, and sense of humor create a fascinating eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution and the occupation and liberation of Paris.

A Countess in Limbo

Author : Olga Hendrikoff
Publisher : SF Classic
ISBN 13 : 9781926606781
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book A Countess in Limbo written by Olga Hendrikoff and published by SF Classic. This book was released on 2012 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countess Hendrikoff was born into the Russian aristocracy, serving as lady-in-waiting to the Empresses and enjoying a life of great privilege. Spanning two of the most turbulent times in modern historyNWorld War I in Russia and World War II in ParisNher journals demonstrate the uncertainty, horror, and hope of daily life in the midst of turmoil.

After the Romanovs

Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250273110
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book After the Romanovs written by Helen Rappaport and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty. For years, Russian aristocrats had enjoyed all that Belle Époque Paris had to offer, spending lavishly when they visited. It was a place of artistic experimentation, such as Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. But the brutality of the Bolshevik takeover forced Russians of all types to flee their homeland, sometimes leaving with only the clothes on their backs. Arriving in Paris, former princes could be seen driving taxicabs, while their wives who could sew worked for the fashion houses, their unique Russian style serving as inspiration for designers like Coco Chanel. Talented intellectuals, artists, poets, philosophers, and writers struggled in exile, eking out a living at menial jobs. Some, like Bunin, Chagall and Stravinsky, encountered great success in the same Paris that welcomed Americans like Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Political activists sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime from afar, while double agents from both sides plotted espionage and assassination. Others became trapped in a cycle of poverty and their all-consuming homesickness for Russia, the homeland they had been forced to abandon. This is their story.

The Hangman's Replacement

Author : Taona D. Chiveneko
Publisher : Chiveneko Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 0991852400
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The Hangman's Replacement written by Taona D. Chiveneko and published by Chiveneko Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you had to interview the candidates for a country's new hangman, what questions would you ask them? If your family was on the verge of starvation, and becoming a hangman was the only job available, would you apply? If you were hired, what would you do if the prisoners looked like your loved ones? If you knew that another good man was taking the job out of desperation, would you do anything to prevent him from getting it? What if that man's recruitment would somehow guarantee your own survival, would you encourage his candidacy? All these questions were asked of people who never thought they would find themselves in such a position, until they became mired in the chaos surrounding the hangman's replacement.

Four Queens and a Countess

Author : Jill Armitage
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144566917X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Four Queens and a Countess written by Jill Armitage and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fateful Tudor triangle: a reigning queen, an exiled queen, and the countess who was obliged to be her jailer. And Bess of Hardwick had a close relationship with two more queens!

William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin

Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin written by Spike Milligan and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1988 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford

Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford

Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Norman to Early Plantagenet Consorts

Author : Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031210689
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Norman to Early Plantagenet Consorts written by Aidan Norrie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the emergence of the queen consort in medieval England, beginning with the pre-Conquest era and ending with death of Margaret of France, second wife of Edward I, in 1307. Though many of the figures in this volumes are well known, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Eleanor of Castille, the chapters here are unique in the equal consideration given to the tenures of the lesser known consorts, including: Adeliza of Louvain, second wife of Henry I; Margaret of France, wife of Henry the Young King; and even Isabella of Gloucester, the first wife of King John. These innovative and thematic biographies highlight the evolution of the office of the queen and the visible roles that consorts played, which were integral to the creation of the identity of early English monarchy. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.

Gunpowder Plot

Author : Alan Haynes
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752476165
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Gunpowder Plot written by Alan Haynes and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most lilkely have watched a 'guy' being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on Bonfire Night. This book answers the questions of history that lie behind the celebrations of 5 November. Who was Guy Fawkes and how did he come to be below the chamber of the House of Lords in the first hour of 5 November 1605. What desperation drove those involved to plan a horrific massacre of the Protestant royal family and government? Alan Hayne's probing analysis offers the clearest, most balanced view yet of often conflicting evidence, as he disentangles the threads of disharmony, intrigue, betrayal, terror and retribution. In this new, updated edition he gathers together startling evidence to uncover the depth and extent of the plot, and how close the plotters came to de-stabilising the government in one of the most notorious terrorist plots of British history. This enthralling book will grip the general reader, while the scope of its detailed research will require historians of the period to consider again the commanding importance of the plot throughout the seventeenth century.

War and Disease

Author : Leo Barney Slater
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813544386
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book War and Disease written by Leo Barney Slater and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting around the globe, American soldiers were at high risk for contracting malaria, yet quinine - a natural cure - became hard to acquire. This historical study shows the roots and branches of an enormous drug development project during World War II.

The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases

Author : Charles August Maude Fennell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases written by Charles August Maude Fennell and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mystic Arcana

Author : Marvel Comics
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302485032
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Mystic Arcana written by Marvel Comics and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Mystic Arcana: Magik, Black Knight, Scarlet Witch, Sister Grimm; And The Official Tarot Of The Marvel Universe. A MAGIC EVENT that spans across the ages, featuring the craftiest characters and most spellbinding stories in the Marvel Universe! In the vein of the wild and woolly genre revitalization Annihilation, Marvel's looking into its crystal ball to bring you mystical mages, scandalous sorcerers and fantastic flights of high-flying fantasy in MYSTIC ARCANA. Each of the primary stories revolves around the introduction of one of a select group of mystical implements, quite literally the four pillars of the universe and the involvement of a character from Marvel's rich, magical past - including Magik, the Black Knight, Sister Grimm and the Scarlet Witch. Plus: Witness the efforts of Dr. Strange adversary, sorcerer Ian McNee, to collect arcane implements in a series of shorter companion tales that make up the spine of MYSTIC ARCANA.

The Secret Countess

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230226035
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Countess written by Eva Ibbotson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A fairy tale for grown-ups. It's unapologetically romantic but it's also extremely funny, wry, dry and witty - and hugely uplifting.' – Marian Keyes, Daily Mail As WWI draws to a close, a love affair that stretches across countries, families and class begins, in master storyteller Eva Ibbotson's classic historical romance The Secret Countess, with an introduction from Amanda Craig. Anna Grazinsky, a young Russian countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an out-of-date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to help her family in any way possible, and she is soon hired as a housemaid at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but magnificent mansion. Then Rupert, the young Earl, returns home from the war and is fascinated by his new housemaid, and the more time they spend together the more they feel inexplicably drawn together. But they can never be together; Rupert is already engaged and Anna is only a servant . . . 'I have binged on Eva Ibbotson . . . her elegantly written, witty and well-observed fables' – Nigella Lawson, The Times Rediscover Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, in her sweeping historical romances, including The Morning Gift, A Song For Summer and The Secret Countess, originally published as A Countess Below Stairs.

The Earl's Countess of Convenience

Author : Marguerite Kaye
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488047243
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Earl's Countess of Convenience written by Marguerite Kaye and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A countess in name only… …tempted by a night with her husband! Part of Penniless Brides of Convenience: Eloise Brannagh has witnessed firsthand the damage unruly passion can cause. Yet she craves freedom, so a convenient marriage to the Earl of Fearnoch seems the perfect solution! Except Alexander Sinclair is more handsome, more intriguing, more everything than Eloise anticipated. She’s set her own rules for their marriage, but her irresistible husband might just tempt her to break them! Penniless Brides of Convenience miniseries Book 1 — The Earl’s Countess of Convenience Book 2 — A Wife Worth Investing In Book 3 and 4 — coming soon! “The book opens up like a succession of Russian dolls, revealing more and more about the protagonists in all guises. And this is Kaye’s strength as a writer: setting up a plot and characters shrouded in mystery, and then revealing them with increasing complexity as the story moves on … This is a book not to be missed.” — All About Romance on A Scandalous Winter Wedding “What a wonderful culmination A Scandalous Winter Wedding is to the Matches Made in Scandal series … Ms. Kaye has fast become one of my favorite authors of historical fiction” — Romance Junkies on A Scandalous Winter Wedding