Biographies and memoirs

Pakistan: History, Military, Geopolitics, and the Road Ahead

Oil has shaped the modern world more than almost any other natural resource. From transportation and industrial production to military operations and global trade, oil became the fuel that powered economic growth and geopolitical influence. At the same ti

Rusty $37 broiler, Whopper Wars, "$40 million "Where's Herb?" flop, Pillsbury takeover, franchise revolts. The wild Burger King story.

Zeus, Heracles, Medea, Odysseus, Trojan War. The real Greek myths told straight, with power, betrayal, and consequences.

From 1889 Hanafuda cards to NES revival, PlayStation betrayal, Tetris midnight deal, Virtual Boy failure. Nintendo's full corporate saga.

Babylonian bitumen, Chinese bamboo drilling, Byzantine Greek Fire, Pennsylvania wildcatters, Standard Oil spies. 5,000 years of oil's dirty history.

Amundsen's deception, Scott's frozen corpse, Shackleton's open boat, forgotten Japanese expedition, Nazi ghost stations. Antarctica's dark exploration history.

Dorset carvers, Thule hunters, Norse collapse, colonial encounters. Greenland's full human history from Arctic adaptation to cultural collision.

Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Sherman's March, Appomattox, Reconstruction amendments. The full Civil War story.

The Ottoman Empire rose from a small Anatolian state to a vast realm spanning three continents over six centuries, shaping the modern Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe. Written in English.

Hitler's own words from Mein Kampf and speeches. A first person retelling of his rise, war, and downfall based on historical records.

Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born into the middle gentry, Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life.

IN ancient times, when the city of Rome was at the height of its power and splendor, it was the custom, as it is in fact now with the inhabitants of wealthy capitals, for the principal families to possess, in addition to their city residences..

The Memoirs of the time of Napoleon may be divided into two classes—those by marshals and officers, of which Suchet's is a good example, chiefly devoted to military movements, and those by persons employed in the administration and in the Court.

The palace is near a little village called Linlithgow. The village has but one long street, which consists of ancient stone houses. North of it is a little lake, or rather pond: they call it, in Scotland, a loch.

This book illustrated version of the Mar Twain's "Following the Equator; A Journey Around the World" . It has nearly 200 illustrated graphics and pictures.. A man may have no bad habits and have worse. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.

KING CHARLES THE FIRST was born in Scotland. It may perhaps surprise the reader that an English king should be born in Scotland. The explanation is this: They who have read the history of Mary Queen of Scots, will remember that it was the great end.

KING CHARLES THE FIRST was born in Scotland. It may perhaps surprise the reader that an English king should be born in Scotland. The explanation is this: They who have read the history of Mary Queen of Scots, will remember that it was the great end and

Such a deed is possible to you, to me, to everybody. It is frequently performed without forethought or definite intention. It is the spontaneous manifestation of nobility, somewhere, of mind or heart. It may consist merely in the doing of some kind.

ALFRED THE GREAT figures in history as the founder, in some sense, of the British monarchy. Of that long succession of sovereigns who have held the scepter of that monarchy, and whose government has exerted so vast an influence on the condition.

ALEXANDER the Great died when he was quite young. He was but thirty-two years of age when he ended his career, and as he was about twenty when he commenced it, it was only for a period of twelve years that he was actually engaged in performing the work of

This book is not an exercise in sensationalism. Although this book includes a section on the “Epstein Case” in the Second Volume, it will primarily focus on the formation, causes, and psychology of these choices.

Let Freedom Ring In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Year 2026!😳

THE history of the life of every individual who has, for any reason, attracted extensively the attention of mankind, has been written in a great variety of ways by a multitude of authors.

A prophetic collection of political essays by a Russian journalist in exile, exposing imperial decay, propaganda, and war. Written before the catastrophe, these texts read as a chilling document of Russia’s future and Europe’s test.

Frank 'Spike' Hughes joined the RAF in 1949 and became a prisoner of war after his aircraft crashed in1943. Spike's diary is a masterpiece, meticulously written, beautifully illustrated and full of humour.

Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. Owing to the passage of the power of patronage..

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

Experiences related by Prisoners of War at Stalag VIIIB (344) Lamsdorf during the Second World War.

The illustrated Wartime Diary of Frank 'Spike' Hughes RAF, a Prisoner of War at Stalag VIIIB (344) Lamsdorf.