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Volume Three of 2,000 Years of Christ's Power, in showing the progression of the Reformation era and the daring bravery of its figures, presents a period of history from which there are many lessons to be learnt—not least of all, the vibrancy of people's lives and the courage with which they faced death.

China: 1200 AD. Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallant Ouyang in three trials to win her hand in marriage. But now, along with his sworn brother, Zhou Botong of the Quanzhen Sect, and his shifu, Count Seven Hong, chief of the Beggar Clan, he has walked into a trap. Tricked by Huang into boarding an unseaworthy barge, they will surely drown unless Lotus - who has overheard her father's plans - can find a way to save them.

In this third volume of Michael Logusz's epic study of the Wilderness War of 1777, a sizable British military force, augmented with German and loyalist soldiers, attacks the Northern Army's southern front in the fall of 1777 in hopes of assisting a much larger British Army that is threatened to the north of New York City in the wilderness region of Saratoga.

This book brings you the previously untold firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed.

The testimony that the author has gleaned for this audiobook from the 30-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC's treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a "dignified" manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe.

The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’ magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known. From the first signs of decay in the imperial ambition in the Boer Wars, through the global shifts in power evident in the two World Wars, it offers a perspective that is honest, evocative, and occasionally elegiac.

In this last book of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after the Third Reich’s defeat. Having fled Berlin and imminent arrest by the Gestapo in 1940, Shirer returned to Europe in October 1945 to verify the facts of the Fuhrer’s death, thus bringing to a close - or so he thought - his involvement with the Third Reich. He describes his return to his homeland and his ensuing careers as a broadcast journalist and author. He describes the McCarthy years and how the blacklist affected his own network, CBS.

We all know of Theodore Roosevelt being the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, and naturalist. But few know of him being an acclaimed historian. Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West quickly became a bestseller. The first edition of his book sold out in little more than a month and helped establish Roosevelt as a literary man and scholar, placing him on a path toward future greatness.

Em Heróis da Igreja—A Era da Reforma, abre-se uma janela para desbravar um período da Igreja marcado por sérias divisões, muitas das quais ainda permanecem. Neste volume foram reunidos escritos dos séculos 16 e 17, incluindo documentos da época da Reforma Protestante e da Reforma Católica, esta última comumente denominada Contrarreforma.

Karamzin Nikolaj Mihajlovich (1766-1826), rossijskij istorik, pisatel', pochetnyj chlen Peterburgskoj Akademii (1818). Sozdatel' "Istorii gosudarstva Rossijskogo" (t. 1-12, 1816-29), odnogo iz znachitel'nejshih trudov v Rossijskoj istoriografii. S 1803 do samoj smerti Karamzin zanimalsja «po vysochajshemu poveleniju» "Istoriej gosudarstva Rossijskogo". Glavnaja ideja «Istorii» Karamzina - sud'ba Rossii i ee velichie zakljucheny v razvitii samoderzhavija.

Our American West, Volume 3 is filled with western frontier stories you’ll find entertaining. "The Roadrunner – Our Sagebrush Clowns" reflects on the speedy and often comical bird of our southwestern deserts. Wild and wicked Calamity Jane lived up to her reputation as the West’s most infamous outlaw woman. “The Donner Party – Frozen Horror” describes the horror that led to cannibalism. The 49er Gold Rush ruined the lives of two ambitious and well-intentioned men, John Augustus Sutter and John Marshal...

A day that will live in infamy.... Nothing to fear but fear itself.... Ask not what your country can do for you.... Ich bin ein Berliner.... Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. These are actual historic recordings. The sound quality represents the available audio technology of the era and varies by recording.

Il terzo volume in audiolibro sui più leggendari guerrieri romani, le loro biografie, il valore e i discorsi più emozionanti. Per chi ama la storia militare, ma soprattutto per chi ama le biografie dei grandi eroi di Roma antica. Le biografie del terzo, cruciale volume: Mario – Silla – Lucullo – Crasso – Pompeo – Giulio Cesare.

The third volume of the collected works of famous Russian writer Mark Aldanov (1886-1957) includes historical portraits, which tell about famous trials, which played a significant role in the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the debate about which do not cease to this day.

Nominado al "Premio Nacional Kyorlenko Heorhij Stepanovych 2019" y ganador del "Mejor informe periodístico sobre el desastre de Chernobyl" nombrado por Kyiv Today, esta serie de libros revela los eventos del peor accidente nuclear, también representado en la mundialmente famosa serie de TV de drama Chernobyl 2019, con detalles más profundos.

Father Charles Coughlin was a controversial Canadian-American Catholic priest based in Michigan. Calling for monetary reforms, the nationalization of major industries and railroads, and protection of the rights of labor, Coughlin used weekly radio broadcasts to reach a mass audience of up to 30 million listeners during the 1930s. In this recording, Coughlin first discusses Franklin D. Roosevelt and then the consequences of World War I 20 years after.

This serves as the third volume of a series covering the amazing 50 states. It looks at the facts about each state, its history, and interesting little tidbits of information about each. In this volume Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa are covered.

La battaglia della Marna segnò più che una sconfitta tedesca una sconfitta della strategia della Germania, che si ritrovò invischiata in un conflitto che ormai ave-va preso una piega ben diversa da quella immaginata inizialmente a Berlino. Il filosofo francese Henri Bergson intravide nella battaglia della Marna i segni di un miracolo già avvenuto: “La battaglia della Marna è stata vinta da Giovanna d’Arco”. Lo sentiva anche il nemico, che si era trovato d’improvviso di fronte ad un muro di pietra sorto dalla sera alla mattina.

もっと歴史を楽しく知ろう！小学生のうちに知っておくと中学生以降の歴史がもっと楽しくなる！大人の学び直しにも最適！！

もっと歴史を楽しく知ろう！中学生以降の歴史は、結局覚えないと答えられない暗記科目。でも、その前に知っておくべき常識的な知識があります。