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Jordanes, also written Jordanis or (not common nowadays) Jornandes, was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat best known for writing histories. Jordanes wrote Romana about the history of Rome, but his best……続きを見る

**WINNER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA MEDAL FOR CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY “Thompson’s story is a rich piece of the country’s heritage and D’Arcy Jenish has done a great service to history by not o……続きを見る

A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Eastern Front. History has it that the role of women in Nazi Ge……続きを見る

Hugo Vickers has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family, and has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man. There have been a number of books about ……続きを見る

Fitzhugh Lee (November 19, 1835 April 28, 1905) was a cavalry officer for the Confederacy, the Governor of Virginia, and later a general in the Spanish-American War, fighting for the country that h……続きを見る

Stories that celebrate the spirit of Australians 'Although these were the years of Depression with unemployment and near-starvation, the rabbit industry gave men like my father an independence and w……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS VOLUME ONE VOLUME TWO VOLUME THREE VOLUME FOUR 続きを見る

Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Hannibal•Cornelius Nepos biography of Hannibal from Lives of Eminent Commanders•Jacob Abbotts biography entitled Hannibal•Livys History of Rome ……続きを見る

"Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprisi……続きを見る

*Includes pictures depicting important people, places, and events in the lives of Alexander, Hannibal and Caesar*Discusses little known facts about each man and whether some of the legends and myths……続きを見る

Mickey put his heart and soul into his book about his three tours in the Vietnam War. He brings to life the men he served with and treasured as friends as well as the Vietnamese people he grew to kn……続きを見る

Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler served in two armies, playing a major role in the development of Confederate cavalry in the Civil War's western theater, and, more than thirty years afterwards, commanded tr……続きを見る

One of the last great stories to emerge from World War II, this is an account of the horrors of battle, imprisonment and survival as seen through the eyes of a young doctor. Eminent surgeon Rowley R……続きを見る

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary. Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, winning inter……続きを見る

Boudica (often called Boadicea) Queen of the Iceni tribe, lived in East Anglia, England during the time of the Roman occupation. We know she successfully sacked the town of Camulodunum (now Colches……続きを見る

Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator.He saw a……続きを見る

“The Canada Exploration Anthology”, features texts from Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, Rene-Robert Chevalier de la Salle, Samuel Hearne, Alexander MacKenzie, David Thompson, John Rae. It also co……続きを見る

Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Ze……続きを見る

Mrs. Queens Chump is the military memoir of a young man who, naively acquiescing to a period of adventure after leaving boarding school, soon found himself enmeshed in the agonies of subjugated peop……続きを見る

Who was Margaret Fuller? She shook up the Bostonians of the 1840s and then moved on to shake up Rome and support a revolution against the Pope. People had strong opinions about her. Edgar Allen Poe ……続きを見る

Of all the 'Founding Fathers' of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin left the greatest literary legacy behind him. A noted polymath, as well as a prolific author and printer, Franklin's ……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS VOL. I. INTRODUCTION Chapter I ー THE OLD DOMINION Chapter II ー THE WASHINGTONS Chapter III ー ON THE FRONTIER Chapter IV……続きを見る

Aged 17, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into the Iraqi army. Things went from bad to worse once his superiors discovered his ability to speak English, and Lewis was selected for Saddam's elite, top ……続きを見る

The second book in the Horatio Stubbs Trilogy, available for the first time on ebook. A Soldier Erect finds Horatio Stubbs, the hero of The Hand-Reared Boy, serving in the Far East during WW2. Thank……続きを見る

*Includes pictures of the stele on which the Code of Hammurabi is inscribed. *Includes the Code of Hammurabi. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. A lot of ink……続きを見る

*Includes pictures of the generals and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes a Bibliography on each general for further reading.*Includes discussion of each general's legacy,……続きを見る

For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in ……続きを見る

the true story of the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history As a barely literate youth of thirteen, Sidney Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback……続きを見る

The story of the photographic intelligence work undertaken from a country house at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, is one of the great lost stories of the Second World War . At its peak in 1944, almost ……続きを見る

The year is 1835, the place New Mexico, the hero or villain, depending upon your view is Don Albino Perez. Perez, the newly appointed Mexican governor, is more of an idealist than a politician. He r……続きを見る