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  • The Civil War in America

    by John Acton ...
    The Civil War in America is a brief but classic overview of the civil war's place in history. ... Read more

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  • Renaissance to Revolution

    by John Acton ...
    John Acton weaves a fantastic history spanning from the Renaissance to the American Revolution.Featuring:Beginning Of The Modern StateThe New WorldThe RenaissanceLutherThe Counter-ReformationCalvin And Henry Viii.Philip Ii, Mary Stuart, And ElizabethThe Huguenots And The LeagueHenry The Fourth And RichelieuThe Thirty Years' WarThe Puritan RevolutionThe Rise Of The WhigsThe English Revolution<... ... Read more

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  • The Franco-German War

    by John Acton ...
    The Franco-German War (also called Franco-Prussian War) was a famous conflict between the French Second Empire and German states led by Prussia. It was caused by Prussian expansions ambition and marked the end of French hegemony. ... Read more

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  • Cambridge Modern HistoryVolume III: The Wars of Religion

    *Includes Table of ContentsCambridge Modern History Volume 3: The Wars of Religion compiled by John Acton, is an expansive history of the religious wars in Europe during the 16th century. Curated by the famous historian John Acton, this classic is an excellent reference for anyone studying Western Civilization during the 16th century. A table of contents is included for easier navigation through ... Read more

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    A Citizen's Guidebook to the Most Celebrated Declarations of American Liberty

    by Les Adams ...
    The American Freedoms Primer is a compilation of the most historically significant speeches and writings on liberty, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Many of the declarations contained in these pages have influenced and inspired legislation, shaping United States policies on human equality and civil rights. Several works by theorists and philosophers who drove the expansion of ... Read more

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  • Waterloo

    Wellington's Victory & Napoleon's Last Campaign

    A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, and the fateful clash of their armies in 1815 from "a remarkably good writer" ( The New York Times). It was the greatest of battles—the defining military engagement of the nineteenth century that forever ended one man's dreams of a European empire unified under his rule. This epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be remembered for the ... Read more

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  • The Campaigns of Napoleon

    In this “engrossing,” (The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories—and to his ultimate downfall.Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex—an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and ... Read more

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  • We the People

    by Adolph Caso ...
    According to Adolph Caso the dream behind "We the people..." has not yet been fulfilled although America came close in doing so with Dr. Martin Luther King in his "I have a dream" speech. A counter revolution against King took place which further vitiated the dream of Thomas Jefferson who originally did away with the European practice of giving special privileges to the nobility and to the clergy: ... Read more

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  • Napoleon on the Art of War

    by Jay Luvaas ...
    Napoleon. The passage of time has not dimmed the power of his name. A century and a half after his death, Napoleon remains the greatest military genius of the modern world. Yet unlike Machiavelli, Clausewitz, or Sun Tzu, his name has not crowned any single literary work. The subject of thousands of biographies and treatises on warfare, he is the author of none. Until now.The great general and ... Read more

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  • New York

    THE increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from a city of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all the purely ... Read more

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  • Gustavus Adolphus

    A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Swede

    A grand sweeping military history of the “pike and shot” era, with a particular emphasis on the Thirty Years’ War in Europe (1618–1648). Originally published in two volumes, the first covers the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and known as “The Lion of the North” by his many opponents. Born into an era of constant warfare, he became king at 17, transformed the Army of Sweden into the ... Read more

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  • Rights Of Man

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Rights Of Manby Thomas PaineOne of Paine s greatest and most widely read works, considered a classic statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism, defends the early events of the French Revolution, supports social security for workers, public employment for those in need of work, abolition of laws limiting wages, and other social reforms. An inspiring book that paved the way for the growth ... Read more

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