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The Great Terror

A Reassessment

by Robert Conquest ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

30 hours 34 min

The definitive work on Stalin’s purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. In recent years, even the former Soviet Union has come to call it the definitive account of the period. While the original volume relied heavily on unofficial sources, later developments within the Soviet Union provided an avalanche of new material, which Conquest has mined, to write ... Read more

$38.99 USD

The definitive work on Stalin’s purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. In recent years, even the former Soviet Union has come to call it the definitive account of the period. While the original volume relied heavily on unofficial sources, later developments within the Soviet Union provided an avalanche of new material, which Conquest has mined, to write
... Read more
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History of the World (Updated)

by J. M. Roberts ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

54 hours 47 min

In his monumental History of the World, J. M. Roberts delivered a powerful vision of human history as a story of change, a deliberate shaping of experience and environment. This revised and updated edition takes into account the great range of events and discoveries that have altered our views on everything from early civilizations to post–Cold War globalism. Large portions of the text have been ... Read more

$29.99 USD

In his monumental History of the World, J. M. Roberts delivered a powerful vision of human history as a story of change, a deliberate shaping of experience and environment. This revised and updated edition takes into account the great range of events and discoveries that have altered our views on everything from early civilizations to post–Cold War globalism. Large portions of the text have been
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Peter the Great

His Life and World

by Robert K. Massie, John E. Dowling ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

43 hours 37 min

This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter’s birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of Moscow, he would grow up propelled by an unquenchable ... Read more

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This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter’s birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of Moscow, he would grow up propelled by an unquenchable
... Read more
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Frontier in American History, The

by Frederick Jackson Turner ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Unabridged

11 hours 56 min

Frederick Jackson Turner was the dean of American historians in his time. He originated, and he and his students popularized, the Frontier Hypothesis of American history: that the primary driving force in the development of American society and politics was the encounter with the frontier, conceived of as a vast area of essentially free land, a seemingly limitless resource available to all comers ... Read more

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Frederick Jackson Turner was the dean of American historians in his time. He originated, and he and his students popularized, the Frontier Hypothesis of American history: that the primary driving force in the development of American society and politics was the encounter with the frontier, conceived of as a vast area of essentially free land, a seemingly limitless resource available to all comers
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Lee and Grant

by Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Trevor Hill, G. A. Henty ...

Series Book 3 - Civil War
This volume, the third in a nine-volume series about the Civil War, is devoted to the most famous of its generals: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E, Lee. Included in this volume are:“On the Trail of Grant and Lee,” by Frederick Trevor Hill“Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee,” by Captain Robert E. Lee“With Lee in Virginia,” by G. A. Hentyand“Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant,” by Ulysses ... Read more

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This volume, the third in a nine-volume series about the Civil War, is devoted to the most famous of its generals: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E, Lee. Included in this volume are:“On the Trail of Grant and Lee,” by Frederick Trevor Hill“Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee,” by Captain Robert E. Lee“With Lee in Virginia,” by G. A. Hentyand“Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant,” by Ulysses
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Warlock's Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics

Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein…

by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce0, Arthur Machen1, William Hope Hodgson2, Arthur Conan Doyle3, Grant Allen4, Théophile Gautier5, Richard Marsh6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, Thomas Hardy8, Charles Dickens9, Rudyard Kipling0, Guy de Maupassant1, Elizabeth Gaskell2, Mark Twain3, Daniel Defoe4, Jerome K. Jerome5, Fitz-James O'Brien6, Catherine Crowe7, Émile Erckmann8, Alexandre Chatrian9, Pedro De Alarçon0, Walter Hubbell1, Amelia B. Edwards2, Washington Irving3, John Meade Falkner4, Harriet Beecher Stowe5, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman6, Louisa M. Alcott7, Edith Nesbit8, Mary Louisa Molesworth9, Francis Marion Crawford0, John Kendrick Bangs1, Gertrude Atherton2, J. K. Huysmans3, John Buchan4, Sabine Baring-Gould5, Cleveland Moffett6, Louis Tracy7, Nikolai Gogol8, James Malcolm Rymer9, Thomas Peckett Prest0, Frederick Marryat1, Oscar Wilde2, Robert Louis Stevenson3, H. G. Wells4, Charlotte Perkins Gilman5, W. W. Jacobs6, H. H. Munro (Saki)7, Wilhelm Hauff8, Mary Elizabeth Braddon9, Robert W. Chambers0, Edward Bulwer-Lytton1, Thomas De Quincey2, William Makepeace Thackeray3, E. T. A. Hoffmann4, Robert E. Howard5, David Lindsay6, Marie Belloc Lowndes7, Edward Bellamy8, Jack London9, Pliny the Younger0, Helena Blavatsky1, Fergus Hume2, Florence Marryat3, Villiers de l'Isle Adam4, William Archer5, William F. Harvey6, Katherine Rickford7, Ralph Adams Cram8, Leopold Kompert9, Brander Matthews0, Vincent O'Sullivan1, Ellis Parker Butler2, A. T. Quiller-Couch3, Fiona Macleod4, Lafcadio Hearn5, William T. Stead7, Gambier Bolton8, Andrew Jackson Davis9, Nizida0, Walter F. Prince1, Chester Bailey Fernando2, Leonard Kip3, Frank R. Stockton4, Bithia Mary Croker5, Catherine L. Pirkis6, Leonid Andreyev7, Anatole France8, Olivia Howard Dunbar9, Richard Le Gallienne00, Sax Rohmer01, Horace Walpole02, William Thomas Beckford03, Matthew Gregory Lewis04, Ann Radcliffe05, Jane Austen06, John William Polidori07, Charlotte Brontë08, Emily Brontë09, Marjorie Bowen10, George W. M. Reynolds11, M. P. Shiel12, Adelbert von Chamisso13, S. Mukerji14 ...

Translated by Lafcadio Hearn6, J. T. Bealby15, Keene Wallace16, Samuel Henley17, Isabel F. Hapgood18, C. J. Hogarth19 ...

Warlock's Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics' is an unparalleled anthology that casts a wide net across the shadowy waters of supernatural literature, pulling from the depths a staggering array of narratives that have shaped the horror and gothic genres. This collection boasts an eclectic mix of styles and forms, ranging from Victorian ghost stories to eerie folk tales ... Read more

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Warlock's Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics' is an unparalleled anthology that casts a wide net across the shadowy waters of supernatural literature, pulling from the depths a staggering array of narratives that have shaped the horror and gothic genres. This collection boasts an eclectic mix of styles and forms, ranging from Victorian ghost stories to eerie folk tales
... Read more
Letters Written During The Indian Mutiny [Illustrated Edition]

by Field Marshal Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts ...

Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian MutinyFollowing the publication of 1st Earl Roberts' account of the Mutiny of the Indian Army, Forty-One Years in India in 1902, and his subsequent death in 1914, a packet of letters came to light, telling the story of his personal experiences and adventures during the ... Read more

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Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian MutinyFollowing the publication of 1st Earl Roberts' account of the Mutiny of the Indian Army, Forty-One Years in India in 1902, and his subsequent death in 1914, a packet of letters came to light, telling the story of his personal experiences and adventures during the
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A History of Europe

Part Two

by J. M. Roberts ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

37 hours 35 min

How is it that the small continent of Europe, with its rich multiplicity of cultures and traditions, has managed to exert so profound an influence on the rest of the world? Roberts’ sweeping and entertaining history notes the paradoxical effect, for good and ill, on everything touched by those Western values that originated in Europe.Beginning with its Paleolithic origins and the early ... Read more

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How is it that the small continent of Europe, with its rich multiplicity of cultures and traditions, has managed to exert so profound an influence on the rest of the world? Roberts’ sweeping and entertaining history notes the paradoxical effect, for good and ill, on everything touched by those Western values that originated in Europe.Beginning with its Paleolithic origins and the early
... Read more
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Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min

In this spirited and romantic saga of high adventure, a young heir named David Balfour meets his miserly uncle Ebenezer, who has illegally taken control of the Balfour estate. Ebenezer kidnaps David and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery on a ship to the Carolinas.A couple of days into the voyage, a shipwreck throws David together with Alan Breck, a roguish Scotsman returning from ... Read more

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In this spirited and romantic saga of high adventure, a young heir named David Balfour meets his miserly uncle Ebenezer, who has illegally taken control of the Balfour estate. Ebenezer kidnaps David and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery on a ship to the Carolinas.A couple of days into the voyage, a shipwreck throws David together with Alan Breck, a roguish Scotsman returning from
... Read more

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Musings of an American Artist in Japan

by Robert Frederick Blum ...

Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903), American Lithographer and Watercolorist spent much of his time in Europe, but visited Japan in 1890 and spent three years there. ... Read more

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Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903), American Lithographer and Watercolorist spent much of his time in Europe, but visited Japan in 1890 and spent three years there.
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Stalin

Breaker of Nations

by Robert Conquest ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

15 hours 40 min

Of all the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power, and his secrets have been the most jealously guarded—even after his death.In this book, the first to draw from recently released archives, leading USSR scholar-historian Robert Conquest gives us Stalin as a child and student; as a revolutionary and communist theoretician; as a political animal skilled ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Of all the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power, and his secrets have been the most jealously guarded—even after his death.In this book, the first to draw from recently released archives, leading USSR scholar-historian Robert Conquest gives us Stalin as a child and student; as a revolutionary and communist theoretician; as a political animal skilled
... Read more
Lord Roberts' Message to the Nation

Navigating Imperial Challenges: A Victorian Military Leader's Manifesto

by Frederick Sleigh Roberts Earl Roberts ...

In "Lord Roberts' Message to the Nation," Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl Roberts, delivers a poignant call to British society during a tumultuous period. This powerful text articulates the nation's responsibilities in the wake of the early 20th-century conflicts, drawing upon Roberts' own military experiences to frame a narrative that combines personal reflection with a broader social message. The ... Read more

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In "Lord Roberts' Message to the Nation," Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl Roberts, delivers a poignant call to British society during a tumultuous period. This powerful text articulates the nation's responsibilities in the wake of the early 20th-century conflicts, drawing upon Roberts' own military experiences to frame a narrative that combines personal reflection with a broader social message. The
... Read more

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