History
Saint Athanasius: The Father of Orthodoxy
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Frances Alice Forbes
A short and rather old fashioned biography a great saint. Don't expect subtlety; it's unapologetic hagiography. The saint is presented as a …
Römische Geschichte Buch 1
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Theodor Mommsen
Mommsen (1817-1903) erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Erstes BuchBis zur Abschaffung des …
Queen Victoria
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E. Gordon Browne
This book is about the life of Queen Victoria (1819 to 1901). All nine of her children married into the royal houses of Europe. She became t…
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. V
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Edward Gibbon
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
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Logan Marshall
This is a detailed and accurate account of the most awful marine disaster in history, constructed from the real facts as obtained from those…
Old-Time Makers of Medicine
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James Joseph Walsh
Dr. Walsh's Old-Time Makers of Medicine chronicles the history and development of modern medicine from ancient times up to the discovery of …
China and the Chinese
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Herbert Allen Giles
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor…
Discoverers and Explorers
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Edward R. Shaw
Tales of the brave and daring explorers that ventured into the unknown "Sea of Darkness" where it was thought monsters and angry g…
Henry VIII
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William Shakespeare
This is Shakespeare's dutiful trubute to one of the most imposing and terrifying rulers in European history. The kingdom trembles as the gia…
From the Foundation of the City Vol. 01
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Titus Livius
Ab urbe condita, is a monumental history of ancient Rome written in the Latin language by Titus Livius(Livy), an ancient Roman historian. Th…
The Story of the Romans
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H. A. Guerber
A collection of short stories and histories of Rome, from its beginning to its end. (Ann Boulais)
Famous Men of Modern Times
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John Henry Haaren
Famous Men of Modern Times is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interestin…
Anti-imperialist Writings
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Mark Twain
This audiobook is a collection of Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamp…
The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation
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Patrick Weston Joyce
This little book has been written and published with the main object of spreading as widely as possible among our people, young and old, a k…
History of the United States, Vol. VII
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Charles Austin Beard
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…
Charles I
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Jacob Abbott
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels…
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4
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Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…
The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that of the 16th century Spaniard Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, cast ashore …
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1
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Peter Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but als…
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1
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John Lloyd Stephens
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…