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A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery by Kenneth Morgan
epub |eng | 2019-11-22 | Author:Kenneth Morgan

INTERNATIONAL ACTION AGAINST THE SLAVE TRADE After the dual abolitions of their respective slave trades in 1807–8, Britain and the United States exercised influence on further prohibitions of the traffic. ...
( Category: West Africa April 11,2024 )
A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
epub |eng | 2023-03-02 | Author:Ghaith Abdul-Ahad [Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith]

The hills outside al-Shadadi were dotted with oil pumps that resembled giant long-legged birds dipping their beaks into the earth. Most of the wells were not functional after fighters and ...
( Category: Iraq April 11,2024 )
The Counterfeit Countess by Elizabeth B. White & Joanna Sliwa
epub |eng | 2024-01-23 | Author:Elizabeth B. White & Joanna Sliwa

SIXTEEN CAT AND MOUSE On a sub-0° day in early January 1944, a ghastly parade coursed slowly along the streets from Lublin’s freight station to Majdanek. Hundreds of skeletons dressed ...
( Category: Holocaust April 11,2024 )
Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen
epub |eng | 2024-03-26 | Author:Annie Jacobsen [Jacobsen, Annie]

* * * ■45 MINUTES Dombarovsky, Russia Fifty-seven hundred miles from Washington, D.C., at the Dombarovsky ICBM complex in southwestern Siberia, a patch of snow sparkles in the moonlight. ...
( Category: Nuclear April 11,2024 )
On Valor's Side (1966) by T. Grady Gallant
pdf | | 2024-04-08 | Author:T. Grady Gallant

( Category: Japan April 11,2024 )
The Marine from Mandalay (2001) by James Leasor
pdf | | 2024-04-07 | Author:James Leasor

( Category: World War II April 11,2024 )
Turning Points in American Church History by Elesha J. Coffman
epub |eng | 2023-11-07 | Author:Elesha J. Coffman

“For God and Home and Native Land” This popular 1880s temperance song, written by Mrs. E. P. Moffitt of the Illinois WCTU, echoed the aim of godly nation-building expressed by ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State April 11,2024 )
Ambrosius (Leader of Battles Book 1) by Pilling David
epub |eng | 2023-03-08 | Author:Pilling, David

14. “Set thieves to catch thieves.” Ambrosius puzzled over these words until he reached Vercovicium, an auxiliary fort located on a stretch of the Wall some fifty miles north-west of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 11,2024 )
Slow Road to San Francisco by David Reynolds
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:David Reynolds

I peer out into the heat and daylight, and wander west towards the Old Courthouse. This is similar to, and smaller than, the Capitol in Washington DC: a central dome ...
( Category: History April 11,2024 )
And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain by Elisabeth Åsbrink
epub |eng | 2020-01-21 | Author:Elisabeth Åsbrink [Åsbrink, Elisabeth]

The school in the village had said that Otto was welcome, but he didn’t want to go. He was older than the oldest students, considered himself almost grown up and ...
( Category: Sweden April 10,2024 )
Vanishing Primitive Man (Search Book 9) by Tim Severin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-01-03 | Author:Tim Severin [Severin, Tim]

The Life of Primitive Man Rituals and Ceremonies The sorcerers of Africa’s Ivory Coast, seen above dancing with poisonous black cobras in a “rain-making” festival, exemplify the significance of rituals ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries April 10,2024 )
Carolina Crossing (Cape Fear Legacy, #2) by Hawthorne Kit
epub |eng | 2024-02-20 | Author:Hawthorne, Kit

MELINA SET HER QUILL down on the blotter of the writing desk and looked over the flowing script that already filled half a page. She had so much to tell—about ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 10,2024 )
The Evangelical Imagination by Karen Swallow Prior
epub |eng | 2023-05-17 | Author:Karen Swallow Prior

Sensible Sentimentality Sentimentality and sensibility were never only about emotion. Both concepts are related not only to our capacity for sensory experience (which animals share with humans) but also to ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State April 10,2024 )
Korean Film and History by Hyunseon Lee;
epub |eng | 2024-04-15 | Author:Hyunseon Lee;

Film and History The multi-dimensional capacity of digital culture, which includes film, affords this medium access to techniques unavailable to print culture. Korean cinema’s attempts to address colonial-era collaboration have ...
( Category: North April 9,2024 )
The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East by Rasmus C. Elling;Sune Haugbolle;
epub |eng | | Author:Rasmus C. Elling;Sune Haugbolle;

Through his local reputation and his ability to gently engage and persuade, Abu Jubran was able to disarm not only this man but also a network of collaborators in ʾAytarun. ...
( Category: Iran April 9,2024 )

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