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In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory--rapid, spectacular victory--had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ... more »

Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam. In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns ... more »

Includes 34 classics: THE PROTEVANGELIUM OF JAMES, THE GOSPEL OF PSEUDO-MATTHEW, THE GOSPEL OF THE NATIVITY OF MARY, THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH THE CARPENTER, THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS, THE ARABIC GOSPEL OF THE INFANCY OF THE SAVIOR, THE GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS - GREEK, THE GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS - LATIN, THE LETTER ... more »

On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo--and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste ... more »

In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With 1968 , Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social ... more »

On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia ... more »

Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were united in a `brutal friendship''. Both had savage racial laws; both Hitler and Mussolini viciously denounced the `Jewish menace''. But while in the Second World War Jews who fell into the hands of the German army were consigned almost without exception for the death ... more »

THE MASTER PLAN is a groundbreaking history of a little known Nazi SS archeological research institute, the Ahnenerbe, and the key role it played in the Holocaust. The Ahnenerbe was the brainchild of Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer SS and architect of the Final Solution, who was intensely interested in Germany ... more »

The Pulitzer Prize-winning true story of one army unit in Vietnam is transformed here into a masterful narrative of compelling drama and sweep. Told from the viewpoints of the soldiers who tried to resist this descent into hell, and those who did not, and including accounts from Vietnamese who witnessed ... more »

The Complete Works of Josephus: Life of Flavius Josephus, War of the Jew, Antiquities of the Jews, Against Apion, Discourse to the Greeks. You may also be interested in the ULTIMATE BIBLE STUDY SUITE which includes: Holy Bible - KJV Nave's Topical Bible Strong's Hebrew/Greek Dictionaries Strong's Concordance ... more »

These speeches touch the pulse of a nation like no other documents in history. Compiled herein are the stepping stones of Liberty as delivered by each President of the United States of America. In this volume: Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson. more »