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Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs. Alive with flamboyant ... 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 »

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americas rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairs brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countrys most important ... more »

A Band of Brothers for the Pacific, this is the gut-wrenching but ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious -- yet largely forgotten -- battle of World War II. Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than 6,500 casualties fighting on a hellish ... more »

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Here are World War II's battles, raids, and acts of courage -- the momentous decisions about how and where the war was fought -- the strategies and conduct of the officers who led the drive across Europe to Berlin, and the best army in the world, pushing the Germans out of France, chasing them across ... more »

An History of China. As China has now fairly taken her place in the family of nations, it is unnecessary to elaborate an argument in support of even the humblest attempt to elucidate her history. It is a subject to which we can no longer remain indifferent, because circumstances are bringing every day ... more »

All 14 chapters. CONTENTS. (to chapter VIII) CHAP. I. THE CONQUESTS OF THE ROMANS. Early History of Rome - Wars under the Kings - Their Results - Gradual Subjection of Italy - Great Heroes of the Republic - Their Virtues and Victories - Military Aggrandizement - The Carthaginian, Macedonian, and Asiatic ... more »

Abraham Lincoln inspired feelings unlike those instilled by any previous commander-in-chief in America. Lincoln's Men draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries to tell the story of how a new and untested president could become Father Abraham. It is the story of the second American revolution ... more »

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In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen ... more »