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Compiled by Heinrich Heim, Henry Picker, and Martin Bormann. Introduced and Annotated by R. P. Tomlinson. New edition with 618 new footnotes contextualising references, events, and personalities mentioned in the text. Also contains a new introduction and full index of topics.
The full and complete edition of Adolf Hitler's private dinner conversations, which reveal the true thoughts of the Nazi leader-as opposed to his public pronouncements as a politician-on a vast range of topics.
Taken surreptitiously at lunch and dinner tables by his personal assistants, these conversations relate Hitler's personal opinions on religion, economics, science, technology, the environment, society, history, art and much more besides.
The manuscript-recovered directly from Martin Bormann's widow at the end of the war, (a partial copy of which is in the US Archives)-provides one of the most important insights into the man who created the Third Reich, and is invaluable for any person wishing to gain a greater understanding into this tragic period of history.
Compiled by Heinrich Heim, Henry Picker, and Martin Bormann. Introduced and Annotated by R. P. Tomlinson. New edition with 618 new footnotes contextualising references, events, and personalities mentioned in the text. Also contains a new introduction and full index of topics.
The full and complete edition of Adolf Hitler's private dinner conversations, which reveal the true thoughts of the Nazi leader-as opposed to his public pronouncements as a politician-on a vast range of topics.
Taken surreptitiously at lunch and dinner tables by his personal assistants, these conversations relate Hitler's personal opinions on religion, economics, science, technology, the environment, society, history, art and much more besides.
The manuscript-recovered directly from Martin Bormann's widow at the end of the war, (a partial copy of which is in the US Archives)-provides one of the most important insights into the man who created the Third Reich, and is invaluable for any person wishing to gain a greater understanding into this tragic period of history.
The most famous novel of the Reconstruction Trilogy, based on the events in the US South following the end of the Civil War, The Clansman became the basis for the 1915 epic movie Birth of a Nation.
Using fictional characters, based on real personalities of the time (such as Augustus Stoneman, who is a personification of the real life Thaddeus Stevens), it tells of the tumultuous events following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, whose death allowed the Reconstructionists to direct US internal policy in the South.
This in turn gave rise to much resentment in the South, and the book then follows the story of a Confederate Army veteran Ben Cameron, who, as part of the original Ku Klux Klan, is successful in overthrowing the Reconstruction regime.
The book was highly successful in its day, selling in the hundreds of thousands. As a play and as the film Birth of a Nation, it was seen by millions and officially endorsed by then US President Woodrow Wilson.
The other two volumes in this trilogy, The Leopard's Spots and The Traitor, were equally as successful as The Clansman.
The Tomahawk Warriors, a crew of nine who perished in a 1944 B-17 Flying Fortress crash in England, was a mystery of WWII until explained in this book. It would have lain in partial obscurity if it were not for the author's initial involuntary involvement. As a child, he witnessed what would become a dogged determination in his lifetime later to tell this story. As the faint light of dawn was breaking the morning of August 12, 1944, a crippled American B-17 bomber flew perilously close over the roof of the author's house in Southern England. Around 30 seconds later, it crashed and exploded. In 2016, the author, David E. Huntley, after almost a lifetime, came across the story of the crew known as the 'Tomahawk Warriors' and recognized it as the accident he had witnessed as a child.
He started his own research and began asking himself many questions about the disaster. How did this plane crash and why, particularly in that location? For what reason was the plane misnamed 'The Tomahawk Warrior' through all those years? What strange circumstance led the author to come into possession of the navigator's diary that no one knew even existed? Why did one airman not take his place on board that day and become a part of the 'missing airman' legend?
Despite the coincidence that the plane of the 'Tomahawk Warriors' and the plane of Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. crashed on the same day; Huntley revealed a further significant link between them. This incident adds a further little-known aspect about the Kennedy's in American history.
Based on Declassified Secret Operational Records, analysis of other official and unofficial records, the author's personal observations on the day of the accident, and his pursuit of other facts, those mysteries became fully resolved. This story provides a distinct understanding of the immense courage those young 20 to 26-year-old American airmen displayed. Mission after mission, they climbed aboard their craft and carried out their respective duties at 28,000 ft in sub-zero temperatures, hoping their electric-heated protective clothing would not short out during the 9 to 10-hour flight. They prayed that flak and enemy fighters would give them that 70 percent chance of getting back home.
The book offers vivid descriptions of those who got shot down, baled out, and died or got captured to spend the rest of the war as POWs.The narrative places its emphasis on the lives of the heroes who served in WWII and their loved ones who have grown up in their shadows. He obtained a posthumous honor to the deceased crew, as well as a Permanent Commemorative Marker, and brought relief and closure to the descendants' relatives. This is not a post-mortem of wartime machinery, but a window into the lives of some heroes who sacrificed themselves for a cause, as well as a personal insight into the familial relationships with their loved ones at home.
The most famous novel of the Reconstruction Trilogy, based on the events in the US South following the end of the Civil War, The Clansman became the basis for the 1915 epic movie Birth of a Nation.
Using fictional characters, based on real personalities of the time (such as Augustus Stoneman, who is a personification of the real life Thaddeus Stevens), it tells of the tumultuous events following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, whose death allowed the Reconstructionists to direct US internal policy in the South.
This in turn gave rise to much resentment in the South, and the book then follows the story of a Confederate Army veteran Ben Cameron, who, as part of the original Ku Klux Klan, is successful in overthrowing the Reconstruction regime.
The book was highly successful in its day, selling in the hundreds of thousands. As a play and as the film Birth of a Nation, it was seen by millions and officially endorsed by then US President Woodrow Wilson.
The other two volumes in this trilogy, The Leopard's Spots and The Traitor, were equally as successful as The Clansman.
Using a vast array of official documents secured at the highest levels of the US Government, official US Senate historian and history professor Charles Tansill delves deep into the origins of American involvement in the Second World War, and comes to a startling conclusion: that, despite public pronouncements to the contrary, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration actively sought to participate in that conflict.
To that end, Professor Tansill shows, US diplomacy in the 1930s was focussed exclusively on forcing first the Japanese Empire into firing the first shot, and in Europe, helping Britain to generate a war fever through solemn undertakings of support (such as those made to Poland) which, the author shows, the US Administration was well aware had no hope whatsoever of being fulfilled.
Thus, the author shows, that the Roosevelt Administration sought to provoke Japan into an attack on American territory, knowing that such an even would inevitably involve Japan's Axis allies, and in this way, America would enter the war through the back door.
The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden, Volume I of the Reconstruction Trilogy, is the first part of a three part historical novel meant to portray life in the immediate period following the end of the US Civil War in the South.
Written by a Southern sympathizer, political activist and Baptist preacher, the Reconstruction trilogy tells the story of Charles Gaston, the son of a famous Confederate colonel, who leads his men from the state of North Carolina in a rebellion against the Reconstruction policy which was implemented in the South after the war.
Other characters featured include Simon Legree, an ex-slave driver turned Reconstruction leader, emancipated slaves, former soldiers from both sides, and unscrupulous politicians, all set against a love story based around the main character.
The personalities in the book are fictional, but are all based on real people, giving the work a uniquely realistic air, which made it a best seller in its time. The entire first edition was sold before it was printed, and the book sold over 100,000 copies in its first 6 months.
The other two volumes in this trilogy, The Clansman and The Traitor, were as successful as The Leopard's Spots, with The Clansman becoming the basis for the famous 1915 epic silent movie Birth of a Nation.
Using a vast array of official documents secured at the highest levels of the US Government, official US Senate historian and history professor Charles Tansill delves deep into the origins of American involvement in the Second World War, and comes to a startling conclusion: that, despite public pronouncements to the contrary, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration actively sought to participate in that conflict.
To that end, Professor Tansill shows, US diplomacy in the 1930s was focussed exclusively on forcing first the Japanese Empire into firing the first shot, and in Europe, helping Britain to generate a war fever through solemn undertakings of support (such as those made to Poland) which, the author shows, the US Administration was well aware had no hope whatsoever of being fulfilled.
Thus, the author shows, that the Roosevelt Administration sought to provoke Japan into an attack on American territory, knowing that such an even would inevitably involve Japan's Axis allies, and in this way, America would enter the war through the back door.
This classic work remains as powerful as when it was first written and provides a dramatic insight into the tragic and world-shaping events of 1941.
The last novel of the Reconstruction Trilogy books sees the Klans decline and followed the story of lawyer and North Carolina Grand Dragon John Graham, as he suffers a personal collapse following problems with alcohol and economic impoverishment.
He orders the disbanding of his Klan, but a group of upstarts refuse to follow his orders, and continue their activities, quickly devolving into a program of terror across the state.
When a judge is murdered by a man in Klan uniform, Graham's troubles increase as he becomes the primary suspect . . .
Meanwhile, Graham's love interest, Stella Butler, hires a northern Secret Service detective to find the real murderer, and intrigue follows intrigue until the situation is at last resolved, and the traitor is found out.
The book was highly successful in its day, selling in the hundreds of thousands. The other two volumes in this trilogy, The Leopard's Spots and The Clansman, were equally as successful, with The Clansman forming the basis of the epic 1915 movie Birth of a Nation.
A new and completely reset edition of the 1918 original, featuring all the original illustrations and maps, digitally restored to the highest possible quality. The author, a journalist working in Russia at the time of the Russian Revolution which saw the Bolshevists sweep to power, provides one of the few eye-witness accounts of those tumultuous times.
A fervent anti-Communist, Wilton's narration contains many of the prejudices of his time, but nonetheless contains many valuable insights into the conditions and events of the time, including the influence of the famous monk Rasputin, the struggle faced by the Tsar in dealing with the war against Germany and internal revolt, the role of the German government in aiding the Bolshevists, the Kronstadt sailors' revolt, Jews, anti-Semitism, the revolutionary parties, the Tsar's abdication, the first elections, and the Bolshevist seizure of power.
Finally, Wilton provides an overly optimistic view of Russia's future, and a short series of appendices dealing with later political and economic issues.
This new edition also contains a reformatted index.
All she wants is the music. All he wants is her.
Nashville's pop-country princess Alabama Forester is drowning in debt and a bad reputation after a tabloid scandal gone off the rails.
In fact, her entire life's gone off the rails. Without a manager, she's working at a podunk diner unsure if she'll ever record another song again. That is, until she's offered the chance of a lifetime: join country-rock bad boy Griff Greyson on tour and pay off her debt.
It should be easy.
Except it isn't.
Because Griff, the boy who broke her heart all those years ago, is now a man. A rough and rowdy rocker, with a muscled, tattooed body, and tawny-colored eyes that have her wanting to break every rule in the songbook.
♥♥♥
Country hellraiser Griff Greyson is trying to get his music career back on track after being arrested for disorderly conduct. The last thing he needs is bruised and beautiful Alabama Forester on his tour.
The girl he gave up for the spotlight.
The woman he still loves.
He vows to stay away from her. Vows to keep the real reason he left Alabama all those years ago a secret.
Now, on a whirlwind tour across the United States with hot tempers and even closer quarters, sparks fly whenever they're on stage together. But when Griff's old rock-and-roll lifestyle puts Alabama's life on the line, both discover they could lose everything-before they ever really had it.
First delivered as a lecture in Boston in 1847 by one of America's foremost anti-slavery activists, this classic work became a powerful argument used against the institution of slavery as it then existed in the United States, for, as the author correctly pointed out, why did America go to war to end white slavery in North Africa at the hands of the Moors, yet still tolerated black slavery at home?
Starting with an overview of the historical nature of slavery from ancient times onwards, the author first focusses on how the trade in white slaves become one of the dominant features of Moorish society in North Africa, concentrated around the cities of Tunis and Algiers.
From these bases, the author reveals, via thoroughly referenced sources, Arab slave traders preyed on European shipping and conducted raids across the seas, reaching the south western coast of England and Ireland in their slave-raiding activities.
Many famous figures--such as the Spanish author Cervantes (Don Quixote) were captured and enslaved by the Moors, and the first major European military attempt to halt this slave trade was carried out in 1620, when an English fleet was launched against Algiers. The author, ever aware of the inconsistency of the attitude of European powers towards slavery, does not fail to point out that in this same year, the first African slaves were landed in North America, also by the English overlords.
The author then goes on to describe the conditions endured by the white slaves in North Africa, and the long list of European diplomatic and military attempts to halt the slave trade there.
Finally, the increasing number Americans being captured by the Moors, now known as the Barbary Pirates, so named from that geographic region of North Africa, led to American military intervention.
This in turn caused the Bey of Tripoli to formally declare war on the United States in 1801, a provocation which ultimately resulted in the 1816 physical destruction of the Barbary Pirate States through military means.
Sumner's work remains a dramatic overview of a little-known period of history, and has lost none of its powerful message over the passage of years.
Cover image: Torments of the Slaves from Histoire de Barbarie et de ses corsairs, Pierre Dan, 1637.
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For those seeking a heroic story, an expression of idealism, self-sacrifice, and resistance against tyranny, the story of the fall of Jerusalem and Masada remain two of history's epic events. - from the new introduction.
A dramatic and engrossing English prose retelling of the story of two pivotal events on Jewish history-the sieges of Jerusalem and Masada during the Roman-Jewish War (66-73 CE)-drawn directly from the Latin original written by the famous historian Flavius Josephus.
Josephus-a Jewish rebel leader captured and turned by the Romans, is the only historian to have recorded in detail the events surrounding these two earthshaking events.
The first part, prepared by famous English historian Alfred J. Church, deals with the events leading up to the siege and fall of Jerusalem, and the second part, newly prepared by New York scholar Brian Hirsch, deals with the events immediately afterward, including the siege and fall of Masada.
The Great Jewish Revolt had its origins in protests against Roman taxation. After the Romans responded to the unrest by looting the Temple in Jerusalem, a full-scale uprising broke out, which led to the massacre of both the Roman garrison and a legion dispatched from Syria.
After the Roman-appointed King Herod was forced to flee, a Jewish government was established. Wracked by internal dissension, and facing a mighty foe, the Jewish forces fought desperately to defend their newly-established state-but in vain.
Under the command of Vespasian, then his son Titus, and finally the legate General Silva, Roman forces overcame the Jewish strongholds one by one.
Finally, only two major strongholds remained: Jerusalem, held by the Sadducee Jerusalemites and the Zealots, and the mountaintop fortress of Masada, held by the Sicarii. It took the Romans more than a year to overcome the defenses of Jerusalem and Masada.
Jerusalem was razed to the ground, and its inhabitants massacred. At Masada, the Romans built a mighty ramp up the mountain, only to be greeted by the sight of the mass suicide of the 960 defenders.
Contents
Preface by Alfred J Church
Preface by Brian Hirsch
PART I: THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
Chapter I: Of the Beginnings of the Jewish War
Chapter II: Of the Doings of Cestius
Chapter III: Of Josephus and the Besieging of Jotapata
Chapter IV: Of the Marvellous Escape of Josephus, and of the War in Galilee
Chapter V: Of the Troubles in Jerusalem
Chapter VI: Of the First Coming of the Romans
Chapter VII: The Beginning of the Siege
Chapter VIII: Of the Walls of Jerusalem
Chapter IX: The Siege
Chapter X: The Siege (Continued)
Chapter XI: The Siege (Continued)
Chapter XII: The Taking of the City
Chapter XIII: The End
PART II: THE ROAD TO MASADA
Chapter I: Aftermath of the Fall of Jerusalem
Chapter II: The Siege of Macherus
Chapter III: Concerning the Fortress of Masada
Chapter IV: Concerning the Sicarii and their Occupation of Masada
Chapter V: The Romans Lay Siege to Masada
Chapter VI: Eleazar's Speech to the Defenders of Masada
Chapter VII: The Mass Suicide at Masada
Chapter VIII: The End of the War
One of the greatest history books ever written now features a new introduction, which provides the first comprehensive overview of this seminal work for contemporary readers.
The new introduction is divided into four parts:
(A) 'The Causes of the Peloponnesian War';
(B) 'A Brief Overview of the Course of the War' (this is necessary as Thucydides' work ends abruptly in 411 BC, six years before the actual end of the conflict);
(C) 'A Biography of Thucydides'; and
(D) 'The Significance of The History of the Peloponnesian War'. This final section places the work in its broader context, explores its style, and discusses its ultimate significance for historical documentation and its relevance to the present day.
In this enduring masterpiece of historical literature, Thucydides meticulously chronicles the monumental conflict between Athens and Sparta that rocked the ancient world - The Peloponnesian War. This seminal work paints a vivid tableau of political intrigue, valorous battles, and momentous events that marked the climax of classical Greece's golden age.
Thucydides' narrative, at once scrupulously factual and profoundly insightful, traces the twenty-seven-year-long war, from its incipience to the ultimate fall of the mighty Athenian Empire. As an Athenian general himself, he provides readers with an unparalleled firsthand perspective, suffusing the account with a profound understanding of the strategic decisions, the pivotal battles, and the complex political landscape of the era.
However, The History of the Peloponnesian War is more than a record of historical events; it is a timeless examination of the human condition. Thucydides scrutinizes the motivations, virtues, and follies of political and military leaders, illustrating the inextricable interplay of power, fear, and ambition.
This seminal work is not just an account of war, but a thoughtful inquiry into the nature of power, the causes of conflict, and the human capacity for both nobility and cruelty. Its lessons remain strikingly relevant today, making it an essential read for historians, students, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the world's past to illuminate the complexities of the present.
This is not a mass market edition but a quality printing on white paper.
The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden, Volume I of the Reconstruction Trilogy, is the first part of a three part historical novel meant to portray life in the immediate period following the end of the US Civil War in the South.
Written by a Southern sympathizer, political activist and Baptist preacher, the Reconstruction trilogy tells the story of Charles Gaston, the son of a famous Confederate colonel, who leads his men from the state of North Carolina in a rebellion against the Reconstruction policy which was implemented in the South after the war.
Other characters featured include Simon Legree, an ex-slave driver turned Reconstruction leader, emancipated slaves, former soldiers from both sides, and unscrupulous politicians, all set against a love story based around the main character.
The personalities in the book are fictional, but are all based on real people, giving the work a uniquely realistic air, which made it a best seller in its time. The entire first edition was sold before it was printed, and the book sold over 100,000 copies in its first 6 months.
The other two volumes in this trilogy, The Clansman and The Traitor, were as successful as The Leopard's Spots, with The Clansman becoming the basis for the famous 1915 epic silent movie Birth of a Nation.
