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Free Download Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia’s Greatest Empire by Herald van der Linde
English | August 22nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1915310288 | 410 pages | True EPUB | 6.02 MB
Discover Majapahit, the mighty empire in Southeast Asia that many have never heard of. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Majapahit kingdom reigned supreme in eastern Java, and its influence stretched far and wide, throughout present-day Indonesia, parts of the Malay peninsula and the island of Tumasek, now Singapore. Majapahit’s army famously repelled Kublai Khan’s invasion, and its formidable navy humbled even the renowned Portuguese mariners. Walk the bustling streets of Majapahit, a melting pot of aristocratic Javanese, shaven-head Brahmins, hermits in bark cloth, widows dressed in white, and Chinese, Persian and Arab traders.

Free Download Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque
English | May 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1529149568 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 4.25 MB
A queen on the edge.

Free Download Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYTGQRK5 | 2024 | 23 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 672 MB
Author: Robert Fisk
Narrator: Tim Bruce, Kit Griffiths
An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk’s trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting. Fully immersed in the Middle East and critical of the West’s ongoing interference, Fisk was committed to uncovering complex and uncomfortable truths that rarely featured on the traditional news agenda. With a foreword from fellow Middle East correspondent and former colleague Patrick Cockburn, Night of Power delivers an essential and final account from one of the world’s finest journalists, and proves itself timely as ever.

Free Download The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free by Pete Hegseth
English | June 4, 2024 | ISBN: 0063389428 | 256 pages | PDF | 2.10 Mb
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Free Download Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation by Sune Engel Rasmussen
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0374609942 | 352 pages | EPUB | 0.77 Mb
An intimate history of the Afghan war―and the young Afghans whose dreams it enabled and dashed.

Free Download British Traitors: Betrayal and Treachery in the Twentieth Century by Gordon Kerr
English | October 20, 2022 | ISBN: 0857304798 | 256 pages | PDF | 2.19 Mb
British Traitors explores the lives and motivations of a number of the traitors who betrayed their country during the twentieth century. From Kim Philby to Lord Haw-Haw, Wilfred Macartney to George Blake, the book Investigates what drives a person to commit that most heinous of crimes – treason.

Free Download Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ4GTL4Z | 2024 | 8 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Estelle Paranque
Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones
Anne Boleyn has mesmerized people for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, the infamous Henry VIII, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier’s daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold? While many stories of Anne Boleyn’s downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate. In Thorns, Lust, and Glory, Estelle Paranque takes us back to where it all started: to France, where Anne learned the lessons that would set her on the path to becoming one of England’s most infamous queens. At the court of the French king as a resourceful teenage girl, Anne’s journey to infamy began, and this landmark biography explores the world that shaped her, and how these loyalties would leave her vulnerable, leading to her ruin at the English court. Featuring new archival research from sources across Europe, this book reveals the girl before the myth-and the formidable woman she grew up to become. A fascinating new perspective on Tudor history’s most enduring story, Thorns, Lust, and Glory is an unmissable account of a queen on the edge.

Free Download The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLYPR6S9 | 2024 | 8 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 235 MB
Author: Pete Hegseth
Narrator: Pete Hegseth
Real men fought for our freedoms. It’s time we fought for theirs. Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness. Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can’t save the meritocracy of our military, we’re definitely going to lose everywhere else. The War on Warriors uncovers the deep roots of our dysfunction-a society that has forgotten the men who take risks, cut through red tape, and get their hands dirty. The only kind of men prepared to face the dangers that the Left pretends don’t exist. Unlike issues of education or taxes or crime, this problem doesn’t have a zip code solution. We can’t move away from it. We can’t avoid it. We have only one Pentagon. Either we take it back or surrender it altogether.

Free Download Stephen R. Bown, Joe Barrett (Narrator), "Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver"
English | ASIN: B0D192696C | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:08:00 | 251 MB
From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America’s Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history’s greatest feats of maritime daring, discovery, and diplomacy, and his marine survey of Hawaii and the Pacific coast was at its time the most comprehensive ever undertaken. But just two years after returning to Britain, the forty-year-old Vancouver, hounded by critics, shamed by public humiliation at the fists of an aristocratic sailor he had flogged, and blacklisted because of a perceived failure to follow the Admiralty’s directives, died in poverty, nearly forgotten. In this riveting and perceptive biography, historian Stephen Bown delves into the events that destroyed Vancouver’s reputation and restores his position as one of the greatest explorers of the Age of Discovery.

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Free Download The fidelity of betrayal : towards a church beyond belief By Rollins, Peter
2008 | 196 Pages | ISBN: 1557255601 | PDF | 1 MB
"About 30 years ago, I came across the evocative phrase ‘religionless Christianity’ in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s later writings, and it has stayed with me ever since. In his new book The Fidelity of Betrayal, Peter Rollins has teased out – as Bonhoeffer never had the chance to do – profound possibilities hidden in the phrase. As a huge fan of Peter’s first book, I find his second no less thoughtful, stimulating, and at times unsettling – always in a most (de)constructive way. His subversive parables, his clever turns of phrase, and his beguiling clarity all conspire to tempt the reader into that most fertile and terrifying of activities – to think to the very rim of one’s understanding, and then to faithfully imagine the Truth that lies far beyond." – Brian McLaren, author/activist (www.brianmclaren.net) What if one of the core demands of a radical Christianity lay in a call for its betrayal, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian Scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what would it mean if the only way of finding real faith involved betraying it with a kiss? Employing the insights of mysticism and deconstructive theory, The Fidelity of Betrayal delves into the subversive and revolutionary nature of a Christianity that dwells within the church while simultaneously undermining it.