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A Soldiers’ Chronicle of the Hundred Years War College of Arms Manuscript M 9


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English | ISBN: 1843846195 | 2022 | 480 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 11 MB
A remarkable and very important unpublished chronicle written by two soldiers, covering in detail the English campaigns in France from 1415 to 1429. It lists many individuals who served in the war, and was written specifically for Sir John Fastolf, the English commander.

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Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited AIDS and Its Aftermath


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English | 2008 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 0786720395 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Andrew Holleran’s Ground Zero, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 Christopher Street essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the Washington Post as "one of the best dispatches from the epidemic’s height." Twenty years later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized as a global health challenge, Holleran both reiterates and freshly illuminates the devastation wreaked by AIDS, which has claimed the lives of 450,000 gay men as well as 22 million others. Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited features ten pieces never previously republished outside Christopher Street, as well as a new introduction keenly describing and evaluating a historical moment that still informs and defines today’s world-particularly its community of homosexuals, which, arguably, is still recovering from the devastation of AIDS.

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Tsar An Epic Chronicle of the Russian Leaders [Audiobook] (2024)


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English | September 06, 2018 | ASIN: B07GH97LNL | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 22m | 282.89 MB
Author: Mike Walker
Narrator: David Threlfall, Hugo Speer, Samantha Spiro, Anton Lesser, Amanda Root, Raymond Coulthard, Paul Ritter, full cast, Hattie Morahan

Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsars.

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The Bugis Chronicle of Bone


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English | ISBN: 1760463574 | 2020 | 166 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Bugis Chronicle of Bone is a masterwork in the historiographical tradition of South Sulawesi in Indonesia. Written in the late seventeenth century for a very specific political purpose, it describes the steady growth of the kingdom of Bone from the fourteenth century onwards. The local conquests of the fifteenth century, closely linked to agricultural expansion, give way to the long conflict with the Makasar state of Gowa in the sixteenth century. Forced Islamisation in 1611 is dealt with in detail, leading finally to first contact with the Dutch East India Company in 1667. This edition presents a diplomatic version of the best Bugis text, together with the first full English translation and an extensive introduction covering the philological approach to the edition, as well as the historical and cultural significance of the work. A structure based on the reigns of successive rulers allows for stories about the circumstances of each ruler and, particularly, the often dramatic processes and politics of succession. The chronicle is a rich source for historians and anthropologists seeking to understand societies beyond Europe. It provides a window on to this Austronesian-speaking society before the impact of significant external influences. This is history from within, covering more than three centuries.

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The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Creation of Their Past


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English | 2003 | pages: 334 | ISBN: 0199241910 | PDF | 5,9 mb
Carolyn Higbie uses an inscription of the first century BC from the Greek island of Rhodes to study what the ancient Greeks believed about their past. By drawing on anthropological approaches as well as archaeological and literary evidence, this book explores what was important to the Greeks about their past, how they reconstructed it, and how they made use of it in their present.

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Tsar An Epic Chronicle of the Russian Leaders [Audiobook]


Free Download Tsar: An Epic Chronicle of the Russian Leaders (Audiobook)
English | September 06, 2018 | ASIN: B07GH97LNL | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 22m | 282.89 MB
Author: Mike Walker
Narrator: David Threlfall, Hugo Speer, Samantha Spiro, Anton Lesser, Amanda Root, Raymond Coulthard, Paul Ritter, full cast, Hattie Morahan

Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsars.

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