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Free Download Nazi Germany’s Conquest of Western Europe: The Negotiations and Campaigns that Let Hitler Conquer the Continent Before and During World War II (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868794575 | 2023 | 3 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Bill Caufield
Europe’s attempts to appease Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April of 1939. The straw that broke the camel’s back, however, was Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1 of that year. Two days later, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany, and World War II had begun in earnest. Of course, as most people now know, the invasion of Poland was merely the preface to the Nazi blitzkrieg of most of Western Europe, which would include Denmark, Belgium, and France by the summer of 1940. The resistance put up by these countries is often portrayed as weak, and the narrative is that the British stood alone in 1940 against the Nazi onslaught, defending the British Isles during the Battle of Britain and preventing a potential German invasion.

Free Download Nazi Germany’s Conquest of Western Europe: The Negotiations and Campaigns that Let Hitler Conquer the Continent Before and During World War II (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868794575 | 2023 | 3 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Bill Caufield
Europe’s attempts to appease Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April of 1939. The straw that broke the camel’s back, however, was Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1 of that year. Two days later, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany, and World War II had begun in earnest. Of course, as most people now know, the invasion of Poland was merely the preface to the Nazi blitzkrieg of most of Western Europe, which would include Denmark, Belgium, and France by the summer of 1940. The resistance put up by these countries is often portrayed as weak, and the narrative is that the British stood alone in 1940 against the Nazi onslaught, defending the British Isles during the Battle of Britain and preventing a potential German invasion.

Free Download Luz Elena Ramirez, "Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination "
English | ISBN: 1032260041 | 2023 | 236 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 35 MB

Free Download Electrical Conquest: New Approaches to the History of Electrification
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031445902 | 506 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 22 MB
This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods. While much of our understanding of electrification as a historical process is based on the seminal work done by Thomas P. Hughes in Networks of Power (1983), the scholars in this volume expand and revise Hughes’ systems approach to suggest that electrification is a heterogeneous and contingent process. Moreover, the contributors suggest that the conquest of the world by electricity remains incomplete despite more than a century elapsing. Above all, though, this book provides context for thinking about what lies ahead as humans continue their conquest of the earth through electricity. As we become increasingly dependent on electricity to power our lights, heat and cool our homes, turn the wheels of industry, and keep our information systems humming, so we are ever more vulnerable when the grid runs into trouble.

Free Download The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris
English | December 15, 2014 | ISBN: 1605986518 | 464 pages | PDF | 7.85 Mb
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This new history explains why the Norman Conquest was the most significant cultural and military episode in English history. Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror’s attack. Morris writes with passion, verve, and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story, indeed the pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation.

Free Download The Social Conquest of Earth (Audiobook)
English | April 09, 2012 | ASIN: B007SIPVL0 | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 35m | 596 MB
Author: Edward O. Wilson | Narrator: Jonathan Hogan
From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson’s legendary career.
Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while "overturning the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first" (Discover magazine).

Free Download Geoffroy de Villehardouin, John Franklyn-Robbins, "The Conquest of Constantinople"
English | ASIN: B00005479O, ISBN: 9781440797774 | 2008 | M4B@64 kbps | ~04:13:00 | 124 MB
This first-hand account of the noble, barbaric Fourth Crusade was written by Geoffroy de Villehardouin, a French nobleman who played a leading role in the war. The First, Second, and Third Crusades were an effort by Christians to free the Holy Land from the Turks, but the Fourth Crusade degenerated into a war of conquest amongst fellow Christians. Villehardouin’s account provides important insights into the motivations of the crusaders in this most famous of campaigns, launched at the dawn of the 13th century.

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Free Download From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKTYBVKR | 2023 | 10 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Kirsten Schultz
Narrator: Alex Picard
A new history of Brazil’s eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance. Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil’s hinterland and the hinterland’s subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance to ensure that Brazil’s wealth flowed to Portugal and into imperial networks of exchange.

Free Download Frank Scoblete, "Slots Conquest: How to Beat the Slot Machines!"
English | 2010 | pages: 175 | ISBN: 160078335X | PDF | 2,0 mb
In Slot Conquest: How to Beat the Slot Machines! you’ll learn new and radically different information to actually beat the slot machines.

Free Download Gender, nation and conquest in the high Middle Ages: Nest of Deheubarth (Gender in History MUP) by Susan M. Johns
English | October 31, 2013 | ISBN: 0719089999 | 289 pages | PDF | 6.61 Mb
This book is an account of noblewomen in Wales in the high Middle Ages, focusing on one particular case-study, Nest of Deheubarth. A key figure in one of the most notorious and portentous abductions of the middle ages, this ‘Helen of Wales’ was both mistress of Henry I and ancestress of a dynasty which dominated the Anglo-Norman conquests of Ireland.