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Free Download The Emperor Caligula in the Ancient Sources by Anthony A. Barrett, John C. Yardley
English | August 18, 2023 | ISBN: 0198854579 | 240 pages | MOBI | 1.57 Mb
There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet an accurate reconstruction of his life and reign largely eludes us. This is paradoxical. The source material is plentiful, even lavish, by the standards of antiquity. The problem lies not so much in the quantity of evidence available, but in its quality. For our information we are obliged to draw on ancient accounts that can be colourful and wonderfully entertaining but have a flexible notion of historical truth and often seem to border on fiction. The consequence is that there is hardly a detail that the modern historian can present without deep reservations about its reliability.

Free Download Frances Wood, "China’s First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors"
English | ISBN: 0312381123 | 2008 | 224 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? China’s First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, he created imperial China. He stressed the rule of law but suppressed all opposition, burning books and burying scholars alive. His military achievements are reflected in the astonishing terracotta soldiers-a veritable buried army-that surround his tomb, and his Great Wall still fascinates the world.

Free Download The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China (Audiobook)
English | August 29, 2024 | ASIN: B0CPQ5DKXJ | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 19m | 562 MB
Author: Michael Sheridan | Narrator: Daniel York Loh
The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on earth. Born a ‘princeling’ to one of Communist China’s ruling families, the young Xi was exiled to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. He fought his way back to the top by stealth, privilege and guile. In 2012, following the spectacular fall of his rival Bo Xilai, Xi Jinping became the leader of China.
In a compulsively readable narrative, veteran foreign correspondent Michael Sheridan takes the reader from the poor, isolated country of Xi’s youth to the military and economic superpower of today. In Xi’s new China, family mafias struggle for power amid murder, corruption and sex scandals as ministers and generals vanish in purges. No one is safe in his techno-security state. Xi is an absolute ruler whose word is law on everything from war and peace to the ruthless campaign against Covid-19. He aims to dominate world trade, to defeat Western democracy and to make China the supreme power in the East. A loner and a risk-taker, he is the most consequential leader of our time.

Free Download Messalina Valeria: The Story of Roman Emperor Claudius’s Wife, the Adulteress by Jeffery Bachand
English | June 13, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C81849KH | 121 pages | EPUB | 0.35 Mb
Introducing "Messalina Valeria: The Story of Roman Emperor Claudius’s Wife, the Adulteress" – a captivating historical novel that unveils the intriguing life of one of Ancient Rome’s most notorious women

Free Download The First Emperor of China (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6NMG8MN | 2024 | 7 hours and 1 minute | MP3@64 kbps | 192 MB
Author: Jonathan Clements
Narrator: Kathleen Li
The First Emperor In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century . . . Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a tyrant. Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to become the First Emperor of China after a century of scheming by his ancestors. He faked a foreign threat to justify an invasion. He ruled a nation under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He ordered his interrogators to torture suspects. He boiled his critics alive. He buried dissenting scholars. He declared war on death itself. Jonathan Clements uses modern archaeology and ancient texts to outline the First Emperor’s career and the grand schemes that followed unification: the Great Wall that guarded his frontiers and the famous Terracotta Army that watches over his tomb. This revised edition includes updates from a further decade of publications, archaeology and fictional adaptations, plus the author’s encounter with Yang Zhifa, the man who discovered the Terracotta Army.

Free Download The Emperor’s Tomb by Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann
English | 3 Jan. 2013 | ISBN: 1847087345, 1847086128 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 0.2 MB
The Emperor’s Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the passing of time and the loss of youth and friends. Prophetic and regretful, intuitive and exact, Roth’s acclaimed novel is the tale of one man’s struggle to come to terms with the uncongenial society of post-First World War Vienna and the first intimations of Nazi barbarities.

Free Download John Fletcher-Cooke, "The Emperor’s Guest"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0552119199, 085052346X | EPUB | pages: 380 | 3.1 mb
Seen through the eyes of John Fletcher-Cooke, the horrifying, but by now often-told story of the treatment meted out by the Japanese to their prisoners of war takes on an entirely new light. His is a book written without bitterness but at the same time a book which does not look back on suffering shared in the self-congratulatory spirit of an old comrades reunion. For Sir John has two remarkable advantages, one possible unique and the other certainly very rare. Firstly, throughout his captivity he kept a diary on which this book is based, and which, as the reader will discover, he was almost unbelievably lucky to preserve. Secondly, as the reader will discover by reading between the lines, he never for one moment gave way to despair.During his years as a prisoner of war he witnessed and was subjected to a wider spectrum of mans inhumanity to man then he could have expected to experience had Torquemada himself been his tutor. To say the he emerged from his descent into hell a wiser and better man is not to condone is suffering. It only emphasizes the fact that indomitable courage and great strength of character are often revealed only in adversity.Sir John subsequently revisited Japan and the places where he was imprisoned. He also met some of the men who had once been his persecutors. The final chapters of this very remarkable book reveal once again the humanity, compassion and understanding which enabled him to survive when so many others died.

Free Download Zheng Yongnian, "The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0415559650, 0415559634 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 1.1 mb
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the largest and one of the most powerful, political organizations in the world today, which has played a crucial role in initiating most of the major reforms of the past three decades in China. China’s rapid rise has enabled the CCP to extend its influence throughout the globe, but the West remains uncertain whether the CCP will survive China’s ongoing socio-economic transformation and become a democratic country.

Free Download Abdul Karim Bangura, "Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s Eulogy of the Prophet Muhammad: Historical, Literary, and Linguistic Analyses"
English | ISBN: 1793623368 | 2022 | 278 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is about the "Hundred-Word Eulogy," a 100-character praise of Islam and Prophet Muhammad written by Zhu Yuanzhang, who reigned as the Hongwu Emperor of China from 1368 to 1398. The analysis of the eulogy is augmented with relevant Islamic texts. The book has become quite revered by many Muslim individuals and organizations across the globe. Yet, no work exists that has systematically analyzed the text. The purpose of this book, then, is to fill this vacuum. Methods from the fields of history, literary analysis, and pragmatic linguistics are employed to provide multidisciplinary and comprehensive analyses of the text, undergirded by the notion of meaning.

Free Download Wim Blockmans, "Emperor Charles V: 1500 – 1558"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0340731109 | PDF | pages: 211 | 4.6 mb
The world of the first half of the sixteenth century was exceptionally dynamic. Voyages of discovery made the world larger; science and technology were revolutionized; Christian thought underwent a powerful renewal; the population and economy grew. And in the midst of this constellation of change, one man – the Emperor Charles V – ruled a conglomeration of territory more extensive than that previously held by any ruler in European history. What can one person, given an inordinate amount of power by quirk of fate, achieve? How much freedom did he in fact have? Did it help him reach his objectives? What unwanted results ensued from his actions? The relationship between the will of an individual and the power of structures in times of such mutability is at the core of Blockman’s enquiry. He brings to the task a range of languages – without which it is scarcely possible to do justice to Charles’s widespread, linguistically diverse imperium – a keen awareness of the most recent findings in modern scholarship, and the fruits of a professional lifetime’s reflection.