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Free Download Forged in Fire: An Australian commando’s story of life and death on the frontline by Scott Ryder
English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1761471414 | 432 pages | EPUB | 7.95 Mb
Forged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the Australian commandos.

Free Download Forged in Fire: An Australian Commando’s Story of Life and Death on the Frontline (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D73ZFG96 | 2024 | 12 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Scott Ryder
Narrator: David Tredinnick
Forged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the Australian commandos. Garry made a report on the radio: ‘I see around 200 women and children heading north up the valley.’ Less than 400 metres below us, a steady stream of women and kids were hurrying away in single file. ‘Where are all the men?’ I asked Garry. ‘Waiting for us,’ he responded, with a look of concern I had not seen on his face before. My heart skipped a beat-we were on. From the age of 12, Scott Ryder knew he wanted to join the army, and he signed up as soon as he could. After serving as a paratrooper and in East Timor with 3 RAR, he wanted more.

Free Download Brian Lavery, "Empire of the Seas: How the navy forged the modern world"
English | ISBN: 1472835603 | 2019 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality – that the nation’s new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force to become the most complex industrial enterprise on earth; how the need to organise it laid the foundations of our civil service and our economy; and how it transformed our culture, our sense of national identity and our democracy.

Free Download Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation By John Ferling
2013 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 1608195287 | EPUB | 6 MB
From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible human drama even as it enriches our understanding of deep themes in our nation’s history. The decade of the 1790s has been called the "age of passion." Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic-each side convinced that the other’s goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought and so dearly won. All understood as well that what was at stake was not a moment’s political advantage, but the future course of the American experiment in democracy. In this epochal debate, no two figures loomed larger than Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Both men were visionaries, but their visions of what the United States should be were diametrically opposed. Jefferson, a true revolutionary, believed passionately in individual liberty and a more egalitarian society, with a weak central government and greater powers for the states. Hamilton, a brilliant organizer and tactician, feared chaos and social disorder. He sought to build a powerful national government that could ensure the young nation’s security and drive it toward economic greatness. Jefferson and Hamilton is the story of the fierce struggle-both public and, ultimately, bitterly personal-between these two titans. It ended only with the death of Hamilton in a pistol duel, felled by Aaron Burr, Jefferson’s vice president. Their competing legacies, like the twin strands of DNA, continue to shape our country to this day. Their personalities, their passions, and their bold dreams for America leap from the page in this epic new work from one of our finest historians.

Free Download Muse: Cicely Tyson and Me: A Relationship Forged in Fashion (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4C2YZQM | 2024 | 4 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 227 MB
Author: B Michael
Narrator: B Michael, Leon Nixon
A poignant and glorious memoir that pays homage to the lifelong friendship between the legendary Cicely Tyson and acclaimed fashion designer B Michael, who worked with her to make her gorgeous through her last bow. What greater act of friendship is there than making someone dear look and feel their most beautiful and powerful? That was the priceless gift acclaimed designer B Michael gave to one of Hollywood’s greatest actresses, Cicely Tyson over the course of their close, decades-long relationship. In this glorious memoir, B Michael recalls the bond they shared and what it was like to dress the Queen of Hollywood for all the extraordinary events of her life.

Free Download Introduction to Jewelry Making – Forged Bar Earrings
Published 1/2024
Created by Modern Metalsmith
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 9 Lectures ( 39m ) | Size: 830 MB

Free Download A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler, John Lescault, Blackstone Publishing
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08T6JZT5T | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 9 hours and 17 minutes + EPUB | 127 Mb
The story of one of the most important – and incendiary – books in Western history.
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published – "godless", "full of abominations", "a book forged in hell…by the devil himself". Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Yet Spinoza’s book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine’s Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking.
In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired.

Free Download The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak, Cassandra Campbell, Audible Studios
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09SVDTR91 | 10 hours and 50 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 289 Mb
"A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life." (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times best-selling author of Hidden Figures)
The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule.