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Free Download Norse Fighting Heroes: Kings, Conquerors and Shieldmaidens by Jamie Ryder
English | December 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1399038907 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 11.78 MB
Investigates the complex lives of famous Vikings, examining their spirituality, ambitions, and legendary adventures beyond mere conquest.

Free Download Kings, Queens and Fallen Monarchies: Royal Dynasties of Interwar Europe by Robert Stove
English | December 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1399035428 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 9.13 MB
Explores the interwar movements to restore Europe’s deposed royal houses, examining their political significance and influence on global power dynamics.

Free Download The Vampire of Kings Street: A Mystery by Asha Greyling
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 163910867X | True EPUB | 272 pages | 0.9 MB
In this gothic debut novel, perfect for fans of Tread of Angels and Gail Carriger’s Soulless, Miss Radhika Dhingra, a newly minted lawyer in 19th century New York, never expected that her first client would be a vampire accused of murder.

Free Download Ramesses the Great: Egypt’s King of Kings (Ancient Lives) by Toby Wilkinson
English | May 16, 2023 | ISBN: 0300256655 | 240 pages | MOBI | 3.71 Mb
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson

Free Download Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched the Modern Olympic Age by Todd Balf, Edoardo Ballerini, Scribd, Inc
English | July 02, 2024 | ISBN: B0CW3SXJ42 | 8 hours and 37 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 237 Mb
For fans of The Boys in the Boat, and marking the 100th anniversary of the Paris Olympics, the never-before-told story of three athletes who defied the odds to usher in a golden age of sports
Even today, it’s considered one of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. The hundred-meter sprint final at the 1924 Paris Games, featuring three of the world’s fastest swimmers-American legends Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, and Japanese upstart Katsuo Takaishi-had the cultural impact of other milestone moments in Olympic history: Jesse Owens’s podiums in Berlin and John Carlos’s raised, black-gloved fist in Mexico City. Never before had an Olympic swimming final prominently featured athletes of different races, and never had it been broadcast live. Across the globe, fans held their breath.
In less than a minute, an Olympic record would be shattered, and the three men would be scrutinized like few athletes before them. For the millions worldwide for whom swimming was a complete unknown, the trio did something few could imagine: moving faster through water than many could on land. As sportsmen, they were godlike heroes, embodying the hopes of those who called them their own, in the US and abroad. They personified strength and speed, and the glamour and innovation of the Roaring Twenties. But they also represented fraught assumptions about race and human performance. It was not only "East vs. West"-as newspapers in the 1920s described the competition with Japan-it was also brown versus white. Rich versus poor. New versus old. The race was about far more than swimming.

Free Download Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched the Modern Olympic Age by Todd Balf, Edoardo Ballerini, Scribd, Inc
English | July 02, 2024 | ISBN: B0CW3SXJ42 | 8 hours and 37 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 237 Mb
For fans of The Boys in the Boat, and marking the 100th anniversary of the Paris Olympics, the never-before-told story of three athletes who defied the odds to usher in a golden age of sports
Even today, it’s considered one of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. The hundred-meter sprint final at the 1924 Paris Games, featuring three of the world’s fastest swimmers-American legends Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, and Japanese upstart Katsuo Takaishi-had the cultural impact of other milestone moments in Olympic history: Jesse Owens’s podiums in Berlin and John Carlos’s raised, black-gloved fist in Mexico City. Never before had an Olympic swimming final prominently featured athletes of different races, and never had it been broadcast live. Across the globe, fans held their breath.
In less than a minute, an Olympic record would be shattered, and the three men would be scrutinized like few athletes before them. For the millions worldwide for whom swimming was a complete unknown, the trio did something few could imagine: moving faster through water than many could on land. As sportsmen, they were godlike heroes, embodying the hopes of those who called them their own, in the US and abroad. They personified strength and speed, and the glamour and innovation of the Roaring Twenties. But they also represented fraught assumptions about race and human performance. It was not only "East vs. West"-as newspapers in the 1920s described the competition with Japan-it was also brown versus white. Rich versus poor. New versus old. The race was about far more than swimming.

Free Download Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D8X9L7LJ | 2024 | 12 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 358 MB
Author: Kathleen Sheppard
Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley
The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut. Before men even conceived of claiming the story for themselves, women were working in Egypt to lay the groundwork for all future exploration. In Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age, Kathleen Sheppard brings the untold stories of these women back into this narrative.

Free Download Todd Balf, Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), "Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched the Modern Olympic Age"
English | ASIN: B0CW3SXJ42 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:37:00 | 237 MB
For fans of The Boys in the Boat, and marking the 100th anniversary of the Paris Olympics, the never-before-told story of three athletes who defied the odds to usher in a golden age of sports
Even today, it’s considered one of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. The hundred-meter sprint final at the 1924 Paris Games, featuring three of the world’s fastest swimmers-American legends Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, and Japanese upstart Katsuo Takaishi-had the cultural impact of other milestone moments in Olympic history: Jesse Owens’s podiums in Berlin and John Carlos’s raised, black-gloved fist in Mexico City. Never before had an Olympic swimming final prominently featured athletes of different races, and never had it been broadcast live. Across the globe, fans held their breath.
In less than a minute, an Olympic record would be shattered, and the three men would be scrutinized like few athletes before them. For the millions worldwide for whom swimming was a complete unknown, the trio did something few could imagine: moving faster through water than many could on land. As sportsmen, they were godlike heroes, embodying the hopes of those who called them their own, in the US and abroad. They personified strength and speed, and the glamour and innovation of the Roaring Twenties. But they also represented fraught assumptions about race and human performance. It was not only "East vs. West"-as newspapers in the 1920s described the competition with Japan-it was also brown versus white. Rich versus poor. New versus old. The race was about far more than swimming.

Free Download Sir Edward Hutton, "A brief history of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, 1755 to 1915"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9353867479 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 0.4 mb
The Kings Royal Rifle Corps, or the 2nd Battalion the Royal Green Jackets as they are now known, had a long and proud fighting tradition that they would exchange with no other regiment in the British Army. Originally raised from American colonists in 1756, their skill in fighting the French and their native American allies in the woods in the north of the nascent America was legendary; the regiment was honoured for its distinguished service with the motto "Swift and Bold" by no less a figure as General Wolfe in the Quebec campaign.

Free Download Anthony Comfort, Michal Marciak, "How did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine? The upper Tigris in antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE)"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 178491956X | PDF | pages: 157 | 6.4 mb
How did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine? the upper Tigris in antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE)’ explores the upper valley of the Tigris during antiquity. The area is little known to scholarship, and study is currently handicapped by the security situation in southeast Turkey and by the completion during 2018 of the Ilısu dam. The reservoir being created will drown a large part of the valley and will destroy many archaeological sites, some of which have not been investigated. The course of the upper Tigris discussed here is the section from Mosul up to its source north of Diyarbakır; the monograph describes the history of the river valley from the end of the Late Assyrian empire through to the Arab conquests, thus including the conflicts between Rome and Persia. It considers the transport network by river and road and provides an assessment of the damage to cultural heritage caused both by the Saddam dam (also known as the Eski Mosul dam) in Iraq and by the Ilısu dam in south-east Turkey. A catalogue describes the sites important during the long period under review in and around the valley. During the period reviewed this area was strategically important for Assyria’s relations with its northern neighbours, for the Hellenistic world’s relations with Persia and for Roman relations with first the kingdom of Parthia and then with Sassanian Persia.