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Free Download America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War by Joseph Kelly
English | June 27, 2013 | ISBN: 159020719X, 1468308920 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 2.6 MB
In America’s Longest Siege, Joseph Kelly examines the nation’s long struggle with its "peculiar institution" through the hotly contested debates in the city at the center of the slave trade. From the earliest slave rebellions to the Nullification crisis to the final, tragic act of secession that doomed both the city and the South as a whole, Kelly captures the toxic mix of nationalism, paternalism, and unprecedented wealth that made Charleston the focus of the nationwide debate over slavery.

Free Download Bible Prophecy Under Siege: Responding Biblically to Confusion About the End Times (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTFXZ3L | 2024 | 8 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Ron Rhodes
Narrator: Jim Seybert

Free Download Josh Levithan, "Roman Siege Warfare"
English | ISBN: 0472118986 | 2013 | 264 pages | EPUB | 672 KB
Roman siege warfare had its own structure and customs, and expectations both by the besieged and by the attacking army. Sieges are typically sorted by the techniques and technologies that attackers used, but the more fruitful approach offered in Roman Siege Warfare examines the way a siege follows or diverges from typical narrative and operational Descriptionlines. Author Josh Levithan emphasizes the human elements-morale and motivation-rather than the engineering, and he recaptures the sense of a siege as an event in progress that offers numerous attitudes, methods, and outcomes. Sieges involved a concentration of violent effort in space and the practical challenge posed by a high wall: unlike field battles they were sharply defined in time, in space, and in operational terms.

Free Download Michael Jones, "Leningrad: state of siege"
English | 2009 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0719569427, 0465011535 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
Michael Jones’s account of the German siege of Leningrad, September 1941 to January 1944, juxtaposes eyewitness accounts of life in the city with an overview of both sides’ military tactics.

Free Download The Demographic Siege By Koenraad Elst
1998 | 49 Pages | ISBN: 8185990506 | PDF | 1 MB
In today’s India, demography is a hot item, not just because of the economic and ecological burden of overpopulation, but even more because of the differential between Hindus and Muslims with its real or perceived political implications. Official census data show that the Hindu percentage has declined, and the Muslim percentage increased, in every single successive census in British India, free India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Muslim increase is not linear, but is itself increasing; and there is a large immigration of Muslims from Pakistan and Bangladesh, which can only increase. India’s `secularists’ admit the fact of Muslim demographic expansion but offer as their explanation that it is all due to Muslim poverty. But Kerela refutes the argument by showing a higher birth rate among Muslims, who have a high level of education and a relatively higher standard of living. Prophet Mohammed had said in so many words: ‘Marry women who will love their husbands and be very prolific, for I want you to be more numerous than any other people’ and ‘In my Ummah, he is the best who has the largest number of wives.’ Even secular Muslims candidly call it one of the fundamental tenets of Islam – namely, to multiply the tribe. To a modernist outsider, there is something quaint and unreal about this alternative: either islamizing or hinduizing India. I wonder if the present worldwide revival of religious identities can at all persist once the information revolution has had its full civilizational effect. Indian Muslims should be encouraged to outgrow their religious conditioning, and to explore the spiritual sphere afresh. This will automatically bring them in closer touch with their Hindu surroundings, and help them reintegrate into the society from which they were estranged by Islam.Table Of Contents:-1. Visions of a Demographic Doomsday2. Immigration From Bangladesh3. The Muslim Birth Rate4. Islam and Birth Control5. Hindu Response to the Demographic ChallengeAppendix I: Using Kafir Women in the Service of Muslim Demography (1998)

Free Download Edoardo Fracanzani, "Norms Under Siege: The Parallel Political Lives of Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi"
English | ISBN: 1789044669 | 2021 | 264 pages | EPUB | 406 KB
A look at the striking similarities between Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi, from their business and TV backgrounds to the unprecedented way in which they broke into politics. Both leaders introduced new language patterns, deepened the political wedge between parties, and managed to recruit a significant base of followers; should they be considered a cult, rather than political affiliation? In Norms Under Siege, Edoardo M. Fracanzani goes beyond comparisons between Trump and Berlusconi and asks what is revealed about the kind of society that would allow their rise to power.

Free Download The German Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
by Ian Baxter
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399064665 | 128 Pages | ePUB | 16.7 MB

Free Download Colin Wark, "Progressive Lawyers under Siege: Moral Panic during the McCarthy Years"
English | ISBN: 0739195603 | 2015 | 304 pages | PDF | 1365 KB

Free Download Ben Hughes, Christopher Douyard (Narrator), "The Siege of Fort William Henry: A Year on the Northeastern Frontier"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3VYKMY | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~09:55:00 | 297 MB
The opening years of the French and Indian War were disastrous for the British. Hindered by quarrelsome provincial councils, incompetent generals, and the redcoats’ inability to adapt to wilderness warfare, Britain was losing the war. Learning that most of Britain’s military resources were allocated to Louisbourg, the French launched a campaign along the weakened frontier. French Commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and his American Indian allies laid siege to Fort William Henry; Monro could not hold out and was forced to surrender. As part of the terms, the British regiment, colonial militia, and their camp followers would be allowed safe passage to nearby Fort Edward. The French watched in horror, however, as their Indian allies attacked the British column after it left the fort, an episode that sparked outrage and changed the tactics of the war.
Seen through the eyes of participants such as Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a scholarly young aide-de-camp, Jabez Fitch, an amiable Connecticut sergeant, and Kisensik, a proud Nipissing chief whose father once met Louis XIV in the marbled halls of Versailles, The Siege of Fort William Henry uses contemporary newspaper reports, official documents, private letters, and published memoirs to bring the narrative to life.

Free Download Sian Norris, Naomi Madelin (Narrator), "Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global"
English | ASIN: B0CC6CGMHZ | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:15:00 | 291 MB
Think today’s anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today’s anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white supremacist, afraid of a "great replacement" of the world’s white population by other races, who are working hard to reshape governments and policies across Europe, North America, and around the world. Much of this far-right organizing and funding network, however, has been overlooked by today’s feminist and left movements.
As investigative journalist Sian Norris uncovers here, it is through attacking abortion rights that fascist ideas from the dark web, incel chat boards, and fringe organizations comes to enter mainstream debate-and to then shape governmental policy across Europe, from authoritarian regimes like Hungary’s to liberal democracies like Britain. As Norris goes undercover at anti-abortion activist meetings, and pieces together the money trail linking American think tanks to far-right fascist groups, she maps out the pipeline by which fascism has become respectable across the Global North by taking away women’s reproductive rights and autonomy.