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Free Download The Opium War by Brian Inglis, Nigel Patterson, Tantor Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08WHWP7QR | 9 hours and 17 minutes | MP3@64 kbps + EPUB | 126 Mb
1839. Trade is the stalwart of the British Empire. China threatens Britain’s Opium trade. Britain and China go to war.
When Britain sent troops to compel the Chinese to accept imports of opium, they opened what is argued to be one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of the Empire.

Free Download The Trojan War As Military History
by Manousos E Kambouris;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399094467 | 298 pages | True PDF EPUB | 27.47 MB
In The Trojan War as Military History, the author’s starting point is the fact that the Iliad, notwithstanding the fantastical/mythological elements (the involvement of gods and demigods), is the earliest detailed description of warfare we have. Stripping away the myths, Manousos Kambouris analyses the epic and combines it with other textual and archaeological evidence to produce a coherent narrative of the conflict and of Bronze Age warfare in the Aegean.

Free Download The First Royal Media War
by Adrian Phillips;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399065416 | 242 pages | True PDF EPUB | 21.9 MB
The abdication crisis of 1936 demolished the wall of silent deference that had protected the British royal family from press comment and intrusion since the days of Queen Victoria. King Edward VIII was a child of the burgeoning age of media and the first celebrity monarch, but the immense personal popularity created by his charm and good looks was not enough to save him when he came into conflict with a government that embodied the conservative ethos of the time. Nor did the support of powerful media barons. In the United States William Randolph Hearst, who inspired Citizen Kane, dreamed of giving Britain an American Queen and manoeuvred with Wallis Simpson to place her on the throne. In Britain the Anglo- Canadian newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook hoped to use the confrontation between the King and the government to force the prime minister, his bitter enemy Stanley Baldwin, out of power. Edward was blocked from broadcasting his case directly to the public, which was the source of deep resentment to him. The government treated the couple’s media initiatives as declarations of war and was prepared to respond savagely. The British press remained tactfully silent almost until the end of the crisis, but behind the scenes, a cold war was being fought. For the rest of his life, Edward fought to air his grievances against the ill-treatment to which he thought that he had been subjected. He believed that he had been forced to abdicate by a coalition of reactionaries grouped behind the Archbishop of Canterbury. Edward resented bitterly the ostracism to which he and Wallis were subjected by his brother and sister-in-law, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, especially the refusal to grant his wife royal status. With sometimes farcical results, Edward tried to find authors who put over his side of the story. Beaverbrook supported Edward but tried to bend Edward’s quest to fit his own agenda. The establishment did its utmost to restrain Edward and maintain a discreet silence over the crisis, but gradually members of the royal court abandoned reticence and fought back. The abdication challenged the British monarchy as an institution. A large part of the legacy is today’s no-holds-barred media environment where the royal family’s issues are fought in a ruthless glare of worldwide attention.

Free Download Origins of the Just War
by Rory Cox
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0691171890 | 537 pages | True PDF EPUB | 76.96 MB
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East

Free Download Nuclear Minds
by Zwigenberg, Ran;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0226826767 | 325 pages | True PDF | 9.78 MB
How researchers understood the atomic bomb’s effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Free Download 10 Big Questions of the American Civil War by Caroline Janney, The Great Courses, Audible Originals
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07XPGG5T8 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 4 hours and 4 minutes | 110 Mb
In 10 Big Questions of the American Civil War, join noted author and Civil War historian Dr. Caroline E. Janney, a professor at the University of Virginia, for a pointed examination of some of the most intriguing, provocative, and enduring questions about the Civil War era. The aim of these 10 eye-opening lectures is to separate myth from memory. Students will learn…Why the Southern states actually secededThe reasons that soldiers on both sides of the conflict chose to fightHow conscription of soldiers promoted the idea that the Civil War was a "rich man’s war"Why emancipation wasn’t defined by the Emancipation Proclamation but by a process that unfolded over yearsWhat social, political, and economic implications arose as the Civil War generation choose how to remember their experiencesWhat various relief efforts, performed by women, existed on both sides of the warWhether the Battle of Gettysburg really turned the tide in favor of the Union
Dr. Janney will help you to sort through topics that still confound both scholars and students of the Civil War. What’s more, the author reveals the deep, intense, and sometimes violent nature of Civil War memory that still permeates throughout the United States of America.

Free Download Ukraine War Explained In 2023
Last updated 9/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 1.90 GB | Duration: 2h 3m
Become an expert on the war in Ukraine – the most profound military conflict of the 21st century

Free Download The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGZHGPJ | 2023 | 13 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 392 MB
Author: Cliff Sloan
Narrator: Brian Troxell

Free Download Alien: Colony War by David M. Barnett, Shiromi Arserio, Blackstone Publishing
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09TRX6GV7 | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 4m | 495 Mb
Political conflicts on Earth erupt into open hostilities between their colonies in space, with Xenomorphs as the ultimate weapon.
On Earth, political tensions boil over between the United Americas, Union of Progressive Peoples, and Three World Empire. Conflict spreads to the outer fringes, and the UK colony of New Albion breaks with the Three World Empire. This could lead to a Colony War.

Free Download How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe by Benjamin Abelow, Larry Wayne
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BM56PJYV | 1 hour and 39 minutes | M4B@127 Kbps | 91 Mb
"A brilliant, remarkably concise explanation of the danger that U.S and NATO military involvement in Ukraine has created. Needs to be read and pondered by every citizen capable of thinking rationally and responsibly about American and European security." (Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991)
According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansionist who invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked land grab. That story is incorrect. In reality, the United States and NATO bear much of the responsibility for the Ukraine crisis. Through a series of misguided policies, Washington and its European allies placed Russia in an untenable situation for which war seemed, to Mr. Putin and his military staff, the only workable solution. In How the West Brought War to Ukraine, author Benjamin Abelow lays out the relevant history and explains how the West needlessly produced conflict, subjecting its own citizens and the rest of the world to the risk of nuclear war.