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‘The Great Game’ (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire centered around Afghanistan and its surrounding regions. The classic...

In his three Condolences - De Consolatione ad Marciam, De Consolatione ad Polybium and De Consolatione ad Helviam - Seneca elegantly explores the Stoic principle that one should not be upset by uncontrollable events.

Scholars have long considered Joseph Benson’s classic commentary on the Book of Revelation as definitive. The brilliant Methodist scholar dissects each chapter and verse in a dazzling analysis that deconstructs the riddles, symbols and endless layers of the most mysterious and popular book in the Bible.

Letters and More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son presents George Horace Lorimer’s famous Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son and its lesser known but equally hilarious sequel, More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. With his unique dry wit, Lorimer lampoons...

From the times of the Gauls and Romans to the fall of Napoleon and beyond, Mary Platt Parmele’s A Short History of France is a fascinating chronicle of the events and forces that forged the nation.

The history of Wales begins with the arrival of human beings in the region thousands of years ago. In A Short History of Wales Owen Edwards takes the reader on a concise tour of this fascinating nation’s past, from the time Neanderthals lived in what was known as Cymru, at least 230,000 years ago, to the events and forces that shaped the modern state of Wales.

The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France), which he had conquered. The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest...

In Paris, 1890, an Englishman named George Manington signed up to join the French Foreign Legion.  French Indochina was his destination, to help quell the rebels against colonial rule that had emerged after the Sino-French War. The Yên Thế Insurrection had been continuing for twenty-two years...

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.” ― Winston S. Churchill. An eyewitness account of life in ancient Egypt from the Father of History, legendary Greek historian Herodotus; a concise biography of Marie Antoinette by John...

The Book of Lies consists of 93 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding Qabalistic meaning. This...

The Wilkie Collins Collection presents four of the best titles by the Victorian master novelist - The Moonstone, No Name, The Woman In White and After Dark.

Du Picq was the first military scientist to write extensively on the psychological aspect of war. Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle was his attempt to delineate empirical truths about warfare by a close analysis of battles. The book was a sensation at the dawn of the 20th Century and continues to be read by military strategists and political philosophers today.

The history of Spain dates back to the Early Middle Ages. In 1516, Habsburg Spain unified a number of disparate predecessor kingdoms; its modern form of a constitutional monarchy was introduced in 1813, and the current democratic constitution dates to 1978. After the completion of the Reconquista,...

This early Jane Austen novella, written in epistolary form, inspired the recent hit movie Love and Friendship.