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From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America's Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history's greatest feats of maritime daring, discovery, and diplomacy, and his marine survey of Hawaii and the Pacific coast was at its time the most comprehensive ever undertaken.

Josephine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Terezia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Recamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt.

Few authors are able to discuss the original Taliesin myth in as much depth as Dr. Gwilym Morus-Baird. As a native Welsh speaker and scholar, he has studied the Welsh bardic tradition from the inside, giving listeners insights few others have even guessed at.

I Will Show You How It Was is Illia Ponomarenko’s heart-wrenching memoir of the war on his homeland, offering a fiery diatribe against Russian hypocrisy and a moving look at what is being lost. But it’s also a story of pride and even elation as Ukrainian forces come together, find their mojo, and oust the invaders from Kyiv. The most powerful and personal chronicle of the war to date, I Will Show You How It Was is an exceptional literary achievement, chronicling a stunning feat of resistance and a courageous people set on a miraculous victory.

In 1798, an initial review of France’s naval forces had led Napoleon to conclude his navy could not hope to outfight the power of the Royal Navy, which had been the dominant naval power for centuries, so he was forced to look elsewhere. After months of planning, Napoleon crafted a scheme to attack and conquer Egypt, denying the British easy access to their colonies in India, with the ultimate goal of linking up with the Sultan Tipoo in India itself and defeating the British in the field there. Napoleon sailed with Admiral Brueys and 30,000 troops that June, heading for Egypt.

Alexander Larman completes his acclaimed Windsor family trilogy, using rare and previously unseen documents to illuminate their unique family dynamic. Through his chronicling of events like the Royal Wedding, George VI’s death and the discovery of the Duke of Windsor’s treacherous activities in WWII, Larman paints a vivid portrait of the end of one sovereign’s reign and the beginning of another’s that heralded a new Elizabethan Age which would bring power and glory back to a monarchy desperately in need of it.

The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard abandoned in the Falklands for eighteen months.

2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound: from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to the shaping international law. Even today, 1 in 3 people drive on the left hand side of the road, an artifact of the British empire. Yet Britain's idea of its imperial history and the world's experience of it are two very different things. Empireworld explores the ways in which British Empire has come to shape the modern world.

Крокви над табором - це оповідання відомого українського письменника Івана Багряного. Це дуже патріотичний твір, що розповідає про події часів української революції 1917-1921 років. Оповідання описує події української революції та боротьбу українців за незалежність своєї країни. Головний герой оповідання - це учасник боротьби за волю України, який згадує події минулого та свою участь у боротьбі. Заголовок Крокви над табором відображає драматичність та напруженість часів, коли українці боролися за свої права та свободу.

З оповідань старого рибалки - оповідання, написане українським письменником Іваном Багряним. Автор розповідає про життя рибалів, їхні звичаї, традиції та взаємини з природою. Іван Багряний, зроду рибалка, у своїх оповіданнях майстерно передає атмосферу рибальських пригод та принципи життя, які він отримав, спостерігаючи за річкою і рибою. Оповідання пронизане глибокими філософськими думками та роздумами про життя, коштовність природи і відносини між людьми. Воно також відображає багатство українського народного мистецтва й культури.

Conoce usted TODA la historia de la Casa de Borja, desde su ascenso desde la oscuridad hasta las más altas esferas de la sociedad europea? La familia dio dos papas y un santo, pero es más conocida por sus historias de asesinatos, libertinaje e incesto. Qué es cierto y qué es simple calumnia? Fueron los Borja peores que cualquier otra familia poderosa de la época? Era Rodrigo Borja, quien se convirtió en el papa Alejandro VI, un monstruo? Era su hijo César un psicópata? Era su hija Lucrecia una tentadora asesina?

The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies. In fact, it is often used to refer to the Soviet state security agencies throughout its history, from the inception of the inception of the Cheka (Extraordinary Commission) in 1917 to the official elimination of the KGB in 1992.

Why do we run? To what end, all the effort and pain? Wherefore this love of muscle, speed, and sweat? The Greeks were the first to ask these questions, the first to suspend war, work, politics, to enjoy public celebrations of athletic prowess. They invented sport and they were also the first to understand how physical activity connected to our mental well-being.

1942. SALVARONO I LIBRI DALLA FURIA NAZISTA: LA STORIA VERA DI UN'EROICA BIBLIOTECARIA E DI UN LIBRAIO CON UN PERICOLOSO SEGRETO CHE CAMBIARONO IL FUTURO DELLA CONOSCENZA. È il 1942, e le sorti della guerra che sta scuotendo il mondo sono incerte. In quei giorni concitati, il presidente Roosevelt prende una decisione coraggiosa, dando il via a una missione che resterà unica nella Storia: un gruppo di bibliotecari viene inviato in Europa con il compito di salvare quel che resta di giornali, manoscritti, libri custoditi nelle biblioteche delle città neutrali.

Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic crisis: some four million East Germans found themselves out of jobs. The friends began attending far-right rallies with people who called themselves National Socialists: Nazis. Like the Hitler-led Nazis before them, they blamed minorities for their ills. From 2000 to 2011, they embarked on the most horrific string of white nationalist killings since the Holocaust. Their target: immigrants.