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9 public-domain history books, summarised. Page 1 of 1.
A guide to the history of physical education
Fred Eugene Leonard
The history of human movement is a chronicle of survival, discipline, and the pursuit of an ideal state of being. Through the rise and fall of civilizations, physical training has served as a mirror for the values of every age, evolving from the harsh necessities of the battlefield to the structured refinement of…
1066 and all that
Walter Carruthers Sellar
History, as it is commonly understood, is nothing more than what you can manage to remember. This account serves as the final, definitive guide to the English past, stripping away the clutter of dates and facts to leave only the truly memorable.
The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 3 (of 6)
Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman
The fate of an empire hinges on a single day of blood and iron, marking the final, irreversible sunset of the ancient English world.
Bushy
Cynthia May Westover Alden
The childhood of a girl in the rugged Rockies is a raw, perilous education, where the line between a nursery tale and a fight for survival vanishes entirely.
Boston
Upton Sinclair
A quiet revolution begins in a privileged Boston home when a mother abandons her sheltered life to stand between two immigrant laborers and the electric chair. This is a story of how a city’s conscience is bought, sold, and finally broken.
The bitter tea of General Yen
Grace Zaring Stone
Megan Davis, a young woman bound for missionary work in China, finds her life redirected when she is swept into the orbit of a sophisticated and enigmatic Chinese general amidst the violent upheavals of the 1920s.
Miniatures of French history
Hilaire Belloc
A series of vivid, captured moments reveals the long, turbulent journey of a nation, moving from the earliest Greek voyagers to the fires of the twentieth century.
The Catholic Church and history
Hilaire Belloc
The Catholic Church stands as a singular anomaly in the human story, a society claiming divine foundation and infallible authority. Is this claim a product of history, or a delusion that history itself inevitably dismantles?
The woman of Andros
Thornton Wilder
The shadow of the past is long, yet the light of the present reveals a heart that must choose between the weight of duty and the grace of love.