Deal : History

Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Hellenistic Age: A Captivating Guide to an Era of Mediterranean History That Took Place Between the Death of Alexander the Great and the Rise of the Roman Empire Alexander the Great: A Captivating Guide to the King Who Conquered the Persian Empire and Babylon, Including His Impact on Ancient Greece and Rome The alienation of the people from the government and society itself can be seen as a result of the Hellenistic transformation. It can also be seen within the art of the period. Scholars, artists, and philosophers began rejecting the collective ideals,...

ONE MISTAKE IS ALL IT TAKES TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY. It’s 1973. Oil wars, terrorist attacks, Watergate... Senator Temple has his hands full, maneuvering political turmoil at home and the powder keg that is the Middle East. His mistake allows a criminal businessman to seize control of the world’s energy sector. Powerful oil dynasties—the Kingsleys, the Sheppards, and the Barronses—could help Temple fix things, but greed and old grudges threaten the alliance. Three families, their fates interlinked. A politician with secrets. An enemy to fear. From high-society New York to dusty Middle Eastern villages, from broken romances to...

“Heresy is a crime of perception – an act of seeing something that, according to some custodians of reality, is not truly there. Heresy, therefore, is always relative to an orthodoxy.” Leonard George This book explores, via biographical monologues, the lives of five heretics, as well as telling the tale of a flesh-and-blood Roman archer in First Century Palestine. In each case, the heretics concerned – Mary Gadbury, Shabbetai Tzevi, Sophie Scholl, al-Hallaj and Hypatia of Alexandria – found themselves at odds with the prevailing belief systems of the day, and each sought to pursue her or his individual definition...

Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Second Sino-Japanese War: A Captivating Guide to Military Conflict That Began between China and Japan, Including Events Such as the Japanese Invasion of Manchuria and the Nanjing Massacre The Rape of Nanking: The Nanjing Massacre That Occurred during the Second Sino-Japanese War Many people in the West look upon the Second Sino-Japanese War, which took place in the 1930s and 1940s, as a sort of sideshow to the larger Second World War, but there is no separating the two. Imagine the Pacific War, the theater of World War II that took place in...

Alexander of Macedon was only thirty-three years old when he died, leaving behind him a sprawling empire of impressive size, which encompassed dozens of different people groups, religions, cultures, customs, and—of course—problems. Naturally, Alexander is well known as a figure, but how well do we really know him? How much of his fascinating story is true, and how much is mere legend? Historians of repute have tried, for centuries, to decode Alexander’s life and answer all the burning questions above. Sadly, the common reader knows very little of the real Alexander, yet all of that is about to change with...

World War I has been raging for almost 3 years when Maude meets an Australian soldier at a dance. They fall in love but are torn apart through the war. Maude subsequently gives birth to an illegitimate child, a daughter Florence. The story evolves with Maude’s life in a small Oxfordshire town. Her life is very blissful and so happy with her now husband and family when tragedy ensues. How does Maude survive? Florence now an adult meets Bill, a Cornishman, just before to the outbreak of World War 2. They marry have two children, Jan and James. Bill, at...

More than 300,000 people settled in the previously sparsely populated California. And they all came in the period between 1849 and 1855. But sadly, the people living in California quickly fell into violence, racism, and misogyny. Mexicans, Native Americans, other non-white settlers, and indigenous peoples were persecuted, hunted, and expelled from the territory. The California Gold Rush may have been one of the great events that shaped the US into what we know today, but it was also one of the saddest events, with 370 massacres committed upon the indigenous tribes of California. Yet, the California Gold Rush was a...

Gertie is based on the true story of a girl born into a wealthy, Victorian family. She is well educated and privileged but suffers loss and tragedy at an early age but when she falls in love, a jealous sister and family interference cause her to make poor decisions that will drastically alter her destiny. FREE eBook From May 9 - 13, 2021

Between December 13th, 1937, and the beginning of February 1938, Japanese soldiers entered the Chinese city of Nanjing following a very brief fight for the city. For over six weeks, they committed some of the worst atrocities, first against the Chinese soldiers after they surrendered, then against the civilians. The Westerners who did not flee from the city prior to the Japanese arrival set up a safety zone in the weeks leading up to the Imperial Army entering the city. This was the only place where there was relative safety, and many of the Chinese citizens tried to find refuge...

For most, the first few things that might come to mind are Pilgrims, turkeys, and the Mayflower. Yes, the Pilgrims who landed in Plymouth back in 1620 were indeed subscribers to Puritan ideals, but the story of the Puritans runs much deeper than that. The Puritans were a direct result of the backlash created by England’s pseudo-Reformation in the 1500s. The English Reformation was initially not sprung from religious zeal but rather the selfish wants of Britain’s king, Henry VIII. King Henry VIII wanted a new wife, and the pope wouldn’t allow him to use the machinery of the Catholic...