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Auschwitz Escape - The Klara Wizel Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 41,950. Language: English. Published: September 28, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography, Nonfiction » History » Holocaust
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At the tender age of 16, Klara Wizel had a picturesque life with a loving and supportive family. There was no way to know that the Holocaust was creeping toward her and that soon this young Hungarian Jew would be fighting for her life due to the most notorious doctor of the 20th century, Dr. Josef Mengele. Hers is the only story on record of having been selected for death then escaping.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Sher-e-Punjab
Series: Study Guides: English Literature, Book 211 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,430. Language: English. Published: September 10, 2012 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography, Nonfiction » History » Asian » India & southern Asia
The one eyed young Sikh was going to become a sworn enemy of the Durrani leaders in the following years.
Executions & Horrible Tortures From Olden Times
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 70,740. Language: English. Published: September 11, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » History of things, Fiction » Historical » Ancient
During past centuries, crimes such as filing metal shavings from a coin, shoplifting a handkerchief, or a bit of lace was usually punished with torture or even death. More serious crimes like treason, inciting civil disobedience, or witchcraft could result in some truly horrendous punishments like being drawn and quartered. People accused of witchcraft were subjected to a water test & burned if-
Missions I Remember
Price: $1.99 $1.49 USD. (25% off until Dec. 20!) Words: 17,510. Language: English. Published: January 23, 2022 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » Military » Military / Vietnam War
MARINE GUNNER CREW CHIEF IN VIETNAM 1967, come with me down my Vietnam Memory Lane
Ugaritic Texts - Ba'al Cycle
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 37,680. Language: American English. Published: May 31, 2021 . Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Ancient, Nonfiction » History » Middle East
The Ba‘al Cycle, or Ba‘al Saga, is a collection of stories about Ba‘al Hadad, the supreme god of the Canaanite pantheon in the late bronze age. The Ugaritic Texts are ancient tablets that were recovered from archaeological digs at the ruins of Ugarit, a bronze-age city in northwest Syria, at the foot of the mountain Jebel Aqra on the modern Syrian-Turkish border.
Hildegard Von Bingen
Series: The Legendary Women of World History, 11. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 19,020. Language: English. Published: November 19, 2021 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Religious biography, Nonfiction » History » Medieval
With the power of her pen she changed Christendom forever. Hildegard von Bingen was never meant to be remembered by history. When she succeeded Jutta von Sponheim as Magistra and prioress of Disibodenberg monastery she found herself unable to keep her visions secret any longer. What happened next led her to revolutionize not only monastic life for women, but the whole world too.
The Diary of a Young Girl 安妮日记(ESL/EFL英汉对照简体版)
Series: 百万英语阅读计划丛书(英汉对照中级英语读物有声版)第三辑. Price: $5.60 USD. Words: 68,330. Language: Chinese (simplified). Published: April 2, 2016 by Qiliang Feng. Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Germany
本书是“百万英语阅读计划”丛书——英汉对照中级英语系列读物第III辑之12,适合已掌握1500基本英语词汇的读者阅读。 百万英语阅读计划(Million-Word Reading Project, MWRP)是专门为将英语作为第二语言或外语的学习者(ESL/EFL learners)设计的英语阅读提高计划,读者对象为已掌握1500基本英语词汇的读者(相当于初级英语),通过2年、每天约15分钟的阅读能达到中级英语水平,掌握3000多单词和大量的短语,熟练掌握英语的各种句子结构,并能阅读一般英语原著。
The Diary of a Young Girl 安妮日記 (ESL/EFL 英漢對照有聲版)
Series: 百萬英語閱讀計劃叢書(英漢對照中級英語讀物有聲版)第三輯. Price: $4.80 USD. Words: 68,330. Language: Chinese (traditional). Published: January 10, 2016 by Qiliang Feng. Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Germany
本書是“百萬英語閱讀計劃”叢書——英漢對照中級英語系列讀物第III輯之12,適合已掌握1500基本英語詞彙的讀者閱讀。 百萬英語閱讀計劃(Million-Word Reading Project, MWRP)是專門爲將英語作爲第二語言或外語的學習者(ESL/EFL learners)設計的英語閱讀提高計劃,讀者對象爲已掌握1500基本英語詞彙的讀者(相當于初級英語),通過2年、每天約15分鐘的閱讀能達到中級英語水平,掌握3500多單詞和大量的短語,熟練掌握英語的各種句子結構,幷能閱讀一般英語原著。
Ugaritic Texts - Pertaining to Keret
Series: Ugaritic Texts. Price: $3.49 USD. Words: 10,770. Language: American English. Published: October 9, 2021 . Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Ancient, Nonfiction » History » Middle East
Pertaining to Keret, also called the Legend of Keret, or the Epic of Keret is a collection of three tablets recovered from archaeological digs in the 1920s and 1930s at the ruins of Ugarit, a bronze-age city in northwest Syria, at the foot of the mountain Jebel Aqra on the modern Syrian-Turkish border. They date to Late-Bronze Era, specifically estimated to sometime around 1350 BC.
Cleopatra: Evil Temptress of the Nile
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 60,200. Language: English. Published: February 2, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography, Nonfiction » History » Middle East / Egypt
This is a story about incest, murder, adultery and other assorted crimes. It is about a vivacious and evil young Queen who used her body to turn aside the tide of Roman destiny and that of the world. Julius Caesar led his famous legions in conquest of the known world before succumbing to her feminine charms. Then Marc Antony threw away an empire and his own honor to follow her to his destruction.
The Disobedient Queen: Katherine of Valois
Price: $2.49 USD. Words: 44,160. Language: English. Published: September 25, 2013 by Ad Stellae Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Royalty biography, Nonfiction » History » Medieval
Katherine of Valois, born a French princess, was the wife of King Henry V of England, the mother of Henry VI, and ultimately the grandmother of Henry VII, the first Tudor king. In view of the current widespread interest in the Tudors, young adult readers will be fascinated by the story of the widowed Queen who fell in love with—and secretly married—the commoner who gave that dynasty its name.