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Are you battle ready? Always be prepared. We must not take anything for granted. Yes, life is war, and as in every war there are always many battles to fight. When you win one, then you prepare or go over to the next. Until you win the entire war. Here you will know why the war and also learn the principles of winning life battles. Solomon became the wisest, richest, most influential and most famous king on earth. With that kind of goodwill and resources, he went ahead and built a great army. Wow! So he was also a military strategist? Yes! Now, why won't this king enjoy a whopping 40 years of peaceful and prosperous reign? Attempting to attack him or his kingdom would have been a big risk, suicidal mission for anybody or any nation. What were his secrets and strategy? We must always be prepared. We must go closer to Him and learn how He fights His battles. We also looked at the defence policies of countriesAre you battle ready? Always be prepared. We must not take anything for granted. Yes, life is war, and as in every war there are always many battles to fight. When you win one, then you prepare or go over to the next. Until you win the entire war. Here you will know why the war and also learn the principles of winning life battles. Solomon became the wisest, richest, most influential and most famous king on earth. With that kind of goodwill and resources, he went ahead and built a great army. Wow! So he was also a military strategist? Yes! Now, why won't this king enjoy a whopping 40 years of peaceful and prosperous reign? Attempting to attack him or his kingdom would have been a big risk, suicidal mission for anybody or any nation. What were his secrets and strategy? We must always be prepared. Our God is a warrior and we must see things the way He sees them. We must go closer to Him and learn how He fights His battles. We also looked at the defence policies of countries like the United States of America. Why is it today the only world super power? What is the size of its defence budget and activities? What is it doing right? You will also see the following revealing chapters: The LORD is a warrior, Prepare for war, Praise, gratitude and humility, Are you well organized? Men, equipment and strategy and Spread it out. Do you know that God has given you knowledge as your capital and your security? And how can you deploy this? You must read this book. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

Gabriel Agbo (Author), Ian A Miller (Narrator)

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The Suebi: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Germanic Groups

The people that came to be known as Germans originally came from Scandinavia and were mainly shepherds and hunters, but they comprised a number of distinct groups. Within each group, there were separate tribes, and as their populations grew, the land they occupied in Scandinavia was unable to support them, so they began migrating south, settling outside the borders of the Roman Empire. The Germans were fierce warriors who employed rather crude but effective tactics in battle. Their main approach was one of charging directly at an enemy and fighting hand-to-hand using their long swords and shields. Body armor was unknown, and they wore only animal-skins. Most warriors wore their hair long, dyed red and greased into ponytails. Friction between Rome and the German tribes can be traced back as far as 113 BCE, and the next 500 years brought full-scale campaigns by the Romans against the various individual tribes, resulting in numerous battles and constant uprisings wherever any part of the land east of the Rhine was occupied for any length of time. The impact of this constant warfare on both sides cannot be underestimated, and all the while, the fighting and other interactions had massive cultural and political influences going in both directions. Although Caesar led two secondary campaigns across the Rhine against the Germans, both were unsuccessful. Among the Germans who stymied Caesar's plans, those who gave the Romans the most problems were the Suebi. Caesar's account of his Gallic campaign included the first documented account of the Suebi, who were described as fearless warriors, yet wholly uncivilized and barbaric in the eyes of the Romans. The Suebi lived north of the Rhine for hundreds of years, mostly unaffected by Rome's expansion, and while the Romans and the Suebi did have early contact with each other, those contacts were relatively inconsequential.

Charles River Editors (Author), Daniel Houle (Narrator)

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The Anunnaki Sumerian Accounts: Bizarre Archaeology Discoveries Revealing An Alternative Ancient His

The excavations carried out in Mesopotamia during the last few years have added immensely to our knowledge of the early Anunnaki history of those countries and have unveiled many of the ideas about the age and character of Anunnaki Sumerian civilization. In the present timeline, which deals with the history of Sumer and Akkad, an attempt is made to present this new Anunnaki material in a connected form and to furnish the archaeologists with the results obtained by recent discovery and research, so far as they affect the earliest historical periods and Sumerian King's lists. An account is here given of the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia and the early city-states formed from time to time in the lands of Sumer and Akkad, the two great divisions into which Sumeria was divided. The primitive sculpture and other archaeological remains of the Anunnaki, discovered upon early Mesopotamian sites, enable us to form a complete picture of the Enki Enlil saga, which in those remote ages dominated the country. It is possible to realize how the Anunnaki gradually modified the primitive conditions of life. The comparatively advanced civilization was developed from rude beginnings by the Anunnaki, inherited by the later Mesopotamians and Assyrians, and exerted a remarkable influence upon other Anunnaki descendants of the ancient world.

Ryan Moorhen (Author), Alastair Cameron (Narrator)

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The Divine Knowledge of Egypt: Unveiling Advanced Temples, Pyramids, and Art Written by Norah Romney

To the peoples of antiquity, Egypt appeared as the very essence of Knowledge. In the mysterious Nile country, they found a knowledge system much more highly developed than any within their native Knowledge, with which Egyptian religion was so strongly identified; thus, it appeared to the foreigner to savour Knowledge practices. Suppose the materials of the Pyramid Knowledge papyri be omitted. In that case, the accounts we possess of Egyptian Knowledge are almost wholly foreign, so that it is wiser to derive our data concerning it from the original native sources if we desire to arrive at a proper understanding of the Egyptian Pyramid and Temple Building.

Norah Romney (Author), Alastair Cameron (Narrator)

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EL ARTE DE LA GUERRA (Versión completa)

Edición completa. Traducida y adaptada al español lo más fiel posible al manuscrito original de Sun Tzu por uno de los mejores traductores de la universidad de Jiao Tong China. El Arte de la Guerra es considerado el mejor libro de estrategia militar jamás escrito. Inspiró a los más grandes personajes y generales de los últimos quinientos años. Este libro de casi de tres mil años de antigüedad, es uno de los manuscritos clásicos chinos más importantes, y que, pese al tiempo transcurrido, sus reglas, consejos y enseñanzas no han quedado anticuadas, y siguen siendo igual de eficaces. El Arte de la Guerra de Sun Tzu no es simplemente un manuscrito de práctica y accionar militar, sino una guía que enseña la habilidad suprema de ejecutar con inteligencia y sabiduría el conocimiento adquirido en momentos difíciles o de confrontación. Por tanto, no es un libro sobre la guerra pura y dura; sino un tratado para entender a cabalidad las raíces de un conflicto y cómo buscar la mejor solución. Lo más interesante de este libro, es que Tzu plantea el combate principalmente como una confrontación mental no tanto física. De hecho, para Sun las batallas frontales son vistas como algo no deseable y sólo deben ejecutarse como última opción. Es tan poderoso su mensaje más allá de la estrategia militar, que sigue inspirando a los grandes líderes de nuestros tiempos, y no solo en las guerras, sino también en la política y en los negocios. Y lo más sobresaliente, es que sus consejos son aplicables a cualquier ámbito de nuestras vidas.

Sun Tzu (Author), Alexandra Yark (Narrator)

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The Ancient Greeks’ Diet: The History of Eating and Drinking in Greece

The need to eat and drink is a biological necessity for everyone, but along with that, food and drink are often at the very center of social life. This was no different in ancient Greece, but, if anything, the social importance placed on food and wine in the Greek world was even more pronounced and had profound consequences for the rest of the world. As one modern historian aptly put it, “How classical Athens was fed is not a matter of marginal importance. Nothing less than the material base of a brilliant civilization is at issue.” Indeed, it was through the ability to create a food surplus that the ancient Greeks were able to establish their poleis and, from these, go on to develop the political and social structures that built the backbone of Western Civilization. Drinking for pleasure, as opposed to simply meeting the body´s requirement for hydration, was so crucial in Greece that a couple historians noted, “In a way, the study of the classics is the study of the consumption of alcohol.” While this assertion is an oversimplification, there is no doubt that alcohol played a crucial role in the evolution of Greek culture.

Charles River Editors (Author), Colin Fluxman (Narrator)

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Irish Americans in the Civil War: The History and Legacy of Irish Units Who Fought on Both Sides of

Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers. The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would take four years and inflict over a million casualties, it might not have been fought. Since it did, however, historians and history buffs alike have been studying and analyzing the military and political history of the conflict ever since. Given the extent of Irish immigration in the 19th century, it should come as no surprise that the Irish played important roles in the Civil War. While exact numbers are not known, the most commonly cited figures are 150,000 Irish serving in the Union Army, 20,000 or so in the Union Navy, and 20,000 more in the Confederate military. Immigrants were 13% of the total American population in 1860, and in the 1840s alone, 780,000 immigrants came from Ireland, almost half the total immigration for that decade. In the 1850s, 914,000 immigrants came from Ireland, a third of the total. The great majority of them settled in the North’s big cities, particularly New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia, while much smaller numbers settled in Southern cities like Richmond, Charleston and New Orleans. The Irish were notoriously discriminated against when they arrived. Nativist sentiment against immigrants, and particularly the Irish, grew and peaked intensely by the mid-19th century, with the anti-Irish and anti-Catholic Know Nothing Party achieving considerable political success in the 1850s. One reason the Irish were so strongly Democratic is that the Democrats more readily accepted immigrants, and the remains of the Know Nothings migrated into the newly founded Republican Party. Irish votes gave the Democrats control of many Northern cities.

Charles River Editors (Author), Daniel Houle (Narrator)

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The Tunisian Campaign: The History of the Decisive Battles that Ended the Fighting in North Africa d

The fighting in North Africa during World War II is commonly overlooked, aside from the famous battle at El Alamein that pitted the British under General Bernard Montgomery against the legendary “Desert Fox,” Erwin Rommel. But while the Second Battle of El Alamein would be the pivotal action in North Africa, the conflict in North Africa began all the way back in the summer of 1940 when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared Italy’s entrance into the war. Dealing with the Italians was one thing, but the British faced an entirely different monster in North Africa when Erwin Rommel, a German general who had gained much fame for his role in the invasions of Poland and France, was sent to North Africa in February 1941. Rommel’s directives from the German headquarters were to maneuver in a way that would allow him to hide the fact that his ultimate goal was the capture of Cairo and the Suez Canal. The ultimate plan was that Rommel would not reveal the Germans’ true intentions in North Africa until after the Germans had made headway in their invasion of the Soviet Union. ith the Axis forces trying to push through Egypt towards the Suez Canal and the British Mandate of Palestine, American forces landed to their west in North Africa, which ultimately compelled Rommel to try to break through before the Allies could build up and overwhelm them with superior numbers. Given that the combined Allied forces under Montgomery already had an advantage in manpower, Montgomery also wanted to be aggressive, and the fighting would start in late October 1942 with an Allied attack. The ensuing Tunisian Campaign was a complicated, last-ditch, cut-and-thrust effort on the part of the doomed Axis forces. The various Allied forces arriving from the west were heavily bloodied before U.S. and British airborne and commando units began to mop up key ports and landing facilities. Rommel and his army were clearly staring at defeat.

Charles River Editors (Author), Daniel Houle (Narrator)

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The Cimmerians: The History of the Ancient Indo-European Nomads in the Near East

The early 1st millennium BCE was a time of great change and turmoil in the Near East and Eastern Europe. Many of the Bronze Age empires had collapsed, but in their place came new ones in Assyria, Persia, and Babylon, as well as a rejuvenated Egypt. Other peoples also began to enter the historical record and assert themselves. In the wake of the Sea Peoples destruction in Anatolia, the Lydians and Phrygians established powerful kingdoms, and by the 8th century BCE the Greek city-states had formed and the Greeks began establishing colonies along the western coast of Anatolia. Farther to the north in Europe, the Celts were the dominant people, establishing their cultural dominance over most of the continent by the 6th century BCE, while the Scythians and other peoples in what is today Ukraine began to migrate into Anatolia and the Near East. As the warlike Scythians moved south, they pushed another people known as the Cimmerians south into Assyria and Anatolia, resulting in more destruction and chaos and altering the course of history over the next several centuries. The Cimmerians present historians with many dilemmas because a fair amount is known about them for an approximate 200 year period, but little else before or after that time. It is known the Cimmerians had a major impact on the Assyrians, Lydians, and the people of Uratu in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, as evidenced by the numerous texts that testify to their ability to level cities and spread fear across the land. At the same time, however, little is known about the Cimmerians’ origins, other than that they probably originated somewhere north of the Caucasus Mountains and were probably Indo-Europeans. Unlocking the mystery of the Cimmerians’ origins is crucial, and a complete understanding of the group is impossible without it, but there is plenty more to their story.

Charles River Editors (Author), Colin Fluxman (Narrator)

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The Battle of Anzio: The History of the Allies’ Controversial Amphibious Landing during the Italian

The immense difficulties Sicily's rugged terrain caused to the Allied forces, and the successful delaying actions fought by small numbers of well-led German soldiers, inspired Hitler and his generals to garrison Italy as an obstacle to British and American advance. A relatively limited number of Wehrmacht troops used the endless series of mountain ridges and defensible hilltop towns to slow the offensive to a crawl, tying down large numbers of Western troops. Under Albert Kesselring's expert leadership, the Germans fell back northward methodically, fighting a major delaying action at Volturno in mid-October 1943. The Wehrmacht then established themselves on the Reinhard Line, a temporary defensive front meant to delay the Allies until the Germans finished preparing the stronger Gustav Line, stretching from Gaeta to Ortona and anchored on the formidable strongpoint near the early medieval monastery of Monte Cassino. The Allies did not intend the attack on Cassino as a simple slogging match, understanding quite clearly the cost of such an operation. Instead, they planned a landing at Anzio by an entire army corps, the U.S. 6th Corps, to outflank the Gustav Line and force the Germans' withdrawal to avoid encirclement. It was a sound plan, but it would turn into something of a fiasco under the leadership of Major General John P. Lucas. The Anzio landing occurred on schedule on January 22, 1944, and despite achieving total tactical surprise, Lucas squandered the opportunity to run amok in the Gustav Line's rear by remaining supinely in Anzio. Winston Churchill, with his typical verve, excoriated Lucas' failure with a colorful description: “Instead of hurling a wildcat onto the shore all we got was a stranded whale.” A later German report also expressed surprise at Lucas' inaction. What followed was months of bitter fighting as the Allies struggled to break out of their beachhead and make their long-awaited push to Rome.

Charles River Editors (Author), Daniel Houle (Narrator)

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Mythologies of the Ancient World, Sumerian and Akkadian Philosophy

No Sumerian myths have been recovered dealing directly and explicitly with the creation of the universe; what little is known about the Sumerian cosmogonic ideas has been inferred and deduced from laconic statements scattered throughout the literary documents. We have several myths concerned with the organization of the universe and its cultural processes, the creation of man, and the establishment of civilization. The deities involved in these myths are relatively few: the air-God Enlil, the water-God Enki, the mother goddess Ninhursag (also known as Ninh and Ninmah), the god of the south wind Ninurta, the moon-God Nanna-Sin, the Eridu-God Martu, and above all the goddess Inanna, particularly concerning her unlucky spouse Dumuzi.

Ryan Moorhen (Author), Alex White (Narrator)

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Ancient Origins of Mesoamerica: Fresh Insights into the Civilizations of the Americas

Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and, to a smaller extent, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Peru, and Bolivia in the Central Andes have deep-rooted roots in the subsoil of their pre-Columbian civilizations. The first chapters of the history of Latin America correspond to those who inhabited it before their first contact with Europeans. This is especially true in Mesoamerica. The objectives here are to show the development of the peoples and high civilizations of Mesoamerica before the establishment of the Mexica (Aztecs) in the Valley of Mexico (1325); second, to examine the key features of the political and socio-economic organization, and the artistic and intellectual achievements achieved during the period of rule of the Mexica (Aztecs) in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; and, finally, present a vision of the prevailing situation in Mesoamerica, on the eve of the European invasion (1519), between the solid continental masses of North and South America, Mesoamerica (that is, the area where it developed with High culture difficulties, which, at the time of contact with the Spaniards, reached an area of about 900,000 km2), has a varied isthmic character, with various geographical features, such as the gulfs of Tehuantepec and Fonseca, on the Pacific Ocean coast, the Yucatan Peninsula and the Gulf of Honduras.

Norah Romney (Author), Kevin Mcalister (Narrator)

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