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Author: Ed Dunlop
Publisher: Journeyforth
Published: 2003-10-01
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781591660149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen twelve-year-old Hans, his father and younger sister are pursued by the Nazis from Switzerland into France, they end up helping the locals resist the Germans and rescue a downed American pilot.
Author: John Mercanti
Publisher: Whitman Publishing
Published: 2013-06-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780794840303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collector's guide, retired chief engraver of the Philadelphia Mint and designer of the reverse side of the American silver eagle bullion coin, John M. Mercanti, details the history and development of the American silver eagles program as well as other U.S. bullion coins and medals.
Author: Ben Kane
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2009-03-03
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 0312536712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., The Forgotten Legion is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society. Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery to a enslaved mother who is much beloved by them, and much abused by their owner. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity and death in the salt mines. Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, born enemy of Rome and trained by the last haruspex in the forgotten arts of divination. A runaway slave, then an AWOL Legionaire, he has a long foretold destiny that will take him to the very ends of the known world. Brennus is a Gaul from the Allobreges tribe. In the battle against the Roman army, his entire family, perhaps his entire tribe, is slaughtered, and only he survives to be sold as a slave to be trained as a gladiator. He rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day - and mentor to the boy slave, Romulus, who dreams night and day of escape and of revenge. The lives of these four characters are bound and interwoven in a marvellous story which begins in a Rome riven by corruption, violence and political enmities, but ends far away, where Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius find themselves fighting against the Parthians and overwhelming odds - survivors of one of the most legendary battles in Roman military history and destined to become part of one of the most compelling, enduring legends: The Forgotten Legion.
Author: Ben Kane
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-05-17
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 1848090137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Forgotten Legion ten thousand legionaries made captive by the Parthians has marched to Margiana on the edge of the known world. In its midst are Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius, all men with good reason to hate Rome. Together the trio must face th
Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780192750457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of Rosemary Sutcliff's acclaimed books set in Roman Britain. The Eagle of the Ninth tells the story of a young Roman officer who sets out to discover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of the Ninth Legion, who marched into the mists of northern Britain and never came back. Rosemary Sutcliff spent most of her life in a wheelchair, suffering from the wasting Still's disease. She wrote her first book for children, The Queen's Story, in 1950 and went on to become a highly respected name in the field of children's literature. She received an OBE in 1975 and died at theage of 72 in 1992.
Author: Eldon Yellowhorn
Publisher: Annick Press
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 177321330X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"There is no death. Only a change of worlds.” —Chief Seattle [Seatlh], Suquamish Chief What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, and they kept their cultures alive. When the only possible “victory” was survival, they survived. In this brilliant follow up to Turtle Island, esteemed academic Eldon Yellowhorn and award-winning author Kathy Lowinger team up again, this time to tell the stories of what Indigenous people did when invaders arrived on their homelands. What the Eagle Sees shares accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered in Indigenous history from a vastly under-represented perspective—an Indigenous viewpoint.
Author: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2010-07-07
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0307754480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSusan's letter came from California: Hand was in jail, and she was on the run. Twenty-four hours later, Hawk is free, because Spenser has sprung him loose—for a brutal cross-country journey back to the East Coast. Now the two men are on a violent ride to find the woman Spenser loves, the man who took her, and the shocking reason so many people had to die. . . . Praise for A Catskill Eagle “Entertaining.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune “His best mystery novel.”—Time
Author: Edmund Chuck Moy
Publisher: Whitman Publishing
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780794839734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo create this book, Moy has drawn on a lifetime of interest in coins and precious metals, leading up to his 2006 confirmation as director of the U.S. Mint. Under his tenure, demand for American gold bullion coins multiplied more than fivefold, from less than 330,000 ounces in 2007 to 1,800,000-plus ounces in 2009, and counting. The U.S. Mint went from a major producer to the world's largest producer of gold, silver, and platinum coins, with bullion coins accounting for the majority of the Mint's revenues.
Author: Ed Dunlop
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780918407054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe mangled wreckage of an American P-38 Lightning lies hidden somewhere on the rugged slopes of Mount Piedler, and German troops are searching for it.
Author: Ben Kane
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 745
ISBN-13: 1466815035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this epic historical adventure set in ancient Rome, three legionaries fight their way home while a brave woman searches for her beloved in Gaul. In the first century BC, ten thousand legionaries are all that are left of a once-powerful Roman army and a failed invasion of Parthia. Those that survived are captured and marched to the edge of the known world. Abandoned by Rome, these men are the Forgotten Legion. Among them are three friends, all men with troubled pasts, united in their hatred of Rome and a dream of freedom. Together they must face the savage tribes that surround them as well as the more treacherous enemies within the ranks of the captured legion itself. Their character will be tested to the utter limit as they struggle to find a way back to Rome. Meanwhile, Fabiola, Romulus’s twin sister, fights to survive and maintain hope in her brother’s survival. Freed by her powerful lover but beset by enemies on all sides, she must travel to Gaul to find her lover, Caesar’s right-hand man, where Vercingetorix threatens the life and the lives of all who rally around Caesar. Together these characters, whose lives are intertwined and whose stories are interwoven, bring to life a truly epic tale of the late Roman Republic and the ancient world in which it thrived. Praise for The Silver Eagle “Kane’s ambitious sequel to The Forgotten Legion continues his chronicle of life in the tumultuous Roman Republic. . . . The historical details, graphic combat sequences, and finely drawn characters lift Kane’s title above standard swords-and-sandals fare and should keep series fans sated until the next installment.” —Publishers Weekly “Lively . . . Riveting . . . Captures much of the chaos, brutality, and splendor of the late republic.” —Booklist “An extremely well-crafted novel; detailed, and expertly told with serious and engaging characters. It is novel that focuses on the experience of the ordinary soldier, a tale that allows us to travel through Gaul, Egypt, India and Persia.” —Fantasy Book Review
