Борис Савинков – российский политический деятель, революционер, террорист, один из руководителей «Боевой организации» партии эсеров. Участник Белого движения, писатель. В результате разработанной ОГПУ уникальной операции «Синдикат-2» был завлечен на территорию СССР и арестован. Настоящее издание содержит материалы уголовного дела по обвинению Б. Савинкова в совершении целого ряда тяжких преступлений против Советской власти. На суде Б. Савинков п ...
Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman Senator during the first century A.D., is considered to be one of the greatest historians from antiquity. His «Histories» is a classic chronicle of the turbulent transition that occurred following the suicide of Roman Emperor Nero and the Flavian dynasty. During the course of a single year, 69 A.D., Rome was catapulted into a period of chaos and civil war. Cornelius Tacitus's «Histories» is the story of this year ...
Contained in this volume are the three best-known works of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. Hesiod's «The Theogony» concerns the origins of the world and of the gods and forms a foundation for all Greek mythology. In «Works and Days», Hesiod argues that labor is a fundamental condition of human existence and to those who are willing to work success will most surely be achieved. Additionally in this volume is «The Shield of Heracles» in which ...
"Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica" is a collection of ancient Greek writings that are attributed to Hesiod, Homer, and others whose style emulates the two. This volume translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White includes the following works: Works and Days, The Divination by Birds, The Astronomy, The Precepts of Chiron, The Great Works, The Idaean Dactyls, The Theogony, The Catalogues of Women and the Eoiae, The Shield of Heracles, The Marria ...
"The Pirates Own Book" is a collection of historical tales about the great age of piracy. The exploits of such famous pirates as Black Beard, Jean Lafitte, Robert Kidd, Edward Low, Thomas White, Anne Bonney, Mary Read as well as many others are recounted here in explicit detail. Comprising a time period between that of the Medieval Norman and Danish Sea Robbers to the cases of piracy in the first half of the Nineteenth Century, Charles Ellm ...
Generally accepted as the first work of historical literature in Western culture, «The Histories» of Herodotus describe the important wars of the fifth century. Carefully translated from its original Greek, this text conveys the careful research and deliberate documentation of martial battles between the Greek city-states and the Persian Empire. The reasons for his efforts, as explained by Herodotus, were to preserve the memory and glory of huma ...
In 1526 Carlos I of Spain granted Panfilo de Narvaez a license to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States. Panfilo de Narvaez set sail in 1527 to conquer and settle present day Florida. Setting out with a crew of approximately 600 members ultimately only four members would survive the ill-fated expedition. The journey would take these four survivors from Spain to Hispaniola and Cuba and then onto Florida. Sailing through a hurrican ...
“Ten Days That Shook the World” is American journalist and socialist John Reed’s first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. First published in 1919, Reed died soon after the book was released and was buried at the Kremlin in Moscow, one of only three Americans interred there, in tribute to his friendship with Vladimir Lenin and his important contribution to the new Soviet regime. While it was intended as an impartial and unbia ...
