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• I am starting this page with the best. All six volumes of Gibbon's The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire  

• The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire   by Edward Gibbon
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  The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It has obtained undisputed possession, as rightful occupant, of the vast period which it comprehends.

• The Origins of Contemporary France   by Hippolyte A. Taine
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  We need not visit Egypt or go so far back in history to encounter crocodile worship, as this can be readily found in France at the end of the last century. -- Unfortunately, a hundred years is too long an interval, too far away, for an imaginative retrospect of the past.

• The Dawn of Canadian History  
  by Stephen Leacock   William Wood and Thomas Guthrie Marquis
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  When the friars reached Quebec they arranged a division of labour in this manner: Jamay and Du Plessis were to remain at Quebec; D'Olbeau was to return to Tadoussac and essay the thorny task of converting the tribes round that fishing and trading station; while to Le Caron was assigned a more distant field, but one that promised a rich harvest.

• Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck Volume 1   by Baron Trenck There were two cousins Von der Trenck, who were barons descended from an ancient house in East Prussia, and were adventurous soldiers, to whom, as to the adventurous, there were adventures that lost nothing in the telling, for they were told by the authors' most admiring friends--themselves.

• Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck Volume 2   by Baron Trenck The worthy Emperor, Francis I., shed tears when I afterwards had the honour of relating to him in person my past miseries; I beheld them flow, and gratitude threw me at his feet. His emotion was so great that he tore himself away. I left the palace with all the enthusiasm of soul which such a scene must inspire.

• Cape Cod   by Robert F. Sayre The Datura stramonium, or thorn-apple, was in full bloom along the beach; and, at sight of this cosmopolite, -- this Captain Cook among plants, -- carried in ballast all over the world, I felt as if I were on the highway of nations. Say, rather, this Viking, king of the Bays, for it is not an innocent plant; it suggests not merely commerce, but its attendant vices, as if its fibres were the stuff of which pirates spin their yarns.

• Beacon Lights of History   by John Lord At this era a new phase appears in the Prophet's life and teachings. Thus far, until his flight, it would seem that he propagated his doctrines by moral force alone, and that these doctrines, in the main, were elevated. He had earnestly declared his great idea of the unity of God.

• The Army of the Cumberland   by Henry M. Cist General Johnston, under his general plan of creating a defensive line from Columbus on the west, running through Bowling Green east to some point to be determined on, early in September sent General Zollicoffer with a force numbering several thousand men to make an advance into Eastern Kentucky by way of Knoxville, East Tennessee, through Cumberland Gap to Cumberland Ford, threatening Camp Dick Robinson.

• The Deeds of God through the Franks   by Robert Levine Characteristically, Guibert opens the Gesta defensively, justifying his choice of a modern topic by insisting upon the exceptional nature of the Crusade, as well as the exceptional nature of the French. The entire first book is devoted to a selective history of the Eastern Church and a denunciation of heresies, concluding with an extensive invective against Mahomet, compounding sex, excrement, and disease.

• China and the Manchus   by Herbert A. Giles It is almost a conventionalism to attribute the fall of a Chinese dynasty to the malign influence of eunuchs. The Imperial court was undoubtedly at this date entirely in the hands of eunuchs, who occupied all kinds of lucrative posts for which they were quite unfitted, and even accompanied the army, nominally as officials, but really as spies upon the generals in command.

• A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land Of Virginia   by Thomas Hariot SINCE the first vndertaking by Sir Walter Ralegh to deale in the action of discouering of that Countrey which is now called and known by the name of VIRGINIA; many voyages hauing bin thiter made at sundrie times to his great charge; as first in the yeere 1584.

• The Atomic Bombings Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki   by The Manhattan Engineer District On August 11th, 1945, two days after the bombing of Nagasaki, a message was dispatched from Major General Leslie R. Groves to Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell, who was his deputy in atomic bomb work and was representing him in operations in the Pacific, directing him to organize a special Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Investigating Group.

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