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Confronting Evil by Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer recounts the deeds of the worst people in history: Genghis Khan. The Roman Emperor Caligula. Henry VIII. The collective evil of the 19th century slave traders and the 20th century robber barons. Stalin. Hitler. Mao. The Ayatollah Khomeini. Putin. The Mexican drug cartels. Collectively, these warlords, tyrants, businessmen, and criminals are directly responsible for the death and misery of hundreds of millions of people.

Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as The Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft. It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer, and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. It has been described as the compendium of literature in demonology of the 15th century.

The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate Black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of Whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture.

Fiona Watson examines the process of conquest and attempted colonization of one medieval kingdom by another, concentrating on that most vital aspect of conquest: the maintenance of garrisons. She shows how the kingdom of Scotland was able to marshal its resources and create a coherent and cohesive national front to deal with a more powerful enemy. Under the Hammer provides a much clearer picture of medieval Scotland-its varying component parts; its sense of self, its strengths and weakness.

Das Tagebuch eines Panzerpioniers, der seine Erlebnisse an den verschiedenen Fronten niedergeschrieben hat. Schonungslos und mit den Worten der damaligen Zeit geschrieben, bekommt man hier einen Einblick, wie diese Männer mit ihrer 13. Panzerdivision gegen den Feind zogen, kämpften und starben. Heute unvorstellbar, was diese Männer erlebten und wie viele es nicht nach Hause geschafft haben.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Carefully reproduced from the original artifact, this inspirational audiobook remains true to the original ancient Viking era texts.

In Israel and Civilization, syndicated columnist, legal scholar, and popular commentator Josh Hammer makes a righteous case that the key to the prosperity of the West is the flourishing of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel. Hammer’s uplifting offense is our best defense against the enemies of the Jewish people, the Jewish state, and all the West. As Hammer makes clear, manifesting the promise of Israel requires action by the United States and its allies.

We are often told the USSR was an oppressive, authoritarian society, lacking freedom and democracy. There were endless purges that claimed the lives of millions of “dissidents,” purges that were designed for one thing and one thing only: to keep power in the hands of those who wielded it.And as we all know, the economy was based on socialist and communist principles, which is why it barely functioned at all. There were endless famines, genocides against minorities within the nation, and an industrial base that was constantly tottering on the edge of collapse.But instead of trying to ...

Delve into the weird and wonderful world of auctioneering with TV antiques experts Rachel Holland and Kayleigh Davies. Explore the social and design history of objects, learn about the daily life of those who work in the auction business, including many familiar TV faces, and hear some of the most unbelievable and outrageous stories about the job.Rachel and Kayleigh are both full time auctioneers and valuers at Fieldings Auctioneers. Rachel is a specialist in Asian Art and music memorabila and vinyl, and is an expert on Channel 5's The Great Auction Showdown. Kayleigh is a specialist in toys, ...

The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world’s deadliest militia “Putin’s Sledgehammer provides an in-depth account of, and essential political and economic background to, the story of Prigozhin’s meteoric rise and abrupt demise.” ―Times Literary Supplement A...

Charlemagne, who was born around 747, was the first recognized emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded is called the Carolingian Empire. More than anyone else, it was the great Frankish ruler who provided the basis for the civilization which we today call “Western European” as opposed to the classical European civilization that had preceded it.

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Der Arbeitsalltag in der historischen Gesenkschmiede war voller kleiner und großer, schräger und absurder, tragischer und komischer persönlicher Geschichten. Der Podcast „Wenn der Hammer schlägt“ erzählt einige davon in fünf Episoden. Kurze Schlaglichter auf Ereignisse und Erlebtes aus der hundert Jahre und vierzehn Tage dauernden Firmengeschichte lassen die Hörerinnen und Hörer in die geschäftige Welt der Fabrik eintauchen und zeigen die Lebens- und Arbeitswelt der Angestellten aus ihrer Perspektive.

Two years before the action in Lone Survivor, a team of Green Berets conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan's notorious Pech Valley. Led by Captain Ronald Fry, Hammerhead Six applied the principles of unconventional warfare to "win hearts and minds" and fight against the...

A podcast documentary series about building more than walls. Across the United States, families face an urgent crisis: housing costs are rising faster than wages, leaving teachers, first responders, service workers, and retirees without stable places to live. Behind every statistic is a story — of parents choosing between rent and groceries, of kids uprooted again and again, of volunteers lifting hammers to turn hope into something real. Hosted by Mark Deal and Pat Fenner, Habitat: Heart, Hammer, and Home takes you onto build sites and into living rooms to hear firsthand from homeowners, ...

It is AD 935, and Hakon Haraldsson has just wrested the High Seat of the North from his ruthless brother, Erik Bloodaxe. Now, he must fight to keep it. The land-hungry Danes are pressing from the south to test Hakon before he can solidify his rule. It does not help that Hakon is committed to his dream of Christianizing his people - a dream his countrymen do not share and will fight to resist. As his enemies move in and his realm begins to crumble, Hakon and his band of oath-sworn warriors must make a stand in Raven's Feast.