You have a night you are not ready to relive, and yet you keep reliving it, and somewhere between the 3 AM scrolling and the morning where you wake up already exhausted, you wonder whether the next chapter of your life is supposed to begin with a new person. The world around you is full of people who will tell you it should, that the cure for heartbreak is another heartbeat, and the dating apps make that argument with cheerful efficiency. Whatever brought you here, you share a conviction t...

Diaries and letters from service personnel who were held captive throughout the Second World War survive in quite large numbers, but rarely are they so detailed as those of John Blomfield Dixon, whose home was in the Hertfordshire town of Ware. Having joined the Territorial Army in 1938, he soon found himself hurried through officer training and, with the outbreak of the Second World War, being commissioned as a subaltern, attached to the East Riding Yeomanry. Following his death in 2013, ...

"Applied Eugenics" by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe explores the controversial field of eugenics, advocating for the improvement of human genetic qualities through selective breeding and social policies. The authors delve into the scientific, ethical, and social implications of eugenics, presenting arguments for its application in society. They discuss various methods and practices that could be employed to enhance the human population, reflecting the prevailing attitudes of their ti...

A SECRET SOCIETY IS HIJACKING AMERICAN JUSTICE!Selected " Best Legal Thriller of the Year" by BestThrillers.com Book AwardsWinner of the CLUE AWARD for "Best Suspense Thriller of the Year" by CIBAsOne of the "Top Five Legal Thrillers of 2024" by Perplexity AIAward-winning author Raymond Paul Johnson delivers a relentless action/adventure suspense thriller—a page-turner that will forever chan...

From New York Times bestselling author Paul Johnson, “a very readable and entertaining biography” (The Washington Post) about one of the most important figures in modern European history: Napoleon BonaparteIn an ideal pairing of author and subject, the magisterial historian Paul Johnson offers a vivid look at the life of the strategist, general, and dictator who conquered much of Europe. Following Napoleon from the barren island of Corsica to his ...

The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery is the last resting place of 6,012 American soldiers who died fighting in a small portion of Northern France during the First World War. The impressive cemetery is divided into four plots marked A to D. However, few visitors are aware that across the road, behind the immaculate façade of the superintendent's office, unmarked and completely surrounded by impassable shrubbery, is Plot E, a semi-secret fifth plot that contains the bodies of ninety-four America...

A chilling look at the British armed forces members who committed heinous crimes—including murder, rape, and treachery—during World War II.Nestled deep in the Surrey countryside stands the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial. Maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, its panels contain the names of nearly three,500 men and women of the land forces of Britain and the Commonwealth who died in the Second World War and who have no known grave.Among the men...

In "Tale of the Broken Spoke," Skip Rhodes, an enigmatic tour guide, unknowingly threatens the looters of ancient Native ruins. Skip's sidekick, Kukulkan Bonifacio Baltazar, a half-Mayan, half-Yaqui plumber to the stars, and Lilac Williams, Skip's hot-tempered ex-girlfriend who teaches yoga and firearm training, join together to uncover an artifact smuggling ring and investigate a cold-case murder— all while being distracted by an intergalactic swindle perpetuated by an Arizona sidewinder ...

Collected first-hand accounts of British men and women serving their country during World War I, as discovered through the Herts At War community project.In Hertfordshire Soldiers of The First World War the authors explore a series of individual case studies of Hertfordshire men who served in various theaters during the First World War, all of which had been uncovered as part of the Herts At War community project. This unique collection of largely unknown ...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Intellectuals: "All the highlights of Irish history . . . useful and informative." — Irish EchoDrawing from a wealth of historical and scholarly sources, Paul Johnson, acclaimed for such works as A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity, traces the important social, religious, and political development of Ireland's struggle to become a unified, settled country. John...

Start building fast and robust applications with the power of Rust by your sideKey Features\[\*\] Get started with the language to build scalable and high performance applications\[\*\] This book will help C\#/C++ developers gain better performance and memory management\[\*\] Discover the power of Rust when developing concurrent applications for large and scalable softwareBook DescriptionRust is a highly concurrent and high p...

In this probing, challenging and personal account of his feelings about God and religion, Paul Johnson shares with others the strength and comfort of his own faith. Informed by his great knowledge of history, The Quest for God is written with force, lucidity and eloquence by the author of Intellectuals, Modern Times, A History of the Jews and other works.