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George Alfred Henty, better known as G.A. Henty, began his storytelling career with his own children. After dinner, he would spend and hour or two in telling them a story that would continue the next day. Some stories took weeks! A friend was present one day and watched the spell-bound reaction of...

My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the masters of the country. The valour with which the natives of this island defended themselves was acknowledged by the Roman historians, and it was only the superior...

G.A. Henty was a well-known prolific author of historical adventure novels. Henty's books are also known for being historically accurate, making them both entertaining and educational for all readers. Through the Fray is a historical novel set during the Luddite riots after industrialization swept Britain.

G.A. Henty was a well-known prolific author of historical adventure novels. Henty's books are also known for being historically accurate, making them both entertaining and educational for all readers. Won by the Sword is a historical novel set in France during the Thirty Years' War.  The action centers around an orphan of Scottish descent who is serving in the French Army.

"Bears And Dacoits A Tale of the Ghauts" is a short story by G.A. Henty and it takes place in India. The author writes about his adventures in the 15th regiment in the first person style.

Historical novel. According to the Preface: "The order of the Knights of St. John, which for some centuries played a very important part in the great struggle between Christianity and Mahomedanism, was, at its origin, a semi-religious body, its members being, like other monks, bound by vows of obedience,...

In Book 15, Saying Goodbye- Trust was shattered, lives were at risk, and the world had turned upside down for the men of the Action! Series. Coming home…rebuilding relationships that had been severed to the point of fury, Mark Antonious Richfield finds moving on, trying to keep his sanity...

G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history of philosophy, focusing instead...

Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all...