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Ypres 1914 An Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Introduction German Preface Preliminary Remarks The Theatre of Operations The Advance of the Fourth Army The...

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645) is the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history; unfortunately, our modern portrait of this folk hero is derived mainly from popular books, comics, and film, with little heed paid to the early records by men who knew Musashi, practiced with Musashi,...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS I. Bismarck II. Caprivi III. Hohenlohe IV. Bülow V. Bethmann VI. My Co-workers in the Administration VII. Science and Art VIII. My Relations with the Church IX. Army and Navy X. The Outbreak...

Amores is Ovid's first completed book, published in 16 BC. Amores was written in the elegiac distich. The book follows the model of the erotic elegy-perhaps the most common theme of the time-as treated before by Tibullus and Propertius, but often in a subversive and humorous way, with common motifs...

A funeral oration by Plato. The Menexenus or Funeral Oration is cited by Aristotle, and is interesting as supplying an example of the manner in which the orators praised 'the Athenians among the Athenians,' falsifying persons and dates, and casting a veil over the gloomier events of Athenian history....

When Adelina is caught in the most compromising of positions, she is soon sent to a convent school for wayward adolescents in far off France.  The first part of this gem describes our female protagonist’s first tastes of lust as she embarks on a torrid and forbidden love affair with her tutor....

If Florentine and Julia's aunt can recall with a shudder anything from her short-lived marriage, it was the ravishment she received from her military husband the night of their wedding; a carnal onslaught of a front and rear-guard action that left her doubting all that she had learned of love. Could...

Shortly before the French revolution of 1789 our Captain and narrator's Dragoon regiment kept garrison in the city of Le Mans. The officers, being taken in by some of the noblest and richest of houses of the city, soon began to play that age old game of cuckoldry, playing their patrons for fools as...

In 'Memoirs of a Russian Ballet Girl', Mariska narrates the tumultuous moments of life, from impoverished serf-girl, to apprentice seamstress, to talented ballet dancer, and her vicious chastisement and ravishment at each turn.  Volume I sees young Mariska, one of many serving the vast estate...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

The Warrior's Barrow (The Burial Mound), was Henrik Ibsen's second play and the first play to be performed. It is a three-act verse drama, written in 1850 when Ibsen was 22 years old. The play was first performed at the Christiania Theater on September 26, 1850, under Ibsen's Pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Le Ventre de Paris (1873) is the third novel in Emile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. It is set in and around Les Halles, the enormous, busy central marketplace of 19th Century Paris. Le Ventre de Paris (translated into English under many variant titles, but literally meaning The...

Depending on the version you read, after almost four thousand pages, the reader can be forgiven for feeling exhausted before embarking upon the seventh volume of Proust's massive masterpiece A la recherche du temps perdu. The work is an epic journey, but the sweeping first volume (Swann's Way, and...