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The Black Bloodline is an epic, deeply researched odyssey into the forgotten lives of seven African icons who shaped history yet were nearly erased from it. This powerful non fiction chronicle resurrects the rise and fall of rulers, warrior s, prophets, and pioneers whose legacies shattered empires, defied invaders, and ignited revolutions.From the golden reign of Mansa Musa, the richest man to ever live, to the fearless Yasuke of Japan ,The Black Samurai.

In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror.The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. He was a general of such skill and renown that for two thousand years other great leaders studied his strategy and tactics, from Hannibal to Napoleon, with countless more in between. He f...

This popular history of ancient religions is "a wonderfully illuminating, prodigious tour de force of ecclesiastical anthropology" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).At the time of Jesus' birth, the world was full of gods. Thousands of them jostled, competed and merged with one another. Rulers and ruled turned to religion as a source of order and stability.To explore the power that religious belief has had over societies through the ages, Selina O'Gra...

HistoryThe Secrets of Ancient Civilizations and Great Empires that Shaped Modern WorldCurious on the past and how it still influences the present and perhaps even the future? Interested on the role those ancient civilizations played in shaping the world, as we now know it? Ready to discover their origins, unique contributions, their influential figures, their secrets and other facts and trivia?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you!...

*Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize***"In this staggeringly good biography, Edmund Richardson reveals in riveting and sumptuous detail the real Alexander, the man behind the legend. Richardson has drawn on new sources from recent archeological discoveries, adding a real freshness to this millennia old story." —**Daily MailAn enthralling new biography of Alexander the Great, written as an intimate, present portrait of the w...

A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor of ancient Persia and its enduring legacies for today's Iran.“A brilliant feat of resurrection.” -Tom Holland, author of DominionThe Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs reigned...

ALIEN MINDS BATTLEFOR BYZANTIUMIn northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth. Only three things stand between the Malwa and their plan of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in the East, Byzantium; a crystal with vision; and a man named Belisarius, the greatest commander Earth has ever...

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true'His mind was clear. It was time to go east. Time to march into Asia, to confront the Persians and to meet his destiny...'Alexander has one, wild dream: to rule the world. And with his childhood friends and his beloved horse Bucephalas, he sets out from his home in Ancient Greece to do just that. With historian Dominic Sandb...

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all trueBorn into the richest dynasty in the world, young Cleopatra has always dreamed of glory and empire. And when she defeats her brother and sister to become Pharaoh of Egypt, she is certain the gods have chosen her for greatness. But then Julius Caesar's war-fleet sails into her harbour -- and suddenly her country's destiny hangs by a thread .....

EVIL FROM BEYOND TIMERULES THE GREATESTEMPIRE ON EARTH!Link, the supercomputer from a future that should not exist, has used terror and gunpowder weapons to forge the Malwa Empire: harnessing the vast manpower of the Indian subcontinent and using the barbarian races of the periphery to bind the whole together. No power on Earth in the 6th century could stand against Link's evil.Aide, a human soul embodied in a jewel, has come back to halt evil's progress. Aide...

Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements.Using the ancient historians as his guides, Wood follows Alexanders journey as closely as possible, crossing deserts and rivers, from Turkey to war-torn Afghanistan. As the journey progresses, he recreates the drama of Alexanders epic marches and bloody battles. All along the way he finds proof of the su...

The chariot changed the face of ancient warfare. First in West Asia and Egypt, then in India and China, charioteers came to dominate the battlefield. Its use as a war machine is graphically recounted in Indian epics and Chinese chronicles. Homer's Iliad tells of the attack on Troy by Greek heroes who rode in chariots. In 326 BC Alexander the Great faced charioteers in northern India, while in 55 BC, on a Kent beach, Julius Caesar was met by British chariots.Because of the ...