Category: History

Samurai Invasion: Japan’s Korean War 1592 -1598 by Stephen Turnbull
Requirements: EPUB, MOBI Reader, 55 MB
Overview: It’s an extraordinary tale, largely untold–until now. Researched in both Japanese and Korean archives, and authored by the world’s most acclaimed historian of the Samurai period, here is the most complete account yet written of Japan’s two invasions of Korea. It includes, among other treasures, never-before seen Japanese illustrations and battle reports. By the end of the 16th century, the Samurai had taken total control of their own domestic territory and looked abroad for new lands to conquer. The ultimate target was China, but Korea was to provide the jumping-off point to that victory. The incursion marked the first time the Samurai had attacked another country, and at first the Koreans drove them away. Retribution was inevitable, and the Japanese returned in 1597 to wreak havoc in a war of unbelievable savagery. With extracts from contemporary Japanese field diaries not seen for over 400 years, this is a volume no follower of Samurai lore can resist. The invasions of Korea launched by the dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1592-1593 and 1597-1598) are unique in Japanese history for being the only time that the samurai assaulted a foreign country. Hideyoshi planned to invade and conquer China, ruled at the time by the Ming dynasty, and when the Korean court refused to allow his troops to cross their country, Korea became the first step in this ambitious plan of conquest.
Genre: Non Fiction, History

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Paradise for Sale: Florida’s Booms and Busts by Nick Wynne,‎ Richard Moorhead
Requirements: ePUB Reader, 7 MB
Overview: Internationally publicized as the happiest place on earth decades before Disney arrived, the Sunshine State experienced a brief and wondrous economic boom in the mid-1920s. Entrepreneurs and real estate developers became overnight millionaires as they created luxury seaside resorts, golfing communities and country clubs. Greats, near greats, the famous, the infamous, movie stars, politicians, athletes, ne’er-do-wells, preachers, foreign royalty, con artists, educators, labor leaders, union members, every element of American and world society flocked to the Pleasure Paradise of the World."? Florida was a perpetual motion machine, destined to go on forever. But in 1926, small bank failures led to panic, the new federal income tax law led to bankruptcy and a series of hurricanes decimated the tourist trade. Florida’s great boom had gone bust, not to recover until World War II. However, Floridians remained optimistic that the sun of prosperity would rise again."
Genre: Non Fiction, History

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Holocaust Forgotten: Five Million Non-Jewish Victims by Terese Pencak Schwartz
Requirements: ePUB Reader, 501 KB
Overview: Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. Almost six million of these were Jewish – Hitler’s most recognized victims. But, five million were not Jewish. Who were these other victims? The author, a Jewish convert of Polish Catholic descent, whose uncle was murdered by Nazi soldiers, discovered that there are many non-Jewish survivors eager to share their stories.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History

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Arsonist: The Most Dangerous Man in America by Nathan Allen
Requirements: MOBI Reader, 895 KB
Overview: In this landmark work of history, Arsonist reveals the secret role of one man who challenged the foundations of feudalism and instigated the American Revolution. James Otis was disgusted by the anti-democratic feudal structure of society and threatened to set it all “in a flame” though, he confessed, he too would likely be consumed in the fire. By the winter of 1760, this provincial bourgeoisie, one of the wealthiest and most intelligent men in the British colonies, had become fully radicalized. That his words – a promise and a prophecy – came to full fruition and his predictions about the province and his own life were entirely accurate would be unbelievable if it didn’t actually happen. After an analysis of colonial political, social, legal and religious evolution prior to Otis’s threat, Arsonist provides a detailed, lively illumination of the issues and personalities involved in overthrowing the local government of the world’s greatest empire. A group of largely forgotten men Otis, Sam Adams, Oxenbridge Thatcher, Jonathan Mayhew, Thomas Cushing, Patrick Henry – conceived the new country, after which men such as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton midwifed it. The conception of the new nation, so vital yet so ignored, occurred in the violent though fertile grounds of Boston and Virginia in the 1760s. And no one was so instrumental to that conception as James Otis, Jr., the forgotten infantry soldier who made the general’s glory possible.
Genre: Non Fiction, History

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Evacuee Boys: Letters of a Family Separated by War by John E. Forbat
Requirements: ePUB Reader, 1.9 MB
Overview: Unique set of two boys’ letters interspersed with an account of life back in London by their father. Humorous and poignant record of the hardships of evacuation and the Blitz. Insight into a Hungarian Jewish family in Britain in the 1940s. Although they had been living in England since 1936, John and Andrew Forbat’s Hungarian family became Enemy Aliens at the onset of WWII. Aged 11 and 14, the two brothers were evacuated to a disadvantaged part of Melksham in Wiltshire, to find themselves in straitened circumstances, cut off and far from home. Their many letters home throughout the war, with details of their schooling, bullying, friendships and constant pursuit of more pocket money, form a humorous and at times tragic testament to the hardships of war. Interspersed with diary entries made by the boys’ father back home in Blitz-torn London and further recollections from the younger brother John, Evacuee Boys is as full a record of war-torn Britain as one family could provide.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History | World War II

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