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The Shield of Mashona

Author : Bill Russell

Publisher : iBooks

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 38,23 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781899694259

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"In this epic tale, Rothman uncompromisingly sets the reader deep in the 16th-century world of the Mediterranean - unmitigated, with no nod to modern sensibilities or expectations. It's wonderful and refreshing." -Justin M. Lindsay, Historical Novel Society "Love and death in the time of Siege... Even today, 451 years after the four terrible months that almost wrested Malta out of its European context and yanked it back into the Muslim world, the allure of the Great Siege of 1565 lives on, and not just in the local collective memory...The Course of Fortune is a good read which gives a reliable version of the events of the siege and should provide many hours of pleasant reading." -Louis J. Scerri, author of Malta: Origini Della Civilta Mediterranea/ Malta: Origins of Mediterranean Civilization In three volumes, The Course of Fortune -A Novel of the Great Siege of Malta, follows the adventures of a young Spanish soldier-of-fortune Francisco de Barai over the course of fifteen of the most turbulent years in the most turbulent century in history, adventures that climax in the Great Siege of Malta of 1565. During that most momentous of all sieges, tens of thousands of Turks descend on the island, defended by some 600 Knights of Malta and another few thousand mercenaries and Maltese civilians. The horrific and heroic events are recounted with the utmost attention to historical accuracy, just as the entire escalating chain of events is played out against a finely researched tapestry of Renaissance values, superstitions and culture.



The Mashona and the Matabele

Author : Charles Bullock

Publisher :

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 14,69 MB

Release : 1950

Category : Customary law

ISBN :

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An updated and substantially expanded revision of Bullock's own "The Mashona," published in 1927, to which has been added considerable ethnographic material on the Matabele (both are indigenous ethnic groups of Southern Rhodesia).



Men of Men

Author : Wilbur Smith

Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

Page : 605 pages

File Size : 46,28 MB

Release : 2018-01-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1785765825

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BOOK 2 IN THE BALLANTYNE SERIES, BY INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror A RUTHLESS MAN. AN UNFORGIVING DESTINY. Zouga Ballantyne has in his blood a fanatical need to find diamonds, and it is in the diamond mines of Kimberley that he finally realises his fate. But the price of success in one of the most punishing places in the world is high, and Zouga loses his beloved wife to one of the many sicknesses that haunt the diamond mine camp. Zouga and his sons are left to find their fortune elsewhere, and end up a part of the flourishing British Empire, developing their own form of civilisation in the face of tribal opposition. But Zouga's success has come at a price. The local Matabele tribe, who have tried to live alongside the colonists, are slowly losing everything. In the face of exploitation, violence and greed, who will triumph in the land of ruthless men? The second book in the epic Ballantyne Series. Book 3 in the Ballantyne series, The Angels Weep, is available now.



The Zambesian Past

Author : Eric Stokes

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 476 pages

File Size : 25,25 MB

Release : 1966

Category : Africa, Central

ISBN :

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The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Page : 502 pages

File Size : 36,10 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Commonwealth literature (English)

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One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.



World War II Snipers

Author : Gary Yee

Publisher : Casemate

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 41,92 MB

Release : 2022-05-04

Category : History

ISBN : 1636240992

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"Gary Yee takes what is already a well-researched deep dive into the specifics of sniper training, employment and equipment to a new level." - American Rifleman Magazine Thousands of volumes have been published about World War II but relatively little attention has been given to the sniper. Drawing from memoirs, government documents and interviews, World War II Snipers incorporates eyewitness accounts to weave a comprehensive narrative of snipers in World War II. While certain common traits were shared among belligerents, each had its unique methodology for selecting and training snipers and, as casualties were high, their replacements. Drawn from hunters, competitive shooters, natural marksmen, outdoorsmen, city dwellers, farmers and veteran soldiers, they fought to assert local battlefield dominance and instill among their enemy a paralyzing fear. Sometimes admired and other times reviled by their own comrades because of the retaliation they drew, they were always too few in number. Their battlefield role, their victories and their defeats are retold here from neglected or forgotten sources. The scope of World War II Snipers is extensive with three chapters each on the major theaters of the war including Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Pacific. This is supported by a lengthy chapter on the sniper rifles used by the snipers and their equipment.