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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill The man that the world knows as Winston Churchill looms large on the stage of world history. Like some sort of colossus from antiquity, Churchill strides between two major epochs in the world, one foot planted in the glory days of the British Empire when the sun never set on history's largest known conglomeration of imperial holdings and the other planted firmly in the aftermath of World War Two, and a post-war order that saw that empire collapse, with Britain barely hanging on to its own sovereignty in the wake. Inside you will read about... ✓ Love and War ✓ Courting the Americans ✓ The Allies Show their Teeth ✓ Preparing for the Post-war World ✓ Wrestling the Re...
Titanic
It has been more than one hundred years since the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic ocean. The disaster has captivated history buffs and non-history buffs alike, and it is easy to see why. Some of the most illustrious people of the day were on board: some survived, and some did not. Legends abound about whether the ship’s maiden voyage was cursed. And then there is the ship itself: arguably the most luxurious vessel to ever travel oversea. Inside you will read about... ✓ Conceiving of and Building the Titanic ✓ The Ship of Dreams ✓ Setting Sail ✓ The Passengers ✓ The Iceberg and the Sinking ✓ The Aftermath ✓ The Titanic Remembered and Re-Discovered The disaster holds secrets and stories of love and bravery, cowardice and greed. Explore these and other themes that surround the sinking of the grand ship, Titanic.
Cold War
The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted from the end of World War II until the end of the 1980s. Over the course of five decades, they never came to blows directly. Rather, these two world superpowers competed in other arenas that would touch almost every corner of the globe. Inside you will read about... ✓ What Was the Cold War? ✓ The Origins of the Cold War ✓ World War II and the Beginning of the Cold War ✓ The Cold War in the 1950s ✓ The Cold War in the 1960s ✓ The Cold War in the 1970s ✓ The Cold War in the 1980s and the End of the Cold War Both interfered in the affairs of other countries to win allies for their opposing ideologies. In the process, governments were destabilized, ideas silenced, revolutions broke out, and culture was controlled. This overview of the Cold War provides the story of how these two countries came to oppose one another, and the impact it had on them and others around the world.
The East India Company
★ The East India Company ★Founded at the dawn of the seventeenth century as European nations were establishing global empires, the English East India Company would become a vital part of burgeoning British supremacy. Begun as a joint-stock company for trade with the East Indies, this organization would evolve into one of the world's first capitalistic corporations. Inside you will read about...✓ The English in the Atlantic Era and the Founding of the East India Company ✓ The 17th Century: Struggling, Building, and Growing with Violence ✓ The East India Company Enters the 18th Century ✓ The British Government Steps In ✓ China and the Opium Trade ✓ Growing British Involvement i...
Queen Victoria
The Queen of Great Britain and Ireland for 63 years, the mother of nine children and grandmother to 42, Queen Victoria’s life was one of magnificent proportions. Victoria’s childhood was difficult and lonely but from the time she took the throne aged just eighteen she blossomed into a powerful woman, both frivolous and formidable. Inside you will read about... ✓ An Unsentimental Marriage ✓ Race to Produce an Heir ✓ Finally an Adult and Finally a Queen ✓ V&A ✓ Die Shattenseite ✓ The Hungry Forties and Albert’s Great Exhibition ✓ The Widow at Windsor And much more! In her later years, Victoria struggled to find balance between her wish to live a very private life as a widow and her duty to live the very public life of a Queen and later Empress. The world Victoria was born into was a very different world to that which she left behind and her life story is an incredible journey from infant heir to matriarchal Queen and Empress.
Summary of Hourly History's The Hundred Years War
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Battle of Sluys was the first in a series of naval engagements that would ultimately lead to the destruction of the French navy and the Battle of Crécy, which would be the first major win for the English. The siege of Tournai dragged on for months, but the city was not captured. In September 1340, both sides ran out of money and agreed to a truce. #2 The Battle of Sluys was the first in a series of naval engagements that would ultimately lead to the destruction of the French navy and the Battle of Crécy, which would be the first major win for the English. The Truce of Espléchin was in place from 1341 to 1346, but Edward sent an English army to Brittany in 1346, and the French were unable to oppose them. #3 In 1340, the English and French sides ran out of money and agreed to a truce. In 1350, the French king died and his son, John II, became the new king of France. But it wasn’t until the mid-1350s that the effects of the Black Death had receded sufficiently for both sides to resume the war. Edward III’s son, Edward the Black Prince, invaded French territory in 1356.
Summary of Hourly History's Aztec Civilization
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Aztecs rose to power late in the history of Mesoamerica. Other significant cultures such as the Olmecs, the Maya, and the Zapotecs had flourished for over a thousand years before the Aztec Empire was created. #2 The Toltecs were a people who lived in central Mexico. They were displaced by the Mexica, who were a tribe of Nahuatl-speaking people who worshiped the deity Huitzilopochtli. The Aztecs, who were named after their semi-mythical homeland of Aztlan, eventually took over their city.
Adolf Hitler
The most notorious man in history, Adolf Hitler, is best known for having perpetrated crimes against humanity over the six-year course of World War II. His brutal extermination policies are responsible for the deaths of close to 30 million people he considered inferior, and added to that, the military casualties suffered by all parties, yields a grand total of approximately 60 million people dead by the end of the war. That number equates to 3% of the world’s population at the time. But, who was this man? What made him into the monster he became? Can his childhood explain the formation of such a brutal dictator? Inside you will read about... ✓ Hitler’s Early Years ✓ Hitler’s Years ...
French Revolution
French Revolution During the late years of the eighteenth century, the spirit of Enlightenment thinking and revolution were in the air. The world was changing, moving away from ingrained beliefs about religion, reason, society, and the rights of the individual and turning more towards the laws of nature as interpreted by the scientific method. Nowhere was the influence of this radical new way of thinking more apparent than in France, and the upheaval this caused would come to bloody fruition in the form of revolution. Inside you will read about... - An Environment of Revolution- Rise of the Third Estate- The Rights of Man- Vive la Revolution!- Reign of Terror- The Last RevolutionariesAnd more!Explore the triumph and terror that existed in France during the French Revolution. Review the causes and the lasting effects brought about during this tumultuous time period when the common people of France struggled to remake their world upon the cornerstone of liberty.
Summary of Hourly History's Toltec Civilization
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The first humans to live in Mesoamerica were tribes of hunter-gatherers who began migrating into the area around 10,000 years ago. The first settlements were small houses built of adobe and occupied by people who supplemented hunting by growing crops. #2 The Olmecs were the most advanced culture in Mesoamerica from around 1400-800 BCE. Then, around 400 BCE, the Olmecs abandoned their main city and virtually disappeared from the pages of history. However, their legacy remained important to other Mesoamerican cultures.
