Religious Wars

April 29, 1863, brought the Civil War to Grand Gulf, Mississippi. Sarah Bassler lost her mother six months before. For two and a half years she struggled with this difficult and demanding woman, resenting every day of her care. Now able to regain her life, she finds a wounded Union officer and is saddled with not only nursing him but keeping him from being discovered. While cleaning the officer’s uniform, Sarah finds a round, brass object...a Confederate decoder. She is asked to not only get the cypher to the Union, but to aid a family of slaves needing escape from Mississippi. Will she ...

Punk. Poet. Pioneer. The Bard of Salford’s hugely anticipated new collection of poetry is his first in over 30 years. These are poems as scabrous, wry and vivid as only John Cooper Clarke could deliver. Inimitable and iconic, this collection will be a complete joy for lifelong fans and a whole new generation.

Written in the dark days immediately following the author's deployment to Iraq, Death Letter is part memoir, part comic lament on his relationship with the three great subjects of our mythic imagination.

Global Conspiracy set to doom USA - Can the nation be saved? The novel "A Perfect War" is a prophetic warning of the devastation that can occur in the United States when we fail to heed the nation’s founding lessons of personal liberty, individual responsibility, and limited government. America is great when America is good and "A Perfect War" recalls the communities of everyday Americans who believe in simple, unalienable truths and who yearn for nothing more than an opportunity to live their lives with the freedom and hope the nation upholds, with faith and trust in a higher calling, ...

Prequel to the series. Who is the Dark Lord and what are the foundations of his vile ambitions? Read on dear reader and be amazed . . . Long before the Hare ... Long before the Age of Heroes ... Long before the Goddess of the Temple ... There lived dragons, elves, witches and giants ... Legend has it that the dragons and the giants helped build Durundal, using their great strength to lift and carry and wrestle the enormous blocks into place. These same legends also say that the elves contributed their magic to the city, with underground passages to the Elven World. Legend also has it that ...

Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his love of hip-hop music, graffiti and girls, he was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party), where he played a leading and international role in the shaping and dissemination of an aggressive anti-West narrative. While studying for his Arabic and law degree, he travelled around the UK and to Denmark and Pakistan, setting up new cells.

As a child, young Franz saw his father go off to fight in the Great War. As a young man, Franz and his young wife, Fani, dare to begin a family under the shadow of Hitler's Germany. While the New Order closes in around their Austrian homeland, Catholic students are recruited to help hunt out Jews. At the same time, Franz's trusted parish priest, Father Otto - risking his own incarceration - hopes that the Catholic Church will speak out and tell Austrians what to do in the face of Hitler's rise to power.

God and Country: The Lies That Justify War and Tyranny, by Ken Pealock is a groundbreaking exposé that fearlessly challenges the toxic narratives of nationalism and religious fanaticism. In this riveting book, Ken Pealock dismantles the deceptive rhetoric used to justify war and oppression, exposing the dangerous lies that underpin modern tyranny. Delving deep into the collusion of patriotism and dogma, this manifesto reveals how manipulated truths transform loyal citizens into unthinking participants in the machinery of conflict and control. With incisive analysis and unyielding honesty, ...

On Warfare: A Practical Reference is an essential guide that offers an in-depth exploration of the multifaceted nature of warfare, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of conflict, strategy, and military innovation. This book is organized into 25 categories of warfare, covering both traditional forms, such as conventional and guerrilla warfare, and emerging types like cyber warfare, hybrid warfare, and space conflict. Each category is thoroughly examined, offering insights into the evolution of tactics, key strategies, and the shifting dynamics of modern military conflicts. ...

Kindesmissbrauch in einer Sekte – Natachas Eltern sind echte Hippies, sie träumen von der freien Liebe und dem Weltfrieden. Naiv lassen sie sich von der Sekte Children of God anwerben – so wird ihre Tochter Natacha in die Sekte hineingeboren, ebenso wie ihre Geschwister. Ein normales Familienleben wird Natacha nie kennenlernen. Die Sekte propagiert die freie Liebe, auch mit Kindern! Getrennt von ihren Eltern, sind Natacha und ihre Geschwister dem Missbrauch durch fremde "Onkel" und "Tanten" schutzlos ausgeliefert.

"Discerning the Future: Christian Perspective on Contemporary Challenges" by Kerby Anderson provides an essential guide for Christians navigating the complexities of the modern world. As technological, political, economic, and social landscapes rapidly evolve, this book offers a biblical lens to understand and respond to these changes. Anderson, a respected author and speaker, draws on his deep knowledge and faith to address issues such as transhumanism, artificial intelligence, globalism, and privacy challenges. He also explores economic systems like capitalism and socialism, religious ...

إلا اذا كنت ممن يحتملون مجرد البقاء على قيد الحياة لدفع الفواتير وانتظار انقضاء الأجل، الحياة في قفص زجاجي قد تبدو مريحة وربما أنيقة لمن يؤثرون السلامة فقط، أما من يشعرون تجاه الحياة بشغف عريق وأنهم يحرسون شيئاً ما

From Graeme Wood comes the definitive book on the history, psychology, character and aims of the Islamic State. Based on Wood's unprecedented access to supporters, recruiters and high-ranking members of the most infamous jihadist group in the world, The Way of the Strangers is a riveting, fast-paced deep dive into the apocalyptic dogma that informs the group's worldview, from the ideas that motivate it to the 'fatwa factory' that produces its laws to its very specific plans for the future.

Anne wonders what secret her three older brothers are hiding. When she finds out they joined to fight with the Union Army and would leave the next day, she give them each one of her favorite two-cent pieces, and says, “I want you to take one of my new two-cent pieces. I learned these coins are the first with the word 'In God We Trust.' I just memorized Psalm 91:2. ‘I will say to the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: My God, in him will I trust.’” Out of a heart of love, Ann gives six of her special coins away hoping the message on the two-cent piece will strengthen each person’s faith.

Marjorie and Jim Harrison were born to missionary parents serving in Southwestern China in the 1930s. At that time, any children had to be sent to the China Inland Mission Boarding School in Northeast China, almost 3,000 miles away! By the end of Marjie's second-grade year, the war between China and Japan was escalating, and travel to and from their home was unsafe. On December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese soldiers placed the school under house arrest, not allowing anyone to leave the school grounds.

America's political landscape is experiencing dangerous polarization and fragmentation, with the extremes pulling the country apart. Voices on the left and right clash over different worldviews, narratives, definitions of America, and what it means to be an American citizen. The levels of incivility and hostility lead some to invoke the language of a cold civil war or even a looming civil war, one that could split the country in two. Is there any way to step back from this dangerous precipice?

Emmanuel Iduma never met his uncle, his father’s favourite brother and the man for whom he is named. The elder Emmanuel left home in 1967 to fight in the Biafran War and was not seen again. The war lasted for three years, with young Igbo men volunteering to fight for a breakaway republic in the chaotic wake of British decolonization. Around one hundred thousand others who fought in the war share a fate like Emmanuel’s uncle, though there are no official records of these losses. The tensions that gave rise to the conflict remain live, threatening sometimes to bubble over.

Wilfred Owen is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of the First World War. He was tragically killed on patrol on 4 November 1918, a week before the armistice was signed. Owen was to see only five of his poems published during his lifetime. This collection of 23 poems, containing many of his best known works, uses the texts as published in Poems - edited by Wilfred Owen’s friend and mentor Siegfried Sassoon with the assistance of Edith Sitwell and first published in 1920.

For Jason and his fiancé Thelma, the bomb meant he never had to invade Japan and maybe die or at least be wounded. For Fred, the bomb means guilt and fear, wondering why it had to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as his wife Sally tries to help him. For Soviet and East German scientists trying to develop a sufficient weapon of mass destruction means involuntary servitude to a nation intent on catching America in an arms race. For a federal employee who worked where the first bomb was developed, life spirals into a search for an escape from nuclear annihilation. When Jason discovers ...

As Syria imploded in civil war in 2011, Kurdish volunteers in the north rose up to free their homeland from centuries of repression and create a progressive sanctuary of tolerance and democracy. To the medievalists of ISIS, this was an affront, so they amassed 10,000 men, heavy artillery, tanks, mortars and ranks of suicide bombers to crush the uprising. Against them stood 2,500 volunteer fighters armed with 40-year-old rifles. There was only one way for the Kurds to survive. They would have to kill the invaders one by one.