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September 28, 2023

Zorndorf 1758 Frederick faces Holy Mother Russia

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Free Download Adam Hook, "Zorndorf 1758: Frederick faces Holy Mother Russia"
English | 2003 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 1841766968 | PDF | 49,0 mb
Osprey’s study of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). In January 1758 Count Wilhelm Fermor marched into East Prussia at the head of 45,000 Russians. Frederick the Great was dismissive of the Russian army and failed to take the threat seriously. With the Russians laying siege to the fortress of Cüstrin, Frederick crossed the River Oder and cut their supply lines. On 25 August the two armies met at Zorndorf. This book details the bitter day-long battle in which the Russian infantry refused to buckle. Casualties were horrific, the Russians losing almost half their army. Frederick had managed to stave off the Russian threat but his opinion of their army had changed dramatically.

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September 28, 2023

Holy Warriors A Modern History of the Crusades

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Free Download Jonathan Phillips, "Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades"
English | 2010 | pages: 464 | ISBN: 1400065801, 184595078X | EPUB | 4,5 mb
From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players-knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes-from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of today’s wars.

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September 28, 2023

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

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Free Download J.H. Overton, "A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life"
English | 2013 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 048649800X | EPUB | 0,9 mb
This examination of the Christian life constitutes one of the most remarkable books of devotion ever written. William Law’s book dates from 1728, a decade before England’s great evangelical revival, during which it exercised a significant influence on the movement’s leaders. A Serious Call has been praised by readers as varied as Samuel Johnson, Edward Gibbon, and John Wesley. "If Mr. Law finds a spark of piety in a reader’s mind, he will soon kindle it into a flame," declared Gibbon, and Wesley pronounced Law’s work as one of the books that formed his "explicit resolve to be all devoted to God."

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September 19, 2023

Holy Imagination A Literary and Theological Introduction to the Whole Bible [Audiobook]

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Free Download Holy Imagination: A Literary and Theological Introduction to the Whole Bible (Audiobook)
English | October 25, 2022 | ASIN: B0BK627MQD | MP3@64 kbps | 13h 14m | 367.5 MB
Author: Judy Fentress-Williams
Narrator: Janina Edwards
The many voices in scripture form a dialogue with readers, which produce theological truths that are larger than the individual parts. This introduction is informed by both literary theory and theology. It groups sections of the whole Bible together by genre. Each section identifies and describes the genre (such as historiography, poetry, prophecy, gospel, letter, apocalypse), and then moves into a discussion about the literary characteristics and theological insights.

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August 16, 2023

A Holy Alliance Church, Labor and the Communist Party in Costa Rica, 1932-48

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Free Download David Y Miller, "A Holy Alliance?: Church, Labor and the Communist Party in Costa Rica, 1932-48"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1563249103 | EPUB | pages: 244 | 1.2 mb
In the revolutionary movement in Central America during this century, Costa Rica followed a very different course from other countries in the region. This text explores the history of labour and the relationship between the Communist Party and the Catholic Church during the 1930s and 1940s.

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July 9, 2023

Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades

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Free Download Gregory Leighton, "Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades "
English | ISBN: 1641894547 | 2022 | 242 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and international scholarship, the book discusses the paganism of the landscape in written sources pre-dating the crusades, in addition to the narrative, legal, and visual evidence of the crusade period. It draws out the key sacralizing elements as expressed in those sources, which structure the definition of sacred landscape, particularly martyrdom, the manifestation of the sacred, and use of relics in battle. By analyzing these aspects with Geographical Information Systems (GIS), a map of the Baltic campaigns emerges that provides a fresh approach to studying contemporary views of holy war in a region with no initial links to the

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