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Alan Ereira

    Alan Ereira
    Die grossen Brüder
    The Nine Lives of John Ogilby
    Gold: How it Shaped History
    The People's England
    Crusades
    Terry Jones' Barbarians
    • 2024

      Gold: How it Shaped History

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      Exploring gold's profound impact on civilization, this book reveals its role beyond mere wealth and art. It delves into how gold has influenced wars, revolutions, and the rise and fall of empires, shaped societies, and created the capitalist economy. Through a South American indigenous perspective and recent discoveries, the narrative illustrates gold's journey from the Black Sea to global prominence, highlighting its enduring allure and transformative power over 6,500 years. Ereira presents gold as a hidden force that continually shapes human history.

      Gold: How it Shaped History
    • 2016

      The Nine Lives of John Ogilby

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      In this enlightening book, Alan Ereira brings a fascinating hidden history to light, and reveals that Ogilby's celebrated Britannia is far more than a harmless road atlas: it is, rather, filled with secrets designed to serve a conspiracy of kings and England's undoing. The Nine Lives of John Ogilby is the story of a remarkable man, and of a covert

      The Nine Lives of John Ogilby
    • 2006

      Terry Jones' Barbarians

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      4.0(623)Add rating

      Terry Jones’ Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. This is the story of the Roman Empire as seen by the Britons, Gauls, Germans, Hellenes, Persians, and Africans. In place of the propaganda pushed on us by the Romans, we’ll see these people as they really were. The Vandals didn’t vandalize—the Romans did. The Goths didn’t sack Rome—the Romans did. Traversing the landscape of the Roman Empire, Terry Jones brings wit, irreverence, and the very latest scholarship to transform a history that seemed well past its sell-date.

      Terry Jones' Barbarians
    • 1996

      Crusades

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.9(43)Add rating

      In 1095 Pope Urban II called upon Christians to march under the banner of the Cross and save their brothers in the East from the advance of Islam. This vision of crusading Christianity dominated the events of the next two centuries and brought together people of all ages and backgrounds, sworn to spread Christianity and wrest the Holy Land from the Infidel. First published to accompany the acclaimed BBC television series, 'Crusades' tells the compelling, often horrific, story of the fanatics and fantasists, knights and peasants who were caught up in these fervent times. It reveals how Muslims, Jews and Christians were massacred, and how the Crusades sowed the seeds of 'jihad', the holy war for Islam, a legacy that endures today.

      Crusades