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By Gerald Posner A Doubleday Anchor Book, 1994, originally published by Random House in 1993 Buy this Book! Case Closed is a significant work in twentieth-century history that persuasively argues for the “case” of Lee Harvey Oswald (1939 – 1963) as “the lone assassin” of President John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) in Dallas, Texas, […]
Werner Greub (Author), Robert J. Kelder – Willehalm Institute Press – Amsterdam (Translator) Buy This Book! The 13th century German poet-knight Wolfram von Eschenbach assures us that his famous Grail romance Parzival contains descriptions of historical events that took place eleven generations before his time, i.e. in the 9th century, exactly in the way he narrates them. The source […]
By Thomas Sharpe Spirit of Pendle Publishing, 2012 Buy this Book! Thomas Sharpe (b. 1970) was born and lives in the area of Pendle, in the Rose County of Lancashire, in northern England. This area is well-known from the 1652 visit made by George Fox, a founder of the Quakers or Friends, during which, at […]
By Fawn M. Brodie First Vintage Books Edition, 1995; originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1945. Click to buy this book! In the Preface of the first edition of her book, author Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981) sums up the challenges faced by all those who decide to undertake a serious study of the life […]
By Grigoris Balakian, Translated by Peter Balakian with Aris Sevag A Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2009 Click to Buy this Book! Grigoris Balakian (1876–1934) was a priest and later a bishop in the Armenian Apostolic Church. He had studied engineering in Germany, entered an Armash Seminary in Constantinople, and had served […]