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The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most of their colonies in the Caribbean, India, and West Africa. In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester explains how and why the French were defeated.

This Raging Bull Publishing Box Set contains three classic Western books.

Do you believe human life is inherently valuable? Unfortunately, in the secularized age of state-sanctioned euthanasia and abortion-on-demand, many are losing faith in the simple value of human life. To the disillusioned, human beings are a cosmic accident whose intrinsic value is worth no more than other animals. The Death of Humanity explores our culture's declining respect for the sanctity of human life drawing on philosophy and history to reveal the dark road ahead for society if we lose our faith.

At once panoramic and intimate, Regular Army O! uses the testimony of enlisted soldiers - drawn from more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs - to create a vivid picture of life in an evolving army on the western frontier. In this richly drawn, uniquely authentic view, men black and white, veteran and tenderfoot, fill in the details of the frontier soldier’s experience, giving voice to history in the making.

Chaplain James D. Johnson chose to accompany his men, unarmed, on their daily combat operations, a decision made against the recommendations of his superiors. During what would be the final days for some, he offered his ministry not from a pulpit but on the battlefields - in hot landing zones and rice paddies, in hospitals, aboard ship, and knee-deep in mud. Through his compelling narration, he takes us into the hearts of frightened young boys and the minds of experienced men.

The frontier version of organized crime is moving in on Shadow Valley, and the secretive spider at the center of the web wants Marshal Josiah Hawke out of the way. Brazenly gunning down a marshal, even in Hawke’s lawless neck of the woods, will attract too much attention. So, the syndicate’s minions goad the middle-aged marshal, a former bare-knuckle boxer, into a fight with a young contender intent on beating Hawke to death.

Marshal Josiah Hawke’s past comes back to haunt him when he unexpectedly meets a beautiful performer in a traveling show - a woman who was once a spy and had tried to kill him. With her is a man Hawke suspects was the infamous commandant of a Confederate prison camp who escaped from Hawke during the closing days of the Civil War.

For Jacob and Sarah Jennings, life in Spanish Fork Utah in 1866 seemed normal enough, at least to everyone else at church on Sunday. Their folks played the part of a loving family, but there was a secret that no one spoke of, and it ran deeper than Jake or his sister could have ever imagined. When it festers to the surface, the two young siblings are forced to leave their shattered home and join up with Becky Hanlon, who has a reputation for being "touched in the head". The three youngsters make their way across savage Indian territory to get as far away from Spanish Fork as possible.

Josiah Hawke and Tom Carmody are called back into action to track down the daughter of a prominent Texas judge. She's among a stagecoach full of passengers kidnapped during a robbery and secreted in a virtually inaccessible outlaw hideout deep in a canyon that is thought to harbor such evil that even the Comanches and Apaches shun it.

They called it "The Fall" - the total collapse of the United States and the American way of life. Within 12 months, 80 percent of the population is gone. After a time, even the military stops trying to cope and pulls back to the coasts, leaving the interior, from the Alleghenies to the Rockies, on its own. Now, the remnant of Americans left in the depopulated cities and the wilderness that used to be the breadbasket of the world are becoming increasingly desperate, doing anything it takes to survive.

Frank Wilkes kills a prostitute in self-defense after she tries to rob him but the town folk don't see it his way. After he gets injured trying to escape from the brothel, a blood thirsty posse is determined to finish the job. Frank's only hope is Marshal Bill Sacks, a man he has known for years, but never considered a friend.

One murdered girl. One unknown killer. One legendary lawman. A lone man sits his horse atop a bluff near the southern Missouri border. There's a story in the country ahead of him. A dark tale of murdered girls and a killer not caught, of an old friend asking for help, and a letter from a frightened young mother that has arrived too late to save her daughter. A letter that now rests in this man's pocket.....

If you have always been interested in trading stocks but didn't know where to start, then consider Stock Trading: Stock Trading Basics and Strategies for Beginners. In this audiobook you will find everything you need to start you on your way toward achieving the financial freedom you have always dreamed of and the steps you need to take to turn it into a reality.

"El Chapo" Guzman was planning to get Hollywood to produce a film about his life. Kate del Castillo, a famous actress in Mexico, persuaded him that Sean Penn had connections and experience to realize his dream. Learn the whole story of El Chapo, Sean Penn, and Kate del Castillo.