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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

History

Melville, George W.

World

Read & Co. History

"The Last Days of the Romanovs from 15th March, 1917" is a detailed account of the end of the Romanov Dynasty. The House of Romanov was the second ruling Russian dynasty after the House of Rurik, reigning from 1613 until the Russian Revolution in 1917. The Romanov dynasty had 65 members at the start of 1917. By the end of it, 18 had been killed by the Bolsheviks while the remaining 47 had gone into exile abroad. With an account of the events leading up to this famous moment in history as well as testimonials of eye-witnesses, this volume provides a unique and fascinating insight into the Russian Revolution, making it a must-read for those with an interest in Russian history. Contents include: "Prologue", "The Stage and Actors", "No Escape: Alexandria Misjudged", "Rasputin the Pleasant", The Tsar if Innocent", "Exile in Serbia", "Via Cructs", "Calvary", "Without Trace", "Murder Will Out", "All The Romanovs", "The Jackals", "By Order of the Tsik", "The Red Kaiser", etc. Many vintage book such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with the original text and artwork.

The Last Days of the Romanovs

Biographies & Memoirs

Wilton, Robert

Telberg, George Gustav

Historical

Belle Boyd - Confederate Spy: With the Essay 'The Confederate Girl Who Saved Stonewall Jackson' by George Barton

Sigaud, Louis A.

Community & Culture

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Up from Slavery - An Autobiography

Washington, Booker T.

By the Name of Rice: An Historical Sketch of Deacon Edmund Rice, The Pilgrim (1594-1663), Founder of the English Family of Rice in the United States and of his Descendants to the Fourth Generation

Rice, Charles Elmer

Rathbone, Albert

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave: With an Introductory Chapter by William H. Crogman

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK

Crogman, William H.

Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials

Literature & Fiction

Feuerbach, Anselm Ritter Von

Literary

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields: With the Introductory Chapter 'The Ethos of the Spy'

Edmonds, Emma E.

Solomon Northup (born c.1807) was an American abolitionist and author. Born free to a freed slave and a free African American woman, he was a professional violinist, farmer and landowner until he was offered a job as a musician in Washington D.C., where he was drugged and kidnapped by slavers. He was sold to a painter in New Orleans and remained in bondage for 12 years until a Canadian plantation worker alerted the authorities in New York. He was emancipated on January 3, 1853, although his captors where never brought to justice. Northup chronicled his harrowing experience in this historic memoir, which was adapted into the 2013 Oscar-winning film of the same name. A moving memoir that deserves a place on every bookshelf and will appeal to those with an interest in this dark chapter of American history. Read & Co. History is proud to be republishing this classic slave narrative now in a new edition complete with an introductory chapter by Frederick Douglass.

Twelve Years A Slave: With an Introductory Chapter by William H. Crogman

NORTHUP, SOLOMON

“The American Slave-Trade” is a 1900 work by John R. Spears that examines in great detail the origin, growth, and ending of the slave trade from its very beginning in 1619 to the hanging of the last slaver in 1862. Contents include: “The Trade in the Earliest Days”, “Old-time Slaver Captains and Their Ships”, “When Voyages Went Awry”, “The Slaver and her Outfit”, “On the Slave Coast”, “The Middle Passage”, “The Slavers' Profit”, “Slaver Legislation in the American Colonies”, “The Early Work for Extirpation”, etc. John Randolph Spears (1850–1936) was an American journalist and author. Other notable works by this author include: “The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn” (1895), “The Port of Missing Ships and Other Stories of the Sea” (1896), and “The History of Our Navy from its Origin to the Present Day” (1897-1899). Read & Co. History is republishing this historic work now in a new addition complete with the original text and artwork and introductory poems by Thomas Campbell, Sidney Lanier and Coleridge.

The American Slave-Trade - An Account of its Origin, Growth and Suppression

Spears, John R.

Africa

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