"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us." - Winston S. Churchill.
An eyewitness account of life in ancient Egypt from the Father of History, legendary Greek historian Herodotus; a concise biography of Marie Antoinette by John Abbott; a look at the private life of Horatio Nelson in Lord Nelson & Lady Hamilton; one of the most important Civil War memoirs penned by a soldier in the field - Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life; an essay on Benjamin Disraeli and A Short History of Russia by Mary Platt Parmele. Strategy Six Pack 11 is a biographical and battle-packed collection of historical delights:
An Account pf Egypt by Herodotus.
A Short Life of Marie Antoinette by John Abbott.
Lord Nelson & Lady Hamilton by Elbert Hubbard.
Hardtack and Coffee - The Unwritten Story of Army Life by John D. Billings.
Benjamin Disraeli by Elbert Hubbard.
A Short History of Russia by Mary Platt Parmele.
About the Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805 - 1877) was an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer.
John D. Billings (1842-1933). Born in Canton, Massachusetts. Civil War Union Army soldier, Historian. Author of Hardtack and Coffee, The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887), based upon his experiences in the Civil War.
Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484-425 BC), a contemporary of Socrates.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 -1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. He died aboard the Lusitania, when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
Mary Platt Parmele (1843 - 1911) was an American author and historian.
