On the front lines of this war are those who dare to shine the light of the Holy Bible on the darkness of those who would usurp God's sovereignty. In the latter years of the Middle Ages, a people called the Waldenses dared to stand against the religio-political power of a corrupt Roman Catholic Church, pitting truth against tradition and greed. This updated edition of the Scottish historian, James Aitken Wylie's classic The History of the Waldenses, chronicles the perils, plight and persecution of the Waldenses across the centuries as they devoted all they had--even their lives--to preserving the sacred truths of the Gospel and taking them to the world.

    A full nineteen years later, with the appearance of volumes VII and VIII in 1899, he completed his magnum opus, having taken the story from the time of the emperor Valentinian I (AD 364-375) down to the Frankish invasions of the late eighth century and the death of Charlemagne in 814. In between had appeared two other two-volume sets (volumes III and IV in 1892, and V and VI in 1895), along with revised editions of volumes I and II in 1892 and of III and IV in 1896. In its final form, The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire amounted to nearly five thousand pages of text (including indexes), or well over a million words. Hodgkin had manufactured a great historical classic, a worthy successor to, and in some important ways an advance upon, the work of Edward Gibbon. But Hodgkin was not a professional historian, nor even a professional aithor. How did a Quaker banker, who took his responsibilities as a recognised minister of his faith extremely seriously, come to write one of the great masterpieces of nineteenth-century British historiography?

    The Young Buglers traces the fortunes of two brothers, Tom and Peter Scudamore, who join the British army in Portugal and serve with distinction during the hard-fought battles of the Peninsula War.

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    William Haslam, Anglican Priest, begins his ministry in Cornwall, England in the 1840s. He does not realize he is not a genuinely converted Christian, but the people in his parish church do. After many prayers and many struggles, the Rev. Mr. Haslam is converted while preaching to his own congregation. One member, who instantly recognized his minister had been converted, stood and shouted out, "The parson is converted! The parson is converted!" The remained of the book covers the next 20 years of ministry for the Rev. Haslam, as told by himself. A dramatic book, absolutely unique, many are saddened that they have reached the end of it. Rev. Haslam's name is yet revered in Corwall.

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    I am conscious of a certain audacity in thus attempting to give a further life of Cicero which I feel I may probably fail in justifying by any new information; and on this account the enterprise, though it has been long considered, has been postponed, so that it may be left for those who come after me to burn or publish, as they may think proper; or, should it appear during my life, I may have become callous, through age, to criticism.