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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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The Hollow Blade Sword Company

Seventeenth-century German craftsmen came seeking a land of opportunity, and found it in County Durham.

602

Blind Passions

Hardworking Kichijiro wins Ima’s heart and Kanshichi’s hatred without noticing a thing.

603

Sir Stamford Raffles

The Founder of Singapore established his city on principles of free people and free trade.

604

The Battle of Waterloo

The Russians had checked it in the East, but in the West the expansion of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire was far from over.

605

Wolves at the Gate

Gregory Rasputin is tricked into attending a dissolute Moscow soirée, and shares his sadness with Englishman Gerard Shelley.

606

A Highly Polished People

Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java, urged London to bypass our European partners and trade directly with Japan.