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This book, which takes its rise from the graphic, and indeed gruesome, tale of the daughters of Pelias and their deluded dismemberment of their aged father in the vain hope of conferring immortal youth upon him, attempts to begin to explore anew the role and meaning of the Greek myths, and what light they can throw on or have thrown on them by the now revived discipline of comparative Indo-European religion and mythology, revivified and re-established on new foundations during the last century by the patient and assiduous labours of Georges Dumezil and a small band of co-workers, without the...

BEFORE I FORGET - ONE MAN'S RADAR WAR is a richly readable account of the life of a young RAF serviceman during WW2. It is a personal memoir of wartime through the eyes of one young man determined to live life to the full while always trying to do the decent thing. Sometimes even finding fun during the fight against fascism. As you read his story you will meet his young wife for the first time and watch their relationship develop under the cloud of war and enforced separation. You will be with them as their son is born during the Little Blitz while V1s rain down on London. And when the first...

All the realm of fictions furnishes no such dramatic, heroic and surprising legends as the actual occurrences in the life of many a pioneer of Illinois. Prominent among these is the courtship, marriage and honeymoon, midst wild forest and Indian life, of Captain William Phelps and Caroline Kelsey. They were well known and honored pioneers in Fulton County and Western Illinois, and the facts here given are known, in their salient features, to many a pioneer home. This story shall deal in facts; where there is coloring, the narrative will be weakest.