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An Archaeological Scandal
"[Allen] pieces the story together like shards of a broken vase."โSara Wheeler,The Sunday Telegraph In this fascinating book, Charles Allen unravels...
A True Story of Life, Death, and Trust
Charles Allen, loving husband and father in a family of eight, shares his personal experience of conquering the heartache and tragedy of losing two ch...
An Effective short-term Approach for Getting People Back on Track
This groundbreaking book, now updated and expanded, furthers its original, effective, time-saving approach that benefits pastors overtaxed by counseli...
This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-w...
A Personal History of South India
COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Penin...
India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience....
In December 1903 a British army marched over the Himalayas to counter a non-existent Russian threat and was confronted by a medieval Tibetan army orde...
The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia
Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this...
The Search for India's Lost Emperor
India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone he turned Buddhism from a minor s...
War Leader of the Oglalas
"Red cloud-the only Native American leader ever to win a war against the United States Army. In the 1860s he destroyed Captain William J. Fetterman's ...
The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad
What are the roots of today's militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer ...
Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1919 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. With 7 Illustra...
The Men who Made the North-West Frontier
The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa
This book, first published in 1932, was written by a Western expert on Korea, and was the first to thoroughly investigate and document the old religio...
Soldier's Voices 1945-1989
Britain, though technically at peace since World War II, has fought in a dozen wars in that time. Charles Allen draws political, social and moral conc...
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The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India
Covering the Period from May 1, 1900 to May 1, 1901 ...
โThis book,โ the author tells us in his preface, โis intended to be a picture of life on a farm in Southern Ohio in the 1930s.โ RFD is a faith...
A Journey into Tibetan History
The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'S...
Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia. It was not until the late 18th centur...
This book is an outgrowth of the many poems that I have written over the years of my life. Most of them stemmed from the love for my wife Madeline. So...
A Hand Book for Instructors of Industrial and Vocational Subjects
The Search for a People, a Place and a Myth
Few themes in history have had as strong a hold on people's imagination. Fewer still have managed to alter the course of civilization. This is Charles...
Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney
Interest in the mountainous regions of the Syro-Mesopotamian plain came relatively late in the development of Near Eastern archaeology. In the psyche ...
It's one of the most exciting areas of archeology today: the ancient history of eastern Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, and the Caucasus in the third and se...
Healing for Your Troubled Heart
With more than a million and a half copies sold, this classic book shows you how to apply ancient biblical truths for a happier, healthier life today....
The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life
The best-selling author of God's Psychiatry presents the 45th anniversary edition of his practical, comforting guide to effective prayer....
Leaves from the Indian Journals of Charlotte Canning
Letters & journals 1856-1861 from Lady Canning (wife of Governor General & Viceroy) to Queen Victoria, detailing school inspections, assistance to sur...
The McNair Lectures, 1922, Delivered at the University of North Carolina
See the amazing way God transforms lives through unceasing prayer. In this 40th anniversary edition you can join the generations who've accessed praye...
By Charles Allen, Attorney-general of Massachusetts