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Recalls The Nobel Laureate's War Years.Categories: HistoryMilitary

A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal "Illuminating. . . . Tunbridge's pithy A...

Animals played an important part in helping the Allies win the First World War, well beyond cavalry horses that charged fields and hauled heavy guns, and in...

I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman-bodily and morally the husband's slave-a very doubtful happiness. -Queen Vict...

David Tucker & The Guides. At Head Of Title: London Walks.Categories: Travel Specialty TravelTourist Destinations & Museums

This 35th anniversary edition of a best-selling book recounts Corrie tenBoom's horrific experiences in Hitler's concentration camps, explains how she surv...

Will & Kate: A Royal Family is one of an exciting series of lush books celebrating some of the most popular and influential figures of the day – who ...

With selections drawn from both constitutional and cultural history, this book invites students to examine evidence as historians do. Documents are arranged...

"Throughout history, blame for the introduction of slavery to America has been squarely placed upon the male slave traders who ravaged African villages, the...

A new abridged edition of a highly acclaimed biography of Edward VIII, who left England as the Duke of Windsor less than eleven months after succeeding his ...

Patrick Pearse's role in the development of Irish nationalism remains controversial. Previous historical analysis has tended to view him as either a saint-...

Complete stroke-by-stroke guide to creating each letter of the alphabet in the beautiful, distinctive Celtic manner. Crystal clear instructions cover hand p...

Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned t...

intended For The Student Of Italian History And Culture As Well As The General Reader, This New Edition Presents A Clear And Concise Account Of The Principa...

Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it a...

These popular volumes offer a comprehensive, challenging introduction to the politics, economic development, social life, culture, and thought of early mo...

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Devil In The White City And Dead Wake Delivers A Fresh And Compelling Portrait Of Winston Churchill And Lond...

Product Description *A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*\From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly ...

A New Historian Of Mary Queen Of Scots Draws On New Sources To Shatter Various Myths Surrounding This Odd Monarch And Uncover Some Of The Scandals And Polit...

Acclaimed historian Lynne Olson’s collective biography explores one of the most important turning points in 20th-century history – the months leading up...

'Clements has a knack for writing suspenseful sure-footed conflict scenes: His recounting of the Korean invasion led by samurai and daimyo Toyotomi Hideyos...

Recounts the end of British colonialism and the political events leading to the independence of India, Palestine, Malaya, Iran, Egypt, Aden, Cyprus, Gold Co...

A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through...

A unique retelling of WWII’s most dramatic escape, told through first-hand recollections of the soldiers who experienced it. On the night of March 24, 19...

From Roman Times To The Present Day This Is The Story Of Black British HistoryCategories: Teen & Young Adult Education & Reference HistoryModern ...

Peter Kilduff. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 165-170) And Index.Categories: History EuropeGreat Britain

Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem's twentieth cent...

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration for the hit PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life o...

Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thi...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. ...

Written by one of Britain’s best known and most respected military historians, this is the essential account of the Napoleonic campaigns. Now in a new con...

the First Popular History Of The Emancipation Of Europe’s Jews In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries—a Transformation That Was Startling To Those Who...

Overview: Once Upon A Time An Indian Writer Named Amitav Ghosh Set Out To Find An Indian Slave, Name Unknown, Who Some Seven Hundred Years Before Had Travel...

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, archi...

A Best Book of the YearUSA Today * Time Magazine * Washington Post * Miami Herald * Richmond Times Dispatch * Christian Science Monitor * Daily Beast * Min...

Pfaff Discusses Writers, Artists, Intellectual Soldiers, And Religious Revolutionaries (including : T.e. Lawrence -- Gabriele D'annunzio -- Ernst Jünger --...

An accessible history of conflict between Christian and Muslim in the Middle Ages, but with far greater scope than the usual crusade narratives. Starting wi...

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Chu...

Which king ordered everyone to bed at 8pm? How many Pot Noodles are sold every second in Great Britain? How many streets must a London cabbie memorize in or...

The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, PhilipJe...

modern City-dwellers Suffer Their Share Of Unpleasant Experiences—traffic Jams, Noisy Neighbors, Pollution, Food Scares—but Urban Nuisances Of The Past Ex...

The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of t...

For Frederick The Great, The Prescription For Warfare Was Simple: Kurz Und Vives (short And Lively) - Wars That Relied Upon Swift, Powerful, And Decisive Mi...

This title is intended for ages 8-14. Read about the man who started it all in this exciting new book that traces the beginnings of the European Age of Expl...

In This Brilliant Work Of Historical Reconstruction Neil Macgregor And His Team At The British Museum, Working Together In A Landmark Collaboration With The...

When News Of The Budding Romance Between A Beloved English Prince And An American Actress Broke, It Captured The World's Attention And Sparked An Internatio...

The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teachi...

In This Illuminating And Deeply Moving Memoir, A Former American Military Intelligence Officer Goes Beyond Traditional Cold War Espionage Tales To Tell The ...