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Surveys The Fighting Forces And Military Engagements Of The Great Powers, From The British In India To The Scramble For Africa-- Provided By Publisher.Categ...

describes Christmas Traditions In Mexico, Iran, China, Sweden, Iraq, Spain, And Norway. publishers Weekly the On My Own Holidays Series Offers Explanatory ...

A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller. From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehens...

In his quest for military glory, Benito Mussolini sent the Italian Eighth Army to the Eastern Front to help fight the Russians, only to have his forces rout...

Choosing And Using An Assessment Tool / Robert L. Kane -- Assessment Of Function In Older Adults / Valinda I. Pearson -- Physiological Well-being And Health...

The full story of the "other women" in Henry VIII's life is presented here—everyone knows about the six wives, but this thrilling account of love, lust, ...

Looks At The History Of The Rise Of Christianity As Experienced By The Adherents Of The Traditional Religions Of The Ancient World Who Directly Experienced ...

One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison We...

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...

An ideal first dictionary that gives learners all the help they need to use new vocabulary correctly.Categories: ReferenceEnglish as a Second Language

General Francisco Franco came to prominence during the days of David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson and was able to cling to absolute political power unti...

Discover how a boy became devoted to the people who enslaved him, returned to their shores, and changed Ireland forever... He was taken from his home in En...

How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented a...

"Full of fascinating characters, deeds of heroic daring . . . [a] powerful book."--New York TimesOne of the last secrets of World War II is why the Germans...

A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Secon...

The Inspiring Story Of A Young Armenian's Harrowing Escape From Genocide And Of His Granddaughter's Quest To Retrace His Steps. Growing Up, Dawn Mackeen Hea...

Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't fo...

With the sudden Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982 the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of a determined...

775 pages plus photos. Also 45 pages of Introduction plus Short Biographies of the Principle Characters.Categories: History EuropeGreat Britain

When Hitler’s government collapsed in 1945, Germany was immediately divided up under the control of the Allied Powers and the Soviets. A nation in tatter...

The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of women’s role and place in weste...

To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom—the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries—is impossible. Still, before...

Describes The Partnership Of Da Vinci And Machiavelli On The Failed Project To Create A Series Of Canals Which Would Have Made The Arno River Navigable From...

This book examines the place of the Middle Ages in modern popular culture, exploring the roots of the stereotypes that appear in films, on television and ...

the Perfect St. Patrick's Day Gift, And A Book In The Best Tradition Of Popular History — The Untold Story Of Ireland's Role In Maintaining Western Cultur...

some Schools Have Honor Codes.others Have Handbooks.themis Academy Has The Mockingbirds. themis Academy Is A Quiet Boarding School With An Exceptional Stu...

Land Under London -- Roman London -- Anglo-saxon And Norman London -- Medieval London -- Tudor And Stuart London -- Georgian London -- Victorian London -- L...

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

A powerful and true story of warfare and human survival that exposes a side of World War II that is unknown by many— this is the story of Wolfram Aïchel...

Celtic origins, heroes, and stories spring to life in T. W. Rolleston's classic work, Celtic Myths and Legends. Spanning thousands of years and across tho...

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...

The Life, Times, And Work Of Herbert Marcuse, One Of The 20th Century's Most Remarkable Cultural Figures-- Assimilation & Catastrophe -- The Sorrows Of ...

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...

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

"At a time when modernism and Marxism are both under attack as outmoded, Eugene Lunn's rich and detailed study of the years of their most creative interacti...

Never before in German military history did the German Artillery possess such variety and magnitude as in the World War II era. From North Cape to Tobruk, B...

The Historical Foundations Of Women's Power In The Creation Of The American Welfare State, 1830-1930 / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Borderlands: Women, Voluntary A...

With Each Passing Year, Veterans Of The Great War Grow Fewer In Number. Yet The War Itself Continues To Attract Attention And Inspire Anger. Fierce Battles ...

For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword—an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that ...

Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in co...

This Book Recounts The Story Of Three Cambridge-educated Englishmen And The Women With Whom They Chose To Share Their Commitment To Reason In All Parts Of T...

On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the...

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the ...

Monica Black's A Demon-haunted Land Is A Revelatory Counterhistory Of Postwar Germany, Not As A Reborn Democracy But As A Nation Convulsed By Apocalyptic Vi...

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

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley C...

Ratline is the documented history about the mechanisms by which thousands of other Nazi war criminals fled to the remotest parts of the globe--including qu...