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A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated! This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride thro...

This Instant New York Times Bestseller—“a Jaw-dropping, Fast-paced Account” (new York Post) Recounts Seal Team Operator Robert O’neill’s Incredibl...

Chronicles The Military Career Of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, Profiling His Military And Civilian Roles In The Vietnam War. The Funeral -- Going To War -- Ante...

Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on nineteenth-century whaling ships faced: the rudimentary tools they...

Review\Moseley has a crack journalist's nose for the evocative quotation or the vivid fact that encapsulates a larger truth. -- Thomas Simpson ― Chicago T...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the aut...

In the summer of 1942, twenty-five thousand feet above Malta, RAF Spitfires fought combat after bitter combat with clouds of German and Italian bombers and ...

Every experience God gives us . . . is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see.--Corrie ten Boom Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who ...

An incredible true coming-of-age story In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from h...

From an internationally acclaimed expert in the field comes a detailed, analytical, and comprehensive account of the worldwide evolution of tanks, from the...

They had defeated the French and now the English possessed the vast North American Empire. Soldiers, traders, settlers—all began the trek across the wilder...

“The bard of biological weapons capturesthe drama of the front lines.”-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navyThe first major bioterror event in the U...

America's leading expert on democracy delivers the first insider's account of the U.S. occupation of Iraq-a sobering and critical assessment of America's ...

Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China...

Robert H. Farquharson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

Robert Lyman’s deep knowledge and understanding of the war in Burma, and the great battles at Kohima and Imphal in 1944, are well known. In this book he u...

This definitive survey examines the impact of nuclear weaponry on national security issues. Written by an experienced author and founder of the Peace and Co...

As the children of Vietnam veterans reach the age at which their fathers went overseas, veterans and their families, especially their wives, face new stress...

Explanations for why the Allied forces were able to prevail over Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II in campaigns at sea, the eastern front, the a...

Composed by two prominent statesmen-generals of classical China, this book develops the strategies of Sun Tzu's classic, The Art of War, into a complete ha...

On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the toughest missions. As good a rifle company as a...

“A must for those who aspire to follow the profession of arms.”—Maj. Gen. George S. Patton Here is a unique book that emphasizes the attainment of mil...

Beginning With The Pre-hispanic Period, Moving On To Cuba's Struggle To Maintain The Revolution In The Years Following The Collapse Of The Soviet Union, And...

The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners¿ desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to Briti...

1986 Third Revised EditionCategories: History MilitaryWorld War II

"Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year." This was th...

Lipsky, a Rolling Stone writer and an award-winning novelist, chronicles daily life at the U.S. Military Academy during the most tumultuous period in its ...

The Annals Of History Are Littered With Horribly Bad Military Leaders. These Combat Incompetents Found Amazing Ways To Ensure Their Army's Defeat. Whether I...

Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Midd...

The Story Of The Royal Military College Drop-out Who Went On To Become Canada's Greatest War-time Hero.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & N...

An engrossing and fact-filled compendium of timeless lessons we keep forgetting—over and over and over . . . It is said that those who do not learn from...

When on July 20, 1944, a bomb—boldly placed inside Hitler’s headquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg— exploded without killing the Führer...

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

When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt, with its economy and dignity under attack. Pirates from North Africa’s Barbary...

Biography Of One Of The Most Controversial American Generals. Reveille -- First Call -- Ruffles And Flourishes (1880-1917) -- Charge (1917-1918) -- Call To ...

Sun Tzu's classic treatise The Art of War has influenced countless generations—of men—when they find themselves on battlefields, in the office and in e...

Reenacts the events of the Bataan and Corregidor battles of World War II through the eyes of the doctors, nurses, and soldiers interviewed after the warCate...

As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe—sites like Warsaw, Antwerp,...

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...

A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became "enemy aliens" in their own country; a...

Previous Ed.: 1999. Includes Index.Categories: History MilitaryAviation

Complexities of meaning and historical interpretations illustrate the timelessness of Sun Tzu's treatise on war.Categories: Education & Teaching Schools...

The standard account of World War I says that the war happened because politicians lost control of events, and that once the war began, it quickly became an...

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designe...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpieceThe Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the perv...

Historian William Manchester provides the introduction to this definitive account of all the cataclysmic wars and significant local conflicts of the twentie...

When was the last time someone around you brought up World War Two?It’s a pretty popular war. Maybe you heard about it yesterday. Maybe last month. But it...

A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-best...