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Christopher McDougall’s journey begins with a story of remarkable athletic prowess: On the treacherous mountains of Crete, a motley band of World War II R...

The Third Reich was the twentieth century’s most popular tyranny. After Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, most of Germany’s civil servants and profession...

When Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with flying machines, he developed hydrofoils as a means of getting airborne from water. In 1919, on the Bras ...

Resoundingly acclaimed, this brilliantly detailed historical account vividly presents the famed fighting force. Resoundingly acclaim...

Called “everything a war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this all-time classic of the military memoir genre now includes a new forward ...

This is the true story of King George V's own Sandringham Company which disappeared during World War I. Formed from the workers on his estate in Norfolk, th...

This Text Focuses On A Selection Of Case-studies Drawn From Events In The Habsburg, Romanov And Ottoman Empires, As Well As The Nation-states That Arose Fro...

Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air...

Written Directly After Combat, Rommel Critiques His Own Battle Strategies And Tactics During World War I In An Attempt To Learn Further From His Losses And ...

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...

In early October 1942 the German Sixth Army realized that it had one last chance to break through the Soviet lines and capture Stalingrad before exhaustion ...

Jedwin Smith. Includes Index.Categories: Science & Math Earth SciencesGeography

An Extraordinary Collection Of Posts To And From The G.i.s' Best Friend And Incomparable EntertainerCategories: Literature & Fiction Essays & Corres...

A Painstakingly Researched, Revelatory Portrait Of The Soviet Dictator's Daughter Traces Her Formative Years In The Kremlin, The Losses Of Numerous Loved On...

Based on the author's National Magazine Award-winning series in Rolling Stone, this New York Times bestseller offers a firsthand account of the first warri...

Profiles three ordinary people--a German SS officer, a nineteenth-century lifeguard, and a contemporary therapist working with ex-convicts--who lit a candle...

The basis for the PBS Masterpiece series starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Cranford) Away from the frontlines of World War II, in...

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the d...

A Biography Of Reinhard Heydrich And His Wife, Lina Von Osten Heydrich-- Provided By Publisher.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Gov...

Jessica Warner. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 225-262) And Index.Categories: HistoryWorld

A Spy Among Friends, Ben Macintyre's Thrillingly Ambitious New Book, Tackles The Greatest Spy Story Of All: The Rise And Fall Of Kim Philby, Mi6's Cambridge...

Every Generation, A Journalist Has Looked Deep Into The Heart Of The Nuclear Military Establishment: The Technologies, The Safeguards, The Plans, And The Ri...

The Anglo-boer War (1899-1902) Is One Of The Most Intriguing Conflicts Of Modern History. It Has Been Labeled Many Things: The First Media War, A Precursor ...

1. Explaining The Second World War -- 2. The International Crisis -- The Collapse Of The League -- France And Britain -- America And The Soviet Union -- Fro...

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...

The National Bestseller About One Soldier’s Battle Against The Taliban And For His Own Future A Hill-times Book Of The Year Captain Robert Semrau’s Mili...

Offers A Detailed Look At The Life And Career Of The Famous World War Ii General, And Depicts His Accomplishments And Complex Personality. Prologue: Who Was...

On June 6, 1944, nearly 15,000 Canadians - at sea, in the air, and on the ground - joined the long-anticipated D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on t...

Retraces Two Critical Centuries Of Middle Eastern History, Presents An Intriguing Chronicle Of The Crusades, And Offers Insights Into The Forces That Shape ...

The definitive history of Austria’s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history Among the finest examples...

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth...

A Behind-the-scenes Chronicle Of The Search For Saddam Hussein Offers A Moment-by-moment Narrative Account That Also Profiles The Author's Non-violent, Psyc...

A Memoir By A Uss Arizona Survivor Describes His Experience Of The Attacks That Left Him With Burns Over More Than Sixty-five Percent Of His Body, His Resol...

Omar Bradley: General at WarCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notable People MilitaryWorld War II

While the fathers were off founding the country, what were the women doing? Running their husband s businesses, raising their children plus providing polit...

For Four Years, The Author Interviewed Extremist Members Of Three Religions Around The World: Christians, Jews, And Muslims. Traveling Extensively To Refuge...

A groundbreaking, ambitious, and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today My Prom...

With Fiercely Detailed Information And Visuals Provided By The U.s. Army, U.s. Army Special Forces Guide To Unconventional Warfare Is Meant For Experienced ...

As U.s. Troops Prepare To Withdraw, The Shocking Tale Of How The American Military Had Triumph In Sight In Afghanistan--and Then Brought The Taliban Back Fr...

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scub...

OUR COPY HAS THE SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING & EDGE WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE. CURLING AT OUTER EDGE OF BOTH COVERS. CREASING AT BOTTOM OUT...

Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids fro...

A Non-fiction Analysis Of The Persian Gulf War And The Nature Of War And Command As Seen Through The Actions Of General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., Commander ...

A Portrait Of Washington, D.c. During The Days Of World War Ii. Waiting -- The Battle For Washington -- Bureaucracies At War -- Locked In Deadly Struggle .....

In thirteen chapters, Lon Tinkle tells the day-by-day story of how 182 men fought a losing battle but won for their cause an almost unparalleled measure of ...

THE "MUST-READ"* BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISIONAfter the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons ...

New York Times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American...

Winner, 2017 Commodore John Barry Book Award, Navy League of the United States * From the historian who has been acclaimed as "doing for the Navy what po...