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Describes What Life Was Like In Paris After June 1940, When The Nazis Occupied France, Juxtaposing The Eerie Sense Of Normalcy Felt By Many Parisians With T...

A history of National Socialist Germany is presented from the perspective of Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, and offers insight into how ...

In the summer of 1940 Britain stood alone as Nazi Germany was swiftly tightening its grip on Europe. Hitler's forces appeared to be invincible, having swept...

National BestsellerAn enlightening and utterly convincing re-examination of the allied aerial bombing campaign and of civilian German suffering during Worl...

This Book Focuses On The Strategic And Operational Dimensions Of The Campaigns Of The Civil War, Showing How Such Factors As Generalship, Organization, Inte...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • ...

Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives...

Revealing new study of Napoleon's greatest victory. Dispels many of the myths surrounding the famous battle of the three emperors. Brought to life with nume...

This factual account of German war crimes of World War II is a formidable indictment of Nazi brutality and of the monstrous organization which so terrorized...

In the entire ghastly history of the Holocaust, only two "good" stories stand out, and this is one of them. Denmark, under German Occupation, but with its K...

Road to Valouris the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatestcomeback in Tour de France history and, between his...

Rob Horsfall shot and killed the terrorist commander inside the Iranian Embassy when the SAS stormed the building. He served with the SAS during the Falklan...

[edited By] Jeffrey A. Keshen, Serge Marc Durflinger. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: HistoryMilitary

The Magna Carta Is Revered Around The World As The Founding Document Of Western Liberty. Its Principles--even Its Language--can Be Found In Our Bill Of Righ...

Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others--even total strangers--while others sto...

For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable ...

The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theater.Volume Two il...

The inside story of how A League of Their Own--one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time--developed from an unheralded piece of American history...

The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang ...

A Chronicle Of The Author's Seven-month Motorcycle Journey Throughout South America Reveals The Beginning Of His Transformation Into A Dedicated Revolutiona...

The ILLUSTRIOUS was true to her name. She was in the glory of Taranto where the Italian fleet was crippled by the Fleet Air Arm and later she was in the hel...

When Jose Canseco Burst Into The Major Leagues In The 1980s, He Changed The Sport--in More Ways Than One. No Player Before Him Possessed His Mixture Of Spee...

In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning combat reporter Sean Naylor reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against Al ...

Illustrated With Detailed Artworks Of Combat Aircraft And Their Markings, This Reissue From The Essential Identification Guide Series Is A Comprehensive Stu...

Gordon Williamson. Distributor From Label Mounted On T.p. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 172-173.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics &...

Product Description Nick Lloyd's Hundred Days: The End of the Great War explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War...

Examines The Growing National Security Threat Involving The Nuclear Capabilities Of Iran, Providing An Exposé Of The Intelligence Blunders And Foreign Poli...

From the author of Pacific Payback, the true story of how a patchwork band of aviators saved Guadalcanal during WWII.November 1942: Japanese and American f...

By Fitzhugh Lee ; Introduction By Gary Gallagher ; Maps By Blake Magner. Originally Published: Wilmington, N.c. : Broadfoot, 1989. Includes Index.Categories...

Appian ; Translated With An Introduction By John Carter. Includes Bibliographical References (p. Xxxiv-xxxvi) And Index.Categories: Travel Europe Netherland...

"... the definitive analysis of the battle of Chippawa. Donald Graves establishes its historical background, describes the opposing armies, brings them int...

The Question Of Whether America Should Get Into World War Ii Led To One Of The Largest And Most Consequential Political Feuds In Our History. The British Go...

In 1941, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was a teenage girl who, like other Americans, reacted with horror to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Yet soon she and her fa...

Camp X - the top secret World War II 'secret agent training camp on the shores of Lake Ontario.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

Glyn Prysor. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [525]-534) And Index.Categories: History MilitaryWorld War II

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent ch...

a Transcendent History/memoir Of One Family’s Always Passionate, Sometimes Tragic Connection To Russia. on A Midsummer Day In 1937, A Black Car Pulled Up ...

Product Description- The Boer War (1899-1902) was one of the last of the romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people, fighting to establish the...

In This Riveting Account, Journalist Stanton Recreates The Miseries And Triumphs Of Specially Trained Mounted U.s. Soldiers, Deployed In The War-ravaged Afg...

this Book Traces Changes In American Attitudes Toward Racial Issues That Have Taken Place Between The 1940s And The 1980s--a Crucial Period That Encompasse...

Tony Banham. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [285]-287) And Index.Categories: History EuropeGreat Britain

H.p. Willmott. Second Vol. Of A Trilogy That Began With Empires In The Balance. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. [569]-576.Categories: History MilitaryWor...

Here is the definitive history of the battle of Midway, an American victory that marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific during World War II. To...

God's Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battle...

Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would re...

The Rolls-Royce Merlin is the most recognisable aero engine in the world. It powered the Battle of Britain aircraft, the Spitfire and Hurricane, as they def...

During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts...

This Book Reads Like A Tom Clancy Novel, But It Is All True. Today Our Greatest Fear Is That Terrorists May Someday Acquire A Nuclear Weapon And Use It Agai...