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Now more than ever, kids want to know about our country's great struggles during World War II. This book is packed with information that kids will find fas...

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...

Canadian World War II pilot Charley Fox, now in his late eighties, has had a thrilling life, especially on the day in July 1944 in France when he spotted a...

The Book Has Ten Chapters: The First Is An Analysis Of The Build-up To The War, The Next Seven Chapters Cover The War Itself And The Final Chapter Examines ...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.On...

THE WARS OF THE ROSES is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history - wars between the houses of York and Lancaster. Trevor ...

The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system....

In the tradition of Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation and the bestselling Flags of Our Fathers, Blake Heathcote brings together stirring and fascin...

Donald E. Graves. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Military United StatesGeneral

the Closest Thing To Total War Before World War One, The Seven Years' War Was Fought In North America, Europe, The Caribbean And India With Major Conseque...

The Americans did not simply outlast the British in the Revolutionary War, contends this author in a groundbreaking study, but won their independence by emp...

From Small-scale Battles Of The Ancient World To Devastating Modern Conflicts, This Book Provides A Definitive And Comprehensive Record Of The Armed Combats...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Stands Astride American History Like A Colossus, Having Pulled The Nation Out Of The Great Depression And Led It To Victory In The...

In Power From The North, Caroline Desbiens Explores How This Culture Of Hydroelectricity Helped Shape The Material Landscape During The First Phase Of The J...

“The Will to Survive” is more than a story of a man surviving insurmountable odds. There were beatings, torture, starvation, malnutrition, tropical dise...

It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring―and successful...

david Mccullough Tells The Story Of Those Who Marched With General George Washington In The Year Of The Declaration Of Independence - When The Whole Americ...

P. J. Naworynski. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Sports & Outdoors MiscellaneousOlympic Games

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days i...

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...

sifting Carefully Through Reports From Newspapers, Magazines, Personal Memoirs, And Letters, Peter Cozzens' Volume 6 Brings Readers More Of The Best First...

why Do Some Allegations Of Scholarly Misconduct And Error Become Large Media Spectacles And Result In Sanction Against The Offending Writer, While Others R...

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...

The experience of war has affected every generation in the 20th and 21st century. Every soldier has a story to tell, and since the year 2000 the Veteran's H...

Malcolm Gladwell Weaves Together The Stories Of A Dutch Genius And His Homemade Computer, A Band Of Brothers In Central Alabama, A British Psychopath, And P...

On December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia. That acc...

Complete with introductions, full commentary, glossary, and a guide to further reading, Medieval Worlds is a comprehensive sourcebook for the study of Wes...

This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of Minnesota's contribution to the nation's epic struggle during the Civil War." "From diari...

The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Re...

Carlson's daring raid on Makin is one of the most dramatic and controversial combat operations of World War II.Categories: History MilitaryRegiments

Based On A New Documents And Interviews, This Work Is A Look At The Berlin Crisis Of 1961, With Powerful Applications For The Present. In June 1961, Nikita ...

On May 18, 1860, in the midst of the nominating battle at the Republican National Convention, four contenders–Lincoln, Seward, Chase and Bates–wait in the...

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

As World War II ended, dancing broke out in the streets of victorious capitals. But in Washington and Moscow, menacing ultimatums soon replaced declarations...

The #1 New York Times Best-selling Author Of In The Garden Of Beasts Presents A 100th-anniversary Chronicle Of The Sinking Of The Lusitania That Discusses T...

1. Fall From Grace -- 2. Just A Simple Civil Servant -- 3. Thank God That's Over! -- 4. The Generals: There's No Life Like It. -- 5. The Grunts -- 6. Going ...

Legends, questions and theories abound about Oak Island, Nova Scotia, and tales of buried treasure there. For more than two centuries, the island has been ...

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...

The veterans of the Vietnam War were too shocked and scarred by the violent and bizarre conflict to understand the nightmare that had visited their lives. N...

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...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Opportunities multiply as they are seized.' Written in the 6th century B...

The #1 New York Times Best-selling Author Of In The Garden Of Beasts Presents A 100th-anniversary Chronicle Of The Sinking Of The Lusitania That Discusses T...

Praise for the first edition: "Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calam...

The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. Now Abrashoff offers this fascin...

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...

Studies two powerful dictators maneuvering for advantage as they prepared for their fight to the deathCategories: History MilitaryWorld War II

For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took con...

Documents The 1810 To 1813 Expedition, Financed By Millionaire John Jacob Astor And Encouraged By Thomas Jefferson, To Establish Fort Astoria, A Trading Pos...