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This Book Is A Global History Of The Interwar Period, Which Posits A New History For The Origins Of The Second World War. Jonathan Haslam Argues That It Was...

FLYBOYS is the true story of young American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima. Eight of these young men were captured by Japanese troops and taken...

When We Reflect On Our Nation's History, The American Revolution Can Feel Almost Like A Foregone Conclusion. In Reality, The First Weeks Of The War Were Muc...

Documents The Post-september 11 Mission During Which A Small Band Of Special Forces Soldiers Captured The Strategic Afghan City Of Mazar-e Sharif As Part Of...

Are nuclear weapons legal or illegal under international law? This book aims to put in your hands information about all the main legal arguments you are lik...

Introduction: Kossovo Day -- History: War By Other Means -- Slobodan. Milosevic@gov.yu -- Phantom State -- Homeland Calling -- Friends From The Woods -- Quo...

Covering A Vast Area, From The Home Front To Nazi Europe And Japan, Lyn Smith Has Compiled A Richly Diverse And Moving Collection Of Testimonies, Which Reve...

National Geographic The Covers is the definitive cover collection from the world's most beloved magazine. The magazine with the famous yellow border has be...

Elite sniper Jody Mitic loved being a soldier. His raw, candid, and engrossing memoir follows his personal journey into the Canadian military, through snipe...

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...

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...

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...

A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman's perspective. In March of 1943, Scott Chantle...

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 ...

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

Caracalla' Has One Of The Worst Reputations Of Any Roman Emperor. Many Ancient Historians Were Very Hostile And Edward Gibbon Later Dubbed Him The Common En...

What effect did the two world wars have on the relations between women and men? Drawing on broad comparative material—from government policy to popular me...

Here in this critical guide is all the important safety techniques that you’ll need to know in order to survive in just about any condition. From designin...

One of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture, The Book of Five Rings analyzes the process o...

Want to know what Vietnam was really like? Volume 2 is now out with 60 more stories, the same number of pages, but the stories are longer and more intense, ...

Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone again...

April 24th, 1951,was a lonely, moon-lit night in Korea. On a godforsaken hill, a few hundred surrounded Canadian soldiers waited for the fight of their live...

Illustrated with more than 150 unique photographs, Abandoned World War II Weapons allows the history buff and general reader to explore the detritus of this...

Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role ...

Beaumont Hamel was the Somme sector assigned as an objective to the independent-minded professional-class reservists of the London Division in 1916; they ac...

Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of t...

Winner of the 2011 Christian Book of the Year and 2011 Christian Book Award for Nonfiction From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace, a g...

In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been Africa's longest running civil war. The process leading to independ...

One of Britain’s most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: ...

He's been shot at and attacked by man-eating sharks. He's dodged flamethrowers in Vietnam and political bombshells back home. He's been targeted for assassi...

Jack Leninger spent a year humping the boonies as a rifleman in the 4th Infantry Division. Through air strikes, firefights, and ambushes, he fought the gru...

The Incredible Life and Legacy of Sir Winston Churchill takes an inside look the man whom many historians consider one of the greatest world leaders in mode...

This new edition of a photographic history of World War II features 900 captioned images. It covers every major theatre of conflict and the people involved,...

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the US found itse...

A personal memoir of the war in Vietnam, in which the author first served as a Marine and which he later covered as a reporterCategories: Engineering & ...

For devotees of the submarine espionage stories in Blind Man's Bluff, Rising Tide tells the Soviet/Russian side of the most secretive operations of the Cold...

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...

Part one of the classic Civil War study of General Ulysses S. Grant, written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton, introduces General Grant as he undertake...

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

The Mayor Of London And Former Spectator Editor Challenges Popular Misconceptions To Assess Churchill's Enduring Influence On The World, Discussing The Many...

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the sin...

Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I is an one-volume encyclopedia of World War I warships of eight fleets of 1914: Great Britain, Germany, the United State...

Everyone Knows Than Canada Sheltered Over 30,000 Americans Escaping The Draft, But Not Many Are Aware That For Every Draft Dodger, A Canadian Illegally Volu...

On the 22nd April 1915, towards the end of the afternoon, a strange yellow-green cloud appeared over no man’s land and drifts on the wind towards the Fren...

paul Cartledge, One Of The World’s Foremost Scholars Of Ancient Greece, Illuminates The Brief But Iconic Life Of Alexander (356-323 Bc), King Of Macedon, ...

In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice — and indeed, the laws o...

Dramatic and filled with horror, the clash at Passchendaele Ridge was one of World War One's bloodiest. After years of stalemate, the British and French arm...

Chris Gainor. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 252-254).Categories: History MilitaryAviation