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Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact, covers twenty-four Supreme Court cases (twelve per volume) that have shaped American constit...

A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatl...

Photographs By Michael Collopy ; Edited By Michael Collopy And Jason Gardner ; Foreword By Walter Cronkite.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politi...

The Soviet Union was hardly the first large, continuous, land-based, multinational empire to collapse in modern times. The USSR itself was, ironically, the ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning conflict journalist C.J. Chivers follows the arcs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through the experiences of those who fought t...

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

Major General Julian Thompson first wrote No Picnic when the momentous events of April – June 1982 were fresh in his mind. As Commander of 3 Commando Brig...

"All the King's Men" is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark,...

The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution challenges a version of history central to modern Quebec's understanding of itself: that the Quiet Revolut...

Studies the effects of the Vietnam War on West Point's class of 1966 and on the academy, recounting the loss of idealism that prompted many to leave their m...

military Rule And The Martial Tradition Of The Samurai Dominated Japanese Culture For More Than Eight Hundred Years. According To Thomas Cleary—translator...

Comprehensive yet concise, America’s Longest War provides a complete and balanced history of the Vietnam War. It is not mainly a military history, but see...

From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War\“Brillia...

In July 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe.Over the next six mo...

The powerful memoir of General Hugh Shelton, war hero, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11, and one of the most respected military leaders...

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Seco...

In The Early Hours Of July 13, 1942, The Men Of Reserve Police Battalion 101, A Unit Of The German Order Police, Entered The Polish Village Of Jozefow. They...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeMovie Tie-in EditionWhen All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one...

Margaret Macmillan. Originally Published: Peacemakers. London : J. Murray, 2001. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [497]-544) And Index.Categories: Po...

What Does It Mean To Serve? Bestselling Author Jody Mitic Brings Together Veterans And Active Military Personnel From Across Canada To Tell Us, In Their Own...

Blind Man's "Bluff meets The Hunt for Red October" in the shocking untold story of an American submarine torpedoed at the height of the Cold War - and the f...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster movie which was nominated for six ...

Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most r...

Collects the dramatic, true-life accounts of the remarkable underwater discoveries made by the author and his team of NUMA volunteers--a group dedicated to ...

The American Revolution Was Not Inevitable, Nor Was It A Unanimous Cause. It Pitted Neighbors Against One Another, As Loyalists And Colonial Rebels Faced Of...

Describes The Diplomatic Minuets And Military Brinkmanship As Germany Grew To Be A Continental Superpower At The End Of The Nineteenth Century And Became A ...

This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains and the scene of immense advances in techno...

Originally Printed In 1935, War Is A Racket Is General Smedley Butler's Frank Speech Describing His Role As A Soldier As Nothing More Than Serving As A Pupp...

The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel Amer...

Zia Award for Excellence, New Mexico Press WomenFrom the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey Girls went west to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Sant...

Throughout History, The Concept Of Command - As Both A Way To Achieve Objectives And As An Assertion Of Authority - Has Been Essential To Military Action An...

The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity ...

Ontario Was Known As Upper Canada From 1791-1841. Contains A Brief Guide To The Militia Corps That Were Active During The War And A Nominal List Of The Comm...

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

Chronicles The History Of The Oil Industry And The Forces That Have Shaped The Modern World. Part I: The Founders -- Oil On The Brain: The Beginning -- Our ...

For years, Churchill warned the British government against the growing Nazi threat. For years he was ignored. Politically isolated in Parliament, sometimes...

A Biography Of The Japanese Emperor Reveals A Powerful Man Who Successfully Cultivated An Image Of A Reluctant King While Manipulating Important Events Behi...

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

Roger Crowley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 381-390) And Index.Categories: HistoryMilitary

Many books on the Luftwaffe in World War II have been published over the years, although the Night Fighter´s branch has been studied less often. In our Gui...

The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Irish-American ...

THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART ONE” FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO The dramatic art and acute perceptiveness evident in Che Guevar...

"One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done—or tried to do—sin...

The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar ...

Napoleon And Russia Tells, For The First Time, The Full Story Of Napoleon And His Crucial Relationship With Russia, From The 1790s And Bonaparte's Rise To P...

Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. The First World War, the deadly herald of a new era, co...

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced - and h...

Peter Caddick-Adams, one of the world's authorities on battle field history, writes a compelling and authoritative account of the greatest battle of the Ita...