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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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

turning Away From The Privileged World Of The "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) Explored, Mapped, And Excavated The World Of The Arabs. Recrui...

Based on historical ninja training manuals, this witty and informative volume gives you all the tools you need to enter the secret world of ninjutsu. Ninja...

This biography takes the perspective that Churchill always believed he was destined for greatness, and thus, throughout his life, positioned himself in his...

This Is The Second In The Comprehensive Ten-volume Germany And The Second World War. The Five Volumes So Far Published In German Take The Story To The End O...

general Chuck Yeager, The Greatest Test Pilot Of Them All — The First Man To Fly Faster Than The Speed Of Sound . . .the World War Ii Flying Ace Who Shot ...

a Stunning Look At World War Ii From The Other Side... from The Turret Of A German Tank, Colonel Hans Von Luck Commanded Rommel's 7th And Then 21st Panzer...

From The Era Before European Contact To The Present Day, People Living In What Is Now The United States Have Constantly Been Interacting With Their Environm...

Fighter Combat in the Jet Age covers the entire history of jet fighters in action, from the end of World War II to the present. Meticulously detailed, it f...

The Third Of Six Volumes On The History Of The Axis Invasion Of The Ussr. Volume Iib Completes The German Armed Forces, Mobilisation And War Economy During ...

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...

James Bradley With Ron Powers. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [365]-366) And Index.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

Based On Years Of Original Research And New Reporting, Two Acclaimed Authors Deliver The Riveting And Emotionally Wrenching Full Story Of The Worst Sea Disa...

Get Out! Run! We Must Leave This Place! They Are Going To Destroy This Whole Place! Go, Children, Run First! Go Now! These Were The Final Shouts Nine Year-o...

George G. Blackburn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

a Special 60th Anniversary Edition Of The Bestselling Re-creation Of The Surprise Attack On Pearl Harbor, By The Author Of a Night To Remember. sunday, De...

Chronicles The Military Career Of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, Profiling His Military And Civilian Roles In The Vietnam War. The Funeral -- Going To War -- Ante...

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citi...

Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China...

Robert H. Farquharson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

The New York Public Library, in looking back on the greatest books of the past century, called Churchill's history "monumental" and said that the author "d...

This definitive survey examines the impact of nuclear weaponry on national security issues. Written by an experienced author and founder of the Peace and Co...

Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewr...

On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the toughest missions. As good a rifle company as a...

"Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year." This was th...

Lipsky, a Rolling Stone writer and an award-winning novelist, chronicles daily life at the U.S. Military Academy during the most tumultuous period in its ...

The Annals Of History Are Littered With Horribly Bad Military Leaders. These Combat Incompetents Found Amazing Ways To Ensure Their Army's Defeat. Whether I...

The Story Of The Royal Military College Drop-out Who Went On To Become Canada's Greatest War-time Hero.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & N...

Recalls The Nobel Laureate's War Years.Categories: HistoryMilitary

When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt, with its economy and dignity under attack. Pirates from North Africa’s Barbary...

Biography Of One Of The Most Controversial American Generals. Reveille -- First Call -- Ruffles And Flourishes (1880-1917) -- Charge (1917-1918) -- Call To ...

Sun Tzu's classic treatise The Art of War has influenced countless generations—of men—when they find themselves on battlefields, in the office and in e...

Reenacts the events of the Bataan and Corregidor battles of World War II through the eyes of the doctors, nurses, and soldiers interviewed after the warCate...