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Shots Rang Out In Savannah's Grandest Mansion In The Misty, Early Morning Hours Of May 2, 1981. Was It Murder Or Self-defense? For Nearly A Decade, The Shoo...

A brand new book from the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening Stand...

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...

One day back in 2003, Ken Jennings and his college buddy Earl did what hundreds of thousands of people had done before: they auditioned for Jeopardy! Two ...

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

Analyzing the influence of the fast food industry on American society, an award-winning journalist explores the homogenization of American culture and the i...

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...

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Certain conjunctions of time and place exert a special fascination--Paris in the twenties, turn-of-the-century Vienna, Weimar Berlin. Tokyo in the years bet...

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...

Text: English, Japanese (translation)Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPolitics & Government

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...

Written by two well-known historians, this text presents a detailed chronological account of Canadian history from the country's earliest beginnings as a wi...

Based On New And Revelatory Material From Brando's Own Private Archives, An Award-winning Film Biographer Presents A Deeply-textured, Ambitious, And Definit...

The Encyclopedia of Ireland is the most comprehensive book to date on all aspects of Irish life, culture, and history. It encompasses the whole of Ireland-...

The story of HMS Nancy during the War of 1812, and the men in charge, Alexander Mackintosh and Miller Worsley, woven into crucial events of the war during 1...

A photographic celebration of the history, culture, people, and places that make up a century of life in Ireland.\Covering all 32 counties, this beautiful, ...

pp. 7 544.volume 2 only ."The second volume of Simon Schama's epic history is a story of revolution and reaction, of progress and catastrophe. It is a story...

Understanding Social Inequality examines the factors that contribute to inequality in Canada. A unique 'intersectional' framework demonstrates how the struc...

Jamaica Used To Be The Source Of Much Of Britain's Wealth, A Tropical Paradise For The Planters, A Babylonian Exile For The Africans Shipped To The Caribbea...

Exploring The Life Of The World-shaping System Of Capitalism And The Writings Of Leading Thinkers, This Book Gives An Account Of Recent Developments Of Capi...

Examining The Interplay Between Political Apology And Apologetic History Alexis Dudden Focuses On The Problematic Relationship Among Japanese Imperialists, ...

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...

In This Signal Work Of History, Bancroft Prize Winner And Pulitzer Prize Finalist Lizabeth Cohen Shows How The Pursuit Of Prosperity After World War Ii Fuel...

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and po...

available For The First Time In Paperback, This Study Examines How This Ideology Evolved. Carol Gluck Argues That The Process Of Formulating And Communicat...

The Institute of Pacific Relations was a pioneering intellectual-political organization that shaped public knowledge and both elite and popular discourse th...

Hideki Tojo (December 30, 1884 - December 23, 1948) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and...

The United States' involvement in World War II began with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. But for Japan, the conflict began at a m...

Book by Greiss, Thomas E.Categories: History MilitaryGeneral

The most breathtaking work of history since Paris 1919.Europe, early in the 20th century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. ...

Winner Of The National Book Critics Circle Award An American Book Award Finalist Now In Paperback, War Without Mercy Has Been Hailed By The New York Times A...

Contributors To This Volume Suggest That While The Ideological And Political Trends In Pre-world War Ii Japan Had Local Roots And Peculiar Characteristics, ...

Uses Factual Accounts, Short Stories, Photographs, Poems And Drawings To Present The Experiences Of The Atom Bomb SurvivorsCategories: Education & Teach...

Unconditional Defeat - the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series - examines the concluding stages of World War II...

Japanese Imperialism : Late Mejji Perspectives / Marius B. Jansen -- Japanese Attitudes Toward Colonialism, 1895-1945 / Mark R. Peattie -- Economic Dimensio...

Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Rel...

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original...

a History Of The Popes Tells The Story Of The Oldest Living Institution In The Western World-the Papacy. From Its Origins In Saint Peter, Jesus' Chief Disc...

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Díaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the first...

From The Archives Of Golf Channel Comes The Ultimate Book On The Sport--a Must For Every Fan--a Comprehensive And Engaging Full-color Compendium Of The Best...

The Application Of Geo-spatial Technologies, Especially Geographic Information Systems (gis), To Issues In History Is Among The Most Exciting Developments I...

THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time -...