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Peter Kilduff. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 165-170) And Index.Categories: History EuropeGreat Britain

Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With i...

A Narrative History Of The Trial Of Nine Black Men For The Rape Of Two White Women On A Train Traveling Through Northern Alabama In 1931. The Supreme Court ...

The definitive portrait of an American icon chronicles the rise of Jackie from "debutante of the year" in 1947 through her subsequent high-powered marriages...

Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem's twentieth cent...

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration for the hit PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life o...

Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thi...

One Of The World' S Foremost Military Historians Offers A Sweeping View Of The Place Of Warfare In Civilization. Probing The Meanings, Motivations, And Meth...

Susan McNicoll digs deep in the police files to tell the dramatic tales of British Columbia's most notorious murders. In July 1924, Scottish nursemaid Janet...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. ...

"O, Almighty God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee!"-wrote astronomer Johannes Kepler, 1619. Scientific Revolution astronomers Copernicus, Galileo, Bra...

In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics prog...

In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal presi...

Written by one of Britain’s best known and most respected military historians, this is the essential account of the Napoleonic campaigns. Now in a new con...

The reporter who filed the last dispatch before falling with Custer at his "last stand" against the Sioux.The Honolulu bureau chief who looked up from his ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, author of The Longest Winter and The Liberator, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day...

Calling All Texas Rangers Fans! The Ultimate Texas Rangers Trivia Book Is A Staple For Anyone Who Loves Baseball, Sports Trivia, And The Lone Stars. You Wil...

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 ...

This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic historyâ€...

The Challenge Of Rethinking History Education Is A Must Read For Anyone Looking For A Guide To Both The Theory And Practice Of What It Means To Teach Histor...

the First Popular History Of The Emancipation Of Europe’s Jews In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries—a Transformation That Was Startling To Those Who...

In Warrior Politics, the esteemed journalist and analyst Robert D. Kaplan explores the wisdom of the ages for answers for today’s leaders. While the modern ...

Mike Pompeo Recounts His Political Career-- Mike Pompeo Is The Only Person Ever To Have Served As Both America's Most Senior Diplomat And The Head Of Its Pr...

With a coastline that rivals California’s, Maine attracts millions of visitors each year who come to swim, fish, hike, or just enjoy the views. Many of th...

Product Description The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of...

Presents An Illustrated Biography Of The Feminist Icon And Legal Pioneer Who Has Changed The World, Especially In The Realms Of Gender Equality And Civil Ri...

The Former President Shares His Private Thoughts And Feelings On His Political Career, Other Leaders, And The State Of The World. Peaks And Valleys -- Wilde...

John Keegan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 449-455) And Index.Categories: History MilitaryWorld War I

By Lenore Skomal. Map On Lining Papers. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [145]-149).Categories: History WorldWomen in History

Overview: Once Upon A Time An Indian Writer Named Amitav Ghosh Set Out To Find An Indian Slave, Name Unknown, Who Some Seven Hundred Years Before Had Travel...

Immaculee Ilibagiza Grew Up In A Country She Loved, Surrounded By A Family She Cherished. But In 1994 Her Idyllic World Was Ripped Apart As Rwanda Descended...

Using narratives from fair-goers, this book examines the technological enthusiasm of Victorian society at the 1876 Philadelphia World’s Fair and the resul...

"Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years," write...

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, archi...

Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. Foreword / Richard D. Parsons And Jonelle Procope -- The Apollo: A Place Of Possibility / Lonnie G. Bunch Iii -- Growing Up ...

The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly travelling and speaking all over North America for the last...

remember Pearl Harbor Allows Children To Go Beyond History-book Narrative And Experience Through The American And Japanese Survivors Memories What It Was L...

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...

Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important naval battles in the history of World War II (1939-1945), Midway, which was fought barely six months a...

In this provocative bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach northern Canada. Mowat of...

The Former Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Documents His Rise From A Southern Youth To Ivy League Professorships Prior To The 2007 Housing Bubble Burst, Det...

From The Bestselling Author Of Lawrence In Arabia, A Gripping History Of The Early Years Of The Cold War, The Cia's Covert Battles Against Communism, And Th...

And You Welcomed Me Presents A Collection Of Early Christian Texts Regarding Hospitality And Its Practices. The Range Of Excerpts Both In Time And Space Sho...

A Best Book of the YearUSA Today * Time Magazine * Washington Post * Miami Herald * Richmond Times Dispatch * Christian Science Monitor * Daily Beast * Min...

Combining richly detailed empirical research on transnational connections with bold and imaginative theoretical argument, this innovative study offers fres...

This book treats all of the more than 700 species of birds recorded from the region, illustrating more than 600 of them in forty-seven fine color plates and...

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody...

The Adventurous, Insightful, And Often Chilling Story Of A Young Geographer's Road Trip Through The Underworld Of U.s. Military And Cia Black Ops Sites. Geo...