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The Great Siege of Malta
The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by...
Munich, 1938
Appeasement and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting in Munich with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. As he disembarked from the aircraft, he held aloft a piece of paper, which contained the promise that Britain and Germany would never go to war with...
Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean
Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial subjects—Irish...
by Samuel Pepys
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ...is one of our greatest historical records and... a major work of English literature, writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys...
Balkan Ghosts
A Journey Through History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times,...
The Balkans
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great...
A Village with My Name
A Family History of China's Opening to the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start the first full-time China bureau for “Marketplace,” the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became much more—it offered the opportunity to reconnect...
1946
The Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire comes a powerful, revelatory book about the year that would signal the beginning of the Cold War, the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the rivalry between the...
The Sixties
Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, acting as the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of this tumultuous...
by Eric Hammel and John E. Lane
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
On the morning of November 20, 1943, the U.S. 2d Marine Division undertook the first modern amphibious assault against a well-defended beachhead. The objective was tiny Betio Island in Tarawa Atoll. The result was a tragedy and near defeat turned around into an epic of victory and indomitable human spirit....
Three Sips of Gin
Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's famed Selous Scouts
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
There is nothing that terrorized Russian and Chinese-backed guerillas fighting Rhodesia's bush war in the 1970s more than the famed Selous Scouts. The very name of the unit struck fear into the very heart and soul of even the most battle-hardened guerillas. Too afraid to even whisper the name amongst...
Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat Courage and Recovery
An Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
May 6 1986: Nick Popaditch arrives at the Receiving Barracks Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego California. April 9 2003: An AP photographer captures a striking image seen around the world of the Gunny Sergeant smoking a victory cigar in his tank the haunting statue of Saddam Hussein hovering in...
In a Time of War
The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
The dramatic story of West Point's class of 2002, the first in a generation to graduate during wartime
They came to West Point in a time of peace, but soon after the start of their senior year, their lives were transformed by September 11. The following June, when President George W. Bush spoke...
Einstein in Love
A Scientific Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
In Einstein in Love, Dennis Overbye has written the first profile of the great scientist to focus exclusively on his early adulthood, when his major discoveries were made. It reveals Einstein to be very much a young man of his time-draft dodger, self-styled bohemian, poet, violinist, and cocky, charismatic...