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by David Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This is a definitive history of the American army's role and performance during the First World War. Drawing from a rich pool of archival sources, David Woodward sheds new light on key themes such as the mobilisation of US forces, the interdependence of military diplomacy, coalition war-making, the...
Kursk 1943
The Northern Front
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
In the summer of 1943, recoiling from defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler conducted a limited objective offensive to eliminate the Soviet Kursk salient. Operating a classic pincer attack of the kind that succeeded during the 1942 Kharkov campaign he hoped that the resulting heavy losses inflicted on the...
by H.P. Willmott
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The best balanced one-volume history of the Second World War in its coverage of all the major themes and all the fronts. Willmotts fresh insights into the war on the Eastern Front are an outstanding feature. Russell F. Weigley, author of Eisenhowers Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 194445The...
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2019
Niccolò Machiavelli provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter what era or by whom it is exercised.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These...
The Man Who Invented Fiction
How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on...
by Tony Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The legendary F-14 Tomcat was the weapon of choice to strike against the enemies of the United States in the wake of the September 11 attacks, with F-14s flying thousands of bombing missions on al-Qaeda and Taliban positions. Written by aviation expert Tony Holmes, this book explores the F-14 pilots...
The Lords of War
Supreme Leadership from Lincoln to Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
In this compelling study of leadership, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines how the difficulties they faced and the political and strategic backgrounds of their days and analyses how they performed and...
War of Attrition
Fighting the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Non-Fiction Book of 2014!The Great War of 1914“1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world’s great economies. Now, one hundred...
by H.D. Traill
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
William Henry, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau, a ruler destined to play a greater part in shaping the destinies of modern England than any of her native sovereigns, was born at the Hague on the 4th of November 1650. By blood and ancestral tradition he was well fitted for the work to which he...
Jane Boleyn
The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s allegiance...
Stuff Matters
Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
**New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Notable Book 2014 • Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
“A thrilling account of the modern material world.” —Wall Street Journal
"Miodownik, a materials scientist, explains the history and science behind...
Postwar
A History of Europe Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award
One of the New York Times'Ten Best Books of the Year**
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
KHE SANH: Siege in the Clouds, An Oral History by Eric Hammel From critcally acclaimed military historian Eric Hammel comes a vivid oral history account of the Tet 1968 siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base. The words of American fighting men caught up in the grueling, deadly seventy-seven-day ordeal create...
The War of the World
Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history:...